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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple previews Lockdown Mode

1577

2

Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig

1431

3

1382

4

Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

1324

5

Absurd Trolley Problems

1296

6

1010

7

Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

996

8

Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles

767

9

Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance

715

10

EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms

691

Top Ask HN

1

How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity

407

2

I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?

352

3

What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?

304

4

Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?

296

5

What'd you do while HN was down?

254

6

I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

232

7

First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?

192

8

Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon?

145

9

Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?

117

10

Resources on learning System Design (back end/data engineering)?

116

Top Show HN

1

PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file

563

2

Credentials dumper for Linux using eBPF

235

3

PDFs that are readable by human eyes only

216

4

RemoteFriendly – A remote job board inspired by HN

202

5

C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

182

6

Wiby is now free software

161

7

Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

159

8

Copper – A Go framework for your projects

146

9

3D live tracking two climbers attempting a Sierra Nevada record

132

10

Trane, an automated system for learning complex skills

119

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app

204

2

A phone app called Lumenate claims to alter the brain’s rhythms (2021)

189

3

Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore

164

4

Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay

105

5

Upcoming RISC-V laptop promises free silicon upgrades

98

6

Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy

85

7

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

82

8

Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team

76

9

Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform

67

10

YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating

62

News [?]

1

Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

655

2

Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum

419

3

Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019

354

4

Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

339

5

Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts

308

6

The local news crisis is deepening America's divides

296

7

Private equity may be heading for a fall

262

8

Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus

212

9

Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Lender Vauld Suspends Withdrawals

191

10

Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks

191

Scientific publications [?]

1

Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery

280

2

Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades

224

3

The first million-transistor chip: The engineers’ story

93

4

Robotic surgery turns surgical trainees into spectators

82

5

Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots

81

6

Spain, Portugal dryness 'unprecedented' in 1,200 years

38

7

Programming with union, intersection, and negation types

35

8

Ancient DNA yields surprising findings on earliest seafarers

35

9

We’re Training AI Twice as Fast This Year as Last

31

10

New constraints on dark photons using a new dielectric optical haloscope

31

Dev Blogs [?]

1

335

2

An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes

232

3

Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size

184

4

Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft

158

5

PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

106

6

Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically

102

7

Dependabot alerts paused for malware advisories

47

8

The Future of System Memory Is Mostly CXL

40

9

When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux

21

10

Support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers

21

Tech blogs [?]

1

EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms

691

2

Perovskite-silicon solar cells break 30% efficiency barrier

41

3

Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

32

4

Samsung Starts 3nm Production: The Gate-All-Around (Gaafet) Era Begins

14

5

World's first commercial sand battery begins energy storage in Finland

12

6

U.S. Wants ASML to Stop Selling Chipmaking Tools to China

10

7

Recreating Fast Oscilloscopes Is a Slow Process (2020)

9

8

Study argues insects feel pain, raises questions around ethical farming

9

9

Entanglement 20 Miles Record

8

10

Apple Watch Series 8

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple previews Lockdown Mode

1577

2

New MacBook Air with M2

420

3

Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers

150

4

Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS

79

5

Hive ransomware gets upgrades in Rust

11

6

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances Are Now Generally Available

8

7

GitHub Copilot alternative: Amazon CodeWhisperer

4

8

Amazon CodeWhisperer – ML-powered coding companion

4

9

AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery

4

10

Extend AWS IAM Roles to Workloads Outside of AWS with IAM Roles Anywhere

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train

200

2

The Benefits of World Hunger

28

3

Automakers Are Starting to Drop Am Radio in New Cars

22

4

Psychology and the Instrument Panel (1953)

20

5

Oral History Panel on 8 Inch Floppy Disk Drives (2005) [pdf]

18

6

Rhode Island sets fastest timeline of any state for 100% renewable electricity

14

7

Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees

9

8

The curious case of Pretty Good human inner/outer alignment

9

9

Tesla achieves record quarterly production numbers

7

10

AI Forecasting: One Year In

6

Science News [?]

1

He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal

355

2

Why walking on Legos hurts more than walking on fire or ice (2018)

101

3

Plutonium isotopes in the North Western Pacific sediments found

71

4

Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate improvements in mood and mental health

68

5

Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons (2005)

65

6

Understanding how others relate to you

63

7

A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers

63

8

Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide

60

9

Event-level prediction of urban crime reveals a enforcement bias in US cities

59

10

A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan

58

Social [?]

1

Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux

414

2

Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?

282

3

Twitter Layoff Started Today

263

4

Amazon has a book piracy problem

219

5

A working flight simulator, no computers necessary [video]

196

6

How does a USB keyboard work? (2021) [video]

170

7

ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed

167

8

Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”

138

9

Arbitrary Code Execution in Super Mario All-Stars [video]

108

10

How to Build a Real Igloo

79

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance

715

2

Popcorn Time Is Back

405

3

Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story

349

4

Open source is not about you (2018)

304

5

Tao: A statically-typed functional language

257

6

AWS Nuke – delete all resources associated with AWS account

222

7

Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut

211

8

Raspberry Pico-based 100-Msps logic analyzer

205

9

199

10

Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains

164

Wikipedia [?]

1

Gunslinger Effect

138

2

67

3

1942–1944 Musicians' Strike

63

4

Quebec Sovereignty Movement

50

5

The first motion picture production studio: Edison’s Black Maria

21

6

Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

18

7

List of sensors

17

8

Onion Futures Act

11

9

Depressive Realism

9

10

Lingua Latīna per Sē Illūstrāta

8

Blogs [?]

1

Data Alignment and Caches

26

2

Modelling Distributed Locking in TLA+

15

3

We dropped event sourcing with Kafka Streams when given a second chance

8

4

How Conduit uses Buf to work with Protobufs

8

5

OMG. New management brought their people over

6

6

Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at Pipedrive

5

7

Bitcoin is “Reverse-Money”, which makes it a Scam

5

8

Breaking from the News

4

9

4

10

Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2022

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Postgres query slow by adding 'limit 1'

3

2

“if” statement syntax differences between C and C++

1

Substack [?]

1

Problems at Roblox

485

2

Did the early medieval era ever take place?

298

3

Ethereum Proof-of-Stake

250

4

Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial

196

5

Vets today are like doctors yesterday

181

6

Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

176

7

Books That Changed How I Hear Music

167

8

Linux Sucks 2022

120

9

Everything Is Anime

119

10

Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser comes to Linux

56