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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities

2049

2

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

1408

3

Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

1080

4

What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

1040

5

1002

6

950

7

Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever

938

8

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

837

9

Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind

792

10

Something weird is happening on Facebook

741

Top Ask HN

1

Where are all the old Show HNs?

284

2

How do you do estimates in 2021?

127

3

Do you also alternate between super productive and slow days?

98

4

What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

86

5

What is going wrong at Amazon?

79

6

Have you ever spend days unable to do *any* work?

76

7

How do I move up my career/life?

68

8

What is the best programming book you've read?

63

9

Best tip for landing pages?

55

10

Software design patterns for projects without a scope?

42

Top Show HN

1

Hacker News client with a twist

603

2

Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment

392

3

Extract Table from Image

217

4

SQLite Playground

213

5

Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on

194

6

Firezone, an open-source WireGuard-based alternative to OpenVPN AS

183

7

Self-Parking Car Evolution

119

8

Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

116

9

Bomberland – An AI competition to build the best Bomberman bot

99

10

Find Reddit discussion threads for your TV shows

90

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring

353

2

Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors

284

3

Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates

225

4

The Science of the Benefits of Religion

139

5

AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

128

6

Examining Btrfs

102

7

The train that shrunk France and Western Europe

100

8

It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law

90

9

How Lotus is going to build lightweight electric sports cars

84

10

Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica

79

News [?]

1

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

1408

2

Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research

725

3

Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades

557

4

Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

495

5

Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up

457

6

Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

451

7

Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange

402

8

U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches

371

9

AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules

364

10

U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks

348

Scientific publications [?]

1

AMD’s Lisa Su

326

2

How to fit any dataset with a single parameter

217

3

The Great AI Reckoning

147

4

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns

142

5

Light computes any desired linear transform without a digital processor

81

6

Sunlight-driven photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production at scale

76

7

Can You See Me Now? A measurement study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet

69

8

Learning to Superoptimize real-world programs

66

9

Consumers and curators: browsing and voting patterns on Reddit (2017)

47

10

Low-Dimensional Structure in the Space of Language Representations

29

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

667

2

Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack

326

3

Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown

261

4

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught

245

5

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

236

6

Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server

190

7

Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages

183

8

I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto

165

9

The Speed of Time

142

10

Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core with AMD Zen 3 and Intel Optane

124

Tech blogs [?]

1

Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)

292

2

EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters

248

3

HTTPS Everywhere to Be Deprecated

57

4

Gopher Is Still Worth Checking Out

32

5

Build a Satellite-Powered RaspberryPi Security Camera for Off-the-Grid Locations

25

6

NYT Crossword Decision Puzzles Many

22

7

Intel’s First 4nm EUV Chip, Ready Today: Loihi 2 for Neuromorphic Computing

19

8

USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion

15

9

AMD 4700S CPU Reviewed: Defective PS5 Chips Find New Life

13

10

Redesigned MacBook Air with Apple Silicon to Enter Mass Production in Q3 of 2022

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas

271

2

AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services

179

3

Apple unveils new features in iWork suite of productivity apps

5

4

Apple Maps introduces new ways to explore major cities in 3D

4

5

Introducing Echo Show 15

4

6

Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret

3

7

3

8

Amazon Managed Prometheus is now GA

3

9

Game Balance Book

2

10

Amazon Astro – Household Robot for Home Monitoring

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Cloudflare's Disruption

578

2

Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)

268

3

IBM Logo Manual (1983)

68

4

The last days of Tartessos

64

5

Mongolia’s Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts

57

6

Gravity-defying mail jumpers of Lake Geneva, WI

35

7

Is the touch sensitive iPod going to be a reality? (2006)

35

8

The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care

22

9

Slow Teslas everywhere: 24 hours into ‘the FSD button’

21

10

The Intense World Theory of Autism

19

Science News [?]

1

Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap

234

2

Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

197

3

‘Impossible’ particle discovery adds key piece to the strong force puzzle

192

4

Sometimes mindlessness is better than mindfulness

160

5

Amazon Has to Disclose How Its Algorithms Judge Workers Per a New California Law

156

6

Scientists create their own GPS by spying on internet satellites

144

7

New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome

142

8

The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021

128

9

Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks

91

10

Closest known relatives of virus behind Covid-19 found in Laos

85

Social [?]

1

A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model

466

2

The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen

415

3

YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

345

4

iPhone remains findable after power off

322

5

Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

295

6

A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod

291

7

Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]

268

8

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)

261

9

Stripe launched 10 years ago today

244

10

Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]

180

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox

576

2

Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

469

3

Asynchronous Programming in C#

298

4

Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker

272

5

Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser

255

6

OBS Studio 27.1.1

228

7

Operating System Development Tutorials in Rust on the Raspberry Pi

201

8

The world's worst Linux kernel module

178

9

What if Git worked with programming languages?

170

10

Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis

153

Wikipedia [?]

1

Telling the Bees

253

2

Thermal Grill Illusion

92

3

90

4

75

5

Volkswagen Currywurst

32

6

23

7

Dihydrogen Monoxide

20

8

Lawsuits Against God

20

9

20

10

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident

16

Blogs [?]

1

Nginx Playground

603

2

The Value of In-House Expertise

210

3

In software, when an engineer exits the team

188

4

54

5

Chris Dixon's Crypto Claims Are Logically Flimsy

43

6

@hotwired/stimulus 3

28

7

AirTag “Lost Mode” page vulnerable to simple Stored XSS

14

8

Stimulus 3 and Turbo 7 = Hotwire 1.0

7

9

Why women should always do what we think we are not good at

6

10

Raspberry Pi Onvif CCTV Camera and NVR

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

495

2

Top stackoverflow questions by vote count

4

3

How does twitter.com make JPEG profile images transparent?

2

Substack [?]

1

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

281

2

Facebook is other people

223

3

199

4

Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life

198

5

If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google

159

6

The greatest resume I've ever seen

155

7

New evidence of fabrications behind the Trump-Russia theory

87

8

The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”

74

9

Developers, your manager is likely clueless

73

10

The digital death of collecting

65