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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

1797

2

Stripe Identity

1057

3

Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

1009

4

Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

898

5

Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

841

6

ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

825

7

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies

824

8

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

815

9

Don't Feed the Thought Leaders

795

10

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

763

Top Ask HN

1

Tools you have made for yourself?

288

2

How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

251

3

How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?

231

4

Have you found a good desk chair?

211

5

What is your “sales stack”?

147

6

What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?

137

7

Can you think deeply in real time?

83

8

Would Spreadsheets with Lisps be much more powerful?

68

9

Banned from Airbnb?

65

10

What's an interesting DIY genetic engineering project?

64

Top Show HN

1

I made a community sourced fitness routine database

396

2

Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game

379

3

LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

250

4

GraphCDN – GraphQL CDN with edge caching and analytics

200

5

fcp – A significantly faster alternative to cp(1), written in Rust

88

6

macOS HNReader Application

87

7

Generate a free visual sitemap by crawling any website

65

8

I made a generator of art – Suprematism

47

9

StarQueue – a free hosted HTTP message queue with a Postgres back end

43

10

Gelidum – My Python library to freeze objects

43

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

577

2

Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox

541

3

How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)

532

4

Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games

365

5

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

317

6

Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers

281

7

The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life

268

8

ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon

266

9

Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps

259

10

In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance

255

News [?]

1

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies

824

2

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

594

3

4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says

587

4

Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

410

5

Irish police to be given powers over passwords

391

6

Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead

332

7

Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule

327

8

Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

296

9

‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas

293

10

After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'

275

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

276

2

Thinking Like Transformers

161

3

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned

152

4

The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)

106

5

Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study

102

6

The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (2018)

97

7

Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data

58

8

Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and Interstellar

40

9

Covid Spike Protein Elicits Signaling in Host Cells: Implications for Vaccines

24

10

The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

23

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Identity

1057

2

PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

404

3

Google Workspace for everyone

249

4

How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?

236

5

222

6

Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns

146

7

Stripe Terminal

101

8

Linux-Kernel: Printk() Indexing

80

9

Nobody has found a use case for blockchain

67

10

Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures

66

Tech blogs [?]

1

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

815

2

Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN

203

3

New material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1400 K

51

4

U.S. Antitrust Legislation Would Ban Apple from Pre-Installing Its Own Apps

46

5

RISC-V Evolving to Address Supercomputers and AI

41

6

Intel Offers $2B for RISC-V Chip Startup SiFive

31

7

WD to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit at $160 per Drive

29

8

Courts Shouldn’t Stifle Patent Troll Victims’ Speech

23

9

An AnandTech Interview with Jim Keller: 'The Laziest Person at Tesla'

16

10

Bitcoin Miners Finally Approve Taproot Proposal

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

Exponential Backoff and Jitter (2015)

63

2

AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – A Visual Tool for Building State Machines

28

3

GANs learn real-life distributions easily

8

4

In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel

3

5

Kilo SSL Pro – Multi-Instance SSL Certificate Management Server for SaaS

3

6

Creating the Future of Software Development

3

7

Amazon's Top Customer Reviewers

2

8

Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks

2

9

The general availability of AWS Proton

2

10

Apple Podcasts Subscriptions and channels are now available worldwide

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)

93

2

An Italian village where the houses have eyes

61

3

Wild-Looking ‘Open Rotor’ Engine Could Cut Airliner Emissions by a Massive 20%

55

4

Self-Driving Semi Completes 950-Mile Delivery 10 Hours Faster Than a Human

25

5

The Unified Universe

23

6

China Admits Fuel Rods at Nuclear Plant Are Damaged

20

7

U.S. Military Doesn't Even Track How Many Weapons It Loses,It Has Lost Thousands

16

8

How Equality Slipped Away

9

9

Tesla's new yoke steering wheel looks super awkward to use in first drives

8

10

“Swarm” That Lit-Up Radar Was Almost Certainly Caused by the Military

8

Science News [?]

1

Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

300

2

An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors

255

3

Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report

68

4

The U.S. government’s failed 1890s attempt to forge unity through currency

56

5

The World’s Northernmost Town

55

6

Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-brain interface

52

7

Is the Universe Open-Ended? An intriguing proposal about what makes reality tick

49

8

Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg

46

9

A pilot program to include spirituality in mental health care

43

10

Don’t Worry about CO2, Worry about the Earth’s ‘Energy Balance’

42

Social [?]

1

Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

1009

2

Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results

717

3

The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

548

4

“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

329

5

IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari

255

6

Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users

240

7

Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

135

8

Internet of Shit

124

9

Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities

88

10

California homeowners made more money in equity than workers made in income

67

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

763

2

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application

693

3

547

4

Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python

502

5

Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

364

6

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)

294

7

PyWhat: Identify Anything

290

8

“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

280

9

CaribouLite: Turn any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR

231

10

RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)

225

Wikipedia [?]

1

Holden's Lightning Flight

144

2

List of commercial video games with available source code

61

3

Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel

60

4

48

5

Hague Invasion Act

40

6

Illegal number – Represents information which is illegal to possess

39

7

United States involvement in regime change

35

8

33

9

Ohio Nuclear Bribery Scandal

27

10

Uyghur Genocide

26

Blogs [?]

1

Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)

260

2

Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

256

3

Why bugs might feel “impossible”

215

4

Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability

49

5

SPC Founder Fellowship applications open

17

6

Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad (2020)

14

7

Notebooks are for data science, not only data scientists

13

8

QAnon’s hallmark catchphrases evaporating from the mainstream internet

8

9

Consensus and Proof of Stake in the Celo Protocol

6

10

People Who Reinvented the Notebook at Netflix Are Back to Reinvent the Notebook

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

9

2

Is it possible to have an actual memory leak in pure Python? (2010)

2

3

Python – Why can't comments appear after a line continuation character?

1

Substack [?]

1

Win at Risk by using systems thinking

412

2

Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind

255

3

Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

246

4

On Depression and Founders

204

5

I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know

136

6

Refinement Culture (2020)

129

7

Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?

99

8

1992: Silverwolf

90

9

Code 'meaning-making' helps creating more nuanced software

43

10

The strange case of Charles Kellogg, nature singer

42