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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

1142

2

James Webb is fully deployed

1127

3

CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”

1075

4

New Year, New CEO

939

5

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

924

6

PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

814

7

U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

804

8

I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now

785

9

YC’s $500k Standard Deal

752

10

More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

717

Top Ask HN

1

Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

696

2

Should I publish my research code?

421

3

Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

333

4

Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?

301

5

Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?

267

6

How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?

195

7

I suck at math, where to start?

195

8

What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?

187

9

How do you start contracting?

180

10

Why is software quality always decreasing?

161

Top Show HN

1

Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

1241

2

I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon

594

3

BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

521

4

Login with HN (Unofficially)

436

5

Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse

379

6

API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries

364

7

361

8

I made a grid based font editor and font

243

9

177

10

Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes

157

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

924

2

PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

814

3

Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

420

4

Google says iMessage is too powerful

405

5

Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?

340

6

Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”

337

7

Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

317

8

FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members

193

9

Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE

193

10

Game-makers creating new Game Boy games (2021)

155

News [?]

1

U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

804

2

More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

717

3

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

687

4

More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

491

5

The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

348

6

Embrace slow productivity

314

7

A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data

305

8

Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

288

9

India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures

274

10

Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules

266

Scientific publications [?]

1

James Webb is fully deployed

1127

2

The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study

296

3

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

266

4

Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior

240

5

A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis

202

6

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Brain-Computer-Interface to Measure Biosignals

145

7

They Still Haven't Told You

125

8

Gene discovered in Georgia water a possible global threat

36

9

The Moderna vaccine can cause immune-mediated hepatitis

28

10

1k-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars

24

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue

177

2

500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining

152

3

Favor real dependencies for unit testing

151

4

We used C++20 to eliminate a class of runtime bugs

146

5

Making Open Source software safer and more secure

83

6

Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

69

7

5.16 Kernel Development Statistics

45

8

Mozilla – We need more than deplatforming (2021)

42

9

Scaling Vision with Sparse Mixture of Experts

41

10

Fast Kernel Headers v2 Posted – Speeds Up Clang-Built Linux Kernel Build by ~88%

32

Tech blogs [?]

1

T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US

692

2

UltraRAM: 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage

245

3

Blinking Cursor Turns 54

81

4

Some European carriers are already blocking Apple’s Private Relay

40

5

San Francisco Police Illegally Used Surveillance Cameras at George Floyd Protest

39

6

T-Mobile Says iOS 15.2 Bug Turning Off iCloud Private Relay for Some Users

21

7

PCIe 6.0 Specification Finalized

20

8

EU Wants Apple's Private Relay Service to Be Outlawed over 'Digital Sovereignty'

13

9

Petra's remarkable thermal bore cuts through undrillable rock

10

10

Netflix Again Raises Prices for All Plans, 4K Streaming Now $20 per Month

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

iCloud Private Relay Overview [pdf]

36

2

Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing

21

3

New macOS vulnerability, “powerdir,” could lead to unauthorized user data access

7

4

Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win: Schweizer, Peter

4

5

A New AWS Console Home Experience

2

6

Zero Friction AWS Lambda Instrumentation

2

7

Security bulletin for recent AWS Glue vulnerability

2

8

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs:JavaScript Edition Amazon Page

2

9

AWS Lambda Now Supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14

1

10

The Impact of Compliance on the SaaS Sales Cycle

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (2015)

134

2

Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more fire-prone than EVs

33

3

I Was an Engineer at a Major Automaker. Here’s the Dark Side of the Job

29

4

Undersea Cable Connecting Norway with Arctic Sat Station Mysteriously Severed

22

5

Bomblet Dropping Drones Are Now Being Used by Cartels in Mexico’s Drug War

17

6

Incoming North Korean Missile Warning Prompted FAA's Mysterious Air Traffic Halt

12

7

Mystery Surrounds FAA Order to Halt All West Coast Air Traffic

10

8

Undersea Cable Connecting Norway with Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Severed

8

9

Spaceship-Like Electric Aircraft Prepares for Its First Flight in These Images

7

10

Mystery Surrounds FAA Order to Halt W. Coast Air Traffic After N. Korean Missile

7

Science News [?]

1

Multiple Sclerosis Causality

635

2

Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show

393

3

Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes

251

4

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

231

5

Inflammation in the gut is encoded by neurons in the brain

191

6

Far-UVC light: A tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial

95

7

Two decades of soldiers’ medical records implicate virus in multiple sclerosis

75

8

The Worrisome Rise of NFTs

74

9

Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books

67

10

Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and the Health Effects

60

Social [?]

1

Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

690

2

Train burglaries in LA

568

3

I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

419

4

YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

363

5

It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless NFTs are

363

6

Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

303

7

Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings

211

8

Annotated equations for increased readability and understanding of papers

192

9

JWST Completely and Successfully Unfolded

143

10

Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration

106

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions

582

2

OCaml Multicore merged upstream

320

3

noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice

319

4

Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding

290

5

MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C

231

6

Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)

219

7

Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk

203

8

Using Git commit message templates to write better commit messages

184

9

Window.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming

163

10

Bladecoder: Point and Click Adventure Editor/Engine

138

Wikipedia [?]

1

113

2

51

3

Tang ping, social protest movement to “lie down flat and get over the beatings”

35

4

26

5

Fifty Cent Party

21

6

Companies of the United States with untaxed profits

16

7

16

8

Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago that anyone can call home

13

9

13

10

Yan tan tethera: A Celtic sheep-counting system

12

Blogs [?]

1

How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers

139

2

Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)

136

3

Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof

97

4

Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

71

5

Why Tesla Cannot Solve Full Self-Driving – Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed

57

6

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site (2018)

31

7

macOS Is Hot Garbage

30

8

Apple taught its users to hate Android through subtle design cues

18

9

DoorDash, a Story of Strongarm Tactics, Fraud, and Illegal Contracts

13

10

How to deal with tech debt at the scale of super app

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Chrome API – Update DOM of popup.html after clicking button

1

2

What is the difference between a framework and a library?

1

Substack [?]

1

Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned

327

2

Congress Needs to Stop Day Trading, Says Sen. Mark Warner

240

3

Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one

156

4

Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Moderna's 2015/2016 patents

146

5

Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy

115

6

Web 3 Doesn't Exist

108

7

New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered

94

8

A simple argument for investing in your pricing

61

9

The Bidirectional Battery Edition

53

10

Nobody Cares About Decentralization – They Just Want to Get Rich

47