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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

2

EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items

1099

3

Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

848

4

First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations

839

5

DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

825

6

Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

811

7

Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate

801

8

773

9

768

10

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

721

Top Ask HN

1

314

2

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

291

3

I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?

242

4

Full-text browser history search forever?

235

5

Anyone have stock option horror stories?

216

6

Is Public WiFi Dangerous?

213

7

What is your Git commit/push flow?

198

8

How can I prepare for hard economic times?

180

9

What ML platform are you using?

149

10

Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews?

144

Top Show HN

1

HN Avatars in 357 bytes

701

2

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

425

3

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

391

4

Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands

250

5

I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming

229

6

I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites

217

7

Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page

214

8

Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning

207

9

PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents

204

10

A Graphviz Implementation in Rust

182

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer

499

2

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

434

3

Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

240

4

Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes

217

5

Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer

189

6

Antiproton Orbiting Helium Ion

179

7

Amazon completes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM

137

8

Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync

121

9

The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”

109

10

The global streaming boom is creating a translator shortage (2021)

107

News [?]

1

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

721

2

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

609

3

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

534

4

How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

450

5

US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018

436

6

Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project

345

7

The case for induction cooking

327

8

Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers

279

9

Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll

261

10

Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people

250

Scientific publications [?]

1

Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

276

2

Lagrange points solved one of physics' biggest problems

112

3

Seafloor changes associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost

67

4

Measuring the Earth with Traceroute (2002)

57

5

NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

56

6

Hydrogen production from water electrolysis: role of catalysts (2021)

33

7

Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines

24

8

Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices

23

9

Understanding Visualization: Formal Approach Using Category Theory and Semiotics

12

10

Mitsubishi joins movement to ship carbon dioxide from emission sites to storage

12

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

369

2

Google Analytics 4

185

3

New Capabilities for GPT-3: Edit and Insert

185

4

Diary of a first-time on-call engineer

130

5

Linux Perf Examples

128

6

Sharding a database can make it faster

91

7

Python finally offloads some batteries

84

8

The glibc s390 ABI break (2014)

72

9

Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

61

10

Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook

52

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

173

2

AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips

161

3

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

121

4

UK Network Operators Target iCloud Private Relay in Complaint to Regulator

60

5

Owning a ShortWave Radio Is Once Again a Subversive Activity

38

6

Record-breaking hydrogen electrolyzer claims 95% efficiency

37

7

Russian agents threatened Apple and Google employees over protest vote apps

25

8

Apple Studio Display Runs Full Version of iOS 15.4

24

9

Military-Spec Raspberry Pi Mission Computer Revealed

17

10

Enforcement Overreach Could Be a Real Problem in the EU’s Digital Services Act

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon S3 Stores 200T Objects and Handles 100M RPS

18

2

Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics to create a new kind of qubit

5

3

Composing AWS Step Functions to abstract polling of asynchronous services

4

4

Microsoft Quantum team reports observation of a 30 μEV topological gap

3

5

The Case for Purpose-Built Databases

2

6

Apple’s Impact Accelerator unlocks new opportunities for US businesses

2

7

Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work

2

8

How to connect your GraphQL API to AWS data sources

2

9

Why you should develop a Correction of Error (COE)

2

10

Hidden dangers of duplicate key violations in PostgreSQL and how to avoid them

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

164

2

The undercover special agent who busted a dangerous biker gang

70

3

The Invisible, Afflicted Spy Who Led the U.S. Army into Occupied Manila

48

4

A game-changing transplant could treat dying organs

32

5

NEETS: Naval Electricity and Electronics Training Series

29

6

The average age of a successful startup founder is 45 (2018)

27

7

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

26

8

Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth

24

9

The Current Thing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

16

10

Xtraceroute (2009)

15

Science News [?]

1

Deliberately optimizing for harm

445

2

Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

224

3

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

155

4

Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record

143

5

Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation

130

6

An antimatter experiment shows surprises near absolute zero

125

7

Are there limits to economic growth?

98

8

In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech

85

9

Tiny galaxies reveal secrets of supermassive black holes

83

10

What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?

78

Social [?]

1

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

2

Vanced has been discontinued

502

3

Senate votes unanimously to pass bill making Daylight Savings Time permanent

463

4

Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday

426

5

Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers

345

6

Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]

323

7

Linux on an M1 Mac

275

8

Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless you disable Chrome

239

9

33 years ago today I submitted a proposal for a system called the World Wide Web

234

10

The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating “Change Password”

196

Github repos and gists [?]

1

557

2

Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator

486

3

TinyRenderer – how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

328

4

Osm.el – OpenStreetMap Viewer for Emacs

257

5

Twitter Client for UEFI

200

6

Plasticity Is CAD for Artists

181

7

An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)

164

8

Cascade: Open-source Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration

161

9

Fish 3.4.0 Released

131

10

My entire PC got wiped Do not download

126

Wikipedia [?]

1

In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

707

2

Negative temperature

121

3

Pólya Urn Model

59

4

Cosmopolitan Railway

43

5

Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (Poseidon)

29

6

23

7

Christopher Alexander Has Died

22

8

18

9

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

14

10

Bellard's Formula

14

Blogs [?]

1

Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

848

2

Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)

177

3

Celebrate tiny learning milestones

116

4

What You Can't Say (2004)

107

5

Building the Google Photos Web UI: A peek under the hood

10

6

Latency is driving edge and serverless computing infrastructure

7

7

I Can't Tell the Difference

7

8

The Great Messaging-App Migration (That Didn’t Happen)

4

9

Don’t Use Electron Terminals

4

10

Celebrate Tiny Learning Milestones

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

2

2

Accessing Firefox WebExtension data via command line

2

Substack [?]

1

Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored

477

2

The first RISC-V portable computer is now available

369

3

I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing

174

4

There are not enough BTUs

152

5

The sunny side of firing someone

103

6

The Godfather almost never happened

66

7

As Moore’s Law slows, Apple is forced to use cheaper chipsets in non-pro iPhones

36

8

Radical Interoperability Is a Political Agenda

33

9

Out of the Valley

22

10

Antitrust Cops Put Handcuffs for CEOs on the Table

12