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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
1661
2
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
1464
3
Welcome to Libera Chat
1425
4
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
1339
5
Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
1256
6
A URL Lengthener
1204
7
Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
1008
8
Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
976
9
The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
925
10
Observing my cellphone switch towers
800
Top Ask HN
1
Favorite purchases of last two years?
483
2
Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
387
3
What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
364
4
What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?
231
5
Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice
171
6
What do you think will come after Kubernetes?
141
7
I think I hate the software development industry? Am I crazy?
110
8
Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?
85
9
What are the best typography talks?
77
10
How do I learn more about entrepreneurship/startups?
70
Top Show HN
1
I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
411
2
Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
405
3
Nyxt Browser 2.0.0
359
4
Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com
251
5
Arturo – Simple, expressive and portable programming language
207
6
TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
144
7
Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine
134
8
One Way Dungeon – A game I've been developing in the last five months
124
9
A Windows 7 web desktop recreation
74
10
Free open-source isolated browser for security
71
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
629
2
Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today
223
3
The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told
196
4
Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world
151
5
From apes to birds, animal species that “laugh”
115
6
Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car
110
7
The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple exec at Epic trial
106
8
“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (2018)
104
9
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck
80
10
Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds, Citing 'Security Concerns'
66
News [?]
1
Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
1008
2
China lands rover on Mars
581
3
CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
548
4
A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
539
5
More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
440
6
TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
437
7
Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research
388
8
Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip
368
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Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack
362
10
FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
339
Scientific publications [?]
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JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)
149
2
Unexpected 'Black Swan' defect discovered in soft matter for first time
126
3
Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)
76
4
Rethinking Search: Making Experts out of Dilettantes
74
5
Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C
66
6
60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?
62
7
Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo
55
8
Rare extragalactic objects are now easier to spot
51
9
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
50
10
The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (2009)
24
Dev Blogs [?]
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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
1339
2
DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
787
3
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
604
4
Site Isolation in Firefox
473
5
LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
282
6
MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
257
7
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
215
8
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
197
9
Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM
195
10
Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010)
167
Tech blogs [?]
1
Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
284
2
40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple
183
3
AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive
153
4
Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer
94
5
New SSDs Have Built-In Protection Against Ransomware, Data Theft
27
6
Freenode debacle prompts staff exodus, new network
14
7
Durov slams Apple for ‘totalitarian’ control and hardware from the ‘Middle Ages’
14
8
Increased Neutron Levels at Chernobyl-4: How Dangerous Is Corium?
13
9
Superfast-charging aluminum-ion batteries outpower lithium-ion
12
10
Discrete MOSFETs Make Up This Compact CPU-Less Computer
11
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
702
2
Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
378
3
Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
148
4
SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft
98
5
Introducing AWS App Runner
63
6
AWS App Runner
18
7
Microsoft Terminology Translator
8
8
AWS App Runner
8
9
AWS App Runner
6
10
AWS App Runner
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
555
2
Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
131
3
Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)
97
4
A former CIA chief of disguise shows off a five-second mask (2020) [video]
73
5
Technocratic Plimsoll Line
60
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Endless scrolling through social media can literally make you sick
43
7
How Ford Built an Electric F-150 That Can Do Real Work for $40K
30
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You Are a Network
11
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A-10 Warthog Pilots Are Using the Digital Combat Simulator Video Game to Train
8
10
DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?
7
Science News [?]
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Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response
312
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Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains
298
3
Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams
150
4
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
138
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Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds
136
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Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
107
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First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals
103
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Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines
103
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In the search to stall aging, biotech startups are out for blood
101
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Spin-torque oscillators for WiFi band transmission and energy harvesting
83
Social [?]
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Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
679
2
Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library
408
3
TikTok Remix Culture
327
4
Facebook says I'm abusive content [video]
286
5
Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you
225
6
Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app
172
7
Our vendor executed a system reboot that caused a shut down of the turnstiles
154
8
Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?
152
9
Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks
147
10
"I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke silence, so will I"
131
Github repos and gists [?]
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Scala 3.0
690
2
Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
545
3
Lima: Linux-on-Mac
266
4
Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine
264
5
Rust Weird Expressions
248
6
Offline-First PWA for Plotly Visualization of CSV via SQLite
246
7
Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C
235
8
Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics
204
9
Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835
190
10
Use the WiFi Chip on RaspberryPi/Broadcom as Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
159
Wikipedia [?]
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“Bush Hid the Facts”
206
2
Braess's Paradox
64
3
The 1788 Doctors' Riot
58
4
Caproni Ca.60
55
5
IBM Common User Access
32
6
Graffiti (Palm OS)
23
7
Frankenstein Veto
19
8
Processed Pizza Cheeses
14
9
Wallenberg Family
12
10
The Sexy Son Hypothesis
9
Blogs [?]
1
Fierce Nerds
441
2
Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)
199
3
How to look at the stack with gdb
187
4
The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, not the Software
118
5
Metric Display Standards. Best practices for presenting numbers
76
6
After the Storm
44
7
Say Thank You and Shut Up. English Word Plays That Make You Sound Strong at Work
9
8
Paulgraham.com doesn't use SSL Certificate?
7
9
From product planning to product discovery
6
10
Announcing Flutter 2.2 at Google I/O 2021
5
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is the most common filename extension of a Forth source code file?
2
2
StackOverflow: The Most Upvoted Question
2
3
Are disk sector writes atomic?
2
4
C isn't that hard: void ( *( *f[]) ()) ()
2
5
Alternative to GraphQL long polling on an Express server for a large request?
1
Substack [?]
1
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
1464
2
Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
251
3
Man Against Marketing
80
4
Atomics in AArch64
64
5
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
55
6
Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow
50
7
The Case Against Bitcoin
40
8
Short Tutorial on Python's ChainMap
36
9
If you had your dream job, would you be happy?
9
10
Where did the $12T of Covid spending go? Part 8: Dishonest journalists
8