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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
3192
2
Apple announces Self Service Repair
1285
3
How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
1119
4
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
899
5
Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
885
6
Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
812
7
SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
786
8
Individuals Matter
774
9
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
735
10
Security issue related to the NPM registry
667
Top Ask HN
1
What are some great engineering blogs?
281
2
Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures
197
3
What are you using for public documentation these days?
174
4
What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
165
5
How to contact Uber about a rider safety exploit being used in the wild?
144
6
Career progression vs. meaningful/appealing products?
94
7
Tech-savvy parents, what are the gadget rules for your kids?
91
8
Messed up my education, now 30 and regretting it. What to do?
74
9
Advice for moving on from a failed startup?
69
10
How do you back up your Android phone?
56
Top Show HN
1
Long Range E-Bike
876
2
I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
707
3
Windows 2000 on Docker
395
4
Budibase – An open-source low code platform
280
5
I made a no-code tool to create animated technical papers
246
6
Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
239
7
Outage Bingo
224
8
Caffeine – Minimum viable back end for prototyping
206
9
Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing
166
10
My proposal for a new keyboard layout
156
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
885
2
Apple isn’t patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS
274
3
Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
256
4
A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine
172
5
Dataminers are finding developer comments and unlicensed songs in GTA Trilogy
155
6
Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state
155
7
Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia
147
8
Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster
114
9
A physicist studied Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters
103
10
Netflix released a horror movie written by a bot and it's spectacular
94
News [?]
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U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
415
2
Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
387
3
Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels
355
4
Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
341
5
Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say
340
6
Daddy isn’t coming back
304
7
Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards
294
8
Without parental leave I might be dead
266
9
U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere
254
10
A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks
245
Scientific publications [?]
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Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
507
2
SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system
251
3
Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up
181
4
Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (2011)
171
5
In the 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas
128
6
Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
114
7
Chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia
62
8
Simple silicon coating solves long-standing optical challenge
38
9
Satellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissions
27
10
Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
22
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Security issue related to the NPM registry
667
2
I hate password rules
564
3
Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website
431
4
Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
350
5
OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist
322
6
Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
299
7
Why disaster happens at the edges: An introduction to queue theory
245
8
Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
225
9
macOS Zero-Day Used Against Hong-Kong Activists
222
10
Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework
216
Tech blogs [?]
1
The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
899
2
OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware
92
3
C Is the Greenest Programming Language
39
4
Remembering Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2021
11
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Microsoft Confirms Anticompetitive Edge Browser Behavior in Windows 11
8
6
“Electron family” state of matter hints at new type of superconductivity
7
7
MediaTek Announces Dimensity 9000: Supercharged Flagship SoC on 4nm
5
8
Intel: Sapphire Rapids with 64 GB of HBM2e, Ponte Vecchio with 408 MB L2 Cache
5
9
Apple will allow customers to repair iPhones and Macs in 2022
5
10
Apple Defends Its Ads for Third-Party Apps
5
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple announces Self Service Repair
1285
2
New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs
95
3
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery – DRS
5
4
Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming
4
5
Stable Microsoft Edge for Linux
4
6
Generate meeting notes using Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Comprehend
3
7
Apple Announces Self Service Repair for Consumers
3
8
Apple introduces Tech Talks 2021, live online sessions for developers
3
9
SharePlay powers new ways to stay connected and share experiences in FaceTime
2
10
Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
565
2
Higher Math for Beginners (1987)
315
3
Container Logistics
116
4
The Greatest Unsolved Heist in Irish History
67
5
To build an 18th-century ship, shipwrights had to remaster a lost craft
58
6
The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook
28
7
Everything You Thought You Knew About ‘Hobo Code’ Is Wrong
25
8
Piracy Release Group EVO ‘Blames’ Movie Industry for Its Popularity
22
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Why a Computer History Museum Owns a Legendary Teapot
21
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Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers (2019)
16
Science News [?]
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To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions
357
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Study finds a difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
184
3
Glass is the hidden gem in a carbon-neutral future
120
4
New mineral davemaoite discovered inside a diamond from Earth's mantle
118
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Mathematicians Find Structure in Biased Polynomials
71
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Accretion disk images guide theories on planet formation
58
7
Earth system impacts of the Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 (2019)
54
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Agriculture gave rise to one of world’s most mysterious language families
50
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The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US
40
10
Nasally-Injected Brain Drug Can Help Treat Depression in 20 Minutes
37
Social [?]
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YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
554
2
The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark
541
3
Email from FBI Looks Odd
476
4
M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM
392
5
FBI email infrastructure has been compromised and is being used to send emails
248
6
Mailgun doesn't validate the email headers of email sent through their system
147
7
A redditor gets caught up in a triangulation scam and investigates
110
8
Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II
92
9
Collapse of international mobility a key factor behind wages growth
80
10
Bloom/Lambda School requires applying to 460 jobs before giving tuition refund
64
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Useful sed scripts and patterns
528
2
Hackerrank DMCA Notice
341
3
What elements does a plant need to grow?
339
4
An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib
309
5
Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
234
6
Deldo is a sex toy control and teledildonics mode for Emacs
226
7
Sign in with Matrix
158
8
Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (2008)
115
9
Upcoming/proposed breaking changes to Haskell
114
10
A 100LOC C impl of memset, that is faster than glibc's
99
Wikipedia [?]
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Great Auk
43
2
The mysterious broadcast interruption of 1977
16
3
Elite Overproduction
11
4
Casio F-91W
10
5
The art of not being governed
10
6
Tendril Perversion
9
7
Red herring
8
8
The Machine Stops (1909)
7
9
Muprhy's Law
7
10
Philip K. Dick
7
Blogs [?]
1
Individuals Matter
774
2
Is there such a thing as good taste?
265
3
Some notes on using esbuild
246
4
Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
145
5
Why and how COBOL is still used
121
6
Replay.io Windows Beta
19
7
Peak Phosphorus May Be More Alarming Than Climate Change
17
8
Wonders of Tcl
16
9
CheerpX: Using WebAssembly to run any programming language in the browser
14
10
Anthos on Bare Metal: Delivering Baseball Stats on K8s in Our MLB Ballparks
9
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does a = a['k'] = {} create an infinitely nested dictionary?
18
2
Why does Skylake/Kaby Lake CPU incur mysterious factor 3 slowdown in hash table?
1
3
Defining constant variables in C++ Header file
1
Substack [?]
1
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
735
2
Freedom is not a goal, but a direction
299
3
The Burnout Society
277
4
How I got wealthy without working too hard
226
5
Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production
183
6
The Greedy Doctor Problem
162
7
I would like closure, but I'll take honesty
128
8
Most who want simple ‘bonsai’ trees are ill-served by traditional bonsai methods
115
9
The benefits of not belonging
100
10
I write a parenting advice column (or how I became famous in my neighborhood)
87