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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Search Is Dying

3636

2

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

3

Facebook loses users for the first time

1749

4

Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

1735

5

Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

1607

6

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

1449

7

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

1384

8

The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever

1363

9

Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

1291

10

Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

1256

Top Ask HN

1

What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

1147

2

How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

1094

3

How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

696

4

What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

573

5

Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

486

6

The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?

392

7

Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

391

8

Who wants to collaborate?

390

9

Great Blogs by Programmers

322

10

Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?

316

Top Show HN

1

SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually

1241

2

947

3

Full text search on 630M US court cases

698

4

Test your shape rotation skills

659

5

Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

572

6

hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

481

7

A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

478

8

Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

463

9

Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

344

10

Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

313

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

477

2

North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet

475

3

The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii

468

4

Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

386

5

382

6

Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online

305

7

How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm

302

8

Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure

285

9

Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

264

10

Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app

252

News [?]

1

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

2

Facebook loses users for the first time

1749

3

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

1128

4

Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

987

5

Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

958

6

Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

698

7

France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors

688

8

Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

597

9

The data are clear: The boys are not all right

574

10

America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

528

Scientific publications [?]

1

Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

276

2

Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

228

3

Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary

205

4

NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power

200

5

New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy

189

6

New atomic clock loses only one second every 300B years

188

7

TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage

177

8

Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way

150

9

How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (2019)

141

10

A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics

102

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

902

2

Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

683

3

Web hacking techniques of 2021

567

4

The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

535

5

Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

448

6

IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access

399

7

GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source

317

8

Missouri governor’s office responsible for teacher data leak

308

9

Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

293

10

Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

275

Tech blogs [?]

1

Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

736

2

Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands

532

3

Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech

394

4

BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M

273

5

Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue

251

6

DYMO's new label printer uses RFID tags to prevent the use of non-OEM paper

159

7

$60 PC Oscilloscope Review

88

8

It’s Back: Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages

82

9

Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages

70

10

CadQuery Comes of Age

63

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone

847

2

An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

358

3

AWS Lambda adds supports for .NET 6

213

4

Sustainability with Rust

137

5

Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency

135

6

AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks

41

7

“Now apps from both the App Store and the internet can be installed worry-free.”

27

8

Route53 – Control planes and data planes

15

9

Sustainability with Rust

12

10

Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities

11

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image

240

2

200-foot-long railway to nowhere is a brilliant shipping loophole

206

3

The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again

190

4

Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia

183

5

An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

154

6

10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

150

7

Moral injury can occur in many contexts and populations, including the workplace

149

8

DaVinci-style drone with 600-year-old screw rotor design

141

9

Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (1965)

133

10

Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) (2000) [pdf]

132

Science News [?]

1

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

755

2

Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case

468

3

Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study

450

4

A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner

415

5

Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension

320

6

Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade

319

7

Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

311

8

What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity

302

9

Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better

282

10

New lightweight material is stronger than steel

274

Social [?]

1

Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

1607

2

Amazon Pip Horror Story

902

3

811

4

I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss

797

5

Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims

768

6

For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

734

7

Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

656

8

As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place

590

9

Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads

525

10

A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters

505

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Fetch API has landed into Node.js

679

2

Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets

580

3

Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

568

4

uBlock Origin 1.41

540

5

“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”

510

6

High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime

493

7

Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays

466

8

A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine

428

9

Back-end languages are coming to the front-end

394

10

Lets Get Arrested (2019)

392

Wikipedia [?]

1

236

2

Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs

161

3

140

4

American chestnut

118

5

Belling the Cat

116

6

All You Zombies

111

7

91

8

Comparative Illusion

77

9

76

10

69

Blogs [?]

1

Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

699

2

Things that used to be hard and are now easy

371

3

A toy DNS resolver

309

4

I was wrong, we need crypto

240

5

Misidentifying talent

230

6

Putting Ideas into Words

209

7

Cocktail party ideas

188

8

Apple’s Mistake (2009)

177

9

95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

166

10

Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)

152

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

25

2

Is it possible to detect if an email was sent via Gmail's “Schedule Send”?

5

3

How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?

4

4

StackOverflow Is Down

4

5

Vim Lisp mode is hard-coded to two space indent

3

6

How to create a minimal, reproducible code example

3

7

Why is 'this' a pointer and not a reference?

3

8

I have been making a Chrome app called Postman (2012)

2

9

Many Endpoints per AWS Lambda

2

10

Explain dependency injection to a 5-year-old

2

Substack [?]

1

Heuristics that almost always work

1000

2

Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

531

3

Make Linux look like Windows 95

473

4

Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse

416

5

Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?

373

6

Why not hire part-time developers?

349

7

Over-reliance on CGI in movies

300

8

How should net metering affect your electric bill?

234

9

Here comes the first TikTok war

223

10

Advice gathered from people smarter than me

221