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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

AWS us-east-1 outage

1658

2

Log4j RCE Found

1385

3

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

1384

4

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

1209

5

CT scans of AirPods evolution

1094

6

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

1093

7

Apple broke up with me

985

8

Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'

899

9

848

10

Tailwind CSS v3.0

841

Top Ask HN

1

Why is everything changing too fast?

513

2

Advice about aging parents

291

3

How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?

262

4

I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS

253

5

Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

197

6

How are you taking care of you eyes?

153

7

Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?

148

8

Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?

141

9

Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?

134

10

What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?

105

Top Show HN

1

I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

979

2

713

3

I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL

276

4

I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

237

5

I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible

210

6

I made a book with a hundred UI/UX tips

198

7

A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

197

8

Fourier Transform Visualized via WebGL

175

9

Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves

164

10

P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk

156

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Quake 1 gets its first major co-op content update in 25 years

195

2

Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos

166

3

Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

121

4

Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense

88

5

Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test

87

6

A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015)

80

7

A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays

58

8

Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119M

56

9

The CIA Is Deep into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals

49

10

YouTube reveals millions of videos get hit with incorrect copyright claims

47

News [?]

1

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

1093

2

Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

563

3

Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

484

4

Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance

298

5

Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers

281

6

20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’

274

7

An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts

266

8

Fans pour funding into ‘The Chosen’

252

9

Lead poisoning among US children

246

10

FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement

237

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA returns Hubble to full science operations

431

2

Player of Games

364

3

Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence

235

4

The RNA World Hypothesis

146

5

Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation

123

6

AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law

77

7

Parallel Logic Programming: A Sequel

73

8

Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms

49

9

Ring-billed gulls found able to pass the string-pull test

20

10

A Response to Economics as Gauge Theory

14

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Improving GitHub Code Search

505

2

Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”

388

3

362

4

uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS

270

5

Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia's Proprietary Driver

84

6

Stacking Up AMD MI200 versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines

77

7

New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities

67

8

Using deep learning to predict the olfactory properties of molecules (2019)

55

9

New German Government Is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors

53

10

Bitcoin Drops $9K in an Hour

48

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

1209

2

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

718

3

Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out

201

4

WhatsApp Launches Instant Cryptocurrency Payments in the US

125

5

Tile buyer Life360 reportedly sells precise user location data to nearly anyone

106

6

Apple made secret 5-year $275B deal with Chinese government

26

7

23

8

Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275B Deal with Them

17

9

Saudi Human Rights Activist, Represented by EFF, Sues Spyware Maker DarkMatter

16

10

Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps

167

2

Unrepairable, unupgradeable MacBook Pro 14“ maxed out is $6k USD

6

3

Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology

3

4

Apple Fitness+ will feature Prince William on Time to Walk starting December 6

2

5

AWS to launch over 30 new Local Zones internationally starting in 2022

2

6

Amazon WorkSpaces – Desktop in Cloud

2

7

EC2 Spot Instances

2

8

History of Standard Model

2

9

Apple, Boys andamp; Girls Clubs team up to offer coding opportunities to kids

2

10

Project Frigatebird: AI for Autonomous Soaring

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam

320

2

To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'

202

3

The Amazon Empire Strikes Back

169

4

Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged

105

5

This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967) [video]

93

6

Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy

92

7

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

58

8

Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana

39

9

The Beautiful Experiment

31

10

Omnicron Post #4

19

Science News [?]

1

The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe

353

2

Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

179

3

Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time

160

4

140

5

Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

128

6

Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion

119

7

Car, gas industry knew about health risks of lead, sold it for 100 years anyway

88

8

2,700-year-old leather armor proves technology transfer happened in antiquity

81

9

New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors

60

10

Forced to settle for a nonideal job? Here’s how to make the most of it

52

Social [?]

1

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

1384

2

YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

807

3

Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

605

4

“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

496

5

How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]

336

6

Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement

272

7

I lasted three minutes at Amazon

253

8

A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

226

9

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°

210

10

Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings

139

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Why don't you accept donations?

386

2

Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers

307

3

Rclone: Rsync for cloud storage – CLI to sync between cloud storage providers

246

4

Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

243

5

Jam – Self-Hosted Clubhouse

221

6

FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox

213

7

Advent of Code 2021 with PostgreSQL

210

8

Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go

203

9

Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis

198

10

OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

166

Wikipedia [?]

1

155

2

147

3

Electrodynamic Tether

83

4

51

5

Young's Lattice

42

6

Man of the Hole

19

7

16

8

15

9

Evolved Antenna

13

10

Yiddish Words Used in English

13

Blogs [?]

1

334

2

DNS doesn't “propagate”

229

3

Why TV Lost (2009)

50

4

Snake in a block – how I ran snake on Ethereum

48

5

Some Latency Measurement Pitfalls

47

6

Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity

41

7

52 things I Learned in 2021

40

8

Another Classic Case of Corporate Callousness

37

9

Invest in Julia Now, as a Data Scientist

29

10

Removing ‘open source developer’ from my identity

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hello, I'm a Compiler

3

2

Hellо, I'm A Compiler (2013)

1

Substack [?]

1

Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

453

2

Web3? I have my DAOts

417

3

The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme

273

4

Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?

268

5

Is the big tech era ending?

247

6

Is Web3 Bullshit?

208

7

Defund the Police meets the crime wave

192

8

Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

190

9

Universal Paperclips

176

10

An underrated idea: the priority view

159