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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

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

2747

2

We lost 54k GitHub stars

1883

3

Inside the longest Atlassian outage

1232

4

1135

5

When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

996

6

929

7

Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL

879

8

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

864

9

New(ish) command line tools

760

10

Van life (cancer edition) finale

678

Top Ask HN

1

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

469

2

Have you created programs for only your personal use?

423

3

When did tech stop being cool?

308

4

What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?

289

5

How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?

249

6

Where can we find the unsexy jobs?

247

7

What Happened to Evernote?

200

8

Do you manage your family's digital safety?

163

9

Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?

149

10

Why Blog at All?

140

Top Show HN

1

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

390

2

Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time

241

3

Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir

221

4

How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework

217

5

I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

196

6

Monocle – bidirectional code generation library

148

7

Add live runnable code to your dev docs

128

8

Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio

122

9

A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#

121

10

Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience

115

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

311

2

231

3

Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)

191

4

Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch

156

5

Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism

142

6

Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food

140

7

Europe Is Building an International Facial Recognition System

137

8

The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running

135

9

Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is amiss'

113

10

She was missing a chunk of her brain – it didn’t matter

108

News [?]

1

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

2747

2

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

669

3

Europe is investing heavily in trains

581

4

Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid

534

5

A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem

494

6

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981

424

7

Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union

363

8

FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'

317

9

Apple starts manufacturing iPhone 13 in India

272

10

The most popular chess streamer on Twitch

251

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)

181

2

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

166

3

French court revokes Starlink's internet license

21

4

Watermarked ReRAM: A Technique to Prevent Counterfeit Memory Chips

20

5

Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space Modulation: A Promising Next-Generation Waveform

19

6

What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

15

7

Collision hotspots for migrating birds revealed in new study

15

8

SARS Escaped Beijing Lab Twice: Then Lab Moved to Wuhan (2004)

13

9

Analysis of Roman coins uncovers evidence of financial crisis

11

10

James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Git security vulnerability announced

549

2

Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)

321

3

RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

319

4

The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2

289

5

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

281

6

Rustaceans at the border

260

7

What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla

233

8

Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use

203

9

Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs

75

10

Negative dentries, 20 years later

63

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

203

2

Apple's App Tracking crackdown estimated to cost Facebook another $13B

29

3

The Future of Energy Storage on Both Sides of the Meter

13

4

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency estimated to cost Facebook $13B in 2022

10

5

We’ve Heard of Bricking a Hard Drive, But

10

6

Nvidia Claims Arm Grace CPU Superchip 2X Faster Than Intel Ice Lake

9

7

Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Made Inside Metaverse

9

8

Open Source Coreboot BIOS Ported to MSI Z690-A Motherboard

8

9

Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Inside the 'Metaverse'

6

10

A Close Look at a Little Known 8-Bit Computer

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie

265

2

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

249

3

AP Computer Science Done Right

6

4

Apple helps suppliers rapidly accelerate renewable energy use around the world

4

5

Apple Myeongdong now open in South Korea

2

6

The Rise of the Triple Peak Day

2

7

Apple has silently lowered Mac Studio prices by 10%

2

8

The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store [pdf]

2

9

First-class TypeScript support in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript

2

10

Tarrask malware uses scheduled tasks for defense evasion

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

864

2

Shirky.com is gone

331

3

Playing with DALL-E 2

298

4

DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content

153

5

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

140

6

License to Use JSLint for Evil

132

7

The world’s largest bee and the cautionary tale of its rediscovery

106

8

Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males

77

9

Police shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 arrested for copyright infringement

67

10

What the world’s most remote islands were like before humans arrived

59

Science News [?]

1

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

616

2

Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

569

3

Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal

225

4

152

5

What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution

136

6

Two-qubit silicon quantum processor with operation fidelity exceeding 99%

110

7

Hitler’s Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945 (2018)

90

8

Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption benefits heart health

77

9

The Power of Narrative

63

10

Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

54

Social [?]

1

My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

591

2

Elon has decided not to join our board

512

3

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

502

4

Insider Trading at Coinbase

477

5

Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]

381

6

Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket

381

7

Top Mac app store dev abuses free with in-app purchase for bait-and-switch apps

304

8

Apple's M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck

287

9

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]

266

10

How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]

254

Github repos and gists [?]

1

624

2

Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private API

413

3

Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault

380

4

Neovim 0.7 Released

336

5

What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers

277

6

Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost

272

7

Iced – A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

220

8

Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot ROM, line 442?

217

9

Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust

167

10

Privacy-Respecting Software

162

Wikipedia [?]

1

206

2

List Of Adhesive Tapes

162

3

150

4

66

5

35

6

Constraint Logic Programming

21

7

Cherenkov radiation – Faster then light in water

13

8

9

9

Timeline of the Far Future

7

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

929

2

New(ish) command line tools

760

3

Success and Failure at Pebble

557

4

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

227

5

If I see an ‘accept cookies’ banner on a website, I close it immediately

47

6

A Public and Transparent Formula for Engineering Salaries Ethena

13

7

Whatnot Built 5 New Beta Features in Its First Hackathon, with Minimal Planning

12

8

Gnome 42 – The Nonsense Continues

8

9

Can you buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. by Paul Graham

8

10

Threat landscape of Mozilla Firefox and Chromium: security, forks, and Rust

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

4

Substack [?]

1

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

394

2

Psychedelics and mental illness

180

3

Patina and Intimacy

170

4

How did I get so unhappy working in tech?

155

5

The fake artists problem on streaming platforms

154

6

Due dates are a lazy way to gain commitment

68

7

The Evolution of Indoor Climate

63

8

William Gaddis: Below Deck on the Ship of Fools

50

9

Encouraging Self-Doubt

49

10

Things not being said about Chinese tech management

31