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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

1362

2

Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model

988

3

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

798

4

SQLite 3 Fiddle

765

5

YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

756

6

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

703

7

Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)

634

8

Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession

618

9

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B

596

10

Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots

592

Top Ask HN

1

What game do you wish existed?

859

2

Serious mathematics books that can replace a good teacher?

288

3

How can I stop my inbox/wishlist/bookmarks/tabs/todos from growing?

190

4

What Happened to Reddit?

176

5

Recommend employers with positive social impact

169

6

Best book on modern cryptography?

162

7

What developer tools would you like to see?

131

8

What's your greatest enjoyment in life?

130

9

How worried are you about the upcoming recession?

119

10

How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?

105

Top Show HN

1

I turned my face rec system into a video codec

518

2

VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos

295

3

A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes

247

4

Little Procedural Pixel Worlds

227

5

Self-Hosted Maps Stack

213

6

Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

200

7

IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development

187

8

Muse 2.0 with local-first sync

178

9

Remult – a CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript

130

10

SymForce – Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and optimization

125

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery

507

2

Proton is trying to become Google without your data

204

3

An autonomous car in SF blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency

137

4

Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture

102

5

DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

87

6

Bots behind the game console shortage

86

7

Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs

81

8

PayPal Announces Layoffs, Closes San Fransisco Office

71

9

Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted

64

10

If Europe and Japan can have small, cheap EVs, why can’t America?

43

News [?]

1

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B

596

2

S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010

326

3

The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds

293

4

Tether Withdrawals Top $10B

284

5

Internet drama in Canada

263

6

Surgery estimated cost $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000

257

7

The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn

237

8

Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats

234

9

Bolt Financial's loans come due

219

10

Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?

202

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

280

2

Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed limits for soil function

250

3

Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

146

4

Print an Arduino-powered color mechanical television

96

5

Practical power beaming gets real

89

6

DARPA wants to combine traditional sealift and airlift

86

7

Mental time travel: Hierarchical memory for reinforcement learning agents (2021)

82

8

Print an Arduino-Powered Color Mechanical Television

62

9

When can liquid democracy unveil the truth? (2021)

53

10

Naturalprover: Grounded Mathematical Proof Generation with Language Models

41

Dev Blogs [?]

1

NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens

272

2

splice() and the ghost of set_fs()

210

3

Street View turns 15

200

4

C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more

125

5

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine

108

6

We use Dependabot to secure GitHub

52

7

Welcome to .NET Multi-Platform App UI

46

8

NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space

33

9

Popular websites leaking user email data to web tracking domains

19

10

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023

274

2

CRISPR tomatoes genetically engineered to be richer in Vitamin D

106

3

DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers

36

4

AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache

32

5

AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced

32

6

Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air

25

7

California Broadband Definition Undermined by AT&T

24

8

Apple’s Google search payment will likely continue for years, despite antitrust

18

9

EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack

16

10

State privacy laws are being written by tech companies to minimize protections

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

167

2

Minimizing correlated failures in distributed systems

38

3

Amazon EC2 C7g Instances

22

4

AWS announces the 10 startups selected for the 2022 AWS Space Accelerator

10

5

Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processors

8

6

Who watches the watchers? A review of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

6

7

New research highlights job growth of small businesses on the App Store

5

8

(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging LLMs to build more robust hate speech detection tools

4

9

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: Guide to Field Identification

3

10

Swupnil Sahai and his co-founder serve an ace with AI-powered SwingVision

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL

160

2

Collection of US Navy Training Courses Developed

113

3

Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave

42

4

Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010)

35

5

A History of Punctuation

28

6

Well-Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism (2009)

16

7

The Saga of Battlecruiser 3000 (2003)

13

8

Bogus DMCA Notices Sent to Google by Fake Google To Protect Google?

12

9

New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits

7

10

Navy Ships Swarmed by Drones, Not UFOs, Defense Officials Confirm

7

Science News [?]

1

PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

236

2

‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon

178

3

Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fruits and vegetables

171

4

Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon

167

5

Tinnitus Seems Linked with Sleep

148

6

Physicists rewrite the fundamental law that leads to disorder

136

7

The math behind mind-reading tricks

136

8

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?

122

9

118

10

To learn more quickly, brain cells break their DNA (2021)

108

Social [?]

1

Bing contract prohibits DuckDuckGo from completely blocking Microsoft tracking

462

2

The Verge is so bad they have me defending Apple [video]

362

3

.01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin

324

4

Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)

299

5

A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

232

6

Leslie Lamport revolutionized computer science with math [video]

229

7

A rant about search engine results for large format laser printers [video]

169

8

5 Megawatt Nitinol Engine by Mcdonnell Douglas (2015) [video]

166

9

I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]

135

10

Linux kernel RNG enhancements for 5.19

121

Github repos and gists [?]

1

YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

756

2

Symbian Source Code

447

3

List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives Worldwide

424

4

Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch

387

5

Unofficial firmware upgrade for Dyson V6/V7 vacuum battery management system

235

6

Organice: An implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs

221

7

Web scraping with Python open knowledge

219

8

GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

216

9

Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

209

10

Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library

189

Wikipedia [?]

1

139

2

GNU Guix System

68

3

60

4

The Gödel Metric

49

5

Oblique Strategies

48

6

List of school shootings in the United States

46

7

31

8

List of Most Indebted Companies

23

9

Citicorp Center Engineering Crisis

18

10

Radioactivity in Ramsar, Iran

13

Blogs [?]

1

How do video games stay in sync?

303

2

Notes on Concurrency Bugs (2016)

67

3

Case Studies in USB-C Debugging (2020)

67

4

It's Good to Bet on .NET

41

5

Mysten Labs Announces Sui Blockchain

17

6

It’s Time to Say That Mac Doesn’t Just Work

6

7

Leaders are failing at managing top talent: today’s leadership challenge

6

8

At 83, I Decided to Develop an App (2016)

5

9

Understanding SSL/TLS Certificates for Dummies

5

10

Our Love-Hate Relationship with Jupyter Notebooks

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

When – and why – should you store data in the Windows Registry?

2

Substack [?]

1

The New York Times is wrong about Haiti

206

2

The end of big data

200

3

Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5

142

4

Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games

114

5

The meta-positioning habit of mind

85

6

AI-art isn't art: DALL-E and other AI artists offer only the imitation of art

76

7

Modern football through the lens of René Girard

59

8

The Atari 800XL

52

9

This week's archaeological news: Underground stone circles and ancient trade

47

10

The Gentrification of Disability

42