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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mechanical Watch

4298

2

Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

2410

3

My students cheated... a lot

1840

4

The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

1680

5

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

1658

6

Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

1473

7

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

1362

8

I'm all-in on server-side SQLite

1353

9

Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

1328

10

“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti

1143

Top Ask HN

1

What game do you wish existed?

859

2

Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

798

3

Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?

627

4

How to learn math from zero for adults?

559

5

Why can't I learn anymore?

419

6

Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

409

7

Who is hiring? (May 2022)

390

8

How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle?

350

9

Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?

335

10

How do you deal with rude interviewers?

319

Top Show HN

1

Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

691

2

Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

676

3

A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go

531

4

I turned my face rec system into a video codec

518

5

Bike – macOS Native Outliner

513

6

A Visual IDE for React

479

7

1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits

457

8

PostgresML, now with analytics and project management

444

9

Tetris, but silly

389

10

I am building a free version of Strava

311

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

1032

2

Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery

507

3

CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

406

4

Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

396

5

Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest

304

6

Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer

296

7

Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter

255

8

Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)

253

9

Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B

247

10

Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on

244

News [?]

1

Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated

814

2

The ACLU Has Lost Its Way

764

3

Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds

696

4

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B

596

5

Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place

569

6

I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

454

7

Emerging evidence that mindfulness can sometimes increase selfish tendencies

424

8

$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse

420

9

Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police

419

10

Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says

404

Scientific publications [?]

1

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

461

2

Vitamin D and Depression (2020)

296

3

Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

280

4

Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function

250

5

Memorizing Transformers

179

6

A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River

163

7

Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human brain (2021)

151

8

The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality (2021)

150

9

Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)

146

10

Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

146

Dev Blogs [?]

1

UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg

655

2

D1: Our SQL database

592

3

Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub

524

4

Stripe Financial Connections

401

5

Brendan at Intel.com

397

6

Modern Python Performance Considerations

320

7

Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation

301

8

NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens

272

9

Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data

257

10

GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023

222

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

1069

2

HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

274

3

Best Raspberry Pi Projects

239

4

Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster

230

5

AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier

216

6

Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels

193

7

Apple discontinues iPod touch, ending 20 year run of iconic ‘iPod’ brand

188

8

Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus

108

9

CRISPR tomatoes genetically engineered to be richer in Vitamin D

106

10

Exporting Data from Old Gear Through LCD Sniffing

54

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple is discontinuing the iPod

664

2

Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard

214

3

167

4

Apple introduces new professional training to support growing IT workforce

142

5

Apple previews innovative accessibility features

60

6

Minimizing correlated failures in distributed systems

38

7

Excel’s Advanced Formula Editor

35

8

AWS commits additional $10M to OpenSSF for open source security

24

9

Beginning in late 2022, you'll no longer be able to send MOBI files to Kindle

23

10

Amazon EC2 C7g Instances

22

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements

337

2

Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density

326

3

US Army's Land Trains (2020)

284

4

Fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than they used to be

222

5

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

205

6

So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)

183

7

BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL

160

8

115

9

Collection of US Navy Training Courses Developed

113

10

Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things (2017)

111

Science News [?]

1

Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

386

2

Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice

325

3

What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?

313

4

The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence

309

5

Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition

288

6

PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

236

7

Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)

217

8

Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups

210

9

A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea – anemones suggest why

191

10

Why video calls are bad for brainstorming

180

Social [?]

1

Everything with a battery should have an off switch

821

2

Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds

677

3

YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers

653

4

Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

650

5

DALL-E 2 has a secret language

619

6

When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"

616

7

Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]

597

8

Y Combinator's Message to Founders

580

9

In praise of the humble Sheffield stand

563

10

Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking

462

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

914

2

YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

756

3

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

653

4

Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

630

5

DALL-E 2 open source implementation

520

6

WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

460

7

Symbian Source Code

447

8

Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard

440

9

Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks

439

10

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’

432

Wikipedia [?]

1

Two envelopes problem

249

2

Unsolved problems in economics

157

3

139

4

The Nature of the Firm (1937)

132

5

Werner Herzog eats his shoe

117

6

Volume of an n-ball

90

7

Corsi–Rosenthal Box

81

8

GNU Guix System

68

9

60

10

57

Blogs [?]

1

Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick

488

2

Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)

327

3

How do video games stay in sync?

303

4

I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed

260

5

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

199

6

Apple’s hidden flight tracker app

174

7

Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works”

136

8

How Airbnb Built “Wall” to prevent data bugs

116

9

Deno.js in production

99

10

37signals: Hello Again

68

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?

434

2

Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (2015)

40

3

How to use arguments from previous command?

3

4

When – and why – should you store data in the Windows Registry?

2

5

What is the difference between null and undefined in JavaScript?

2

6

Changing a program while it is running (Lisp)

2

7

Who are the site moderators, and what is their role here?

1

8

YouTube A11y Issues

1

Substack [?]

1

“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti

1143

2

Asking robots to design stained glass windows

477

3

I saw a cool truck today

472

4

How to Walk (12 miles a day)

417

5

An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)

397

6

My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience

386

7

When buying the dip doesn’t work: An analysis of the dot-com crash

357

8

The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)

323

9

How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising

275

10

Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding

263