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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

1765

2

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

1474

3

We are removing the option to create new subscriptions

1470

4

The Grug Brained Developer

1068

5

I fucking hate Jira

971

6

Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

942

7

GitHub Copilot is generally available

863

8

Writing one sentence per line

849

9

759

10

Goodbye Zachtronics

752

Top Ask HN

1

Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

417

2

What tone to use in code review suggestions?

302

3

How to level up your technical writing?

295

4

Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it

282

5

How to raise a seed round in a down market?

213

6

Why are Git submodules so bad?

213

7

Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?

203

8

Has anyone made any serious money selling Android apps?

147

9

How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?

141

10

How does HN manage to be always online?

127

Top Show HN

1

Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

370

2

Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

306

3

Nimwave – build TUIs for the terminal, web, and desktop

195

4

WarcDB: Web crawl data as SQLite databases

171

5

I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat

166

6

Crocodile - Better code review for GitHub

144

7

Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform

138

8

Data Diff – compare tables of any size across databases

127

9

Easily Convert WARC (Web Archive) into Parquet, Then Query with DuckDB

116

10

Unsubscan – Free and offline mailing list unsubscription tool

101

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team

302

2

Pig heart transplant failed as its heart muscle cells died

208

3

The Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon

179

4

Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists

165

5

Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens

98

6

Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff

91

7

Gopher: Underground Technology (2004)

71

8

Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers

68

9

Tesla sued by ex-employees who claim that mass layoffs violated federal law

67

10

SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say

64

News [?]

1

Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

1765

2

FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market

418

3

Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (2019)

366

4

Five planets are lining up in the sky in June and will peak tonight

285

5

As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

219

6

At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now

181

7

3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe

180

8

Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015)

171

9

Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build

158

10

Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care

145

Scientific publications [?]

1

The mites in the skin of our faces

145

2

Unexpected solar weather is accelerating satellites' orbital decay

128

3

Modern phoenix: The bird brought back from extinction in Japan

65

4

The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens

33

5

Evolution Through Large Models

32

6

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn alignment peaks today

10

7

CERN will end cooperation with Russia in 2024 – Space

7

8

Neuronlike Memristors Could Superspeed 6G Wireless

7

9

Rock: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality

7

10

What does it take to solve the measurement problem?

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

GitHub Copilot is generally available

863

2

Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022

703

3

Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

455

4

Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)

402

5

Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20

392

6

On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain

182

7

NFS: The Early Years

176

8

Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs

127

9

Bitcoin Falls Below $20k

90

10

Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power

89

Tech blogs [?]

1

Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

466

2

The fragmented nature of modern-day railways

139

3

Court Rules DMCA Doesn't Override First Amendment’s Anonymous Speech Protections

43

4

Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy

14

5

Apple Silicon Likely to Benefit as TSMC Aims to Launch 2nm Chips by 2025

8

6

Notkia: Building an Open and Linux-Powered Numpad Phone

7

7

Daycare Apps Are Dangerously Insecure

7

8

EFF's Statement on Dobb's Abortion Ruling

6

9

Our Digital Lives Rest on a Robust, Flexible, and Stable Fair Use Regime

6

10

iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Copilot just got company: Amazon announced Codewhisperer

73

2

Amazon Whisperer, ML Coding Companion

11

3

AWS Announces Copilot Competitor

9

4

Pro Go:The Complete Guide to Programming Reliable and Efficient Software with Go

2

5

Improving AI-based defenses to disrupt human-operated ransomware

2

6

Horizontally scale SageMaker ML Models monitoring

2

7

Internet Explorer – End of Life

1

8

Amazon Code Whisperer

1

9

Book: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices

417

2

Small actions make great leaders

156

3

For natural theologians, proving God was beside the point

59

4

C Xor C++ Programming

44

5

Lichess.org Breakdown of Costs

37

6

The Birth of Visual Basic (2006)

35

7

Tesla launches virtual powerplant that pays Powerwall owners to end brownouts

30

8

Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

28

9

Why Is Wine (Almost) Always Made from Grapes?

28

10

Connected-Up-Brains

16

Science News [?]

1

Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children

319

2

The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses

312

3

One centimeter long bacterium discovered

243

4

Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely

184

5

U.S. plans trial of early detection blood tests for multiple cancers

156

6

Cancer cells wake up when people sleep

145

7

An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’

114

8

We regret to inform you that your choice of Deathday is no longer available

95

9

New proof shows when structure must emerge in graphs

75

10

Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires

73

Social [?]

1

Copilot sells code other people wrote

713

2

435

3

Solend seized $170M of user funds

283

4

“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”

198

5

LMN 3, an open source DAW in a box [video]

195

6

AI Wrote and Performed a Jerry Seinfeld Routine [video]

176

7

Will word processors start a home working revolution? (1979) [video]

166

8

Why do we all fall for AI-generated language?

116

9

I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday

95

10

Why former Amazon engineers hate the company with a passion?

93

Github repos and gists [?]

1

YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

736

2

629

3

Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters

494

4

Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

454

5

Dolt is Git for Data

334

6

ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client

281

7

Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

264

8

Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices

256

9

Permissive forwarding rule leads to unintentional exposure of containers (2021)

234

10

Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes

225

Wikipedia [?]

1

445

2

Katapayadi System

156

3

115

4

Detention of Mark Bernstein

112

5

86

6

38

7

12

8

Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome

11

9

11

10

10

Blogs [?]

1

Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)

180

2

Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed

108

3

Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? (2020)

75

4

I’ve Had Enough of Teaching

16

5

Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2022

16

6

Grifters Tried to Pass Off My Free Custom Email Service as Their Own NFT Project

13

7

Why Do Apple and Microsoft Hate Checkboxes?

12

8

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump (2017)

6

9

Full UEFI secure boot on Fedora using signed initrd and systemd-boot

5

10

“hi18n”, a TypeScript-first internationalization library — getting started guide

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Node.js maxing out at 1000 concurrent connections

2

2

The Use Case of the WHATTHEFOXSAY Google Docs Easter Egg

2

3

StackOverflow Collectives: Communities for your favorite technologies

1

Substack [?]

1

387

2

Advice for academic refugees

144

3

96

4

Designing Billions of Circuits with Code

93

5

Fail Gardening: Low Expectations for Skillbuilding and Eventual Success

62

6

Is Web3 culture similar to Amway (MLM) culture?

55

7

Why Most Strategies Lack Clarity

43

8

Misplaced Crypto Schadenfreude

25

9

James Joyce almost became a famous singer (2021)

16

10

Book Review: San Fransicko

14