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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My First Impressions of Web3

3187

2

2900

3

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

4

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

2051

5

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

1704

6

I got pwned by my cloud costs

1398

7

Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

1384

8

Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

1195

9

Open-Sourcing our Firmware

1168

10

Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

1165

Top Ask HN

1

Gmail account security

1508

2

Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

696

3

Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

617

4

Is the past disappearing on the web?

569

5

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

540

6

At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life

427

7

Should I publish my research code?

421

8

Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

374

9

What's Up with Google?

350

10

Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?

338

Top Show HN

1

Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

1241

2

Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

631

3

I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon

594

4

OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

555

5

BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

521

6

Clone your voice and speak a foreign language

509

7

Login with HN (Unofficially)

436

8

Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse

379

9

API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

364

10

361

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

924

2

Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

855

3

PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

814

4

Please make a dumb car

633

5

Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills

593

6

Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions

576

7

22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage

525

8

Searching for Susy Thunder

494

9

WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack

468

10

To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work

429

News [?]

1

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

1704

2

The New York Times buys Wordle

902

3

U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

804

4

Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid

784

5

James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away

754

6

More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

717

7

Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

708

8

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

687

9

We need to reclaim our attention

628

10

New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

569

Scientific publications [?]

1

James Webb is fully deployed

1127

2

How E Ink developed full-color e-paper

317

3

The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study

296

4

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

266

5

Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior

240

6

Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

229

7

ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

203

8

A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis

202

9

AlphaFold-Powered Drug Discovery of a Novel CDK20 Inhibitor

173

10

Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice

150

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

681

2

“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”

548

3

2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell”

391

4

IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

314

5

Highlights from Git 2.35

258

6

Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer

255

7

Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021)

244

8

A note for LWN subscribers

219

9

Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix

210

10

Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide

191

Tech blogs [?]

1

T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US

692

2

UltraRAM: 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage

245

3

Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price

188

4

Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich

158

5

$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

127

6

Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel

93

7

Blinking Cursor Turns 54

81

8

Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency

80

9

Gurman: Apple's headset will likely cost $2k and have two CPUs

49

10

Intel to Unveil Bitcoin-Mining 'Bonanza Mine' Chip at Upcoming Conference

43

FAANG+ [?]

1

Request your personal information

139

2

AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections

127

3

AWS Service Terms: the clause 42.10

116

4

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

97

5

Don't let computers generate your advertising or things like this will happen

75

6

Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (2020)

54

7

New Book called “What if? 2” by Xkcd creator Randall Munroe

42

8

iCloud Private Relay Overview [pdf]

36

9

Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing

21

10

iCloud Private Relay Overview White Paper [pdf]

19

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)

335

2

The Intel Split

322

3

Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad

321

4

Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years

167

5

The Story of Maxis Software (1999)

154

6

The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)

139

7

Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (2015)

134

8

The Gates of Hell

133

9

US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)

119

10

In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale

105

Science News [?]

1

Multiple Sclerosis Causality

635

2

Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show

393

3

Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11k per article

341

4

The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

339

5

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

296

6

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

258

7

Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes

251

8

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

231

9

Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now

220

10

Inflammation in the gut is encoded by neurons in the brain

191

Social [?]

1

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

2

Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

1165

3

I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law

1141

4

Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

1117

5

I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house

740

6

Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale

725

7

Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

690

8

I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

646

9

Did I just lose half a million dollars?

638

10

Search engines and SEO spam

590

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Danish government makes its new economic model open source

842

2

Burn My Windows

761

3

Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

722

4

My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

716

5

PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

650

6

Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions

582

7

Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)

471

8

Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

471

9

OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

427

10

A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor

412

Wikipedia [?]

1

388

2

270

3

251

4

Turboencabulator

118

5

113

6

88

7

Curse of the Colonel

70

8

Firehose of Falsehood

68

9

59

10

51

Blogs [?]

1

The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

307

2

Why might you run your own DNS server?

305

3

Reasons for servers to support IPv6

266

4

I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author

239

5

Notes on BPF and eBPF

213

6

How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers

139

7

Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)

136

8

A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)

111

9

Some ways DNS can break

106

10

Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof

97

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why introduce `std::launder` rather than have the compiler take care of it?

72

2

StackOverflow Jobs posting that specifically excludes men from applying

11

3

Stackoverflow Is Down

6

4

Python threads difference for 3.10 and others – Stack Overflow

4

5

u'\ufeff' in Python string

4

6

Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)

3

7

How and when to align to cache line size (2011)

3

8

How to print colored text to terminal

2

9

Question: How to patch specific port of Kubernetes service?

2

10

How Does the Yin Yang Puzzle Work?

2

Substack [?]

1

How to design a house to last 1000 years

584

2

563

3

People don't work as much as they say

492

4

Don't forget Microsoft

429

5

Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse

413

6

Why Galesburg has no money

383

7

Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

376

8

Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned

327

9

The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

302

10

How the Soviets put a lander on Venus

274