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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

2747

2

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

2498

3

We lost 54k GitHub stars

1883

4

1820

5

A few things to know before stealing my 914

1501

6

Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

1367

7

One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

1260

8

Inside the longest Atlassian outage

1232

9

1212

10

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

1144

Top Ask HN

1

When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

711

2

Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

685

3

Share your personal site

665

4

Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

518

5

Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

469

6

I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?

444

7

Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

424

8

Have you created programs for only your personal use?

423

9

Teach me something new

416

10

What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

355

Top Show HN

1

Warp, a Rust-based terminal

946

2

Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

752

3

Make your PDF look scanned in browser

579

4

I built a simulator for personal finance

463

5

A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

452

6

Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

448

7

This AI Does Not Exist

434

8

I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

390

9

I made a puzzle game in HTML5

368

10

Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations

346

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

1040

2

Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

622

3

ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law

376

4

Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation

360

5

Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies

353

6

North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media

333

7

Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda

322

8

Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK

317

9

San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on

311

10

Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web

285

News [?]

1

Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

2747

2

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

2498

3

Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize

841

4

TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing

804

5

Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

790

6

Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years

743

7

Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

693

8

Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

669

9

A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says

666

10

I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

600

Scientific publications [?]

1

James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

555

2

Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads

318

3

Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

275

4

Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time

230

5

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

221

6

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

209

7

Single-chip processors have reached their limits

203

8

The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)

181

9

A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself

166

10

Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items

160

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1820

2

Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker

635

3

You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search

615

4

Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

554

5

Git security vulnerability announced

549

6

Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)

321

7

RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

319

8

The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2

289

9

Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators

281

10

Netflix End of Series 1

279

Tech blogs [?]

1

US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves

245

2

NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit

203

3

Big Wind is the meanest firefighting tank you ever saw (2021)

180

4

Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores

171

5

Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks promise to make jet fuel obsolete

74

6

Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker

68

7

EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do

61

8

Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’

41

9

EFF Calls for Ban on Behavioural Advertising

38

10

Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app

37

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available

643

2

AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints

277

3

Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie

265

4

Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge

249

5

Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses

106

6

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

94

7

AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN

47

8

AWS Aurora Serverless V2

42

9

19

10

Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn

16

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

864

2

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

765

3

Shirky.com is gone

331

4

Playing with DALL-E 2

298

5

Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine

295

6

A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)

223

7

Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)

159

8

DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content

153

9

Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?

148

10

Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years

140

Science News [?]

1

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

616

2

Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure

589

3

Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

569

4

Mental speed is high until age sixty

466

5

The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity

439

6

MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker

374

7

Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations

356

8

Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals?

335

9

From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

258

10

How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021)

255

Social [?]

1

Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios

848

2

Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]

699

3

Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old

668

4

My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

591

5

Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”

535

6

Elon has decided not to join our board

512

7

What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows

503

8

Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks

502

9

Insider Trading at Coinbase

477

10

Drone footage of Tesla factory

408

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Framework Laptop Mainboard

1019

2

HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

921

3

Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing

831

4

Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself

752

5

624

6

Why I'll never use Affirm again

512

7

Memray: a memory profiler for Python

495

8

Go will use pdqsort in next release

433

9

Unreal vs. Unity Opinion

425

10

NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

420

Wikipedia [?]

1

206

2

List Of Adhesive Tapes

162

3

150

4

Fourth-generation programming language

120

5

Basque–Icelandic Pidgin

99

6

Taxation of illegal income in the United States

85

7

Nicaraguan Sign Language

84

8

73

9

66

10

66

Blogs [?]

1

929

2

New(ish) command line tools

760

3

Success and Failure at Pebble

557

4

In defense of simple architectures

368

5

What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)

252

6

We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure

227

7

How to organize yourself as a solo founder

207

8

GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more

190

9

‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020)

185

10

Advantages of Monorepos (2015)

183

Stackoverflow [?]

1

New Stackoverflow theme

7

2

What does if __name__ == “__main__”: do?

4

3

Stackoverflow.com is unusable without JavaScript (due to April Fools)

3

4

Should I use the existing WebSocket connection for request/response operations?

3

5

Duplicate highlighter one-liner [Vim]

2

6

Comparing Two Images with Imagemagick

2

7

How to handle video autoplay on web just like YouTube

2

8

What is the difference between Lucene and Elasticsearch

2

9

Why header and payload in the JWT token always starts with eyJ

2

10

When Will Ethereum Switch to Proof of Stake? – Stack Overflow

2

Substack [?]

1

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

768

2

No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

704

3

Are you a baby? A litmus test

660

4

Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

490

5

Is everything falling apart?

411

6

I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it

394

7

The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want

384

8

Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM

343

9

Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off

316

10

Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views

293