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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mechanical Watch

4298

2

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

1473

3

Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

1328

4

How to professionally say

979

5

Tailscale raises $100M

854

6

I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government

838

7

Everything with a battery should have an off switch

821

8

Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]

818

9

753

10

What are your most used self-hosted applications?

736

Top Ask HN

1

Why can't I learn anymore?

419

2

Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

409

3

Who is hiring? (May 2022)

390

4

What are your favorite examples of elegant software?

286

5

Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?

278

6

Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)

144

7

Recommendation for the mom of a near-college-aged “tech geared” student?

142

8

How can I learn macroeconomics properly?

111

9

Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?

106

10

Engineers Running a Business?

104

Top Show HN

1

PostgresML, now with analytics and project management

444

2

Tetris, but silly

389

3

I am building a free version of Strava

311

4

Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock

217

5

A Web-Based Modular Drum Machine for You to Play With

214

6

I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

140

7

How did I live without Pipe Watch?

128

8

I'm deprecating LinkedIn recruitment with a Lisp, SQLite and htmx

107

9

Run WASM in Containerd

77

10

Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP

67

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

406

2

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

296

3

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

255

4

Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings

222

5

Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum

218

6

How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro

205

7

Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?

179

8

Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national Bitcoin wallets

150

9

AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks

128

10

Botnet that hid for 18 months

125

News [?]

1

Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people

460

2

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

404

3

Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’

358

4

Grindr user data has been for sale for years

329

5

Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain

229

6

Nearly all of the Western USA is in drought and it's not even summer yet

220

7

Half a million people watch me study on TikTok

196

8

Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr

192

9

Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation

189

10

The original “Bambi”

186

Scientific publications [?]

1

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

461

2

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

146

3

A social analgesic? Acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces positive empathy

144

4

Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting lenses

72

5

A preliminary analysis of DALL-E 2 (Marcus, Davis, Aaronson)

71

6

X-ray tech that reveals chip designs

70

7

Oral administration of NMN is safe and efficiently increases blood NAD levels

70

8

Blockchain in a Nutshell

43

9

Trading and Weighing Metals in Bronze Age Western Eurasia

42

10

The X-ray tech that reveals chip designs

34

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Financial Connections

401

2

Brendan at Intel.com

397

3

Modern Python Performance Considerations

320

4

GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023

222

5

WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued

91

6

Crash-only software: More than meets the eye (2006)

59

7

OpenAI Leadership Team Update

46

8

Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100

43

9

Kotlin Asynchronous Framework, Ktor 2.0, Released

26

10

Hare language LWN thread: “how do I know if my keys will be stored securely?”

26

Tech blogs [?]

1

Best Raspberry Pi Projects

239

2

Exporting Data from Old Gear Through LCD Sniffing

54

3

Intel: Meteor Lake Chiplet SoC Up and Running

39

4

Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through Covid barriers to escape factory

17

5

Apple Silicon Exclusively Hit with World-First “Augury” DMP Vulnerability

13

6

Arm Retakes Control of China Operation, Erratic CEO Replaced

9

7

Intel Meteor Lake chips may be made by TSMC, as it seeks to rival Apple's M1

8

8

Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser

8

9

Dumping Encrypted-at-Rest Firmware of Xiaomi Smart Kettle

8

10

EFF Statement on the Declaration for the Future of the Internet

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

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

23

2

The sounds of a galaxy far, far away with Mac

7

3

Amazon RDS now supports IPv6

4

4

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

3

5

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 Is Generally Available

2

6

Decentralized and Collaborative AI on Blockchain (2019)

2

7

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)

2

8

Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded FIDO passwordless sign‑ins

2

9

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 Now with PostgreSQL Support

1

10

How to control access to AWS resources based on AWS account, OU, or organization

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than they used to be

222

2

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

111

3

Digging through the archives of Scarfolk

109

4

Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]

98

5

Pirate site traffic surges with help from manga boom

77

6

Small cars are getting larger – are fuel economy regulations to blame?

60

7

US Court Orders Every ISP in the United States to Block Illegal Streaming Sites

48

8

Unearthing ancient Sudan’s powerful, complex past

46

9

Nintendo ‘Mario Movie’ Leaks: DMCA Used to Suppress Spoiler Discussion

37

10

The Curious Case of August Engelhardt, Leader of a Coconut-Obsessed Cult (2017)

30

Science News [?]

1

Why video calls are bad for brainstorming

180

2

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions

170

3

Learning to think critically about machine learning

153

4

Where do space, time and gravity come from?

145

5

In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem

117

6

Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation

83

7

What birds listen for in birdsong

75

8

Ancient Genes for Symbiosis Hint at Mitochondria’s Origins

73

9

Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?

72

10

‘I’m not a leak.’ Scientific careers aren’t a ‘pipeline,’: economists

70

Social [?]

1

Everything with a battery should have an off switch

821

2

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

616

3

90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs

454

4

How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8

290

5

Limitations of DALL-E

213

6

Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle

203

7

At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus

168

8

Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?

121

9

Google hands out Sci-Hub founder’s data to the FBI

111

10

Where are the low level system engineers?

109

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

630

2

DALL-E 2 open source implementation

520

3

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

439

4

Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads

309

5

V86: x86 virtualization in the browser, recompiling x86 to WASM on the fly

265

6

A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly

199

7

Walkthrough of UHC’s claim reimbursement form game

172

8

Project Alice – an open source virtual assistant that can run offline

169

9

GitHub Résumé: Service that creates a résumé based on your GitHub repos/activity

145

10

Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

57

2

27

3

Wikipedia: Articles for deletion/Year 2038 problem

17

4

14

5

8

6

Muon Tomography

8

7

Century of the Self

8

8

Purchase of Commissions in the British Army

7

9

Timeline of the Far Future

6

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

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

260

2

37signals: Hello Again

68

3

Entr: Rerun your build when files change

40

4

Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (2015)

36

5

It’s Time to Say that Mac doesn’t Just Work

18

6

Go: Story of TryLock Function

16

7

Terramate – An Orchestrator and Code Generator for Terraform

11

8

The Worst Bug Ever–Randomly Losing Your Best Players

11

9

It’s time to move away from Gmail

9

10

Pivot for Impact

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to use arguments from previous command?

3

2

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

1

3

YouTube A11y Issues

1

Substack [?]

1

How to Walk (12 miles a day)

417

2

An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)

397

3

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

386

4

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

357

5

The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)

323

6

Pop culture has become an oligopoly

234

7

EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule

226

8

Science of Fasting

221

9

The Agony of Eros: Dating

169

10

After the first tech job

130