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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

2243

2

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

1599

3

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

1545

4

President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

867

5

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

863

6

788

7

Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

760

8

Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp

668

9

How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes

663

10

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

620

Top Ask HN

1

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

772

2

Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?

451

3

Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

424

4

How to optimize your career for happiness?

423

5

My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?

408

6

Life Changing Books?

246

7

Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?

192

8

Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?

171

9

27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?

171

10

How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?

158

Top Show HN

1

Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

512

2

Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's

343

3

SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

284

4

Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021

221

5

Make my screen black

121

6

Python decorator that enables arbitrarily-deep tail/non-tail recursion

119

7

A labelling tool to easily extract and label Wikipedia data

116

8

Two uBlock Origin rules to improve your Twitch experience

99

9

96

10

Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible Python package management

95

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser

269

2

The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

238

3

Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

217

4

There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

216

5

Google Drive could soon start locking your files

206

6

War stories: how Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020)

159

7

US returns $154M in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee

146

8

You can't lure employees back to the office

136

9

Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion

133

10

LG’s new 16:18 monitor

124

News [?]

1

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

620

2

Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China

583

3

Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

521

4

Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement

398

5

Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud

315

6

South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

272

7

Satellite detects large mass of water in Mars canyon

259

8

Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning

253

9

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

235

10

Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers

235

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap

188

2

A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation

161

3

The rise and fall of rationality in language

124

4

Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?

107

5

Why do we still permit tobacco use? (2015)

85

6

What are Attackers after on IoT Devices?

81

7

A Search for Analogs of Boyajian's Star: A Second List of Candidates

57

8

Promise of Analog AI Feeds Neural Net Hardware Pipeline

48

9

If 6G becomes just 5G+ we’ll have made a big mistake

36

10

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record 11th flight carrying 52 Starlink sats

26

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A Farewell to LWN

251

2

Best practices can slow your application down

214

3

Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability

182

4

Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud

64

5

Apple macOS Monterey 12 Performance Is Surprisingly Competitive with Linux

31

6

Evaluating syntactic abilities of language models

17

7

Apple macOS Monterey 12 Performance Is Surprisingly Competitive with Linux

15

8

Linux Foundation's report on diversity, equity, and inclusion in open source

10

9

Cloudfare reporting TikTok saw more traffic than Google.com in 2021

9

10

Sway 1.7-rc1 Drops “–my-next-GPU-wont-be-Nvidia”

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Giant 555 Timer

204

2

The Dreamcast Legacy

103

3

Solid Snake-Oil Storage: This SSD Is Aimed at Audiophiles

38

4

DuckDuckGo Working on Privacy-Focused Desktop Browser for Mac

28

5

Apple M2 May Release in Fall 2022 as Part of 18-Month Mac Update Cycle

19

6

25 Years Ago, Apple Acquired Next and Brought Back Steve Jobs

17

7

Optical Chip Promises 350x Speedup over RTX 3080 in Some Algorithms

12

8

Could hydrogen airships return as fast, cheap, green cargo transports?

10

9

TSMC Unveils N4X Node: Extreme High-Performance at High Voltages

10

10

Qualcomm’s 8cx Gen 3 for Notebooks, Nuvia Core in 2022/2023

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Bing Search API now costs 3x times more for Japan search results

3

2

Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

3

3

Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a Free Service to Learn and Experiment with ML

2

4

AWS security services to protect against, detect, and respond to the Log4j vuln

1

5

Free Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab

1

6

Real-World Cryptography

1

7

Simon’s Win32 Cheat Sheet (2016)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback

262

2

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be

182

3

Amazon threatened driver’s job for leaving route during tornado

79

4

Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Drone Swarms Off CA Went on for Weeks

42

5

Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication (1971)

40

6

Shipwrecks, Stolen Jewels, Skull-Blasting Are Some of This Year’s Best Mysteries

23

7

Does Personalized Advertising Work as Well as Tech Companies Claim?

18

8

Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Drone Swarms Off California Went on for Weeks

18

9

Drone Swarm's Harassment of Navy Destroyers Off California Went on for Weeks

16

10

Malaysia Passes Bill to Imprison Illegal Streaming Pirate for Up to 20 Years

14

Science News [?]

1

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

1599

2

Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

217

3

Detailed footage reveals what triggers lightning

191

4

Myths about the brain

177

5

Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified

175

6

Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer To Mythic Goal

119

7

Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)

117

8

Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat

117

9

Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)

79

10

No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (2003)

78

Social [?]

1

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

1545

2

Apple Helps Asahi Linux

540

3

AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change

450

4

I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

434

5

Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups

356

6

Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar

335

7

Google's removed all mentions of an Intercept investigation from Search

322

8

My career of treating patients has ended

221

9

UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back)

217

10

“Zero fucks given” in other languages

193

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

446

2

Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM

444

3

PR to Merge Multicore OCaml

388

4

YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021

339

5

Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

292

6

Omnizart: Library for automatic music transcription

284

7

Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services

282

8

Move myself to inactive

278

9

Ambiguous PNG Packer: Craft PNG files that appear different in Apple software

276

10

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life

252

Wikipedia [?]

1

Death by Coconut

107

2

Aosta Valley Autonomus Region

64

3

Rocky Mountain Basic

54

4

Toba Catastrophe Theory

49

5

The Indian state of Kerala has a communist government and India's highest HDI

15

6

Chicago Principles

14

7

10

8

Rosemary Kennedy

10

9

9

10

9

Blogs [?]

1

The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun

125

2

Alpha Fold promises to revolutionize biochemistry

64

3

Do large language models understand us?

64

4

Deduction Mechanics in Games

58

5

Google Play banned my highly rated app with no real justification

42

6

Beauty Is the Greatest Privilege (2020)

38

7

Embark Studios: Homegrown Rendering with Rust

31

8

‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library

30

9

The Container Throttling Problem

28

10

Do large language models understand us?

26

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Number in Top Level Domain

1

Substack [?]

1

Most advice is pretty bad

161

2

Local man switches to Arch, tells no one

143

3

Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins

96

4

The Phrase “No Evidence” Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Communication

77

5

Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That for You

63

6

How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids

59

7

Why the Fuck Do You Trust Harvard?

32

8

Why did the Pfizer young kids trial fail?

32

9

FDA won't approve fluvoxamine for Covid because there's no drug company sponsor

27

10

Magnesium crisis. We need to get smarter, and soon

20