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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
O.mg Cable
1690
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Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
1354
3
Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
1214
4
China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
1030
5
Arm China Has Gone Rogue
995
6
Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
725
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Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
695
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The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
675
9
My House
633
10
FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
608
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (September 2021)
355
2
What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
263
3
Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)
116
4
Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?
98
5
It seems like everyone is getting rich?
74
6
Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?
68
7
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2021)
65
8
Book Recommendations
64
9
Suspended by Google Domains
63
10
Best books on modern distributed systems
62
Top Show HN
1
We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
1180
2
I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
418
3
HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile
242
4
I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack
185
5
Blur Webcam Background on Linux
174
6
A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen
168
7
A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store
113
8
Bhagavad Gita Android App for searching verses by topics like anxiety
90
9
Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts
86
10
Open-Source multi-dashboarding platform for teams and client reporting
73
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
1354
2
Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
443
3
Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
402
4
The complicated reality of doing what you love
343
5
Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
319
6
Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
315
7
“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
272
8
The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines
239
9
Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
212
10
EU agency advises against using search and browsing history for credit scores
192
News [?]
1
China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
1030
2
Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
725
3
Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
695
4
The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
675
5
The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight
476
6
Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
393
7
The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits
304
8
Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
287
9
South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems
286
10
Mob justice is trampling democratic discourse
277
Scientific publications [?]
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Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying
235
2
Next-gen chips will be powered from below
164
3
Music Composition with Deep Learning: A Review
125
4
Intel's Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued
89
5
With This CAD for Genomes, You Can Design New Organisms
70
6
5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks
69
7
Bristol manuscript fragments of Merlin legend among the oldest of their kind
60
8
The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
58
9
LightChain: Scalable DHT-Based Blockchain
22
10
Faraday Invented the Electric Motor, his mentor accused him of plagiarism
15
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
407
2
Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
324
3
If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
323
4
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
194
5
Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios
174
6
Linux Kernel 5.14
126
7
Cooperative Package Management for Python
100
8
Slack's Secret STDERR Messages
70
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Analyzing a High Rate of Paging
58
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File IO improvements in .NET 6
26
Tech blogs [?]
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iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication
248
2
Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings
227
3
Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip
84
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Hands-On: MNT Reforms the Laptop
55
5
Multi-Chip Intel Core I9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
46
6
Criss CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS
42
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Apple will ask before it targets you with its ads in iOS 15
29
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Apple will let Apps redirect users to sign up for services outside the App Store
16
9
Developer pulls app from the Mac App Store over Apple's lack of improvements
16
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Court Ruling Against Locast Gets the Law Wrong
16
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
421
2
Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
177
3
Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates
44
4
AWS official SDK for Swift alpha release
34
5
1TB MicroSD cards under $100 on Amazon
18
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Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available and Direct SSO, SAP, Jira, V8
15
7
Detours: Software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications
14
8
What happens when you type a URL into the browser?
10
9
Confidential Computing: An AWS Perspective
7
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AWS Service Terms – 42.10
6
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm
351
2
Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse
181
3
TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
177
4
The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago
111
5
Tesla Model Y became the best-selling vehicle in Norway within a week
102
6
Possible climate futures–from the optimistic to the strange
48
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Regulators and Reality
32
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Radical new electric bike drive system requires no chains or belts
28
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Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at PG after collision with athlete
21
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New electric bike drive system requires no chains or belts, ride-by-wire
19
Science News [?]
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Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
439
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Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions
236
3
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine
227
4
Man can change his pupil size on command
195
5
Tardigrades Walk
193
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How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
188
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Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid deaths
176
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Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest
175
9
The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make
165
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Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii
133
Social [?]
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FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent
608
2
Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications
570
3
Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
304
4
The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet
299
5
Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K 60
299
6
Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
278
7
Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list
257
8
Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC
253
9
NetBSD Booting on the Apple M1
191
10
Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents
165
Github repos and gists [?]
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The Future of discord.py
493
2
Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
447
3
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
421
4
GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
416
5
Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
280
6
Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content
258
7
Replay-based attack on Honda and Acura vehicles
252
8
An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers
244
9
C# for Systems Programming
228
10
A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
216
Wikipedia [?]
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Extreme Ironing
411
2
Hoover (Seal)
102
3
Lee “Scratch” Perry inventor of Dub dies at 85
54
4
Aaron Swartz
49
5
Mean World Syndrome
46
6
Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
23
7
The Panic of 1907
18
8
Biophilic Design
15
9
JScript
15
10
Hashcash
11
Blogs [?]
1
Weird Languages
472
2
Some Reasons to Measure
201
3
Ruby Is Still a Diamond
150
4
Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS
100
5
One Week of Bugs (2014)
89
6
Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)
75
7
Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)
58
8
What I wish someone had told me before I became a Manager
29
9
Some Reasons to Measure
14
10
Apple's new settlement is a corrupt joke
14
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]
1
Arm China Has Gone Rogue
995
2
Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent
168
3
What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
61
4
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response
44
5
The war in Afghanistan is what happens when McKinsey types run everything
36
6
Anti-Sabotage Your Hiring
24
7
Futurists have their heads in the clouds
15
8
Zero Covid, a once wildly popular ideology, quietly faces extinction
14
9
Morgan Stanley Just Reduced TSMC’s Value by $25B
11
10
Degrowth: Solving the Climate Impasse by Magical Thinking
10