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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
The Animal Is Tired
1270
2
Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
1167
3
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
883
4
Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
699
5
The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
693
6
What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
684
7
Can I Email?
653
8
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
641
9
The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
618
10
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
609
Top Ask HN
1
How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
309
2
What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
140
3
Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?
81
4
How can I improve my intelligence?
74
5
Digital nomads, where's the best place in the world to work from?
52
6
Where to find contract work as a developer?
47
7
My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever
41
8
Getting back to C++ and looking for ideas
36
9
How can I read faster?
34
10
How to Cultivate Gifted Child's Interest in Science?
27
Top Show HN
1
I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
1102
2
A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
672
3
A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux
289
4
We wrote a book about building business applications in Go
269
5
Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book
245
6
Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece
214
7
Django SQL Dashboard
199
8
I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs
180
9
Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos
180
10
Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates
177
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
699
2
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
540
3
Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg
476
4
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
410
5
Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
285
6
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
276
7
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service
274
8
A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience
216
9
Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
207
10
Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis
200
News [?]
1
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
883
2
The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
618
3
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
609
4
Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
584
5
$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
466
6
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
440
7
Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
438
8
Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
431
9
Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
388
10
Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
338
Scientific publications [?]
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Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
168
2
In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
137
3
Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine
121
4
SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket
97
5
Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channel of the ancient world
89
6
Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe
79
7
MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning
47
8
Letter reveals Einstein's thinking on bees, birds and physics
42
9
No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
33
10
Animals laugh too, analysis of vocalization data suggests
16
Dev Blogs [?]
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Apple Design Resources
266
2
Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships
244
3
Poor Disk Performance
190
4
Dropping cache didn’t drop cache
174
5
Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language
159
6
Ending CAPTCHAs: Introducing Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood
114
7
A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13
114
8
Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores
82
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Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
47
10
San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders
33
Tech blogs [?]
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Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
407
2
Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
129
3
AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher
54
4
Apple Gave Zoom Access to Special API for Camera During Split View Multitasking
44
5
Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says
34
6
M1 iPad Pro over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation in Early Benchmarks
32
7
European food safety panel reclassifies titanium dioxide food additive as unsafe
29
8
A Dutch City Gets a €600k Fine for WiFi Tracking
27
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Study Shows SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs
22
10
Epic vs. Apple reveals nearly empty Apple TV and Apple Watch stores
18
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Sidewalk
566
2
A New AWS SDK for Rust
219
3
Implementing a Zero Trust security model at Microsoft
20
4
App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020
19
5
Innovating with Rust
13
6
Jeff Bezos' Amazon product reviews
3
7
Amazon goes into “token” business for serial stories
3
8
Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager
3
9
CloudFront Functions
3
10
Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster (2012)
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Cloudflare on the edge
300
2
Wikipedia is up (2001)
289
3
The Complete Hypercard Handbook (1988)
190
4
Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (2017)
123
5
Movie Tycoon Sues YouTube over Piracy and Exposes Content-ID ‘Caveat’
104
6
The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’
76
7
Microsoft Space Simulator (1994)
73
8
GitHub Restores Reverse-Engineered GTA Code Following DMCA Counter Notice
54
9
Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated
52
10
The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (2006)
21
Science News [?]
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If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats
324
2
Gravity is a double copy of other forces
322
3
Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants
321
4
The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces
252
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People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage
224
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Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer
181
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Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones
133
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Grazing Goat Problems
112
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A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
104
10
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister
100
Social [?]
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FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
552
2
Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin
406
3
Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it
241
4
Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]
145
5
Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]
136
6
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)
80
7
Comparing Tesla, Ford and VW’s Electrical Architectures [video]
77
8
Lets Lisp like it's 1959 (2019) [video]
74
9
Larry Page asking how to change User Agent in Java
70
10
Apple AirTag Hacked
66
Github repos and gists [?]
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Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
587
2
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
444
3
Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
385
4
JavaScript for Shell Scripting
383
5
eBPF on Windows
288
6
Big list of HTTP static server one-liners
282
7
Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga
272
8
WinBox: Window manager in a web browser
249
9
Use Alacritty instead of Termite
249
10
Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
226
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Red One
69
2
Kibbutz
67
3
Amygdala hijack
55
4
Carcinisation
26
5
Kimarite
22
6
List of people declared persona non grata
16
7
The Einstein–Szilárd Letter
12
8
Tromelin, the Island of Forgotten Slaves
10
9
The Origins of Universities
7
10
Type III Error
6
Blogs [?]
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Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016)
198
2
Inefficient Efficiency (2019)
126
3
Machine Learning at CNN
20
4
Nassim Taleb, Absorbing Barriers and House Money
15
5
Optimizing 700 CPUs Away with Rust
14
6
VS Code for iPad (and Other Phones and Tablets)
13
7
Capitalism Is the Operating System (OS) of Modern Society
7
8
Micro feedbacks – management advice for Technical people managers
6
9
Open source protocol running on Ethereum allows earning interest on deposit
4
10
Cross-Browser Voice Commands with React
4
Stackoverflow [?]
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Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi
51
2
What is the runtime performance cost of a Docker container?
3
3
Using Transaction Execution Approval Language (TEAL) can I make my own coin?
2
4
What is the most common filename extension of a Forth source code file?
2
5
When do you choose functional programming over object oriented?
1
Substack [?]
1
Writing books is not really a good idea
563
2
Be in a field where tech is the limit
186
3
A unified theory of low/no code and middleware
107
4
The future of work is not threatening your employees
79
5
Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective
68
6
Trouble at Basecamp – Destruction of the holding environment
32
7
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It
25
8
If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird
23
9
How to Solve the Homeless Problem, Once and for All
17
10
Every Doge Has Its Day
14