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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Valve Steam Deck

2517

2

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

2075

3

NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

1328

4

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

987

5

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

907

6

This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

872

7

The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

763

8

People Staring at Computers

743

9

“One Day Longer and Those 13 Boys Would Be Dead”

694

10

Instagram Has Become SkyMall

652

Top Ask HN

1

Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?

344

2

Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)

166

3

Hacker News like forums for other niches?

116

4

Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?

101

5

Collection of Pitch Decks?

91

6

Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?

52

7

Should I sell my house to fund my startup? Anyone with the same story?

45

8

Do you regret having children?

44

9

A contractor published all my private code publicly. What would you do?

37

10

How do you say no to your employer

33

Top Show HN

1

Print a WiFi Login Card

769

2

Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

760

3

I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

294

4

Earthly – Better Builds

223

5

Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance

165

6

Fakeflix – Netflix open source clone

153

7

Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool

151

8

A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust

144

9

Tilemaker – DIY vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data

112

10

Unlimited, free intraday stock data API

93

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

987

2

A privacy war is raging inside the W3C

376

3

iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones

235

4

Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege

222

5

India bans MasterCard from adding new customers

215

6

SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the first time

212

7

Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team

208

8

Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts

199

9

Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse

179

10

Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed

168

News [?]

1

Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B

604

2

Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

477

3

A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement

412

4

Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking

368

5

Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful

336

6

Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets

304

7

The vital art of talking to strangers

249

8

Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

249

9

Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot

220

10

FDA head asks for investigation into Aduhelm drug approval

206

Scientific publications [?]

1

Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures

171

2

Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective

75

3

Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

56

4

Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds

52

5

Bellingcat Crowdsources Spycraft, Scales Up Sleuthing

31

6

The Mini-LED Is the Future of Big Displays

24

7

Constructions in Combinatorics via Neural Networks

22

8

How Great Is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship [pdf]

20

9

Scientists Detect a Photon Without Destroying It

16

10

The pressure is off and high temperature superconductivity remains

15

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Goodbye, Fleets

369

2

Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash

337

3

Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers

260

4

Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor

216

5

Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research

101

6

“Le9” Strives to Make Linux Usable on Systems with Small Amounts of RAM

47

7

Gutting Decades of Architecture to Build a New Kind of Processor

27

8

Defeating Hydra: The Growing Problem of Complexity in Web Development

24

9

WhatsApp enables multi-device capability

20

10

Have Your Privacy Cake on Android and Eat It Too

19

Tech blogs [?]

1

macOS Monterey Beta 3: Apple Redesigns Safari Tab Interface Following Complaints

133

2

Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

131

3

End of an Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark in America

129

4

Ascenium wants to reinvent the CPU and kill instruction sets altogether

125

5

Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity

117

6

M1 MacBook battery life so good Apple thought indicator was broken

95

7

Power Plant Decides Mining Bitcoin Is More Profitable Than Selling Electricity

52

8

App Tracking Transparency causing 15% to 20% revenue drop for advertisers

37

9

Russia to build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025

26

10

Some iOS versions refuse to show ‘69’ as the temperature in iPhone Weather app

21

FAANG+ [?]

1

Windows 365 Cloud PC

236

2

Amazon.com product pages are down

225

3

Apple MagSafe Battery Pack

168

4

Amazon SQS is 15 Years Old

69

5

Apple scores 35 Emmy nominations, including 20 for hit series “Ted Lasso”

51

6

OpenSearch 1.0 is now GA

13

7

Microsoft agrees to buy security software provider RiskIQ

6

8

Windows 365 Cloud PC: Stream Windows to any device

4

9

AWS and Open 3D Engine

2

10

Apple deploys $1B in affordable housing support across California

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

907

2

Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC

93

3

Police Arrest Two More for Uploading 10 Minute Movie Edits to YouTube

39

4

Fifteen Percent of U.S. Air Force F-35s Don’t Have Working Engines

36

5

Reddit tells “Save Video” bot to shut down or face lawsuit

33

6

Gender is not a spectrum (2016)

33

7

Telsa patents new method of lithium extraction using NaCl

30

8

When will programmers grow up? (2014)

25

9

The Saga of the Reindeer of South Georgia Island (2018)

24

10

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

18

Science News [?]

1

How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

501

2

New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

367

3

'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds

254

4

Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds

238

5

The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases

156

6

Plenty of exercise can be enough to offset the negative impacts of poor sleep

151

7

How to unlearn a disease

130

8

We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study

112

9

Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine still rouses a big immune response

109

10

Mathematicians prove symmetry of phase transitions at critical moments

90

Social [?]

1

My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]

521

2

I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”

514

3

Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

410

4

Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails

281

5

Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"

242

6

I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?

239

7

80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics

181

8

List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K

173

9

Update: SaveVideo is Back

164

10

Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (2019)

156

Github repos and gists [?]

1

550

2

Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

529

3

WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM

527

4

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

363

5

Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams

249

6

Josh: Get the advantages of a monorepo with multirepo setups

246

7

Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash

232

8

Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES

220

9

Wayback Machine Downloader

212

10

Neorg: Neovim 0.5’s answer to modern life organization

212

Wikipedia [?]

1

Royal Mail Rubber Band

87

2

Cyberpunk derivatives

76

3

Zygalski Sheets

74

4

73

5

Battle of B-R5RB

72

6

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

48

7

40

8

37

9

One Laptop per Child

22

10

The Count of Monte Cristo is inspired by a real framing-revenge plot story

19

Blogs [?]

1

GraalVM at Facebook

197

2

Who’s running the Vincere bot network on Instagram?

134

3

How to Review Code as a Junior Developer

133

4

GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It

77

5

What Does the Event Loop Sound Like?

49

6

How the Birth of the Influencer Led to the Death of Hobbies

44

7

Encoding Time Series as Images (2020)

29

8

Apple Security Bounty: A personal experience

29

9

We refreshed our 1800 emoji to support the new landscape of work

24

10

Rik Schennink Bootstrapped a JavaScript Image Editor to $20k MRR

13

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why did Windows use the FAT structure instead of a conventional linked list?

7

2

Does Rust's array bounds checking affect performance (2017)?

2

3

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

1

4

Is there a standardized method to swap two variables in Python?

1

5

Why are the first four bytes of the Java class file format CAFEBABE?

1

Substack [?]

1

Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

487

2

Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

470

3

Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”

133

4

Are animals more conscious than we are?

71

5

Was the Industrial Revolution the Industrial Revolution?

63

6

The crypto movement is destroying itself

63

7

Is Eric Weinstein a Crackpot?

55

8

Bitcoin as a Hyperobject

29

9

Use Prediction Markets to Fund Investigative Reporting

25

10

Why do people hate inflation?

22