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Top stories
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A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
3336
2
Sir Clive Sinclair has died
1738
3
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
1420
4
Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer
1353
5
I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
1192
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Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
1062
7
Windy.com
1051
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Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
1017
9
Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
997
10
Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
975
Top Ask HN
1
How Do You Learn?
274
2
Books that teach you programming languages via systems projects?
203
3
Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
186
4
Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
171
5
Graduating CS soon, how do I find a job?
118
6
Who was the most competent person you worked or collaborated with?
111
7
How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?
92
8
Any successful transitions from a tech/IT career to working in the arts?
92
9
Books that teach you logic building skills
85
10
Host of Software Engineering Daily is not well. Can anyone in SF help?
83
Top Show HN
1
Time travel debugger for web development
673
2
Weather API for non-commercial use
441
3
Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
373
4
Paper to HTML Converter
152
5
Embeddinghub: A vector database built for Machine Learning embeddings
116
6
Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet
107
7
LunarVim – An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
93
8
Chat with your contacts on different platforms without an app
63
9
Kizie – Twitter for web, reimagined
63
10
FINLO - Stock tracking & research tools built by retail investors
63
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
1420
2
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
839
3
Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim
282
4
Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal
257
5
Germany's federal police agency purchased and used 'Pegasus' spyware
192
6
Apple fires engineering manager for allegedly leaking information
186
7
OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs with insider information
130
8
Tesla Wanted $22,500 to Replace a Battery. An Independent Shop Fixed It for $5k
121
9
Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
88
10
Government audit of AI finds no AI
83
News [?]
1
Sir Clive Sinclair has died
1738
2
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
1062
3
Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules
1017
4
Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
800
5
The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
641
6
Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
602
7
Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
576
8
Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes
396
9
France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers
382
10
Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
342
Scientific publications [?]
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Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health
207
2
Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)
192
3
Scientists say they may have detected dark energy
149
4
NASA has selected SpaceX for GOES-U mission
73
5
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (2003)
73
6
Wireless Charging Power Side-Channel Attacks
68
7
The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
67
8
Interpretable Model-Based Hierarchical RL Using Inductive Logic Programming
66
9
Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Community
60
10
Estimating the probabilities of causation via deep monotonic twin networks
40
Dev Blogs [?]
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We still believe in private offices (2015)
221
2
Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps
90
3
KrebsOnSecurity Hit by Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
59
4
How WhatsApp is enabling end-to-end encrypted backups
48
5
Protonmail now keeps IP Logs
46
6
Welcome to Speed Week and a Waitless Internet
38
7
Starting Apr 2022, all apps submitted must be built with Xcode13 and iOS15 SDK
35
8
Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Still Pushing Ahead of Windows 10, Latest Windows 11
33
9
Optimizing Images on the Web
28
10
The College Student Who Makes His Own Chips
24
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
400
2
Revamped Apple Maps Rolls Out Across Italy
61
3
PS4 Emulator for Linux Now Plays Hundreds of Games
50
4
Pining for a De-Googled Smartphone
32
5
GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
17
6
AMD: We Stand Ready to Make Arm Chips
15
7
Kioxia's New XL-NAND SSDs to Compete with Intel's Optane
9
8
$10 Raspberry Pi Pico Alternative Comes with LCD Screen
8
9
Oxford's cancer vaccine/immunotherapy combo to head for human trials
8
10
Pinning Tails on Satellites to Help Prevent Space Junk
8
FAANG+ [?]
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Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
168
2
Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
141
3
Apple Watch Series 7
139
4
iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
94
5
iPad mini
30
6
Apple unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max – more pro than ever before
19
7
Apple Watch Series 7
15
8
Apple introduces iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini
9
9
iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Mini
7
10
Apple’s most popular iPad delivers even more performance and advanced features
7
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon
278
2
Donate to the Internet Archive
257
3
Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018)
137
4
The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (2015)
136
5
The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy
128
6
Atomic Gardening (2017)
81
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Beneath the surface of Bach’s music is a world of numerology and cunning craft
56
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The Apple vs. Epic Decision
53
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England will be first country to require new homes to include EV chargers
41
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Tesla finds loophole to New Mexico’s ban by launching on tribal land
41
Science News [?]
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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
611
2
Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
462
3
Researchers successfully potty-train cows
240
4
The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers
236
5
Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024
228
6
Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan
216
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Engineers grow pancreatic organoids that mimic the real thing
204
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Drugs mimicking effects of cigarette smoke reduce Covid's ability to enter cells
142
9
Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics
130
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Simple mathematical law predicts movement in cities around the world
120
Social [?]
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I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
1192
2
Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree
668
3
Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)
390
4
Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
312
5
Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs
299
6
Rainbow Six Vegas, SWAT 4 unplayable due to disabled ad server
293
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WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation
291
8
AlphaGo documentary (2020) [video]
247
9
Spherical Gear [video]
227
10
Live: SpaceX to launch four civilians to orbit in mission known as Inspiration4
205
Github repos and gists [?]
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Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
617
2
A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
428
3
Transmission torrent client ported to C++
402
4
iOS on QEMU
356
5
Rouille
337
6
High Performance Organizations Reading List
229
7
Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim
200
8
A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation in code form
198
9
Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
188
10
Open source applications for macOS
180
Wikipedia [?]
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Epiousios
537
2
Charrette
53
3
Chiastic Structure
41
4
Ruin Value
26
5
Dandelions
15
6
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
14
7
Sterile Cockpit Rule
13
8
Graphite Bomb
11
9
The Wrong Type of Snow
8
10
Nuclear Pasta
7
Blogs [?]
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A Pure Types-Driven real-world apps development approach
49
2
Launching Replay: The Time Travel Debugger for the Web
36
3
Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern
36
4
How does Boston compare to SV and what do MIT and Stanford have to do with it?
31
5
Python Is a Bad Programming Language
26
6
Arris Cable Modem Teardown
25
7
Don’t rewrite your project in Rust, or at all
20
8
Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
14
9
Naming is hard, but you can get better at it
14
10
“Software Engineering at Google” favorite bits (part 1)
11
Stackoverflow [?]
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What's the toughest bug you ever found and fixed?
2
Substack [?]
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Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
317
2
Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
266
3
The Linux Distributions of 1992
219
4
Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
150
5
Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt
86
6
How to Escape Loneliness
78
7
Protein and Transpacific Power
77
8
“Don Quixote” as a manual for living
71
9
Age of Invention: Plague of the Sea
31
10
When they say they wish you dead, they mean it
16