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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

1330

2

The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?

884

3

Assange case: Key witness admits he lied

875

4

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

857

5

An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

843

6

Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

843

7

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

800

8

Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

689

9

Our lawsuit against ChessBase

677

10

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

659

Top Ask HN

1

Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?

224

2

for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?

133

3

How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?

80

4

Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?

80

5

How do you deal with information addiction?

78

6

As a solo founder, what are the reasons not to use Docker?

74

7

67

8

Webdev with poor/deteriorating vision. What can I pivot into?

67

9

Programming Audio Book Recommendations

63

10

Did you quit smoking cannabis? If so, why?

56

Top Show HN

1

I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD

282

2

Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

272

3

I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

214

4

Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System

212

5

Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator

203

6

WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games

200

7

I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

188

8

A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation

175

9

Magic Mushroom Map

171

10

Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

153

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

626

2

Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

536

3

Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

479

4

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

444

5

Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

407

6

I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week

319

7

Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS

292

8

Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons

227

9

Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia

219

10

OpenAI disbands its robotics research team

164

News [?]

1

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance

800

2

Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech

689

3

Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists

643

4

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

591

5

Restaurant workers quit at record rate

446

6

Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations

435

7

California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

424

8

Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as residents are pushed out

375

9

PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires

353

10

Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program

348

Scientific publications [?]

1

Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago

140

2

How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

99

3

Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar

91

4

EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models [pdf]

85

5

AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases

75

6

How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack (2018)

68

7

Only Train Once: A One-Shot Neural Network Training and Pruning Framework

65

8

NASA Returns Hubble Space Telescope to Science Operations

64

9

The Benchmark Lottery

57

10

Is Rust Used Safely by Software Developers?

57

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

599

2

Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

521

3

Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?

338

4

NSO Group Hacked

248

5

A GPIO Driver in Rust

226

6

Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees

143

7

Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

134

8

Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison

128

9

Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with a New Physics Simulation Engine

84

10

TypeScript 4.4 Beta

63

Tech blogs [?]

1

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

659

2

Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

362

3

iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones

325

4

Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones

282

5

Soviet scientific calculator gives up its Cold War-era secrets

70

6

GlobalFoundries to Spend Billions: Doubling Fab 8, Creating New Fab in NY

44

7

Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro

36

8

Illegal Crypto Farm Was Also Mining FIFA 21 Characters

35

9

A Look Back on a Decade of Kerbal Space Program

25

10

California passes new broadband access law

21

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts

256

2

AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance

153

3

Amazon “conditions of use” now preclude arbitration

6

4

Windows 365 Cloud PCs

5

5

New or Updated Datasets Now Available on the AWS Registry of Open Data

3

6

Microsoft: Protecting customers from a private-sector using 0-day exploits

3

7

Snowmobile: Migrate or transport exabyte-scale data sets into and out of AWS

2

8

Welcome to your Windows 365 Cloud PC

1

9

Coming soon: Expansion of AWS Lambda states to all functions

1

10

Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Threat Protection with Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BANCStar (2000)

175

2

Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium

140

3

“Head of Strategy” of Muse Group (Muse Score, Audacity)Threaten Developer

128

4

Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to support “full self-driving”

127

5

The U.S. set off a nuclear bomb in space in 1962

104

6

Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code (2003)

65

7

Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (2016)

61

8

We’re all teenagers now: The adolescent mindset transformed the US and the world

41

9

Eat like Jane Austen with recipes from her sister-in-law’s cookbook

40

10

Tesla launches its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month

39

Science News [?]

1

Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

629

2

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

307

3

How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real

234

4

Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud

225

5

Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms

211

6

New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry

193

7

RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%

190

8

The Colorado River is shrinking

166

9

The economic value of targeting aging

150

10

How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016)

147

Social [?]

1

iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

416

2

Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

369

3

The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video]

180

4

Quantum computing hype is bad for science

136

5

Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system

125

6

Cuba jamming ham radio frequencies [video]

118

7

A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT

112

8

Is Apollo 11’s lunar module still in orbit around the moon? [video]

106

9

Reddit AMA by FB whistleblower Sophie Zhang who found troll farms

92

10

I unwrapped Buzz Aldrin’s visor to a 360 sphere to see what he saw

63

Github repos and gists [?]

1

WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input

281

2

ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust

275

3

Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design

265

4

Programmatic Video Editing with Python

257

5

223

6

Thread Pools on the JVM

217

7

Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

213

8

A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

201

9

Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser

194

10

Piper: GTK application to configure gaming mice

151

Wikipedia [?]

1

112 Gripes About the French

408

2

293

3

275

4

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

255

5

Bouba/Kiki Effect

238

6

142

7

Vatican’s list of films

63

8

62

9

35

10

The Antikythera Mechanism

23

Blogs [?]

1

I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi

99

2

I won $400 by coding and playing games

30

3

Infery – Run Deep Learning Inference with Only 3 Lines of Python Code

9

4

Stop Using UI Frameworks

6

5

Reach Announces Launch of Its Beta: A ‘Second Brain’ to Instantly Recall Content

6

6

Mito is no longer in development

6

7

Why most agile scaling frameworks are a fad

6

8

Solving the Pallet Stacking Problem

6

9

Running Python in the Linux Kernel

6

10

I’m Worried Nobody Will Care About Rollups

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Are events raised, triggered, or fired?

8

2

What is the proper REST response code for a valid request but an empty data?

2

3

Heartbeat (laptop LED style) blinking cursor in Emacs

1

Substack [?]

1

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

502

2

NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment

83

3

Runbooks for better incident management

78

4

Old pattern powering modern tech

60

5

44

6

Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic

43

7

Economic history of World War II and the 18th Brumaire

42

8

Modeling mutual friendship

30

9

People Want to Work, They Just Don't Want to Work for You

29

10

Lockdown Bait and Switch – By Matt Shapiro – Marginally Compelling

25