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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Willingness to look stupid
1859
2
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
1657
3
Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
1052
4
Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
970
5
Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
881
6
A viable solution for Python concurrency
841
7
Overly analytical guide to escorting
826
8
Vscode.dev
803
9
AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
797
10
The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
744
Top Ask HN
1
Is Anyone Here a Professional Baker?
131
2
Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?
67
3
How to Sell a Website
59
4
Is it still worth it to switch companies every few year?
56
5
What non-American news sources do you recommend?
40
6
Do you tell your salary to people/family/friends outside your industry?
39
7
Are there paid commenters on HN?
37
8
Where is Aaron Swartz's federal court record dump?
33
9
How do you find a new career in your early forties?
28
10
Remote salary headroom? (non US based)
27
Top Show HN
1
I built a sonar into my surfboard
332
2
Simple access to your music from the web
217
3
vGPU and SR-IOV on consumer GPUs
203
4
I built a website builder on top of Notion
180
5
Datree (YC W20): Prevent K8s misconfigurations from reaching production
144
6
Qvm-Create-Windows-Qube: The most secure and private way to run Windows
120
7
Add a command-line interface to any C++ program
119
8
Vizzu – Open-source charting library focused on animating charts
115
9
Combining UTC and local times (time zones) in one new clock
101
10
Onetun – Access your WireGuard network from anywhere
92
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
970
2
Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
379
3
Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population
295
4
Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips
250
5
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent
204
6
Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do
189
7
Sinclair TV stations disrupted across the US in apparent ransomware attack
165
8
Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company
138
9
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
124
10
Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user
120
News [?]
1
The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
744
2
Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks
578
3
California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
509
4
It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question
418
5
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
393
6
Tether Fined $41M for Lying About Reserves
376
7
Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
331
8
Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users
254
9
Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy
246
10
High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
244
Scientific publications [?]
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Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
635
2
New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transistors
267
3
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
223
4
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
209
5
People in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2,700 years ago
168
6
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
139
7
Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa
124
8
Event-based camera chips are here, what’s next?
111
9
Increases in Covid-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination
66
10
ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering
45
Dev Blogs [?]
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A viable solution for Python concurrency
841
2
Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse
187
3
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers
152
4
Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad (2020)
150
5
Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core with Newest Linux Optimization Patches
111
6
Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation
88
7
A study of data collection by Android devices
86
8
Predicting spreadsheet formulas from semi-structured contexts
69
9
Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K on Strength of ETF Debut
54
10
What’s New in F# 6
47
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement
154
2
New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads
95
3
Audio tape interface revives microcassettes as storage medium
82
4
Intel Shows Off Multi-Chiplet Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM
78
5
Run Your Favorite 8-Bit Games on an ESP32 (2020)
62
6
A 100 MHz Pin-Compatible 6502 Replacement
50
7
First Geekbench for MacBook Pro M1 Max with 2x Faster Multi-Core Performance
39
8
Electroplating Carbon Fibers Can Have Interesting Results
27
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macOS Hides the Notch on New MacBook Pro in Full-Screen Mode
23
10
AMD Secure Memory Encryption Has a Flaw, Now Disabled by Default in Linux Kernel
18
FAANG+ [?]
1
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
1657
2
Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
1052
3
M1 Pro and M1 Max
341
4
The next generation of AirPods
159
5
Polishing Cloth
85
6
We halved the publish size of modular AWS SDK for JavaScript clients
25
7
New Apple MacBook Pro
14
8
New Apple Polishing Cloth
8
9
Apple Music Voice Plan
8
10
Apple unveils game-changing MacBook Pro
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems
251
2
Missouri website that leaked SSN
90
3
Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
71
4
Altitude and child development
66
5
Haunted Houses Have Nothing on Lighthouses
62
6
When Americans picnicked in cemeteries
52
7
Tesla officially launches its insurance using ‘real-time driving behavior’
44
8
My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR
29
9
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo
29
10
Are You Burned Out? Or Is It Something Else? – HBR
29
Science News [?]
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
655
2
Five things we still don’t know about water
306
3
Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer
258
4
People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors
160
5
Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink
133
6
Injury response to DNA damage in live tumor cells promotes antitumor immunity
110
7
Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones (2019)
102
8
How the brain navigates cities
101
9
Star's strange path around black hole proves Einstein right (2020)
99
10
Physicists make most precise measurement of neutron’s lifetime
99
Social [?]
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Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990
372
2
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has died
338
3
DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008
322
4
I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest”
289
5
Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]
228
6
The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]
192
7
Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video]
134
8
Ghost CEO lectures locked out customer about empathy
116
9
Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
109
10
Most comments that people post on my videos disappear [video]
104
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
324
2
Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
259
3
OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind
258
4
Awesome-loginless: internet services that don't require registrations
252
5
Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
252
6
Go: Don't Change the Libraries in 1.18
183
7
Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform
180
8
Detailed thoughts on the State of the .NET Foundation
161
9
A proposal for adding a pipe operator to JavaScript
155
10
Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
155
Wikipedia [?]
1
Joybubbles
84
2
The Toynbee Convector
76
3
CityEl Electric Car from 1992
42
4
One Hundred Prisoners Problem
23
5
Mulford Act
17
6
Umbral Calculus
10
7
The Mpemba Effect
8
8
Indonesian Genocide of 1965–66
7
9
Grand Union
7
10
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
6
Blogs [?]
1
Willingness to look stupid
1859
2
Beyond Smart
695
3
What to Learn
374
4
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
326
5
How I learned to program
174
6
Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
129
7
How to get useful answers to your questions
114
8
How to Calculate the Trappiest Openings in Chess Using Stats
81
9
Learning about writing by seeing only the punctuation
74
10
We raised US$1.5M at US$13.5M with no slides
14
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC
163
2
Seeking suggestions for data representation of a probability distribution (2012)
1
Substack [?]
1
About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
511
2
A talk with Walter Bright about Empire
228
3
Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
203
4
The SaaS Metrics That Matter
159
5
Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet
45
6
The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism
34
7
Economists to Cattle Ranchers: Stop Being So Emotional About the Monopolies
34
8
Oil Companies Placing Big Bets on Pyrolysis Oil
31
9
$0 to $200M in 18 Months, A Case Study
25
10
Silencing the Competition: Inside the Fight Against the Hearing Aid Cartel
22