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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
GitHub Copilot
2905
2
A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
2682
3
Reddit’s disrespectful design
1278
4
How to Work Hard
1223
5
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
1202
6
GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
1028
7
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
944
8
I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
939
9
I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
927
10
SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
803
Top Ask HN
1
Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?
430
2
Who is hiring? (July 2021)
399
3
Best “I brought down production” story?
273
4
How to learn how to sell?
260
5
Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?
223
6
What Are You Learning?
222
7
Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?
197
8
What should I say to my manager when my performance starts suffering?
190
9
Do you self-host your database?
183
10
You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
172
Top Show HN
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I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
169
2
An interactive visual history of Git development
147
3
Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin
140
4
Anki alternative with integrated notes and import/export
123
5
Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online
111
6
Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
110
7
VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs
104
8
VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same
102
9
The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning
67
10
A machine that detects when you text and drive then shocks you [video]
66
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
516
2
Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents
435
3
The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
419
4
Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube
409
5
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco
280
6
Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
268
7
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
261
8
Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine
245
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Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers
222
10
I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media
189
News [?]
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Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out
630
2
YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative
609
3
CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases
600
4
Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
527
5
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
414
6
Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
413
7
UK regulator clamps down on Binance
408
8
Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna
406
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‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
402
10
Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults
392
Scientific publications [?]
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Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status
521
2
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
297
3
Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships
212
4
PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language
172
5
Engineers can disrupt climate change
139
6
A Pure HTTP/3 Alternative to MQTT-over-QUIC in Resource-Constrained IoT
108
7
Why does the world harbor so many different voltages, plugs, and sockets?
54
8
SpaceX's Starship could launch to orbit for first time as soon as July
26
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Refusal to treat AIDS and HIV positive patients. (1987)
23
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NASA publishes free software catalog for public use
9
Dev Blogs [?]
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Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
565
2
Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
238
3
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
207
4
Confessions of a serial startup software developer
167
5
Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode
133
6
MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet
97
7
Patching until the COWs come home
76
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Challenging the Myth That Programming Careers End at 40
47
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We Infiltrated a Counterfeit Check Ring Now What?
46
10
A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
33
Tech blogs [?]
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British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
552
2
Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download
169
3
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
143
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LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, inferred salaries
140
5
Intel to Create RISC-V Dev Platform with SiFive P550 Cores on 7nm in 2022
121
6
Apple still planning return to in-person work despite complaints
99
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Micron to Sell 3D XPoint Fab to Texas Instruments for $900M
98
8
AMD Quietly Launches Recycled Xbox Series X APU as 4700S Desktop Kit
81
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AMD EPYC Milan Review Part 2: Testing 8 to 64 Cores in a Production Platform
59
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Apple's M1 now supported by Linux kernel in version 5.13
46
FAANG+ [?]
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Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
369
2
AWS acquires Wickr
177
3
AWS BugBust
153
4
Windows 11 – Feature deprecations and removals
12
5
Mocrosoft’s CausalCity simulation for causal inference in ML
6
6
Using hyper in curl can help make the internet safer
3
7
Microsoft finds new NETGEAR firmware vulnerabilities
3
8
Planetary-Scale Computing – 9.95 Pflops and Position 41 on the TOP500 List
2
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Planetary-Scale Computing – 9.95 Pflops and Position 41 on the TOP500 List
2
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Using Shutterstock’s image datasets to train your computer vision models
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
157
2
The Lightness of Windows
144
3
Near
138
4
Bsnes author Byuu bullied to suicide by KiwiFarms
66
5
Why Specs Matter (2004)
53
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Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
50
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Near (Byuu) Has Died
43
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The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs into Secret Code (2017)
39
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Blockchain Is Puny
29
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Fuck work – What if jobs are not the solution but the problem (2016)
27
Science News [?]
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MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
422
2
One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
234
3
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity
223
4
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
217
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Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's
177
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Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success
138
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Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail
100
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Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago
92
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U.K. Will Stop Using Coal Power in Just Three Years
79
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The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014)
78
Social [?]
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GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
1028
2
Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
799
3
Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
701
4
Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
666
5
Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
646
6
Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
390
7
Burnout Is Real
250
8
Microsoft's Introduction to Rust Video Course
196
9
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house (2015) [video]
141
10
Cities Are Not Loud: Cars Are Loud, and Places Without Cars Are Quiet [video]
117
Github repos and gists [?]
1
I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
939
2
Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood
498
3
Check If Email Exists
479
4
Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
335
5
Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network
318
6
x86 Bare Metal Examples: Minimal operating systems, learn x86 system programming
279
7
A curated list of books on Software Architecture
262
8
Servo Engine contributions this year
238
9
The Book of Secret Knowledge
237
10
CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler
227
Wikipedia [?]
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Bob's Game
166
2
Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities
131
3
Sonoluminescence
81
4
DCF77
67
5
Edward Bernays
58
6
Naumachia
54
7
Ship’s Cat
40
8
Public Universal Friend
38
9
Duenos Inscription
30
10
Peirce quincuncial projection
26
Blogs [?]
1
How to Work Hard
1223
2
Metaphors in Games (2016)
23
3
I Got Job Offers from Google, Amazon, Uber, Reddit, Squarespace, Braze
22
4
How Julia Uses Multiple Dispatch to Beat Python
14
5
How We Made Our Maps 10x Faster
14
6
We needed a security-first interactive front-end. So we used Phoenix Live View
7
7
The Lost Art of Data Modeling
7
8
Lens – The Kubernetes IDE – Announces its biggest release, LENS 5
7
9
An Expert Called Lindy — Nassim Taleb (2017)
7
10
Customer Support Strategies for the 21st Century
5
Stackoverflow [?]
1
The difference between shell and environment variables
3
2
I'm about to hit 300k rep on StackOverflow
3
3
Is there a Git URI scheme for referencing a file in a repo at a commit?
2
4
How does 1 leftshift 64 - 1 work?
1
5
Silk Road Downfall: How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using cURL in PHP?
1
Substack [?]
1
The most precious resource is agency
701
2
Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
374
3
Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
281
4
NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
238
5
Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s
204
6
Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech?
122
7
Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame
87
8
Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
79
9
The Launch Landscape: Small Rockets
50
10
The Limits of Optimization
44