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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
1286
2
Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
1130
3
Thank you, GitHub
1044
4
The metaverse is bullshit
1031
5
Curves and Surfaces
876
6
An oral history of Bank Python
864
7
HashiCorp – S1
839
8
Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
811
9
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
804
10
Why is Excalidraw so good?
738
Top Ask HN
1
What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
614
2
Who's not sucky to work for?
471
3
Who is hiring? (November 2021)
383
4
How do you tackle your own negativity?
275
5
Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
271
6
Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?
242
7
If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
141
8
Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)
133
9
Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?
125
10
How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?
106
Top Show HN
1
I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts
462
2
SectorLISP now fits in one sector
323
3
Use your iPhone's camera to see any photo on your wall
255
4
Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D
222
5
Motor Admin – No-code admin panel
217
6
Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform
173
7
Sending and Receiving SMS via APRS (VHF Amateur Radio)
134
8
Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life
84
9
Open-source, self-hosted data management app and internal tool builder
82
10
A generator of Fake Italian Coffee names
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
568
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As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
417
3
Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery
409
4
Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks
312
5
Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
243
6
Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner
216
7
Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand
216
8
How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020)
179
9
Microsoft Loop brings back Google Wave?
121
10
Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers
107
News [?]
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Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is
429
2
US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist
419
3
University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case
379
4
U.S. telecoms are going to start physically removing Huawei gear
370
5
Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why
369
6
Man left shocked as his house is 'stolen'
318
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Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt
301
8
Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated
266
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Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
265
10
Ford's $3900 electric crate motor and F-100 concept
232
Scientific publications [?]
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C³: A "cool" route to the Higgs boson and beyond
99
2
Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models
91
3
How Temporal Workload Shifting Can Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Cloud
48
4
Diffractive optical networks reconstruct holograms without a digital computer
19
5
Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV
19
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Social media reshaping universities' value systems in scramble for likes, shares
6
7
Two Chinese teams claim to have reached primacy with quantum computers
5
8
Mastering Atari Games with Limited Data (EfficientZero)
5
9
Categorical Data Structures for Technical Computing
5
10
A first look at the consolidation of DNS and Web Hosting providers
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Thank you, GitHub
1044
2
‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
494
3
Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14
375
4
Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use
248
5
Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
220
6
Solving Math Word Problems
56
7
Firefox Add-On Policy Changes 2021
53
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New Colorways for Firefox 94
52
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SizeBench: A new tool for analyzing Windows binary size
51
10
Google Pathways: MultiTask and MultiModal AI Architecture
39
Tech blogs [?]
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The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world
184
2
New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray
115
3
Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November
86
4
Long-dormant Bitcon wallet comes online
42
5
Intel 12thGen Core I9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
29
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Governments planned to misuse CSAM scanning even before Apple's announcement
21
7
Google's Tensor inside of Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro
20
8
The Pi Zero 2 W is the most efficient Pi
18
9
Teardown of 140W MacBook Pro Power Adapter Shows What's Inside
14
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Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey
14
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Time Sync Service
128
2
AWS Service Terms 42.10
52
3
Microsoft Loop
37
4
Turing Bletchley: A Universal Image Language Representation Model
10
5
A fork() in the road (2019) [pdf]
5
6
Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists
5
7
AWS: Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish
4
8
Forerunner: Constraint-Based Speculative Execution for Ethereum
4
9
Microsoft finds new macOS vulnerability, Shrootless, that could bypass SIP
4
10
Mimalloc: Free List Sharding in Action [pdf]
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Meta
242
2
The brain as a universal learning machine (2015)
85
3
Hegel Today
85
4
Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (1988)
82
5
Toyota unveils its first all-electric car: the bZ4X
65
6
The Posthuman Dog
60
7
Mapping the Rainforests of Britain
55
8
The Viking obsession with werewolves
48
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Open Cobalt: open-source virtual world browser and toolkit
40
10
Tesla launches a new home charger that works with all electric cars
19
Science News [?]
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'Useless specks of dust' turn out to be building blocks of vertebrate genomes
262
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Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues
196
3
Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite
151
4
Why is Delta so infectious? New tool spotlights little-noticed mutation
123
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After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back
111
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Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on Pfizer vaccine trial data integrity
104
7
Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (2019)
99
8
Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day
93
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The simplest of slumbers
79
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Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (2019)
59
Social [?]
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Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
1130
2
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
531
3
This resume got me an interview
226
4
Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019)
168
5
Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’
167
6
Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)
163
7
Simple Code, High Performance [video]
141
8
Why pine nuts are expensive [video]
137
9
Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars
126
10
Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
119
Github repos and gists [?]
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Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
586
2
Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions
333
3
TypeScript: Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions
299
4
A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system
297
5
OpenWorm
256
6
How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?
240
7
Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions
213
8
Python interpreter written in rust reaches 10000 commits
194
9
ct.css – Take a look inside your <head>
192
10
Meadowlark, a DAW written in Rust
153
Wikipedia [?]
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Mysorean Rockets
196
2
Can't Get You Out of My Head
127
3
Etaoin Shrdlu
116
4
Lunar Lava Tube
59
5
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
45
6
The “Financialization” of Society
37
7
Facebook unceremoniously kills off Meta brand
37
8
Ithkuil is an experimental constructed language. Nobody speaks it fluently
19
9
Hedges vs. Obama
17
10
VRML – Virtual Reality Markup Language
15
Blogs [?]
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How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
186
2
Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager – so you can avoid them
56
3
Emitting domain events with the outbox pattern
38
4
Ottr: A Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
20
5
Why Agile Sucks for Building Quality Software
13
6
Become a citizen developer in 10 minutes
11
7
I checked over 1T mnemonics in 30 hours to win a Bitcoin
7
8
How to bypass Grammarly, Copyleaks and many other plagiarism checkers
5
9
Even Ryan Dahl Hates Node.js
5
10
What is the probability a horse finishes last?
5
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stackoverflow Is Offline
3
2
What's the difference between isdigit(), isnumeric(), and isdecimal() in Python?
3
3
What is the most common filename extension of a Forth source code file?
2
4
Deoptimizing a C++ Program
2
5
Why does the month argument range from 0 to 11 in JavaScript's Date constructor?
2
6
What does the term “porcelain” mean in Git?
2
Substack [?]
1
Culture shock
335
2
Truths about video game stories
248
3
Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s
190
4
Why is houseplant advice so bad?
172
5
Space Companies at Y Combinator
157
6
Bringing back Cartoon Modern, a rare animation artbook
157
7
Watermelons
133
8
The Reading Obsession
114
9
Book Review: Progress and Poverty
26
10
The Assange Persecution Is Western Savagery at Its Most Transparent
23