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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My First Impressions of Web3

3187

2

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

3

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

1704

4

The UX on this small child is terrible

1061

5

Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

1001

6

Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff

780

7

Burn My Windows

761

8

Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up

756

9

Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research

744

10

What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)

740

Top Ask HN

1

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

374

2

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

338

3

Who is hiring? (January 2022)

334

4

Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?

323

5

Why is there a chip shortage?

319

6

My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?

313

7

Who wants to help promote RSS?

273

8

How do you take care of yourself?

237

9

How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?

225

10

How do I manage the profit of a successful website?

213

Top Show HN

1

OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

555

2

Clone your voice and speak a foreign language

509

3

I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

324

4

3D map of shade around the world

320

5

Meetup with other travelers in a new place

234

6

A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc.

218

7

A web app to turn photos into 3D AR models.

190

8

Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds

145

9

No Trash Search

135

10

109

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

576

2

Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden

121

3

Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)

119

4

Asus will release a 17“ foldable OLED laptop

115

5

Google home speakers are about to get slightly worse because Sonos sued and won

80

6

Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down

71

7

America’s largest companies quietly give worker data to Equifax (2017)

43

8

Google will pay top execs $1M each after declining to boost workers’ pay

43

9

The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse

33

10

ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was–until it wasn’t (2016)

30

News [?]

1

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

1704

2

We need to reclaim our attention

628

3

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

569

4

EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green

349

5

Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity

343

6

No Way to Grow Up

342

7

A neuroscientist prepares for death

329

8

ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory

319

9

Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

318

10

Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting

268

Scientific publications [?]

1

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

229

2

Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says

105

3

Automated Code Optimization with E-Graphs

102

4

Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints

99

5

Three decades of nanopore sequencing (2016)

32

6

Research explores why popular baby names come and go

31

7

Optimization of brain and life performance: Striving for playing at the top

28

8

Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality

23

9

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its sunshield

18

10

Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope

17

Dev Blogs [?]

1

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

548

2

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

391

3

Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer

255

4

Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme

181

5

GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining

151

6

AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security

105

7

Restricting SSH Agent Keys

95

8

Programs that were launched with impossible command line options

51

9

Miniflare 2.0: fully-local development and testing for Workers

25

10

FTC to Go After Companies That Ignore Log4j

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

188

2

$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

127

3

Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel

93

4

Apple engineering director responsibl for leading M1 transition leaves for Intel

33

5

CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors with New Adaptive Tech

32

6

Meta Halts Development of In-House AR and VR Operating System

25

7

The Future Is in Interoperability Not Big Tech: 2021 in Review (Cory Doctorow)

15

8

Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset will feature ‘three-display configuration’

11

9

New patent-free Covid vaccine developed as “gift to the world”

11

10

Google Basically Pays Apple to Stay Out of the Search Engine Business

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

iCloud Private Relay Overview White Paper [pdf]

19

2

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking

4

3

2

4

AWS CloudTrail Lake

2

5

AWS Karpenter: A Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Autoscaler

2

6

AWS Lambda Now Supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14

2

7

Apple Fitness+ Introduces Collections and Time to Run Starting January 10

2

8

Welcome Back, Pluto: We're glad that you're a PLANET again

2

9

CxO Insight: Reporting Cybersecurity to the Board

1

10

Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces with PL Plus Constraints

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)

335

2

Heuristics for Development in Erlang

50

3

At This Armenian Restaurant, the Ovens Are Satellite Dishes

46

4

Flaw of Averages (2002)

40

5

7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013)

34

6

Tesla announces record deliveries of over 305k Q4 vehicles, 936K for 2021

19

7

GM unveils sharp-looking Equinox EV starting at game-changing $30k price

13

8

Call of Duty Cheat Maker Sued by Activision

12

9

2024 Chevy Silverado EV: 780 LB-FT, a Midgate and a Claimed 400-Mile Range

11

10

The Navy Is Betting Big on High-Power Microwave Weapons

7

Science News [?]

1

The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

339

2

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

258

3

Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from asteroid Ryugu

139

4

Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity

123

5

High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy and higher brain dysfunctions

122

6

E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way

93

7

Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (2017)

93

8

Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

92

9

Stars may form 10 times faster than thought

89

10

Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests

88

Social [?]

1

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

2

Search engines and SEO spam

590

3

Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)

567

4

Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22

462

5

Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

424

6

“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)

379

7

Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021

329

8

I analyzed 20k recommendations made by Jim Cramer during the last 5 years

142

9

I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library

130

10

“I just got *another* copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD!”

128

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Burn My Windows

761

2

Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

471

3

OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

427

4

A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor

412

5

Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator

226

6

RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it

194

7

IPv6-ghost-ship: Using TOTP as part of an AWS EC2 IPv6 address

190

8

Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options

186

9

Do not use 'week year': YYYY

165

10

156

Wikipedia [?]

1

270

2

Turboencabulator

118

3

Firehose of Falsehood

68

4

59

5

List of Laboratory Biosecurity Incidents

25

6

22

7

Jane's Information Group

11

8

Animated Population Pyramid of France: 1901 – 2020

9

9

9

10

Islamic Banking and Finance

9

Blogs [?]

1

Why might you run your own DNS server?

305

2

Notes on BPF and eBPF

213

3

A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)

111

4

The Idiocy of Tiny Houses and Electric Vehicles

35

5

Python 4.0 will never arrive

16

6

Why Agile Sucks for Building Quality Software

12

7

RSS is still awesome. Some tips for trying it in 2022

10

8

Why Your Side Project Never Became a Product

8

9

DHH on “Should you vaccinate your kids?” debate: US vs. Denmark(EU)

8

10

The Metaverse of the 1990's (how a vibrant field fell into a 15 year VR winter)

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Python threads difference for 3.10 and others – Stack Overflow

4

Substack [?]

1

How to design a house to last 1000 years

584

2

563

3

Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

376

4

High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching

263

5

You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead

192

6

Look How Big Is My Team

139

7

50 Years of Text Games: The End of a Journey

111

8

Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics

108

9

A deleted subplot from “The Matrix” contradicts its sequels

96

10

70 First Co-Founder Dates

80