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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
1122
2
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
1098
3
QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
1057
4
Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
971
5
Rust Moderation Team Resigns
914
6
Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
886
7
Fingerprints can be hacked
792
8
Advent of Code 2021
745
9
Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
718
10
90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
709
Top Ask HN
1
I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
534
2
What mental models do you use everyday?
383
3
Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
272
4
What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
249
5
I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?
247
6
Great tools for solo SaaS founders?
215
7
How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?
208
8
Best cars without too much digitalization?
193
9
Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?
165
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Why is there no good open-source LMS?
157
Top Show HN
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Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
693
2
Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing
221
3
Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Browser via x86 to WASM JIT
171
4
Open-Source Auth for NextJS / React
107
5
WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator
101
6
Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web
88
7
Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design
80
8
We built a Rotten Tomatoes-style website for VPNs
74
9
Rust-Like Traits in Python
50
10
Tuned - Build advanced crypto trading bots
45
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
336
2
New emails released in the McDonald’s ice cream machine lawsuit
250
3
An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
164
4
Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did
128
5
A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019)
104
6
Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around
93
7
Apple has a new work-from-home policy, but it’s still not what employees want
68
8
John Deere Reports $6B Profit After Fighting Workers over Meager Wages
65
9
France asks search engines and app stores to remove Wish
64
10
Fairphone beats the entire Android ecosystem with six years of support
61
News [?]
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90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
709
2
Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
445
3
Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate
362
4
Marriott refused to host Uyghur conference, citing “political neutrality”
337
5
What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule
254
6
Amazon employees in 20 countries will strike on Black Friday
223
7
Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in
213
8
The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that led his wife to avoid ER
209
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India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says
201
10
The Next ‘Lab Leak’
189
Scientific publications [?]
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Crypto Wash Trading
572
2
Wolves make roadways safer
500
3
Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)
435
4
People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
304
5
Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics
194
6
Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US
116
7
An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
104
8
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)
85
9
Wearable device senses blood glucose and administers insulin accordingly
63
10
Tabletop Chocolate Factory
51
Dev Blogs [?]
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The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back
277
2
Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
202
3
Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API
172
4
New differential fuzzing tool reveals novel HTTP request smuggling techniques
169
5
Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?
165
6
Microservices Architecture on Google Cloud
70
7
Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask
69
8
Linux 5.17 to Boast a Big TCP Performance Optimization
27
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Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers
17
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California Pizza Kitchen Serves Up Employee SSNs in Data Breach
16
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel Core i7-12700K Review
105
2
Apple Has Listened and Will Retract Some Harmful Phone-Scanning
31
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Brief exposure to near-infrared light improves deteriorating vision
23
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Apple Temporarily Halts Sales in Turkey After Currency Crash
17
5
The Pi Zero 2 W Is the Most Efficient Pi
17
6
AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360
10
7
Apple’s Self Service Repair Program Must Live Up to Its Promises
9
8
EU Parliament Takes First Step Towards a Fair and Interoperable Market
9
9
Is the new 16-inch MacBook Pro a pro-only machine? [video]
8
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Phytium D2000 Eight-Core Arm CPU Appears in Mini PC
7
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
1122
2
Amazon Linux 2022
270
3
AWS free tier data transfer expansion
264
4
IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
159
5
Preview of Amazon Linux 2022
42
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AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
26
7
Sheep.exe on Microsoft Store
17
8
AWS Amplify announces the new GraphQL Transformer v2
5
9
Timeouts, Retries and Backoff with Jitter
3
10
NFTs can represent metaphysical assets
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking
167
2
“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
132
3
GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes and Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy
58
4
Thinking Like a Mountain (1949)
52
5
Winamp: A fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows (1998)
44
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Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
38
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XML Alternatives (2002)
32
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Tesla suffers nationwide app server outage, owners can't connect to their cars
27
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The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language
27
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Luis Soriano Had a Dream, Two Donkeys, and a Lot of Books
20
Science News [?]
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
350
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Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]
292
3
Parrots will share currency to help their pals purchase food (2020)
243
4
Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs
161
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Ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible
141
6
In-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system
136
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Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality
135
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The chase for fusion energy
108
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Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds
81
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The Brain-Circuit Of Even the Simplest Networks of Neurons Defy Understanding
56
Social [?]
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I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit about kafka the product
262
2
NES Tetris AI hits 102M points and level 237
197
3
Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday
181
4
B.1.1.529
179
5
Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]
176
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MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]
99
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I Was Illegally Fired for Trying to Unionize Tesla
90
8
Alan Kay at UCLA (2016) [video]
82
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My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken
72
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Google removed app for treating children with speech disorder, no explanation
65
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Rust Moderation Team Resigns
914
2
Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries
599
3
Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust
269
4
Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly
247
5
Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers
226
6
Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition
220
7
Djinn Split Keyboard
214
8
Microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
200
9
Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems
177
10
Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini
172
Wikipedia [?]
1
Umarell
161
2
Maxima (Software)
126
3
Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)
90
4
Umarell
51
5
Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen
32
6
Cupellation
24
7
D. B. Cooper
18
8
Tang Ping
17
9
Considered for deletion – Mass killings under communist regimes
16
10
Brown Dog Affair
9
Blogs [?]
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Rats in Doom VR
114
2
Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures
109
3
Sheldon: The Erlang Spell Checker
58
4
Major Errors and Corrections
47
5
Closure vs. derivation in the Nix package manager
46
6
Brex is moving away from Elixir to Kotlin
22
7
Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence
20
8
Android and iOS config-driven experiments that don't require releases
17
9
Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence
17
10
iOS and Android config-driven experiments without new releases
16
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How to save merge state in Git?
3
2
StackOverflow Is Down
3
3
How to parse TOML document with Java
2
4
How to Write One-Time Pad Cipher in Python?
1
5
How to get OAuth access token without resource owner consent?
1
Substack [?]
1
The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
236
2
The many gifts of awkward silence
200
3
Buying an ebike
199
4
A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in Europe
143
5
The history of Flash games in China
93
6
Scientific American Goes Woke
90
7
The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity
77
8
The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
46
9
Two Things I Learned When I Crash Landed at a Startup
33
10
When Will the FDA Approve Paxlovid?
23