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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

2

Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]

1926

3

But life had other plans

1716

4

FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign

1291

5

Please put units in names

1281

6

Windows needs a change in priorities

1192

7

Mourning loss as a remote team

1190

8

Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

1179

9

1168

10

Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

1157

Top Ask HN

1

Who operates at scale without containers?

599

2

Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

553

3

If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?

514

4

What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?

413

5

What book changed your life?

391

6

Any weird tips for weight loss?

332

7

Who is hiring? (March 2022)

327

8

314

9

My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help

291

10

Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?

265

Top Show HN

1

I made a web game called Almost Pong

1135

2

I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch

777

3

HN Avatars in 357 bytes

701

4

A game that tests how well you know your local area

652

5

I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3

425

6

Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

409

7

I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH

391

8

Berkeley Mono Typeface

355

9

Search Engine for Blogs

335

10

Huemint – Machine learning for color design

335

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

720

2

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

691

3

Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes

604

4

Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer

499

5

Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit

434

6

Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

366

7

Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed

357

8

FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free

351

9

Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation

343

10

BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

339

News [?]

1

Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

1044

2

Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest

978

3

The new silent majority: People who don't tweet

725

4

Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market

721

5

Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses

628

6

Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final

609

7

CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques

534

8

Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok

494

9

Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor

452

10

How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

450

Scientific publications [?]

1

Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

276

2

The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

228

3

DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers

194

4

Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time

179

5

Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (2013)

174

6

Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood

140

7

When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

135

8

Axial-Flux Motor with a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World

134

9

Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (2019)

120

10

Lagrange points solved one of physics' biggest problems

112

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An update on the threat landscape

609

2

Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”

506

3

413

4

Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

369

5

Countering threats from North Korea

346

6

A Way Out for A.out

334

7

Why Don't You Use

325

8

Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak

285

9

An update on recent service disruptions

258

10

Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021)

252

Tech blogs [?]

1

The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

775

2

Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car

314

3

Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator

278

4

Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet

260

5

Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090

173

6

AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips

161

7

Intel Finds Bug in AMD's Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix

121

8

M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs

118

9

The Intel Core I3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines

118

10

Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip

113

FAANG+ [?]

1

1168

2

Apple Mac Studio

653

3

DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction

320

4

Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

317

5

269

6

Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available

145

7

Apple Event March 8, 2022

141

8

AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage

57

9

Apple and Major League Baseball to Offer “Friday Night Baseball”

53

10

Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards

35

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Demand for ornamental plants is ravaging South Africa’s rare desert flora

164

2

To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH

119

3

The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)

114

4

The quest to make a 'contagious' animal vaccine

106

5

Corruption Has Shaped History. Why Do We Still Ignore It?

95

6

U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy

95

7

Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup

90

8

How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

87

9

A deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater

85

10

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (2007)

79

Science News [?]

1

The Uselessness of Phenylephrine

799

2

Deliberately optimizing for harm

445

3

37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home

413

4

The illusion of evidence based medicine

324

5

Deep learning is hitting a wall?

274

6

I couldn’t get over my brother’s death

241

7

Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail

230

8

It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end

225

9

Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

224

10

Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm with paper made from bananas

208

Social [?]

1

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

2

Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]

1926

3

Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

1157

4

Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”

997

5

I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears

695

6

Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages

686

7

GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi

607

8

Modern smartphone lenses are crazy

587

9

DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”

574

10

Vanced has been discontinued

502

Github repos and gists [?]

1

SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file

958

2

Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax

890

3

My Stripe Tax Story

665

4

557

5

Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator

486

6

Firefox UI/UX History

437

7

Vulnerability in Honda's Remote Keyless System

430

8

Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

411

9

iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU

356

10

344

Wikipedia [?]

1

In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

707

2

Johns Hopkins Beast

198

3

139

4

Negative temperature

121

5

Wet-Bulb Temperature

112

6

Assassination of Boris Nemtsov

110

7

105

8

102

9

This Is the Boke of Cokery

91

10

76

Blogs [?]

1

Some tiny personal programs I've written

873

2

Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

848

3

Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

325

4

Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years

305

5

How to use undocumented web APIs

239

6

Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3

224

7

Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)

177

8

Verilog Is Weird

162

9

I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid

140

10

Celebrate tiny learning milestones

116

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How does database indexing work? (2008)

254

2

Yes, this is embarrassingly slow, so I solved your problem

71

3

Any tools can randomly generate the source code according to a language grammar?

4

4

What does 'sdparta' stand for in a Firefox WebRTC session description?

3

5

What length can a Linux network interface name have?

3

6

How do purely functional languages handle index-based algorithms?

2

7

C++ – Why doesn't std:swap work on vector elements under Clang/Win?

2

8

Accessing Firefox WebExtension data via command line

2

9

That's one nice thing about Rust: It's not hard to spot expensive operations

2

10

Searching for UUIDs in Text with Regex

2

Substack [?]

1

$625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

538

2

Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

477

3

Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times

404

4

Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies

390

5

Elementary OS is imploding

386

6

The first RISC-V portable computer is now available

369

7

820GB Database Dump of Roskomnadzor (Russian Government Censorship Organization)

324

8

Microservices: Why Are We Doing This?

303

9

The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda

283

10

We can do better than “same, but electric”

281