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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

1137

2

How I Experience Web Today

985

3

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

982

4

Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

962

5

Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

954

6

Burning out and quitting

921

7

Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

912

8

The most underused browser feature: reader mode

882

9

The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

861

10

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

822

Top Ask HN

1

Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

312

2

Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

306

3

Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?

248

4

Has web development become insane or am I stuck in my ways?

97

5

How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?

89

6

I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?

59

7

How do you handle user-generated content in your apps?

59

8

What LinkedIn alternatives don't suck?

58

9

Whats your ideal PhD workflow

57

10

Should it be legal to switch privacy policies after purchase?

51

Top Show HN

1

With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

501

2

59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

338

3

Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas

181

4

Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go

179

5

AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants

137

6

WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

110

7

ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation

96

8

SlashApi – a web platform to build REST APIs without code

88

9

TypeIt – A Versatile JavaScript Animated Typing Utility

87

10

Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption tool

77

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

652

2

Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

459

3

Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

389

4

Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

387

5

Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%

386

6

Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad

275

7

Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen

262

8

Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market

152

9

The history of Google messaging apps

144

10

Data brokers sell access to the backbone of the internet

119

News [?]

1

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

773

2

TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

630

3

OnlyFans suspends plan to ban sexually explicit content after outcry

559

4

A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

372

5

Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

359

6

Charlie Watts has died

350

7

The Clickbaitification of Netflix

346

8

Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

313

9

The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

312

10

Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases

305

Scientific publications [?]

1

A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

223

2

An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot's code contributions

137

3

An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior

125

4

Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

113

5

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Low Testosterone Levels

112

6

Do vision transformers see like convolutional neural networks?

110

7

Image2Lego: Customized Lego Set Generation from Images

98

8

Nauka's Troubled Flight–Before It Tumbled the ISS

85

9

Open Source Is Throwing AI Policymakers for a Loop

63

10

Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing with Tesla Bot

58

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why are hyperlinks blue?

348

2

Memfd_secret() in 5.14

121

3

The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

111

4

Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

105

5

The Btrfs inode-number epic (part 1: the problem)

99

6

Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub

80

7

Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode

72

8

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

70

9

Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity

55

10

Pin, Unpin, and why Rust needs them

37

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

549

2

Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires

426

3

Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

348

4

Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

314

5

Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address

245

6

Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos

175

7

World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

164

8

Interview with Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor

108

9

Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions

103

10

Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM

101

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Genomics CLI

94

2

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

27

3

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

17

4

Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf]

16

5

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

4

6

Happy 15th Birthday Amazon EC2

3

7

5G Radio Access Network Architecture: The Dark Side of 5G

3

8

Kindle Vella – publish serial stories with Kindle Direct Publishing

3

9

AWS Backup Audit Manager: Monitor, Evaluate, and Demonstrate Backup Compliance

3

10

Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

275

2

Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

254

3

The Principles Underlying Radio Communication

79

4

GM expands recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs including EUV, blames LG

43

5

Human in Robot Costume Good Metaphor for How Close Tesla Is to A.I

42

6

Tesla vehicles to get UI performance boost thanks to famed video game engineer

29

7

Tesla aims to launch Full Self-Driving Computer 2 with Cybertruck next year

18

8

Radio Log from Police Copter's Chase of Bizarre Craft over Tucson Add to Mystery

11

9

How to Work with Someone Who Creates Unnecessary Conflict

10

10

Don’t Let Power Corrupt You

6

Science News [?]

1

Thoughts of work invaded my life until I learned how to unplug

257

2

Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox

255

3

More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles

224

4

The mutation that helps Delta spread

201

5

Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected

174

6

Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep

173

7

Perceptual Illusions (2018)

150

8

Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers

117

9

Some mental abilities seem to improve as we get older

115

10

How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions

102

Social [?]

1

My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

1137

2

Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

912

3

Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts

669

4

Google's Secret Initiative – “Project Hug”

643

5

ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

575

6

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

443

7

How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

397

8

How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]

371

9

Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

357

10

Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal

263

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

982

2

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

822

3

PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

763

4

Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos

576

5

A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical

337

6

Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

274

7

Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON

273

8

Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

266

9

SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI

224

10

Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use

213

Wikipedia [?]

1

Thought-Terminating Cliché

138

2

Airliner Number 4

85

3

The Apollo Affair

79

4

Person from Porlock

45

5

Lignum Nephriticum

42

6

The Begum's Fortune

36

7

Inverted Totalitarianism

33

8

Hobby Tunneling

22

9

Buddhas of Bamiyan

19

10

Cox-Zucker_machine

17

Blogs [?]

1

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

566

2

I could do that in a weekend (2016)

121

3

Things I have learned from creating my own SaaS

45

4

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

23

5

I Moved to Warsaw, Poland from Palo Alto, California

16

6

How to self-host and share your videos in 2021

14

7

It’s always DNS. A kubectl story

13

8

Securing a Modern Web Application

13

9

A Brutal Truth of Upper Management

10

10

Charts CSS – a non-JS charting solution for the web

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow Is Down

5

Substack [?]

1

The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

861

2

How we paid for the War on Terror

104

3

Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way

97

4

Nike's End of Men

55

5

Notes on Living in Los Angeles

54

6

43

7

People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem

39

8

Street Bench Zen

31

9

Is Covid-19 making us irrational?

30

10

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor of California?

29