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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

2666

2

Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

1595

3

910

4

Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin

887

5

How we got to LiveView

802

6

Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns

787

7

The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning

765

8

Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt

744

9

Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

707

10

Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

684

Top Ask HN

1

Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

575

2

How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?

177

3

Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?

176

4

How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?

166

5

How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?

117

6

What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?

114

7

Is anyone monitoring popular apps to check if they're listening?

94

8

What can I do to actively fight climate change?

57

9

What're some great cities to live for $2k USD per month?

57

10

What is your strongest contrarian opinion?

55

Top Show HN

1

40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

1359

2

Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS

452

3

I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

408

4

Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API

327

5

7GUIs in Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript

144

6

Go playground powered by WASM that runs in the browser

140

7

I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind

128

8

Errorpush – Minimalist Sentry alternative using PostgreSQL

124

9

Resume maker with no sign-up or subscription

119

10

Composing Studio – An online, collaborative editor for music notation

113

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The NSA and CIA use ad blockers

566

2

Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

323

3

Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make

230

4

EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones

226

5

Twitter enables tipping with Bitcoin, plans to let users authenticate NFTs

180

6

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones

169

7

Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo

150

8

MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated

146

9

Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite

131

10

87

News [?]

1

Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin

887

2

Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns

787

3

Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege

611

4

Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)

552

5

Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

493

6

FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof?

389

7

Experts Have Resigned from an FDA Committee over Alzheimer's Drug Approval

319

8

Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022

284

9

Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram

252

10

‘Every message was copied to the police’

241

Scientific publications [?]

1

We Need Software Updates Forever

143

2

Programming Puzzles

93

3

“A calorie is a calorie” violates the second law of thermodynamics (2004)

73

4

Introduction to Neural Network Verification [pdf]

65

5

Learning Mathematical Properties of Integers

52

6

Q&A with the Co-Creator of the 6502

46

7

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers

31

8

Startup aims to make piloting a jetpack as easy as flying a drone

16

9

WhatsApp addiction and BPD: A new therapeutic challenge

16

10

Dodging Attack Using Carefully Crafted Natural Makeup

14

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach for Android features

211

2

VPN users unmasked by zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media routers

192

3

GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling

192

4

Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

180

5

OpenSSL 3.0 released; relicensed to Apache-2.0

161

6

How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability

151

7

Multiple Games Are Now Working with RADV's Ray-Tracing Code

61

8

Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Profile Ban

41

9

Run code samples directly in the Google Cloud documentation

34

10

GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust

31

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair

247

2

Jam 80 Cores, 768GB of RAM into E-ATX Case with This Tiny Board

75

3

No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security

56

4

Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller

38

5

Apple giving into Russia proves CSAM assurances cannot be trusted

32

6

Researchers bake malware protection directly into SSDs

22

7

ReMarkable E-Ink Tablet Considering Subscription Plan

18

8

Apple drops iOS Private Relay feature for users in Russia

16

9

AMD: We Stand Ready to Make Arm Chips

15

10

AMD Chipset Vulnerability Leaks Passwords

14

FAANG+ [?]

1

341

2

AWS Region Coming to New Zealand

184

3

9

4

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?

5

5

Surface Laptop Studio

4

6

4

7

I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You: The Real Meaning of the 16 Personality Types

3

8

3

9

iPadOS 15 Is Available

3

10

Apple’s global hit comedy series “Ted Lasso” sweeps the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awa

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)

235

2

Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)

205

3

The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)

200

4

Book review: The Checklist Manifesto

164

5

Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

124

6

Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April

122

7

Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (1914)

75

8

Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?

63

9

Elections are flawed -it’s time to start choosing our representatives by lottery

50

10

Tesla agrees to finally honor solar roof prices on signed contracts

34

Science News [?]

1

A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley

653

2

Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids

413

3

Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable

217

4

China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor

195

5

A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions

188

6

Mathematician answers chess problem about attacking queens

162

7

Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

134

8

Musical components important for the Mozart K448 effect in epilepsy

99

9

Rediscovered Medieval Manuscript Offers New Twist on Arthurian Legend

96

10

Scientists develop the next generation of reservoir computing

76

Social [?]

1

Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

477

2

Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware

379

3

While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

364

4

TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy

307

5

Watch an election being stolen in realtime

304

6

Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry

274

7

Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia

240

8

Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosion (1966) [video]

186

9

Fortnite will be blacklisted by Apple until all appeals exhausted

147

10

A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video]

143

Github repos and gists [?]

1

ClickHouse, Inc.

519

2

Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)

519

3

The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader

387

4

Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server

347

5

Sysz – An fzf terminal UI for systemctl

336

6

Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps

316

7

Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

316

8

Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces

275

9

AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

255

10

FFmpeg to WebRTC

215

Wikipedia [?]

1

175

2

List of Lists of Lists

114

3

Actuarial notation

78

4

Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)

61

5

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

56

6

Surveillance Capitalism

45

7

Teletransportation Paradox

42

8

Scuttlebutt: Decentralised, off-grid, mesh network and self-hosted social media

31

9

Trillion-Dollar Coin

19

10

13

Blogs [?]

1

An old programmer loses his job

74

2

A Short History of Objective-C (2017)

44

3

Teaching by Filling in Knowledge Gaps

30

4

A Solution to DeWitt Clauses

24

5

Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019)

20

6

Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun

12

7

Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text

12

8

Ebooks Are an Abomination. If you hate them, it’s not your fault

10

9

How to Persuade a Software Engineering Team to Write 26 Articles in 12 Months

7

10

Grailed's Principles of Expressive View Model Unit Tests for iOS

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Numpy matrix multiplication instability across rows

3

2

Detecting a Mobile Browser

1

3

React JavaScript Comment Threading – Stack Overflow

1

4

Why is creating a new process more expensive on Windows than Linux? (2008)

1

Substack [?]

1

Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working

560

2

2006: Dwarf Fortress

289

3

The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

242

4

Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?

196

5

Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program

194

6

Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud

142

7

Let’s talk about founder compensation

86

8

Moderna's Financials

73

9

A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fall of big antenna

70

10

Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI?

69