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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

1631

2

Making the dislike count private across YouTube

1439

3

I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

1356

4

What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

1185

5

3D printed mirror array

1056

6

Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time

907

7

Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

872

8

A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

842

9

Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday

805

10

Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

784

Top Ask HN

1

What do you think about the no-code movement?

348

2

Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?

340

3

How were video games from the 90s so efficient?

286

4

How do you manage your personal documents?

261

5

How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?

257

6

Coping with cancer in the family

238

7

Any indications Copilot scans your local files?

189

8

Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s

186

9

What was it like to use BBS?

144

10

Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?

129

Top Show HN

1

My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

1077

2

I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

985

3

I built a no-BS recipe search engine

403

4

You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

361

5

Cedille, the largest French language model, released in open source

240

6

Document and automate your operations playbooks and business processes

148

7

WebFrame: F# framework for rapid prototyping with ASP.NET Core

147

8

I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

142

9

Excalideck – Use Excalidraw to make slides

125

10

89

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store

389

2

Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps

346

3

Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again

318

4

IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR

269

5

Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B

247

6

Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple

242

7

Robinhood says millions of customer names, email addresses taken in data breach

190

8

Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t

179

9

Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)

140

10

Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage

128

News [?]

1

Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

784

2

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

437

3

Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due

413

4

The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people

389

5

Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution

341

6

How trains could replace planes in Europe

293

7

The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down

254

8

Teen rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal known on TikTok

230

9

Tuvalu looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged

229

10

Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance under new labour laws

226

Scientific publications [?]

1

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001)

178

2

Widespread security risk identified in phones and Bluetooth devices

127

3

Parking Functions: Choose Your Own Adventure

45

4

SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination

36

5

A search for Planet 9 in the IRAS data

33

6

Mammalian Face as an Evolutionary Novelty

29

7

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001)

24

8

NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defense'

9

9

Off-world colony simulation: Changes in human communication over time with Earth

9

10

Egypt's Ambitious Strategy to Eliminate Hepatitis C Virus

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

.NET 6 Released

502

2

The Framework Laptop Is Great for a Linux-Friendly, Upgradeable/Modular Laptop

285

3

It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta

239

4

System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop

223

5

Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index

221

6

Concurrency in Julia

181

7

REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward

180

8

Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ

122

9

Welcome to C# 10

89

10

Intel Core i5 12600K / Core i9 12900K “Alder Lake” Linux Performance

63

Tech blogs [?]

1

M1 Pro and M1 Max MBP owners complain of crashes playing HDR YouTube videos

151

2

AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: Genoa and Bergamo, Up to 96 and 128 Cores

138

3

Rittenhouse lawyer claims iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage

59

4

Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android

35

5

Apple Has Until Dec. 9 to Start Letting Developers Use Alternate Payment Methods

15

6

M1/M1 Pro Max MacBook Pro Owners Complain of Crashes Playing HDR YouTube Videos

8

7

Via to Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel for $125M

7

8

Senators Push to Study “Unstable” Patent Law, While Patent Trolls Cheer Them On

7

9

Future Apple Silicon Macs Will Reportedly Use 3nm Chips with Up to 40 Cores

7

10

The Public Should Know Who Profits from Patent Troll Lawsuits

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Business Essentials

611

2

Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts

84

3

Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run Your Containers in the Cloud (2020)

25

4

Veterans use Apple technology to revolutionize trauma medicine

21

5

AWS Region Coming to Calgary, Canada

15

6

Turing Bletchley: A Universal Image Language Representation Model by Microsoft

10

7

Iterate on AWS Lambda deployments in seconds with sam sync –watch

5

8

Apple Introduces Apple Business Essentials

5

9

Bottlerocket - An open source Linux-based operating system - a Year in the Life

4

10

CEO of Johnson and Johnson Alex Gorsky Joins Apple’s Board of Directors

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

264

2

Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

158

3

Microsoft and the Metaverse

120

4

The Search for Alien Tech

63

5

The Toxic Effects of Branding Your Workplace a “Family”

60

6

Toyota spreads anti-EV propaganda in Japan

52

7

One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Smallest Oil Refiner

40

8

Space Launch Startup Just Used a Giant Centrifuge to Fling a Projectile into Th

34

9

Likely Drone Attack on U.S. Power Grid Revealed in New Intelligence Report

26

10

Domain driven no-code platforms

6

Science News [?]

1

Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy

449

2

Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint

218

3

The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

205

4

Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years

196

5

Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections

185

6

The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)

162

7

The secret lives of cells – as never seen before

113

8

The origins of cannabis smoking: evidence from the first millennium BCE (2019)

104

9

Covid vaxx efficacy after 8 months

63

10

A spoonful of sugar helps the radioactive oatmeal go down (2017)

56

Social [?]

1

I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

1356

2

Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time

907

3

Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

494

4

Playstation 5 root keys obtained

414

5

But What's Up with That ¥?

240

6

A recruiter lined me up an interview. With the employer that just fired me

236

7

How imaginary numbers were invented [video]

187

8

Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust

182

9

I read a book that blew my mind a little

135

10

Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”

130

Github repos and gists [?]

1

3D printed mirror array

1056

2

Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory

250

3

193

4

ES modules are terrible

172

5

Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

163

6

liblinux: Architecture-independent access to Linux system calls

153

7

Ironbci: Open-Source Brain Computer Interface

146

8

Embedded malware in RC (NPM package)

140

9

Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual files

139

10

Embedded Malware in Coa

137

Wikipedia [?]

1

A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

219

2

The Goiânia Accident (1987)

205

3

Unsafe at Any Speed

83

4

38

5

Serial-position effect

33

6

How trains avoid colliding with each other

17

7

16

8

Wikipedia: 10k Most Common Passwords

12

9

10

10

10

Blogs [?]

1

Culturally transmitted skills and values

205

2

“Illegal” Moscow state university network built by students (2002-2013)

165

3

How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for? (2020)

111

4

A Death-Aware Career Plan

75

5

I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired

55

6

Spectrograms – audio signal processing for machine learning

50

7

The Road to Creating a Category

21

8

I Am a Transwoman. I Am in the Closet. I Am Not Coming Out

21

9

Starting a Movement from Nothing – Two Fascinating Examples

15

10

The first commit of Git/Git no longer belongs to Linus Torvalds

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?

2

2

Should I store JWT tokens in IndexedDB?

1

Substack [?]

1

Don’t do interviews, do discussions

550

2

Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect

191

3

Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future

166

4

If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying

157

5

Camembert President

101

6

How profitable was/is tobacco?

68

7

Secrets of The Great Families

58

8

We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One

57

9

How They Painted 'Samurai Jack'

38

10

Japan's Skyscraper Factories

32