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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I regret my website redesign

2007

2

I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

1180

3

Glassdoor not so anonymous

1147

4

EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

1096

5

Scratch is a big deal

1017

6

Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges

1009

7

Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

954

8

DALL·E now available in beta

923

9

Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

879

10

Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title

871

Top Ask HN

1

What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

2048

2

I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?

453

3

What can you realistically manufacture in your garage?

352

4

Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

323

5

What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?

275

6

Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

271

7

How did you increase your UX skills?

254

8

How to deal with children's online habits?

220

9

PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)

214

10

Has YouTube peaked?

173

Top Show HN

1

I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

299

2

This Food Does Not Exist

248

3

I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm

214

4

Pg_jsonschema – A Postgres extension for JSON validation

202

5

A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code

200

6

I'm building a browser-based DAW

179

7

I made a simple platform to buy/sell side projects

169

8

We Built Altis, the World’s First AI Personal Trainer

161

9

Interactive course about “everyday” data science

153

10

I made CSS Scan 3.0, a fast way to check and copy CSS

146

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

1180

2

Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

342

3

Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards

328

4

Polio Detected in US

299

5

Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream

262

6

We haven’t killed 90% of all plankton

224

7

Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

216

8

Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game

120

9

The speedy downfall of rapid delivery startups

117

10

A Soviet scientist dreamed of melting the Arctic with a 55 mile dam (2013)

115

News [?]

1

Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

633

2

Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

526

3

China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads

355

4

UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption

345

5

Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

270

6

Pioneering economist says our obsession with growth must end

269

7

Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k

257

8

Glassdoor ordered to unmask former toy company employees who posted criticism

242

9

A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team

241

10

Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

218

Scientific publications [?]

1

Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates

692

2

SATAn: Air-Gap Exfiltration Attack via Radio Signals from SATA Cables

312

3

Strange new phase of matter acts like it has two time dimensions

264

4

US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)

126

5

Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

125

6

Formal Algorithms for Transformers

106

7

YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies

92

8

I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns (2014)

83

9

The birth of random-access memory

70

10

Securing name resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP

22

Dev Blogs [?]

1

DALL·E now available in beta

923

2

Log4j: The pain just keeps going

258

3

The trouble with symbolic links

227

4

Blockchain.com cuts 25% workforce amid crypto bear market

99

5

Quantum Virtual Machine to accelerate research and learning

96

6

A Deep Dive into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

84

7

Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

45

8

Continued cyber activity in Eastern Europe observed by TAG

42

9

Using-Apache-Kafka-to-process-1T-messages

33

10

IO_uring Zerocopy Send Is Ready for Linux 5.20 Networking

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry

101

2

Visual cryptography for physical keyrings

50

3

Apple has become a lobbying powerhouse amid growing antitrust scrutiny

24

4

China Chipmaker SMIC Reportedly Copied TSMC's 7nm Process Node

16

5

Apple spending more than ever on federal lobbying amid possible antitrust bill

16

6

TSMC Unveils N2 Process: Nanosheet GAAFETs Bring Significant Benefits in 2025

8

7

Apple Indonesia agreement could force company to hand over iCloud data

7

8

Helping Secure Amateur Radio’s Digital Future

6

9

Scientists hack fly brains to make them remote controlled

5

10

Earthgrid aims to re-wire the USA using super-cheap tunnel tech

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

How We Sent an AWS Snowcone into Orbit

6

2

How Apple is empowering people with their health information

4

3

Simon’s Win32 Cheat Sheet (2016)

4

4

3

5

Amazon Recycling Program

3

6

Apple’s 60 pages healthcare report [pdf]

3

7

How Apple is empowering people with their health information

2

8

Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput

2

9

Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput

1

10

How Apple is empowering people with their health information

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)

189

2

Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty

157

3

Is the silence of the Great Plains to blame for ‘prairie madness’?

89

4

Why Read Fichte Today?

34

5

Court Orders Cloudflare’s DNS Resolver to Block Pirate Sites in Italy

28

6

What’s the Biggest Bird in the World?

24

7

New Radars Are Giving Old Air Force F-16s Capabilities Like Never Before

21

8

Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports

17

9

Russia Appears to Shoot Down Its Own Su-34 Strike Fighter

8

10

Ukraine Defense Chief Wants Advanced Weapons Testing Against Russians

7

Science News [?]

1

Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s

602

2

“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels

491

3

Wealth as a predictor of whether an person pursues a creative profession (2019)

175

4

Cold-brewing of coffee by picosecond-pulsed laser extraction

172

5

The inventor of ibuprofen tested the drug on his own hangover

168

6

Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon

159

7

Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

150

8

When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks'

142

9

Battery cost declines raise prospects of all-electric container shipping

123

10

Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (2018)

113

Social [?]

1

Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

879

2

Intel Microcode Decryptor

830

3

A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore

465

4

Fran Blanche: This Is Not Legal

444

5

A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s

368

6

Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]

352

7

See Thru Jet Engine [video]

266

8

Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (2017)

242

9

DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales

166

10

Bun gets “bun:FFI” – call native libraries from JavaScript

149

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

580

2

Intel Microcode Decryptor

578

3

Build Your Own X

528

4

Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh

386

5

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

370

6

Practical Real-Time Hex Tiling

188

7

Lensm: Go Assembly and Source Viewer

161

8

PicoCart64: Nintendo 64 flash cart using a Raspberry Pi RP2040

134

9

Stereokit – Open-source mixed reality library by Microsoft

130

10

Kerf Time Series Lang and Columnar DB Open Sourced

107

Wikipedia [?]

1

General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy

199

2

Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse

195

3

67

4

Microsoft Creative Writer (1993)

51

5

Compute Express Link

25

6

Galactic Algorithm

25

7

Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal

20

8

15

9

14

10

12

Blogs [?]

1

What happens when you press a key in your terminal?

408

2

I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works

41

3

Apache Doris announced the official release of version 1.1

21

4

Introverts Build the World. Extroverts Enjoy It.

15

5

Why Upwork is NOT the best place to find offshore Developers

13

6

Computer Latency: 1977-2017

11

7

Outsourcing teachers with ML: a search engine for student questions

8

8

Modern code review tools (2022)

8

9

The Pseudo-Satellite That Could Destroy Starlink

6

10

Programmed to Death: Software and the Erebus Disaster

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is Git not considered a “block chain”?

3

2

1.9m views on “How do I make Git forget about a file”

3

3

Tricky Bash Tricks: Avoiding annoying messages from sqliterc

1

Substack [?]

1

Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

380

2

Learning The Elite Class

271

3

New numbers on music consumption

164

4

The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I

158

5

The Rise and Peak of Japanese Semiconductors

99

6

How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit

91

7

Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover

89

8

Eating horsemeat in France

86

9

How to think about task estimation

85

10

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