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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

1912

2

Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

1605

3

Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

1513

4

Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

1300

5

EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug

938

6

Open Source Tractor

887

7

Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

826

8

Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices

816

9

I keep making things out of checkboxes

725

10

Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]

700

Top Ask HN

1

Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?

356

2

What does one look for in a laptop these days?

300

3

People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?

188

4

Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

147

5

What is your story of immigrating to another country?

126

6

How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?

120

7

How do you memorize things you read?

115

8

What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

110

9

Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?

84

10

A US programmer makes 3 times that of a EU programmer. Why?

81

Top Show HN

1

A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

347

2

Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP

344

3

YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

292

4

OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard

178

5

OtterTune – Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres

164

6

“Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils” eBook

117

7

Download videos, but only the parts you want

114

8

StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions

54

9

OpenDeck – Platform for building MIDI controllers

47

10

Strange Attractor on an Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi Pico

47

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

1513

2

Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

600

3

Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

226

4

Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India

204

5

Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

125

6

Study reveals Android phones constantly snoop on their users

102

7

US Justice Department Launches a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

87

8

There will soon be no more ads denying climate change on Google

58

9

Depressed People See the World More Realistically

56

10

Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s failing

55

News [?]

1

Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan

679

2

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands

589

3

Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow

433

4

The latest campus cancellation is different

422

5

Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home

365

6

Is going to the office a broken way of working?

338

7

Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web

305

8

Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green

297

9

FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

283

10

The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money

280

Scientific publications [?]

1

Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (2015)

213

2

Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

195

3

The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

181

4

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

178

5

Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps

167

6

FAA Fumbled Its Response to a Surge in GPS Jamming

133

7

After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study

127

8

Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations

122

9

Practice Problems for Hardware Engineers

92

10

How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean

86

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

458

2

European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

207

3

New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner

201

4

GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptible VMs

198

5

What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage

121

6

Web3 architecture and how it compares to traditional web apps

103

7

Windows Package Manager 1.1

93

8

Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

86

9

Taming the BPF Superpowers

70

10

Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code

53

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple 'Surprised' by Developer Frustration with Its App Review Process

307

2

TSMC plans new chip factory with Sony in western Japan

58

3

Ocean Cleanup's supersized system proves its worth with “massive” haul

40

4

Apple Files Appeal in Epic Games Lawsuit, Asks to Delay App Store Changes

21

5

Apple iPhone 13 Series Screen Power, Battery Life - Long Lasting Devices

16

6

Apple Announces 'Unleashed' Event to Be Held on October 18

13

7

Sinclair Pocket TV Teardown

13

8

AMD 4700S Review: Defective Playstation 5 Chip Resurrected

8

9

Apple Joins Blender's Development Fund to Support 3D Graphics Tool

7

10

Dawn of the 900-kW EV ultra-charger, and a battery that can handle it

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Using load shedding to avoid overload

243

2

A threat analysis of sideloading [pdf]

64

3

The Pharma Cult: How America Became the Most Troubled Drug Culture

48

4

Algebraic Effects for Functional Programming [pdf]

16

5

An Overview of the Singularity Project – Microsoft's Experimental OS [pdf]

8

6

Apple Unleashed Event

8

7

Microsoft and Nvidia have created a 530B parameter language model

7

8

Are Amazon reviews gamed nowadays?

4

9

Simplifying Kubernetes configurations using AWS Lambda

4

10

Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

511

2

Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free

303

3

118

4

The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions

96

5

Good leaders know you can’t fight reality

96

6

The American Aristotle

84

7

Byte Magazine – Atari Articles (1979-1993)

68

8

L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems (1995) [pdf]

55

9

I will not exercise my Gitlab stock options (2017)

36

10

Multithreaded Python without the GIL is possible

26

Science News [?]

1

Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

510

2

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States

445

3

A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way

330

4

Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)

250

5

Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air

244

6

Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece

218

7

We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star

182

8

A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning

173

9

Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins

166

10

2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience

163

Social [?]

1

1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

333

2

Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

258

3

Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS

241

4

Y Combinator company “skip the interview” reaches top ten of r/recruitinghell

223

5

One painful meeting with Steve Jobs

215

6

MIT 18.404J – Theory of Computation [video]

210

7

UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube

164

8

Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan

148

9

Why Japan Looks the Way It Does: Zoning [video]

143

10

IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration [video]

128

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices

816

2

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

405

3

Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform

399

4

Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

389

5

Graph of Keybase commits pre and post Zoom acquisition

349

6

Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors

347

7

Ć Programming Language

290

8

SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

288

9

Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3

243

10

Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

229

Wikipedia [?]

1

235

2

Kyshtym Disaster

60

3

60

4

British Pet Massacre

42

5

35

6

Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM)

27

7

19

8

Kardashev Scale

14

9

11

10

Star Trek Continues

11

Blogs [?]

1

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

52

2

Joys of Porting a Kernel to WebAssembly

45

3

SampleVAE – A Multi-Purpose AI Tool for Music Producers and Sound Designers

35

4

I’m a Data Scientist – Here’s why I work at Facebook

20

5

What Rust could learn from Kotlin

15

6

When DRY becomes an anti-pattern: Code in Code

12

7

Redesigning PowerToys for Windows 11

10

8

Self-hosting your VSCode online IDE, from Raspberry Pi 4 to AWS Graviton2

8

9

Rats in Doom VR

7

10

Calling All Outlier Founders

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

19

2

C – Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC

2

3

Is there a performance difference between i++ and ++i in C++? (2008)

2

Substack [?]

1

Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden)

141

2

Don't give up on having kids because of climate change

77

3

This real estate bubble won't pop

65

4

41

5

Why do people worry about deficits?

22

6

Links for October

15

7

It's All Just Displacement

13

8

The Cult of the Vaccine

13

9

The Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic

9

10

The Inscrutable Ideology of the New China

7