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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

1401

2

Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today

1314

3

Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address

1285

4

Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

1236

5

Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

1154

6

Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

962

7

Htmlq: like jq, but for html

961

8

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

915

9

Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

860

10

My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

780

Top Ask HN

1

What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't

338

2

How much is Google collecting and keeping on Android if not signed in?

165

3

How to negotiate stock options?

119

4

What type of personal NAS would you recommend?

98

5

Books that impacted your work that few other people seem to care about?

60

6

How did you become a software engineer?

58

7

London High-End Salaries

54

8

What do you think of System76?

54

9

Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?

50

10

What are your non-tech hobbies?

48

Top Show HN

1

Web browser to help programmers think clearly

1070

2

Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

494

3

A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one

268

4

An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

266

5

Arxiv.org on IPFS

238

6

Relativity: A Modern Primer

204

7

A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes

201

8

Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps

183

9

Auto-generate vanilla JavaScript alternatives for jQuery methods

137

10

Postgres Docker image with common extensions

130

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing

692

2

A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room

398

3

ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities

314

4

Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

289

5

Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

281

6

GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website

267

7

Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks

262

8

Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel

236

9

201

10

Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

201

News [?]

1

Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

860

2

Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

763

3

ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested

681

4

Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

589

5

California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable

574

6

How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

525

7

Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

500

8

LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

481

9

Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot

418

10

The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?

409

Scientific publications [?]

1

200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

363

2

After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high

347

3

The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade

334

4

A soft, wearable brain–machine interface

146

5

We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth

126

6

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to December

120

7

Fish eyes grown in a petri dish from embryonic stem cells

114

8

Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

101

9

Greedy AI agents learn to cooperate

91

10

The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of “Writer's Block” (1974) [pdf]

49

Dev Blogs [?]

1

ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU

332

2

Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers

248

3

HAProxy vulnerability enables HTTP request smuggling attacks

119

4

How do computers generate random numbers?

73

5

GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod: Choosing the Best Online Code Editor

50

6

Linux virtio without the “virt” (2019)

46

7

FOSS for Amateur Radio

30

8

“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

28

9

Apple Event on Sept 14 – “California streaming”

27

10

“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

1401

2

Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

1236

3

Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New

242

4

Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?

241

5

Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ Programmers

164

6

New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education

118

7

Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years

84

8

Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs

82

9

IBM Power10 Coming to Market: E1080 for ‘Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences’

53

10

After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware

51

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service

81

2

Apple Event Sep 14, 2021

8

3

A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

3

4

A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

3

5

Apple Event 9/14

3

6

Apple AR event September 14

2

7

AWS EKS Anywhere Now in GA

2

8

Amazon launches its first self-branded smart TVs and a new 4K Fire TV Stick

2

9

Decoding the Social Effects of Media with Machine Learning

1

10

Apple Changsha Opens Saturday in China

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Back Orifice (1998)

389

2

If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

252

3

Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC

157

4

New Orleans levees passed their first major test

103

5

First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf]

80

6

NRO Manned Orbiting Laboratory

61

7

Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company

49

8

Designing Aero Snap (2009)

43

9

Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographed over the Philippines

41

10

The Turn (1993)

27

Science News [?]

1

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

915

2

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)

437

3

mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours

382

4

Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action

376

5

New math book rescues landmark topology proof

372

6

RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent more potatoes, rice

215

7

Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)

113

8

India’s DNA Covid vaccine is a world first – more are coming

82

9

Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

62

10

A Brief, Fascinating History of Ambergris

38

Social [?]

1

Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address

1285

2

Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

1154

3

The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

459

4

Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)

405

5

The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC

327

6

Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video]

239

7

John Carmack on Hiring

235

8

“You don't need this overengineered goo for your project.”

134

9

Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently

123

10

An Emoji from 1803

120

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Htmlq: like jq, but for html

961

2

Deploy a website on imgur.com

542

3

Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines

494

4

Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS

430

5

Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely

259

6

Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

249

7

Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history

223

8

Todo-or-die – Provides procedural macros that act as checked reminders

214

9

Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

185

10

SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go

180

Wikipedia [?]

1

257

2

139

3

127

4

110

5

98

6

81

7

Dürer's Rhinoceros

68

8

Spaceflight Before 1951

63

9

Wikipedia's ivermectin talk page shows editors' mayhem

36

10

Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman

31

Blogs [?]

1

Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon

296

2

Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane

213

3

Suspicious Discontinuities

191

4

Keyboard Latency (2017)

170

5

The Age of the Essay (2004)

34

6

Arris Cable Modem Teardown

20

7

Building an IoT Product – Continuous Battery Lifetime Testing

15

8

I lost my passion as a Software Developer

12

9

Rails 7 will have great answers to JavaScript in 2021

10

10

Rails 7 will have three great answers to JavaScript in 2021

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Half-precision floating-point arithmetic on Intel chips

1

Substack [?]

1

My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit

402

2

Commodore 64 Ads from the 1980s

138

3

Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard

115

4

Big Brothers Has Privatized

109

5

People are realizing that degrowth is bad

107

6

Why do they burn a man at Burning Man?

97

7

The bargain at the heart of the BBC is fraying

95

8

The ACLU, Prior to Covid, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures for Pandemics

78

9

Ode to the Clamshell iBook G3 – a.k.a. “The Toiletseat”

74

10

Sustainable Infrastructure

73