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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2900

2

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

2051

3

Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

1384

4

Open-Sourcing our Firmware

1168

5

Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

1079

6

FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

939

7

Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji

876

8

Danish government makes its new economic model open source

842

9

Free Postgres databases for small projects

841

10

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

799

Top Ask HN

1

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

540

2

Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

332

3

What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

321

4

Burned Out. What Now?

309

5

Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve

160

6

New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

143

7

Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the source code of FlexOS/386?

112

8

Why is spam email still a thing?

110

9

Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

97

10

Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

74

Top Show HN

1

Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend

320

2

255

3

CSS Speedrun – A small game to test and improve your CSS knowledge

213

4

CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges

163

5

MdSilo – A knowledge silo that runs in your web browser

153

6

132

7

Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

116

8

WallSmash – An Infinite Brick Breaker Game

114

9

Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

97

10

Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets

88

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills

593

2

I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR

230

3

Google Kills YouTube Originals

189

4

Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020)

149

5

Automation is reaching more companies

141

6

Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai involved in ad collusion plot

125

7

The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone

113

8

The Gritty, Underground Network Bringing Japan’s Arcades to the US

88

9

Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’

56

10

American Airlines gave its workers a raise. Wall Street freaked out (2017)

54

News [?]

1

Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

708

2

UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption

518

3

No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

451

4

Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

328

5

How A.I. Conquered Poker

248

6

NASA: Tonga blast was 10 megatons, more powerful than a nuclear bomb

235

7

Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52

228

8

Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners

191

9

Zoroastrians make a comeback in northern Iraq

186

10

Twitter shakes up its security team

175

Scientific publications [?]

1

ISO C became unusable for operating systems development

203

2

Lies that powered the invention of Pong

91

3

Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars

50

4

Inverting the structure–property map of truss metamaterials by deep learning

27

5

Why East Asians but not South Asians underrepresented in leadership positions [pdf]

26

6

Efficient Large Scale Language Modeling with Mixtures of Experts

25

7

Why IoT Sensors Need Standards

22

8

'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago

16

9

On the analogy between black holes and bathtub vortices

13

10

4°C warming by 2100 “can't be ruled out”

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

314

2

A note for LWN subscribers

219

3

The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC

178

4

Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond

173

5

Git.io no longer accepts new URLs

70

6

Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech bills

67

7

FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready

55

8

Same-origin violation vulnerability in Safari 15 could leak a user’s website

47

9

Chrome is deprecating direct access to private networks from public websites

27

10

Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich

158

2

Gurman: Apple's headset will likely cost $2k and have two CPUs

49

3

Intel to Unveil Bitcoin-Mining 'Bonanza Mine' Chip at Upcoming Conference

43

4

Israel police reportedly use Pegasus spyware on country’s own citizens

28

5

Welcome to the Public Domain, Winnie-the-Pooh

25

6

Intel's $7B Fab 34 Gets First Equipment

22

7

Apple to Allow Third-Party Payment Options for First Time in the Netherlands

21

8

EFF: Google Releases “Disable 2g” Feature for New Android Smartphones

20

9

U.S. Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill That Would Allow Sideloading

16

10

iPhone 13 models don’t support Noise Cancellation available in previous iPhones

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections

127

2

AWS Service Terms: the clause 42.10

116

3

Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations

10

4

Monitor the C02 in a Room (not my product)

5

5

Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations

4

6

Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations

3

7

Distributed Computing with Mac OS X Tiger [pdf]

3

8

A New AWS Console Home Experience

2

9

Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems

2

10

Apple education store now requires Unidays and only 1 device per year

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Intel Split

322

2

Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad

321

3

The Gates of Hell

133

4

US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)

119

5

One of the most famous Victorian dishes is a hilarious lie

103

6

The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackleton and Endurance crew

90

7

The Birth of Rusty N Edie's BBS

87

8

Early, state-sanctioned LSD experiments in Bulgaria (2016)

79

9

Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules

64

10

The worldly turn: A return to economics that studies the real world

58

Science News [?]

1

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

296

2

Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now

220

3

French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)

179

4

Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds

178

5

The long, slow process of carcinogenesis

172

6

Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source

165

7

Arxiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning

157

8

Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of host ER stress

148

9

My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank

128

10

A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (2013)

112

Social [?]

1

I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

646

2

€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP

566

3

I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)

413

4

A delightful quirk of relativity theory

376

5

It takes $420k per year to run Lichess

298

6

You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline

232

7

Myths about Social Media

195

8

I sent my boyfriend a picture of a storm. He got one of a woman and a dog

130

9

YouTube banned most videos from “JCS – Criminal Psychology”

64

10

Twitter Rolls Out NFT Profile Pictures

52

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Danish government makes its new economic model open source

842

2

My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

716

3

Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)

471

4

Set up a practically free CDN

399

5

Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal

389

6

OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog

381

7

JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

341

8

Sci Hub Injector

313

9

278

10

Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, written in Rust and GTK4

266

Wikipedia [?]

1

388

2

Curse of the Colonel

70

3

35

4

17

5

Volcanic Winter

13

6

A graph is moral if two nodes that have a common child are married

13

7

Chicago Principles

9

8

Ready Player Two

9

9

7

10

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

7

Blogs [?]

1

The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

307

2

Some ways DNS can break

106

3

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

92

4

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai has almost disappeared

82

5

Another FAANG interview request. Thanks, but no thanks

22

6

Some ways DNS can break

17

7

USD Tether – The Largest Ticking Time Bomb in Modern Financial History

15

8

Learning How to Think Made Me an Entrepreneur

9

9

Data Version Control (DVC) for Machine Learning Projects

8

10

Best No-Code App Builders (Part 1)

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why introduce `std::launder` rather than have the compiler take care of it?

72

2

u'\ufeff' in Python string

4

3

Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)

3

4

How to print colored text to terminal

2

5

Question: How to patch specific port of Kubernetes service?

2

Substack [?]

1

Why Galesburg has no money

383

2

Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now

236

3

An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy

236

4

I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright

166

5

Is old music killing new music?

148

6

“You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail

97

7

Why ideologies harm individuals

80

8

How to make it easier to build semiconductor factories

76

9

YouTube crypto giveaway scams

75

10

Vast majority of Joe Rogan Spotify letter signatories are not medical doctors

74