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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

2410

2

I'm all-in on server-side SQLite

1353

3

No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

1097

4

Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

1069

5

Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

1032

6

The Apple GPU and the impossible bug

965

7

We need a middle class for startups

899

8

Finland will seek NATO membership immediately

840

9

Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did

823

10

Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated

814

Top Ask HN

1

Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?

627

2

How do you deal with rude interviewers?

319

3

Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

277

4

Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?

272

5

Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?

256

6

Is Heroku Being Sunset?

203

7

Is DBA still a good job?

201

8

Any other self taught devs terrified of interviewing these days?

195

9

Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?

165

10

How do I get my Google account back?

138

Top Show HN

1

Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

691

2

A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go

531

3

A Visual IDE for React

479

4

1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits

457

5

Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet

295

6

I made a browser-based RTS game

212

7

Weron – A Peer-to-Peer VPN Based on WebRTC Written in Go

204

8

Paperd.ink – an open-source e-paper development board

195

9

Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

185

10

I made Ankify that converts notes to Anki cards

180

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

1032

2

Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

396

3

Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest

304

4

Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B

247

5

Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support

238

6

After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A

225

7

Many popular websites see what you type before you hit submit

204

8

Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted its VC fund

160

9

EverQuest players break sacred MMO code by waking up 20-year-old dragon

138

10

Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria

129

News [?]

1

Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated

814

2

The ACLU Has Lost Its Way

764

3

Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds

696

4

Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place

569

5

I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

454

6

Emerging evidence that mindfulness can sometimes increase selfish tendencies

424

7

Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse

336

8

Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era

308

9

World record 477-mile-long lightning ‘megaflash’ confirmed over U.S.

272

10

U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell

206

Scientific publications [?]

1

Vitamin D and Depression (2020)

296

2

Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

68

3

Single electrons trapped on solid neon potentially act as stable qubits

59

4

Flares from black hole binaries: black hole shadows via light-curve tomography

43

5

When Wireless Malware Stays on After Turning Off iPhones [pdf]

36

6

Solving high-dimensional parabolic PDEs using the tensor train format

7

7

Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin apparently threatens Elon Musk

5

8

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts dish on their action-packed 6 months in orbit

5

9

People overestimate the presence of minorities, impeding equity and inclusion

5

10

New study lays out hidden backstory behind deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg

655

2

D1: Our SQL database

592

3

Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation

301

4

Cloud TPU VMs are generally available

199

5

179

6

Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords

159

7

The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open-source

154

8

Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers

128

9

Why is a registry file called a “hive”? (2003)

88

10

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

87

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

1069

2

Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster

230

3

Apple discontinues iPod touch, ending 20 year run of iconic ‘iPod’ brand

188

4

Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus

108

5

Texas’ Unconstitutional Social Media Law Allowed to Proceed

45

6

2021 MacBook Pro users complain about crackling and popping audio issues

28

7

TSMC sends prices hike for clients: 10-20% in 2022 and 5-9% in 2023

27

8

Apple return to work policy leads to ML lead departure

20

9

Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through Covid barriers, battle guards

19

10

CA Law Enforcement Now Needs Approval for Military-Grade Surveillance Equipment

12

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple is discontinuing the iPod

664

2

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

214

3

AWS commits additional $10M to OpenSSF for open source security

24

4

Amazon reviews rating doesn't add up

5

5

Microsoft Adaptive Accessories

5

6

Amazon Astro, Household Robot for Home Monitoring

4

7

Amazon EC2 Now Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot

4

8

Three AAPI founders building apps on the App Store that cultivate community

4

9

Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy

2

10

General Availability of NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon EC2

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density

326

2

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

205

3

So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)

183

4

Kiss Linux (2020)

104

5

Master at Arms Badge for Boy Scouts (1925) [pdf]

94

6

“Computers”, BSA Merit Badge Series (1973)

61

7

What is parallelism, anyhow? (2009)

34

8

Drivers Can’t Stop Crashing on This Highway Exit in Seattle

30

9

Stamp Design Errors (2013)

21

10

U.S. Copyright Office Seeks Input on Mandatory DMCA “Upload Filters”

14

Science News [?]

1

Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups

210

2

A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea – anemones suggest why

191

3

Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith

158

4

Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil protects against chronic pain

157

5

‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data

123

6

Butyrylcholinesterase is a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

116

7

Origin of life theory involving RNA–protein hybrid gets new support

105

8

Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century

95

9

Air-breathing electric propulsion for long-term orbital stability (2021)

94

10

AI software clears high hurdles on IQ tests but still makes dumb mistakes

90

Social [?]

1

Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds

677

2

Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

650

3

When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps

385

4

The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]

194

5

Jeffrey Snower was originally demoted over PowerShell

187

6

eBay Robbed This Man of $4700 and Suspended His Account When He Asked Questions

184

7

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's Director of ML leaves Apple due to return-to-work policy

127

8

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach [video]

104

9

One of Norway's biggest CS players tries playing under a female alias [video]

91

10

While I’m on a tech rant – who invented this piece of pure sadism?

83

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Web Development for Beginners – A Curriculum

354

2

Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps

308

3

Unauthorized gem takeover for some gems

239

4

164

5

Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2

158

6

TodoMVC App Written in Vanilla JavaScript

152

7

Windows Terminal Source Code

151

8

Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

146

9

Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (2007)

120

10

Catalog of Elixir-specific code smells

107

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Nature of the Firm (1937)

132

2

Volume of an n-ball

90

3

40

4

23

5

12

6

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

10

7

10

8

7

9

TP-82 Cosmonaut Survival Pistol

7

10

Laser Turntable

7

Blogs [?]

1

Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick

488

2

Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)

327

3

Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works”

136

4

Deno.js in production

99

5

Steps to Organizational Change Without the Drama

35

6

The Curious Case of the Missing Cell

10

7

Predibase: the enterprise declarative machine learning platform

10

8

We Opened 50 VR Arenas, and Reached a $50k Monthly Turnover Rate

8

9

Manas: A high performing customized search system – Pinterest Engineering

7

10

We Solved the Thundering Herd Problem

5

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

I saw a cool truck today

472

2

How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising

275

3

Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media

213

4

65k fake students enrolled in the California junior college system

174

5

Scarcity Truthers

146

6

Is there a housing shortage or not?

107

7

The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays

86

8

The Problem with Slack at Scale

73

9

No, America is not collapsing

70

10

Longer elected terms would lead to better government?

36