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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

2091

2

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

1279

3

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

1208

4

Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

962

5

Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

881

6

Brave Search beta

845

7

Google turned me into a serial killer

840

8

Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

778

9

Git undo: We can do better

762

10

80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

736

Top Ask HN

1

I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?

833

2

Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

563

3

Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?

479

4

How to learn proper systems programming?

336

5

What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

303

6

90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?

246

7

Do software engineers have leverage?

198

8

Anyone built a business with no-code tools?

183

9

I don't feel like working at all, what to do?

128

10

What software do you use to gather requirements?

88

Top Show HN

1

iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

866

2

I made a new kind of Bible app

347

3

Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

281

4

3dasd – open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner

248

5

Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger

246

6

I wrote a book about Python

181

7

Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

177

8

Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking

153

9

142

10

Then – Understand how you spend your time and what influences your mood

101

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

1279

2

80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

736

3

Microsoft announces Windows 11

551

4

Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11

424

5

The Teamsters announce coordinated nationwide project to unionize Amazon

406

6

YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists

340

7

Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

335

8

Oregon has legalized human composting

269

9

Hospitals are selling troves of medical data

247

10

Google’s Messaging Mess: A Timeline

222

News [?]

1

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

2091

2

A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

651

3

HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law

446

4

What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?

373

5

U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing

367

6

Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school

351

7

NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

342

8

Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps

337

9

Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted

332

10

No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation

330

Scientific publications [?]

1

Regularization is all you need: simple neural nets can excel on tabular data

216

2

The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea

216

3

Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)

122

4

Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700

107

5

Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat (2014)

77

6

Why is AI hard and physics simple?

59

7

Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality

53

8

The Dawn of Haiku OS (2012)

41

9

Efficient Deep Learning: A Survey on Making Models Smaller, Faster, Better

31

10

The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global community

26

Dev Blogs [?]

1

.NET 6 Preview 5

170

2

Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms

146

3

Introduction to BigQuery row-level security

75

4

CSP bypass: How one Chrome XSS bug took 2.5 years and an HTML spec change to fix

67

5

Sonatype Lift – a unified code analysis platform

45

6

Pulling GitHub into the Linux kernel process

43

7

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

29

8

Google Wants Rust in the Linux Kernel

24

9

The New GitHub Issues

18

10

CVS Health Records for 1.1B Customers Exposed

18

Tech blogs [?]

1

A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone

106

2

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

94

3

Intel to Adopt SiFive's New High-Performance P550 RISC-V Cores with 7nm Platform

91

4

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

35

5

Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then Retracts Post

23

6

Patreon doesn't pay Apple's 30% App Store commission, and its CEO isn't sure why

21

7

The Compromises of Raspberry Pi Hardware Documentation

10

8

Clampdown on Crypto Mining Cuts China's GPU Prices Nearly 45 Percent

7

9

Apple Executive Suggests Users Who Want App Sideloading Move to Android

7

10

Understanding Amazon Sidewalk

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation

65

2

36

3

Windows 11 Live Event

15

4

Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps [pdf]

10

5

Apple Tower Theatre Opens Thursday in Downtown Los Angeles

5

6

AWS Announces AWS BugBust

4

7

AWS BugBust: It’s Game over for Bugs

4

8

Where Do All the Attacks Go? (2011) [pdf]

3

9

Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps [pdf]

3

10

Machine Learning: A Quantitative Approach

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla’s ‘Knight Rider’ Steering Yoke Is Getting Panned in Early Reviews

66

2

Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska’s Soviet-Era Antennas

49

3

Police Arrest Three for Posting 10 Minute Movie Summaries on YouTube

39

4

Tesla confirms plan to open Supercharger network to other automakers next year

26

5

Tesla Autopilot trains on 1.8 EFLOP Supercomputer

15

6

The Dark Side of Solar Power

14

7

The Mystery of the Blend (2009)

10

8

Tesla unveils supercomputer, 5th most powerful, to train self-driving AI

9

9

America Almost Made a New Route 66 with 22 Nuclear Bombs

8

10

America Almost Made a New Route 66 with 22 Nuclear Bombs

8

Science News [?]

1

Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory

344

2

Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research

239

3

Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules

117

4

Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals

107

5

Earth Has a 27.5M-Year 'Heartbeat', but We Don't Know What Causes It

88

6

How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs

88

7

Toxoplasmosis: The Cat Poop Parasite That's Probably in Your Brain

84

8

Unravelling the enigma of bird magnetoreception

65

9

Inside The Tombs of Saqqara

51

10

Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Works

49

Social [?]

1

HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

565

2

GAN Theft Auto [video]

388

3

Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350

317

4

Disney will send you a copyright strike if your face looks like Loki's

214

5

The ongoing witch-hunt for sex workers in Sweden

200

6

Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]

189

7

It appears that Reddit is forcing me to use their app to see deep linked content

188

8

Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

186

9

Microsoft have signed multiple rootkits

157

10

There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11

149

Github repos and gists [?]

1

New GitHub Issues Beta

599

2

StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data

434

3

Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

432

4

SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen

431

5

Rhizome – A pedagogical example of a JIT for Ruby, implemented in Ruby

300

6

272

7

220

8

Elfcat: Visualize ELF Binaries

201

9

Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server

182

10

Racing Game in ClojureScript

161

Wikipedia [?]

1

209

2

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

185

3

OpenCola (Drink)

74

4

Homotopy Type Theory

64

5

Angus Barbieri's fast

61

6

774–775 carbon-14 spike

23

7

21

8

Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands

13

9

Ralf Brown's Interrupt List

9

10

Cambodian Genocide Denial

9

Blogs [?]

1

Is Julia Really Fast?

145

2

AuthZ: Scalable permissions system

108

3

Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519 (2018)

78

4

React Ruined Web Development

45

5

$400k pre-idea Founder Fellowship applications closing tomorrow

21

6

Proof of Stake Is a Precondition to Blockchain Adoption

10

7

9

8

8

9

Here Comes the Law

6

10

Slack Is Not Asynchronous

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

IsUserAGoat() Function in Android SDK

30

2

Why is Python recursion so expensive and what can we do about it?

4

3

C++11 – How can I prevent C++ guessing a second template argument?

2

4

How to crop an image from screenshot with the use of OpenCV?

1

5

How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?

1

6

Why is Python recursion so expensive and what can we do about it?

1

7

Possible dependency confusion vulnerabilities in PyPi Package?

1

Substack [?]

1

The Most Dangerous Censorship

448

2

A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit

201

3

Minimum Viable Self

169

4

Amazon’s HR Failures

160

5

The myth of the myth of the lone genius

139

6

Polygon: L2 or Not L2?

94

7

Reading Grossman's “Stalingrad” and ”Life and Fate”

93

8

The Censored: Bret Weinstein

50

9

Why Has “Ivermectin” Become a Dirty Word?

39

10

No, millennials don't have it worse than previous generations

33