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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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My students cheated... a lot
1840
2
Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
1633
3
Installing a payphone in my house
1129
4
So I took a corporation to arbitration
986
5
Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
914
6
Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
760
7
VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
723
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Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
700
9
How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
698
10
SomaFM
679
Top Ask HN
1
Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
798
2
How to learn math from zero for adults?
559
3
If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?
437
4
Who is hiring? (June 2022)
390
5
Favourite open source game?
378
6
Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
335
7
Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?
158
8
Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?
156
9
What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?
152
10
Have you experienced decline in problem-solving skills? How to improve?
128
Top Show HN
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A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
1157
2
Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
676
3
I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system
439
4
Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
354
5
I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
281
6
An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
241
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Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text
235
8
I spent my vacation writing a modern JVM assembler
218
9
I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
211
10
Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML
182
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)
257
2
Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)
253
3
Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on
244
4
Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse
179
5
You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazon app on Android
177
6
The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset
123
7
Older iPads May Soon Be Able to Run Linux
96
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Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to wood treatment (2021)
94
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NASA just bought the rest of the space station crew flights from SpaceX
56
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Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’ (2021)
55
News [?]
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Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
760
2
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO
544
3
Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
430
4
CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
417
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Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules
326
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Britain should scrap its online safety bill
261
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Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days
247
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Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds
243
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Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
217
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Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors
213
Scientific publications [?]
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A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
163
2
Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200
74
3
Video2StyleGAN: Disentangling Local and Global Variations in a Video
50
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Aerosol particle emission increases exponentially above moderate exercise
45
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Stratolaunch reveals its first hypersonic design for high-altitude flights
40
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Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected aggression
20
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Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission
20
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Aliens could colonize the galaxy even if they don't have starships
19
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Big tobacco's environmental impact is 'devastating': WHO
16
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First Images from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Coming Soon
16
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
490
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Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
139
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Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
124
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When it comes to privacy, default settings matter (2019)
96
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Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL (2018)
55
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HDMI specification no longer being public
42
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Linux ID-Mapped Mounts
17
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Connecticut becomes fifth US state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy law
12
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Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game
10
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Kafka on Pulsar. The new world order
9
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier
216
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New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects
95
3
Taiwan Restricts Russia, Belarus to CPUs Under 25 MHz Frequency
37
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Intel's Raptor Lake CPU Appears 20% Faster Than Core I9-12900K on UserBenchmark
22
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3D Print Glass with a Laser Cutter
22
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Twitter Shutting Down TweetDeck for Mac in July, Will Remain Available on Web
21
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Better robots through gallium
19
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AMD-Powered Frontier Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier, Now #1 in the World
16
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Apple’s Safari browser now has more than 1B users
14
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Rackmount Hardware Placement Issues? IKEA Lack to the Rescue
13
FAANG+ [?]
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Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs
7
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The Microsoft TerraServer [pdf]
7
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Android apps with millions of downloads exposed to high-severity vulnerabilities
6
4
Microsoft Entra
5
5
The Dafny Programming Language
3
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App Store stopped nearly $1.5B in fraudulent transactions in 2021
2
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What You Need to Know When Starting a DevOps Journey
1
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Making your Go workloads up to 20% faster with Go 1.18 and AWS Graviton
1
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New Mac Pro (2019)
1
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Apple’s WWDC22 Swift Student Challenge winners help communities through coding
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Problems in Linear Algebra (1978), a book of solved problems
160
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Thin Platforms
115
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Software Library: MS-DOS Games
112
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NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (1994)
94
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Three Men Discuss Relativity (1926)
42
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Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
42
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Philosopher of the Apocalypse
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You Can't Sit Out Office Politics
30
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Toyota unveils home battery pack to compete with Tesla Powerwall
29
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Ford starts customer deliveries of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck
28
Science News [?]
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Science needs more research software engineers
532
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Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers
368
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Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears
165
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World’s largest organism found in Australia
145
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Persist or let it go: a study of entrepreneurial decision making
124
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Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?
117
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Brain-signal proteins evolved before animals did
108
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Indoor air filtration could lead to increased airborne endotoxin levels (2020)
88
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The real story of Pinocchio
56
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A vase kept in an ordinary kitchen turned out to be a Qing-dynasty artwork
50
Social [?]
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DALL-E 2 has a secret language
619
2
In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
563
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DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films
390
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No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language
257
5
Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable
253
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Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]
215
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In Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans
197
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“I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”
189
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Drawing on a plasma display with a laser pointer
160
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Elon Musk on Remote Work
141
Github repos and gists [?]
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Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
914
2
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
653
3
WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
460
4
All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc
287
5
Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
262
6
Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
247
7
Modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface
211
8
Make formal verification and provably correct software practical and mainstream
204
9
4coder editor is now fully open source
177
10
Commercial-Emacs
156
Wikipedia [?]
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Two envelopes problem
249
2
Werner Herzog eats his shoe
117
3
Radio Yerevan Jokes
38
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Pittsburgh Toilet
21
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Those Thieving Image Farms
19
6
List of countries by home ownership rate
19
7
Broodfunds
11
8
Wow Signal
10
9
Otolith
9
10
F-Droid – an app store and software repository for Android
9
Blogs [?]
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Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
174
2
Typosquatting Attack on ‘Requests’ Python package
62
3
Streak's (YC S11) edge-based infrastructure powering millions of tracked links
17
4
The Worst Bug Ever–Randomly Losing Your Best Players
11
5
Why we’ve ditched scrum sprints (and you should too)
7
6
Why useEvent is bad (and here is a better solution)
6
7
Branch Prediction – Everything you need to know
5
8
LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC (2018)
5
9
Trying to build an App to improve book based learning experience
4
10
Tattoo Shop in Jerusalem Is One of the Oldest in the World
4
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?
434
2
What is the difference between null and undefined in JavaScript?
2
3
Changing a program while it is running (Lisp)
2
Substack [?]
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Asking robots to design stained glass windows
477
2
Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok
292
3
Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
263
4
Science Is Getting Harder
187
5
In defense of coding interviews
162
6
Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel
161
7
Behind the Scenes: The pots, pans, and people that make millions of meals
116
8
Adding rollback netplay to a Game Boy Advance game from 2005: Part 1
106
9
A society without a counterculture?
82
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Scott Alexander's correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists
81