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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

2023

2

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692

3

20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower

1388

4

Architecture.md

1349

5

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

1107

6

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

993

7

Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

982

8

Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

981

9

MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

975

10

Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

969

Top Ask HN

1

Team fun event ideas during WFH?

216

2

Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?

148

3

Startup employees getting nothing after acquisition, is this normal?

83

4

Hacker News comment tree indentation on text-based web browsers?

61

5

Why are monitors matte and laptops glossy and not the other way around?

60

6

What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

53

7

Why has the internet become so pessimistic and political?

52

8

What's your best advice for someone turning 30 today?

51

9

Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer?

46

10

Why are we expected to train Google's NN for free through captchas?

46

Top Show HN

1

Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

582

2

I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment

353

3

Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust

251

4

Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API

246

5

Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking

233

6

"Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book

232

7

LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API

216

8

Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder

195

9

You-tldr – easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos

187

10

Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?

149

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

969

2

Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

758

3

More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out

121

4

The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)

109

5

LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs

108

6

iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'

107

7

Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban

94

8

Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams

78

9

Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let employees work remotely

75

10

Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web

66

News [?]

1

Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

981

2

MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

975

3

America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

870

4

Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

792

5

Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software

542

6

Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

492

7

Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

480

8

Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims

428

9

8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories

418

10

The Queen has more power over British law than we thought

376

Scientific publications [?]

1

New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum

184

2

Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit

94

3

A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens

86

4

Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention

85

5

Arb: Efficient Arbitrary-Precision Midpoint-Radius Interval Arithmetic (2016)

78

6

Student astronomer finds missing galactic matter

61

7

Don't Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles

60

8

Decoding the innovation delusion, nurturing the maintenance mindset

54

9

Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five deaths globally

21

10

Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Pattern matching accepted for Python

654

2

What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it

440

3

Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

436

4

I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer

354

5

AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers

266

6

The endless browser wars

207

7

The imminent stable-version apocalypse

108

8

Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs

98

9

Python Cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

78

10

AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12

51

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

623

2

Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’

184

3

Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review

78

4

Developer exposes multiple million-dollar scam apps on the App Store

69

5

Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks

58

6

Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox

21

7

Gmail iOS App Has Out of Date Warning After 2 Months of No Updates

13

8

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

13

9

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone'

13

10

Apple switches to its own servers for Safe Browsing in iOS 14.5

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

We Read Too app developer Kaya Thomas explores trends in Black literature

8

2

Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages

6

3

AWS Joins the Rust Foundation

4

4

Lambda: The Excel worksheet function (Microsoft Research)

3

5

Optimizing AWS Lambda Cost and Performance Using AWS Compute Optimizer

2

6

Research Collection – Shall we play a game?

2

7

AWS App Mesh now supports mTLS

2

8

Apple – Legal

2

9

Intelligent Failures: Clippy Memes and the Limits of Digital Assistants

1

10

Node.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

279

2

Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

245

3

What Does the Title ‘Esquire’ Mean, Anyway?

115

4

Interview with Bill Joy (1984)

62

5

Spreadsheet Wars (1988) [video]

54

6

LEGO2NANO – Open-Source Atomic Force Microscope – What Is an AFM?

40

7

Review of the Mustang Mach E

23

8

Tesla to get $7k tax credit on electric cars with new incentive reform

11

9

First tyrannosaur embryo fossils revealed

8

10

Mistakes and Memes

7

Science News [?]

1

Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

407

2

Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm

343

3

The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)

171

4

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

168

5

A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’

156

6

AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve

145

7

Deep Nose may one day be the best diagnostician in medicine

99

8

Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of α Centauri

91

9

How many early human species existed on Earth?

91

10

First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium

59

Social [?]

1

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

2023

2

NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

427

3

CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

280

4

I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)

246

5

Google suspends Terraria author's account; He cancels support for Google Stadia

126

6

Ex NSA person subverting cryptography joins AWS as Director of Applied Crypto

81

7

DigitalOcean user portal loads twenty third-party trackers

69

8

Pixel Art and the Hardcopy

65

9

Illuminating hyperbolic geometry (2015) [video]

54

10

How to spot a $5M/year scam on the App Store in 5 minutes

48

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692

2

System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

536

3

Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game

410

4

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon

402

5

WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

359

6

Golang generics proposal has been accepted

276

7

Inkscape Ray Tracing – an extension for Inkscape to draw optical diagrams

276

8

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

265

9

A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

243

10

Block Facebook Servers

233

Wikipedia [?]

1

295

2

Pravetz Computers

171

3

97

4

List of Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

73

5

69

6

Pennsylvania town coal mine has been on fire since 1962

60

7

One address is home to 285,000 US businesses, including Apple and Google

24

8

22

9

Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer

19

10

List of Helicopter Prison Escapes

17

Blogs [?]

1

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

1107

2

A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village

184

3

Do Things that Don't Scale (2013)

177

4

How to solve the Secret Santa Problem using graph theory

64

5

Dependency Confusion: RCE via internal package name squatting

52

6

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)

43

7

The State of the Serverless Art (2020)

24

8

Feynman's Integral Trick

24

9

Building a modular software toolkit at Airtable

16

10

A procrastination researcher explains procrastination

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the case against F# (2009)

1

Substack [?]

1

NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur

452

2

What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

333

3

Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

224

4

Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs

211

5

The After Open Source Era Has Started

70

6

Technology, a Catalyst for Change

45

7

Protecting your capital during a war

43

8

Casinos as a Business Model

39

9

Data show rich cities are failing the Bay Area on housing

29

10

The War on Privacy

15