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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

2330

2

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

1644

3

The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

1426

4

Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

1189

5

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

1086

6

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

1057

7

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

1023

8

Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

1013

9

It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

949

10

Overkill objects for everyday life

856

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (June 2021)

365

2

Alternatives to Google Photos?

362

3

How to cope with the death of a dear person?

263

4

Negotiating Salary

177

5

Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?

137

6

Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

113

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)

101

8

What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

84

9

How to disconnect from work?

83

10

Where can I find list of companies that went fully remote

81

Top Show HN

1

Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, complex numbers

239

2

Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript

233

3

Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board

232

4

Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

217

5

An experimental, people-powered search engine

215

6

Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines

136

7

Floptimal – Preflop ranges reimagined

135

8

Free 3D virtual office in the browser

125

9

Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa

125

10

DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News

110

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

615

2

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

410

3

Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam

390

4

Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition

314

5

7-11 is opening 500 EV charging stations by the end of 2022

161

6

Huawei replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android

135

7

Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office

124

8

Pandemic homeschoolers who are not going back

118

9

The US military is starting to get interested in Starship

81

10

The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy (2019)

75

News [?]

1

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

2330

2

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

1023

3

U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

803

4

United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

698

5

Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

681

6

Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing

576

7

America has a drinking problem

566

8

When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)

463

9

Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

411

10

NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

403

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly

369

2

Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution

133

3

Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting

125

4

Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks

119

5

Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network

113

6

Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics

85

7

Self-aware materials build the foundation for living structures

57

8

Recommendations and Results Organization in Netflix Search

41

9

Wolf packs don't have alpha males and alpha females

34

10

Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold

33

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions

257

2

GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

255

3

Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies

215

4

William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)

134

5

A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

127

6

How Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep its data centers running reliably

120

7

Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?

107

8

Auditing Io_uring

95

9

67

10

Moving my US tech job to Australia

65

Tech blogs [?]

1

PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter

532

2

AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

466

3

Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120

286

4

Apple employees asked to return to offices 3 days a week starting in September

91

5

NVMe 2.0 Specification Released: Major Reorganization

22

6

M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM, Even with 16GB

21

7

Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM in iPadOS

17

8

DRAM Alternative Developed: 4X Higher Density at Higher Speed and Lower Power

15

9

Raspberry Pi Guitar Pedal Uses Machine Learning for Effects

15

10

Apple's moves point to a future with no bootable backups

13

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft to Launch Next-Generation Windows on June 24

10

2

Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues

4

3

New sophisticated email-based attack from NOBELIUM

4

4

Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset

3

5

Exabyte Scale Data Transfer

3

6

Apple developers grow App Store ecosystem billings and sales by 24 percent in 2

3

7

What Happened with Xerox and Apple?

3

8

3

9

Optimize data analytics in capital markets with time-series databases

3

10

Getting Started with Amazon ECS Anywhere – Now Generally Available

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Stanford CS Curriculum 2021

412

2

Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

316

3

How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s

187

4

Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

138

5

New Details Emerge on the “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters

127

6

106

7

How a Giant Corpse Flower Got to an Abandoned Gas Station

75

8

The Historic Russian Recipe That Turns Apples into Marshmallows

60

9

Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans

31

10

Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans

26

Science News [?]

1

Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station

413

2

Pesticides are killing the world's soils

390

3

Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

264

4

Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient

123

5

Scientific Data Repositories

120

6

Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

91

7

Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater

87

8

Synthetic living machines: A new window on life

81

9

Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter

77

10

The most detailed 3D map of the Universe ever made

70

Social [?]

1

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

1086

2

It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

949

3

Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

481

4

After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand

371

5

“It's a truck full of traffic lights”

298

6

Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life

277

7

Cocoa Touch apps (2007)

179

8

Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare

178

9

Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit

172

10

Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year

141

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Safari tries to fill username

628

2

YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

596

3

A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)

529

4

OBS Studio 27.0

439

5

ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login

287

6

JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser

237

7

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

214

8

ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system

198

9

Reclaim Windows10

178

10

Replacements for existing software written in Rust

170

Wikipedia [?]

1

173

2

112

3

Alternate Instruction Set

76

4

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

55

5

Known-plaintext attack

50

6

Gibbs Phenomenon

40

7

ECMAScript for XML - Direct XML Syntax in ECMAScript

38

8

Blinking Twelve Problem

28

9

15

10

Firehose of Falsehood

14

Blogs [?]

1

Ten Kilograms of Chocolate (2020)

58

2

Appalachia is Dying. Pikeville is Not. (2016)

13

3

Google Joins Apple to Opt-Out of Mobile Advertising IDs

11

4

Old Code Gets Younger Every Year. The threat of decaying technology looms

9

5

Programming Without State Chaos

7

6

More macOS Installer Flaws

5

7

Working Remote: A Survivor’s Guide

5

8

The Five Principles of Successful Software

5

9

CheerpJ 2.2: Run any Java application in the browser

4

10

Prose: The distraction-free, e-ink laptop that should exist

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this C++ code run faster than hand-written assembly (2016)

2

2

How and when to align to cache line size (2011)

1

Substack [?]

1

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

1057

2

The most expensive number in engineering

501

3

345

4

Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs

306

5

Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business

209

6

Book Review: Double Fold

125

7

The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen

100

8

Rejection Sensitivity

90

9

Why Logitech Just Killed the Universal Remote Control Industry

35

10

Entropy Will Fuck You

33