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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Sublime Text 4
1436
2
One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
1331
3
M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
1067
4
Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
1037
5
Stripe Payment Links
988
6
River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
877
7
YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
876
8
Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
876
9
Learn CSS
842
10
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
832
Top Ask HN
1
Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
819
2
How to get started with audio programming?
358
3
Anybody Started a Research Institute?
287
4
How are you using unikernels?
120
5
How much do you contemplate per week?
105
6
Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?
103
7
Are there software companies with a good life/work balance?
103
8
Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
83
9
Is it better to generalise or specialise as a developer?
76
10
Where would you incorporate in 2021?
68
Top Show HN
1
NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative
562
2
I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
496
3
Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
437
4
Find Subreddits for Your Niche
406
5
Flashcards to learn AWS skills
365
6
I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen
321
7
I Built Multiplayer Deathmatch Joust
257
8
A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools
210
9
Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
138
10
Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI
135
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
428
2
Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
395
3
Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
341
4
Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser
275
5
Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire
253
6
Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism
249
7
Chrome extensions are tampering with security headers
242
8
Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person
239
9
The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device
236
10
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
190
News [?]
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Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
1037
2
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
780
3
Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
766
4
EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
638
5
Eric Carle has died
492
6
Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed
457
7
Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing
390
8
Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
365
9
Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws
327
10
Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
319
Scientific publications [?]
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Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)
178
2
Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch
151
3
Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict
101
4
National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (2015)
94
5
Tardigrades survive impacts of up to 825 meters per second
76
6
Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain inside Jupiter and Saturn
50
7
Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
48
8
Off-Grid Solar’s Killer App
46
9
Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75k per year [pdf]
41
10
Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
24
Dev Blogs [?]
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Stripe Payment Links
988
2
Upheaval at freenode
648
3
Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
355
4
Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes the Problematic University of Minnesota Patches
262
5
OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups
204
6
How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
200
7
Manifest v3 Update
189
8
Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues
177
9
Rust heads into the kernel?
170
10
WWDC21
161
Tech blogs [?]
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Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures
269
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Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S
259
3
Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science
68
4
Intel Confirms Sapphire Rapids Uses Golden Cove
49
5
Judge Grills Tim Cook on App Store Policies
15
6
DRAM Alternative Developed: 4X Higher Density at Higher Speed and Lower Power
15
7
Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance,’ say four members of Congress
13
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Freenode debacle prompt staff exodus, new network
12
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Huawei's HiSilicon Develops First RISC-V Design to Overcome Arm Restrictions
10
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Using a PCIe Slot to Install DRAM: New Samsung CXL.mem Expansion Module
7
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
4
2
AWS App Runner
3
3
AssistiveTouch - one-handed control of Apple Watch [video]
3
4
Search and Earn with Microsoft Rewards
2
5
Apple Via del Corso opens Thursday, May 27, in Rome
2
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Apple Entrepreneur Camp participants break barriers on their coding journeys
2
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Creating the Future of Software Development
2
8
AWS Managed Airflow (MWAA) now supports Airflow 2
2
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In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2
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AWS Application Cost Profiler: user-based cost data of shared AWS resources
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed
158
2
PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)
134
3
Laws of Fun (2009)
127
4
Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice for Downloading Ubuntu
105
5
The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
105
6
Ghost subway station in Paris where films come to life
96
7
Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware
85
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Court orders WhatsApp to suspend users sharing pirated movie
85
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DeFi100 team steal $32m, post abusive message to victims on homepage
78
10
App Store Arguments
75
Science News [?]
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Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit
238
2
What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
167
3
The problem with reinforced concrete (2016)
166
4
Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
158
5
A new algorithm for graph crossings, hiding in plain sight (2020)
155
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Radioactivity may fuel life deep underground and inside other worlds
147
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Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study
139
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Deadly fungi are an emerging microbe threat
124
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When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
116
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Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials
115
Social [?]
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YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
876
2
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
832
3
Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
595
4
Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
475
5
Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
446
6
Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
418
7
YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators
173
8
Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture
163
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Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport
149
10
Official Elixir IRC channel moves to Libera
145
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days
427
2
Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
304
3
The Economist's excess deaths model
243
4
useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React
233
5
Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP
217
6
OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control
216
7
Privacy – A curated list of services and alternatives that respect privacy
199
8
RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon
155
9
Unfork: The Inverse of Fork(2)
150
10
Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential
147
Wikipedia [?]
1
Initial Stress-Derived Noun
215
2
Atomic Gardening
188
3
Yuan Longping has died
164
4
Stanford Bunny
121
5
E-Prime – English without the verb “to be”
108
6
Tiresias typeface
86
7
Mauryan Polish
67
8
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
19
9
IP over Avian Carriers
16
10
Muphry's Law
11
Blogs [?]
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Blog about what you've struggled with
202
2
CPU Bugs (2018)
98
3
Asynchronous API with DynamoDB Streams
29
4
Designing Domain Events
21
5
It’s Time for Local Speech Recognition
18
6
Google Replaces Bert Self-Attention with Fourier Transform: 92% acc, 7x faster
15
7
Targeted ads are staggeringly unpopular so we should ban them
11
8
Surviving IDEO: A DEI critique of the design firm
11
9
With only 8M users, Bitcoin is, by far, the most polluting activity on earth
10
10
Clarity on Flow’s Direction and Open Source Engagement
8
Stackoverflow [?]
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2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
4
2
Why Is __int128_t Faster Than Long Long on x86-64 GCC?
2
3
Java: What are the differences between ArrayList and Vector?
2
4
RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
1
5
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
1
Substack [?]
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You can't have too many angels
111
2
Think critically about college admissions
87
3
1991: Trade Wars 2002
76
4
The art of reading non-fiction non-linearly
63
5
Recall the Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden
59
6
Status Anxiety as a Service
34
7
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating
33
8
The Document Arms Race Intensifies
31
9
The future of war is bizarre and terrifying
30
10
The Inflation Economy
16