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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Framework Laptop is now shipping

1502

2

How Dwarf Fortress is built

1130

3

The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

903

4

Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

809

5

The Insecurity Industry

743

6

AWS's Egregious Egress

742

7

724

8

Naval Architecture

717

9

BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound

706

10

TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

699

Top Ask HN

1

How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?

134

2

Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

107

3

How do you chill your mind after work?

86

4

How did you validate your webapp product/market fit?

58

5

What Technologies Are Used for Google Doodle Champion Island Games?

54

6

Books that improved your career?

52

7

What is your favourite stocks/options trading platform?

51

8

Who else has a crummy developer career?

46

9

What do you think the world would be in 6 months – 1 year

43

10

What would a Facebook that isn't evil look like?

37

Top Show HN

1

Website changes design each time you blink

261

2

A web-based matrix client: Cinny

163

3

An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

162

4

Grow your own with the Raspberry Pi

123

5

iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code

121

6

AI Background Remover

102

7

A graveyard for my side projects

87

8

WASM and WebGL Fluid Simulation

86

9

Notes.cx – A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown support

80

10

Nextless.js: Full-Stack React SaaS Boilerplate with Auth and Payment

80

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

614

2

Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI

516

3

Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

333

4

Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

321

5

Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria

278

6

Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen

274

7

Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup”

256

8

Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

203

9

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

191

10

Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

147

News [?]

1

TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

699

2

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

687

3

Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

544

4

Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

495

5

Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

399

6

'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending

346

7

Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

334

8

Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

290

9

Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

283

10

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)

271

Scientific publications [?]

1

Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

283

2

Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations

156

3

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA's Europa Clipper to icy Jupiter moon

146

4

An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries

108

5

A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI

72

6

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra in ACL2

67

7

What does the "mean" really mean?

47

8

Potential role of manufactured citric acid eliciting inflammatory reactions

41

9

Steven Weinberg: What Is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is? (1997)

37

10

Curvy adaptable imaging sensor improves image, retains more pixels

20

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How Dwarf Fortress is built

1130

2

AWS's Egregious Egress

742

3

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things

433

4

Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

339

5

External IPv6 addresses for VM instances is now in General Availability

237

6

Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

183

7

Rust for Linux redux

161

8

The Generational Divide in Software Developers

156

9

Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent

137

10

Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in Cdnjs

108

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store

152

2

Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32

131

3

NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

128

4

Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?

105

5

Apple testing new external display with A13 chip

60

6

EFF Sues US Postal Service for Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program

34

7

It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter

32

8

TSMC 2nm chip plans announced

25

9

Debian Linux Running Bare Metal on Apple's M1 SoC

20

10

Simple RNA tweak boosts potato and rice yields by 50 percent

18

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring

226

2

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

98

3

Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation

78

4

Microsoft Earnings Release FY21 Q4

5

5

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results [pdf]

3

6

On infinitely wide neural networks that exhibit feature learning

2

7

Exposing LemonDuck and LemonCat, modern mining malware infrastructure

2

8

Robust Method to Defend Against GPS Spoofing Attacks Using Off-the-Shelf Chipset

2

9

2

10

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Elite Romans decorated their floors with garbage

96

2

How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (2019)

84

3

Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range

81

4

ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

70

5

Reimagined toilets at a South Korea university transform human waste into biogas

65

6

The Script Boring Company Drivers Have to Recite About Musk

54

7

Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X

45

8

After Neurodiversity

27

9

The Divine Dante

23

10

Berkeley’s Hidden Network of Hillside Paths

16

Science News [?]

1

France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes

391

2

A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change

190

3

The fig is an ecological marvel

149

4

Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos

141

5

A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years

132

6

Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

112

7

Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues

85

8

Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth

63

9

Case of a Man 3 Doctors Declared Dead Who Woke Up Just Before His Autopsy

49

10

Clever carpentry helps bees fix wild honeycombs

49

Social [?]

1

“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”

454

2

I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it

438

3

Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended

384

4

A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale

350

5

Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research

348

6

Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel

327

7

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]

290

8

Tylr: Demo of tile-based editing, a new kind of structure editing

217

9

Steven Weinberg has died

166

10

ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking

145

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts

654

2

A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint

342

3

Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

333

4

Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers

276

5

Git-blame-someone-else

230

6

220

7

Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors

164

8

Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool

152

9

Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash

151

10

Amiga 2000 EATX PCB

137

Wikipedia [?]

1

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

434

2

128

3

Dusty Hill has died

86

4

Oregon Trail Generation

78

5

Euthanasia Coaster

34

6

Marvin Heemeyer (The Killdozer Man)

27

7

Most Livable Cities

16

8

Surveillance Capitalism

16

9

Paige Compositor

12

10

Wealth and Religion

9

Blogs [?]

1

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

146

2

Could, should, might, shouldn’t – A taxonomy of futurists

56

3

Keep Your Internet Off My Things

31

4

Can GitHub Copilot Crack a Facebook Coding Interview?

15

5

I stopped worrying about WordPress bugs with Jamstack

15

6

Problems with Python

14

7

How to Get Startup Ideas (2012)

12

8

Pivoting my bootstrapped startup to revenue

7

9

Stronger C++ Typing

6

10

We ported a C++ Rendering Engine to WebAssembly

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012)

59

2

Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments

4

3

Does the C11 memory model conflict with common optimizations?

2

Substack [?]

1

The Insecurity Industry

743

2

The SaaS Org Chart

385

3

Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

277

4

Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda

209

5

Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

194

6

Is Norway the New East India Company?

173

7

Galleri: Interpreting results from GRAIL's multi-cancer early detection study

69

8

Room C, where my little ballerina danced

67

9

The Trillion-Dollar Lie

49

10

Robinhood will fail again: stock trading is broken

41