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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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I started a paper website business
1511
2
Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
1230
3
This website has 81% battery power remaining
1225
4
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
1005
5
Mess with DNS
958
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From Node to Ruby on Rails
941
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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
879
8
Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start
876
9
Plans you're not supposed to talk about
846
10
uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
769
Top Ask HN
1
Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
1665
2
Best Way to Contact YouTube
604
3
Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
445
4
Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
409
5
Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
382
6
I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?
318
7
What things has tech made worse in your life?
305
8
Private Alternatives to Alexa?
224
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Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting
213
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What Happened to Borland?
213
Top Show HN
1
Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
433
2
I wrote a book on web application deployment
326
3
I made a free course, 'NLP for Semantic Search'
239
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10-40% faster LZMA decoder using x86 CMOVcc
205
5
A simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme
188
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A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target
171
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We open sourced our new Mac developer setup script
169
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Overpass – a self-hosted video live streaming app
160
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I made a voice activated golf bag that shoots your clubs
142
10
AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses
117
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start
876
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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’
187
3
Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015)
159
4
Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”
154
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Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
145
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NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISS
117
7
The Open Cap Table Coalition
75
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Apple CCP $275B deal included Maps changes for disputed islands
67
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Five Former SpaceX Employees Speak Out About Harassment at the Company
49
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Researchers are hoping to “hear” dark matter using a super-cooled experiment
48
News [?]
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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
702
2
Reddit files to go public
541
3
Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
425
4
Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
288
5
Up all night with a Twitch millionaire
248
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Hertz customers arrested, jailed and held at gunpoint after false theft reports
246
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The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)
222
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Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
216
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Americans are rethinking where they want to live
215
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Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users
206
Scientific publications [?]
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Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
152
2
Inventing the Atari 2600 (1983)
105
3
Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes
90
4
Proof of Steak
79
5
Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space
24
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Baby it's cold inside, especially for women in offices
19
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Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes – The Story Behind the Running Hearts
18
8
An Empirical Lower Bound on the Overheads of Production Garbage Collectors
15
9
NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
14
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Computational modeling revives 19th century theory of grass leaf formation
13
Dev Blogs [?]
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Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology
368
2
Fredrik Lundh has died
364
3
GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
224
4
NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
152
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Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application
141
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Expired web domains help criminal hackers unlock enterprise defenses
60
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A brief history of code search at GitHub
59
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Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing
54
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Actual CVE-2021-44228 payloads captured in the wild
38
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More Efficient In-Context Learning with GLaM
28
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
390
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Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
44
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PinePhone Malware Surprises Users, Raises Questions
41
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Apple Delays Return to Offices Indefinitely
10
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DIY Glasses Aim to Improve Color Vision
10
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Saudi Human Rights Activist Sues Spyware Maker DarkMatter
9
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Apple’s ad business sees windfall; is accused of breaking its own privacy rules
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Controller Swaps Can Save an HDD If You Do It Right
6
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Cracking the Spotify Code
5
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AMD's First Ryzen CPU with Alleged DDR5 Support Emerges
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
638
2
AWS down again?
271
3
Swift Playgrounds 4
256
4
The A500 Mini
19
5
Amazon Polly
11
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Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces
11
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Simplify Access Management for Data Stored in Amazon S3
4
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Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces
4
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Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
3
10
Apple marks a year of giving in the communities it calls home
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Great Bifurcation
153
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Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress
107
3
Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start into a Subscription Service
28
4
The Navy's $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered in Rust
22
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Damaged USS Connecticut Likely Had Nightmare Voyage to San Diego Says Submariner
15
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Tesla doubles down on system to prevent gas cars ‘ICEing’ Superchargers
10
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Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous
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Toyota Unveils 15 New EV Concepts, Says Lexus Will Be Electric-Only
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Scientists have developed biodegradable printed paper batteries
6
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How to Debate Ideas Productively at Work
6
Science News [?]
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Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
737
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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
281
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India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
277
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NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever
266
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More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could not be replicated
194
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The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World
190
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Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines
156
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AI is discovering patterns in pure mathematics that have never been seen before
137
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DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
136
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Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
108
Social [?]
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PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3
571
2
“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
322
3
Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a software engineer
309
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Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]
306
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The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video]
267
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GitHub taking down tools allowing defenders to reproduce the Log4j vulnerability
212
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Excel World Championship Finals
174
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I have a brain injury [video]
155
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$45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency
146
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Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card
140
Github repos and gists [?]
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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
769
2
Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
726
3
Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
333
4
Weird: Generative Art in Common Lisp
267
5
Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux
245
6
Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
236
7
How to write a simple JIT compiler
223
8
Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C
210
9
Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library
206
10
Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library
175
Wikipedia [?]
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Culinary Diplomacy
54
2
Pyongyang (Restaurant Chain)
17
3
El Corte Inglés, Europe’s Biggest Department Store
13
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Teuvo Kohonen Has Died
11
5
Curta
9
6
Swatch Internet Time
8
7
Bitsquatting
8
8
World3
8
9
Lissajous Curves
8
10
Halloween Documents
8
Blogs [?]
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Mess with DNS
958
2
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)
186
3
Some thoughts on writing
150
4
Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
139
5
Work/life balance should be difficult
102
6
TypeScript for Pythonistas
87
7
The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Cyclical Linked List
40
8
A bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused a 911 call to fail
23
9
Rails 7: The One Person Framework
17
10
Madrid’s Modular Metro How to build a subway at half the cost, twice the speed
16
Stackoverflow [?]
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“Basic editing” of PDF content is nearly always non-trivial
17
2
Bulgaria's new eGov minister is a developer ranked #40 all time on StackOverflow
3
3
EGov minister of Bulgaria #40 on stack overflow
2
4
How do you avoid URL.equals needing access to the internet in Java?
2
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Enforce good TypeScript compile-time validation error
1
Substack [?]
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
365
2
Apple’s Newest OLED Supplier
183
3
Why 'Long Rituals' Matter
127
4
Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
81
5
Drugs, secrets and the circling hyenas
75
6
The insane tech job market of 2021 in Ukraine
65
7
Revolutionaries at the Workplace
61
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As an investor, why is crypto so hard to value?
59
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“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy to Push Employees Out
53
10
Crime, Punishment, and Chesa Boudin
39