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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

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

2498

2

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

1367

3

Bits of advice I wish I had known

1109

4

1038

5

Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere

961

6

Actual is going open-source

811

7

My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

753

8

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

748

9

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

704

10

French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)

675

Top Ask HN

1

Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

518

2

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

424

3

Teach me something new

416

4

Why can't I host my own email?

350

5

What happened to Twitter poison pill?

333

6

It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?

203

7

Is the EULA on my new $30k RED cinema camera legal?

199

8

What are some interesting examples of Prolog?

198

9

What's the most stable form of digital storage?

186

10

Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?

173

Top Show HN

1

This AI Does Not Exist

434

2

Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations

346

3

Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup

329

4

Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists

271

5

269

6

Free 30-year financial statements visualization

245

7

Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit

218

8

Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

211

9

We launched a new web browser

203

10

FlyCode – Git-Based Copy and Translations Editor for Web Apps

185

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

360

2

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

353

3

North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media

333

4

Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda

322

5

Gen Z does not dream of labor

194

6

Review: Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a mandatory game for comedy fans

190

7

Formula E Gen3: The world’s most efficient race car

97

8

Qualcomm’s M1-class laptop chips will be ready for PCs in “late 2023”

75

9

'Bloodworms' harvest copper for metal jaws

69

10

Netflix layoffs have started

53

News [?]

1

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

2498

2

U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts

405

3

Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

286

4

Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them

253

5

Georgia to mandate personal finance education

216

6

Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change

203

7

Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’

180

8

Robinhood reports 43% revenue decline

174

9

Payment startup Bolt sued by its most prominent customer

171

10

Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under proposed EU rules

170

Scientific publications [?]

1

Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads

318

2

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

230

3

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

160

4

Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (1988)

125

5

New Lidar System Promises 3D Vision for Cameras, Cars, and Bots

112

6

The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)

106

7

DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

81

8

Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demyelination in mice (2017)

81

9

Manganese could be the secret behind truly mass-market EVs

71

10

Lectures on Faster-Than-Light Travel and Time Travel

60

Dev Blogs [?]

1

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

635

2

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

615

3

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

554

4

Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum

275

5

Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state

200

6

Git.io deprecation

193

7

The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

143

8

Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender

105

9

Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub

81

10

The Balloon Learning Environment

73

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

180

2

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

74

3

Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker

68

4

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

61

5

EFF Calls for Ban on Behavioural Advertising

38

6

Apple tricked into releasing personal data used to sexually extort minors

32

7

Apple Launches Self Service Repair Program for iPhone

15

8

Apple now removing outdated apps from the App Store, developers complain

13

9

Man uses AirTags and PowerPoint presentation to ask airline for his lost bags

11

10

Russia Legalizes Shady Imports of AMD, Intel and Apple Goods to Dodge Sanctions

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available

643

2

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

94

3

19

4

Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn

16

5

Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Third Quarter Results

14

6

Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics required to new kind of qubit

10

7

AWS Compliance Auditing with SQL

8

8

Creating a single-table design with Amazon DynamoDB

4

9

AWS Serverless Kafka

3

10

Digital Twins on AWS: Unlocking business value and outcomes

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

295

2

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

223

3

Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?

148

4

The one time North Vietnam’s MiGs attacked U.S. navy warships

104

5

Evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network

100

6

Gold Grows On Eucalyptus Trees (2013)

53

7

The puffer fish helmets of Kiribati

49

8

Monkeys Love Their Alcohol

48

9

75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behind subscriptions

47

10

Fast Minds And Slow Computers (2011)

23

Science News [?]

1

Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure

589

2

MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker

374

3

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

258

4

How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021)

255

5

Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (2018)

217

6

Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky

166

7

Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine rollout and third wave

110

8

New artificial tooth enamel is harder and more durable

106

9

MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus

99

10

The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs

94

Social [?]

1

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

668

2

$34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code

241

3

How I learned electronics [video]

166

4

Maslow never proposed a pyramid

141

5

Airbnb employees can live and work anywhere

71

6

My NDA is expired. It's worse than you know, AMA

64

7

Apple is removing a few of my old games b/c they have “not been updated […]”

59

8

Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018)

55

9

Creating a GPU With C++ and an FPGA (2021)

51

10

Twitter follower counts over the past 24-48 hours

47

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and Conquer

377

2

twitter/the-algorithm

374

3

Spacedrive – a cross-platform file explorer, powered by a distributed filesystem

310

4

Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly

279

5

Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS

253

6

Terraform Provider for Spotify

219

7

Reloadium – Advanced hot reloading for Python

214

8

Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

158

9

Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

145

10

144

Wikipedia [?]

1

Fourth-generation programming language

120

2

66

3

13

4

Transactive Memory

12

5

The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) by the KLF

12

6

History of Slavery in the Muslim World

11

7

11

8

Wikipedia: Reliable Sources/Perennial Sources

10

9

Earth–Mars Cycler

10

10

A controversial tea pot that looked like Hitler (2013)

9

Blogs [?]

1

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

190

2

Spreadsheets are dreams (2015)

74

3

THERE IS NO CLOUD: It’s just someone else’s computer (2016)

34

4

Why I quit Google (the second time)

12

5

Scholz’s lies and manipulations to avoid sending weapons to Ukraine

8

6

A Clash of Two Systems

5

7

Implementing a lightweight transcription microservice with gRPC

5

8

Where are all the kids in America

5

9

Sage: An artificially intelligent band recommender

4

10

Reverse Engineering Discord Voice/Video Calls

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

2

2

Limit Django users to one single group

1

Substack [?]

1

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

704

2

Is everything falling apart?

411

3

Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views

293

4

We need someone who has done “it” before

246

5

I finally understand methane lifetimes

213

6

Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science

170

7

Is it the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?

131

8

There Is No CD Revival

112

9

Do the same mechanisms that create complex life also create complex technology?

96

10

Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism

85