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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
1280
2
Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
1110
3
All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
1017
4
European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
938
5
Npm Audit: broken by design?
872
6
I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
848
7
We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
818
8
Poisson's Equation
766
9
A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
740
10
Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
668
Top Ask HN
1
How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?
152
2
Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)
138
3
Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
132
4
30 years old with no career
121
5
Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?
107
6
How to get started with CB radio?
102
7
Literature for mathematical optimization?
95
8
How do SMBs afford such expensive software engineers in the US?
85
9
What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?
72
10
Is this the most quoted quote on HN?
66
Top Show HN
1
RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
509
2
Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
401
3
Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
158
4
Lego Brick Scanner – open-source Boilerplate
154
5
Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
140
6
SQLite query inside a Bash function
134
7
A simple lazy Python calculation engine, with spreadsheet demo
123
8
Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser
102
9
Ready UI – Bootstrap UI blocks
86
10
Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)
76
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down
331
2
The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
274
3
A phone the FBI sold to criminals
221
4
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above
209
5
Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says
181
6
Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”
180
7
Debit card apps for kids are collecting a shocking amount of personal data
121
8
Reconstructing Roman Industrial Engineering
103
9
Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out
92
10
Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone
87
News [?]
1
US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
611
2
Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
471
3
Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
354
4
Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says
307
5
Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over
276
6
Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning
255
7
California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds
254
8
What really happened to Jack Ma?
238
9
Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece
237
10
New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
207
Scientific publications [?]
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Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets
211
2
A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)
182
3
Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive
146
4
The future of deep learning is photonic
137
5
Ethiopia's controversial mega-dam on Nile tributary
67
6
Strong quantum computational advantage using a superconducting quantum processor
50
7
The Geography of Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub
50
8
Multi-Horizon Forecasting for Limit Order Books
32
9
Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior
22
10
The future of deep learning is photonics
18
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users
400
2
Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
231
3
How to add eBPF observability to your product
201
4
What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?
190
5
Computing Performance on the Horizon
183
6
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Windows Flaw
123
7
Compute Engine Predictive Autoscaling
53
8
Steam on Linux around 0.9% marketshare
44
9
Malware in open-source web extensions
28
10
Impossible Cryptanalysis and Skipjack (1998)
26
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
244
2
The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)
182
3
The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds
177
4
EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition
173
5
Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
105
6
Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+
87
7
Analysts corroborate rumors that upcoming MacBook Pro will ditch the Touch Bar
81
8
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Review: Fastest Integrated Graphics Ever
43
9
Apple expanding outside of SV as it struggles to recruit and retain talent
40
10
What Happened to the 100k Hour LED Bulbs?
36
FAANG+ [?]
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Open 3D Engine Open Sourced by Amazon
16
2
Offer HN: My book “Understanding SEO” today free for Kindle
14
3
Declarative provisioning of AWS resources with Spinnaker and Crossplane
7
4
AWS Lumberyard is now Open 3D Engine
4
5
Web-Based Programming for Low-Cost Gaming Handhelds
3
6
Apple: Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps [pdf]
3
7
Implementing a LIFO Task Queue Using AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
2
8
AWS: This is my architecture
2
9
AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia
2
10
Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)
193
2
The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection
180
3
BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited
171
4
Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
148
5
Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions
111
6
The impossible dream of the nuclear-powered 1958 Ford Nucleon
78
7
The Onion Predicted US's Middle of the Night Pullout from Bagram in Afghanistan
51
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The long history of 'Bombay time' and resistance to colonial rule
48
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A man recreating air travel’s most glorious meals
29
10
Yamaha PSR-60 Portasound
28
Science News [?]
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
591
2
Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing
276
3
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water
179
4
European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone
107
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Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study
93
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The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated
81
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What Made Early Humans Smart
78
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Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (2017)
54
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Long Covid: How It Keeps Us Sick
54
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Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem
44
Social [?]
1
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
1280
2
All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
1017
3
Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
621
4
“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
323
5
GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
277
6
Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
255
7
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]
235
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GitHub Copilot regurgitates valid secrets
201
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YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug
197
10
Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)
104
Github repos and gists [?]
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GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
636
2
Neovim v0.5
449
3
Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting
407
4
OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science
322
5
Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool
297
6
Image unshredding using a TSP solver
216
7
Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems
202
8
Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
198
9
Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement
182
10
Darktable 3.6
176
Wikipedia [?]
1
Garden Hermit
171
2
Fibonacci Coding
61
3
Lemon Law
31
4
The Friendship Paradox
27
5
Boltzmann Brain
18
6
Late Bronze Age Collapse
13
7
Gombe Chimpanzee War
13
8
Monkey Selfie Copyright Dispute
11
9
List of lists of lists on the English Wikipedia
8
10
Intrusive Thought
7
Blogs [?]
1
How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster
154
2
Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997
120
3
Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
113
4
Return of the Mac (2005)
100
5
Some Days I Can’t Do Life – When everyday life becomes a struggle (2020)
82
6
Terrible programming features from the past
81
7
The Metaverse: A brave, new virtual world
65
8
How to Properly Archive a Project
44
9
We're not in a real estate bubble
8
10
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump
7
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How does an assembly instruction turn into voltage changes on the CPU?
6
2
Python swapping: why is a, b = b, a not always equivalent to b, a = a, b?
1
Substack [?]
1
Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
327
2
How to build a small town in Texas
256
3
When Orcs Were Real
201
4
Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
166
5
Out of Africa's midlife crisis
100
6
SF's crime debate turns nasty
97
7
We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
93
8
Seeking advice in startups – a framework built on mastery and method
51
9
Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
48
10
Impact of Undefined Behavior on Performance
47