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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

1703

2

I resigned from Twitter

1692

3

100 years of whatever this will be

1475

4

Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

1360

5

Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

1128

6

This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem

938

7

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

860

8

Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus

786

9

4x Smaller, 50x Faster

758

10

Advent of Code 2021

725

Top Ask HN

1

Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

755

2

What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

594

3

What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

515

4

Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

442

5

Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

436

6

Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?

398

7

Why is Docusign a $50B company?

321

8

Who is hiring? (December 2021)

304

9

Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?

159

10

How do you build your personal start page?

147

Top Show HN

1

Randomly create beautiful website layouts

317

2

4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator

258

3

Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC

227

4

Security Camera Lens Calculator

178

5

Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises

175

6

Life Simulation Written in Rust

169

7

I made a movie recommendation app based on your mood

163

8

Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4

155

9

I made a free, ad-free and open source tool for sharing private notes

124

10

116

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

552

2

Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations?

157

3

2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed

131

4

An Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

70

5

To make progress on climate change, we must move past doomsday scenarios

66

6

Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars

59

7

Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive

58

8

EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive integration

48

9

Clothes from 8k Years Ago Were Made from Trees, New Research Suggests

46

10

Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge

44

News [?]

1

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

435

2

Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses

434

3

U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy

392

4

US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse

289

5

Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

285

6

Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell

284

7

Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% in a day

259

8

Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

257

9

Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates

182

10

Overdue library book returned more than 110 years later

169

Scientific publications [?]

1

Physicists detect signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider

182

2

The Impact of Vitamin D Level on Covid-19: Systematic Review Meta-Analysis

182

3

Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing (2018)

112

4

Smart Homes Alter Human Behavior

68

5

Long-run effects of religious persecution: evidence from the Spanish Inquisition

65

6

Insects and the origins of consciousness (2015)

65

7

Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior (2007)

55

8

Massachusetts gun-control legislation has had no effect on violent crime

38

9

Loss of ancient grazers triggered a global rise in fires

29

10

Covid-19 vaccine certs on the dark web [pdf]

29

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The internet is held together with spit and baling wire

374

2

Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge

336

3

Disclosing state-linked information operations we've removed

146

4

Expanding our private information policy to include media

86

5

Kubernetes Cluster API v1.0, Production Ready

82

6

WordPress security plugin Hide My WP addresses SQL injection, deactivation flaws

75

7

An update on our privacy sandbox commitments

29

8

Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers

11

9

Shopify and Google Cloud team up for an epic BFCM weekend

9

10

Stripe Terminal expands into Europe

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

Supersonic Trebuchet

650

2

Raspberry Pi Plans $500m Spring Listing

27

3

Apple leaker Kuo: Apple plans to replace the iPhone with AR in 10 years

18

4

Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What to Do When You Lose Your Account?

15

5

Kuo: Apple AR Headset Coming in Late 2022 with Mac-Level Computing Power

12

6

Apple legal filing indicates it intends to collect commission regardless of IAP

11

7

Turbo Rascal Is the Retro Pascal Compiler We Always Wanted

10

8

Princeton team disables long-targeted gene behind spread of major cancers

10

9

Jack Dorsey reportedly stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO

9

10

Raspberry Pi Plans $500m Spring Listing

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

591

2

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

340

3

AWS Graviton 3 Instances

174

4

AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

164

5

AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications

89

6

Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub

84

7

AWS Redshift Serverless

64

8

63

9

AWS SDK for Rust enters developer preview

54

10

Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry

53

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

493

2

Winamp source code leak

476

3

The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)

353

4

The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)

294

5

“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says

252

6

Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity

217

7

U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

205

8

Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

205

9

Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video]

153

10

Bernie Madoff’s unwitting accomplice: The AS/400 (2009)

60

Science News [?]

1

What impossible meant to Richard Feynman

323

2

Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation

165

3

How the ancient Romans managed their toilets

153

4

Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger

112

5

Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?

101

6

A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)

97

7

Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy

74

8

Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

55

9

Collapse of Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in response to climate change

54

10

47

Social [?]

1

I resigned from Twitter

1692

2

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote

442

3

Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online

333

4

Introducing the Icelandverse [video]

272

5

CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly

268

6

Square is now called Block

246

7

I resigned from Twitter

130

8

YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video]

96

9

A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]

89

10

YouTube had censored North Korean defector Yeonmi Park

87

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

395

2

Supabase open sourced their dashboard

331

3

Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel

299

4

Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not

289

5

VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x

281

6

Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty (2020)

267

7

Lazydocker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker

259

8

Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language

230

9

Open source RISC-V GPGPU

207

10

GitHub Broken Download URLs

206

Wikipedia [?]

1

105

2

Buy Nothing Day

50

3

38

4

PiHKAL: “Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved”

29

5

British Navy against slave trade

28

6

Crystal Detector

28

7

Cpuid: EAX=8FFFFFFFh: AMD Easter Egg

24

8

Fragments of Olympian Gossip

18

9

12

10

Roland the Farter

10

Blogs [?]

1

Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge

139

2

Backpressure – the resisted flow of data through software

96

3

Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence

14

4

What Virgil Abloh’s Drudge Report Inspired Site Says About the State of Design

9

5

Snake in a Block – How I stopped having a life and ran Snake on Ethereum

9

6

Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence

9

7

A Large Numbers Coincidence

7

8

Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence

7

9

Using circular statistics in Python to forecast epileptic seizure risk

7

10

I found a symmetrical coincidence involving all the fundamental constants

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What makes Apple's PowerPC memcpy() so fast?

12

2

Django admin title “Select to change”

1

3

Question - Vim: How to delete certain char range in every line – Stack Overflow

1

4

OAuth flow to obtain JWT without user consent

1

5

Why ANSI C specified 6 significant initial characters in an external identifier

1

Substack [?]

1

DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

505

2

Instagram Is Facebook Now

402

3

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

249

4

Omicron Update: Nov 27

144

5

What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It?

93

6

Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction

90

7

Omicron Update, Dec 2

63

8

Omicron Variant: Early Analysis

59

9

Is Technological Progress Slowing? The Case of American Agriculture

56

10

The Forest People

56