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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

4103

2

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

4022

3

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

3883

4

GitHub, fuck your name change

3353

5

A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

3336

6

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

3192

7

“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

3025

8

2905

9

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

2706

10

A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

2682

Top Ask HN

1

What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

2022

2

Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

1665

3

Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?

964

4

How did my LastPass master password get leaked?

869

5

I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?

833

6

Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

819

7

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

772

8

Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

755

9

Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

740

10

Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

740

Top Show HN

1

Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

1998

2

Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

1422

3

40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

1359

4

Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

1216

5

1192

6

We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

1180

7

I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

1102

8

My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

1077

9

Web browser to help programmers think clearly

1070

10

I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

985

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

2254

2

A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

1643

3

Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

1513

4

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

1420

5

Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares

1354

6

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

1279

7

Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August

1232

8

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

1167

9

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

1056

10

Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

1032

News [?]

1

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

2330

2

John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

2091

3

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

1986

4

Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

1778

5

Sir Clive Sinclair has died

1738

6

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

1465

7

YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

1408

8

Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich

1312

9

533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

1296

10

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

1252

Scientific publications [?]

1

A New Coefficient of Correlation

678

2

Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined

635

3

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

621

4

Crypto Wash Trading

572

5

New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN

555

6

Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status

521

7

Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships

507

8

Wolves make roadways safer

500

9

U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years

455

10

Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)

435

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An Unbelievable Demo

2339

2

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

1961

3

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

1944

4

GitHub is fully available in Iran

1727

5

Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

1569

6

Total Cookie Protection

1527

7

Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

1339

8

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

1266

9

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

1226

10

Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

1209

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

2260

2

Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

1401

3

Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

1236

4

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

1209

5

EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

913

6

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

899

7

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

815

8

New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

747

9

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

718

10

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

659

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

1657

2

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

1314

3

Apple announces Self Service Repair

1285

4

Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

1122

5

Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

1052

6

Apple Introduces AirTag

947

7

OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

706

8

Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

702

9

Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

638

10

Business Essentials

611

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple’s Mistake

1273

2

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

911

3

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters

907

4

ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’

743

5

Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (2016)

691

6

Moths in slow motion [video]

661

7

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

638

8

Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

615

9

Cloudflare's Disruption

578

10

569

Science News [?]

1

Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

1599

2

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

915

3

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

761

4

Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works

737

5

Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

726

6

Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed

658

7

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021

655

8

A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley

653

9

Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

629

10

Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

611

Social [?]

1

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

2706

2

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

2023

3

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

2009

4

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

1793

5

I resigned from Twitter

1692

6

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]

1663

7

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

1545

8

Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

1417

9

Dan Kaminsky has died

1414

10

Pixel prevented me from calling 911

1384

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

1692

2

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

1595

3

Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

1389

4

Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

1323

5

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

1259

6

Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

1248

7

Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

1138

8

An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

1082

9

3D printed mirror array

1056

10

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

982

Wikipedia [?]

1

537

2

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

434

3

Extreme Ironing

411

4

112 Gripes About the French

408

5

Burned House Horizon

331

6

Kelly Criterion

330

7

295

8

293

9

275

10

270

Blogs [?]

1

Willingness to look stupid

1859

2

How to Work Hard

1223

3

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

1107

4

What I Worked On

986

5

958

6

Crazy New Ideas

897

7

Changes at Basecamp

883

8

How People Get Rich Now

779

9

Individuals Matter

774

10

A Project of One’s Own

723

Stackoverflow [?]

1

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

495

2

Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

429

3

Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC

163

4

How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?

146

5

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)

127

6

What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017)

108

7

How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012)

59

8

What is the case against F#? (2009)

59

9

Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi

51

10

Why do browsers not keep status 302 pages in back-button history?

39

Substack [?]

1

A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

1464

2

Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

1245

3

How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

1060

4

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

1057

5

Arm China Has Gone Rogue

995

6

Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

936

7

898

8

Statement on New York Times Article

866

9

The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

861

10

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

837