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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
1607
2
The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever
1363
3
Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
1172
4
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
1128
5
Heuristics that almost always work
1000
6
Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
930
7
Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
847
8
Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
840
9
Thank You, Valve
766
10
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
736
Top Ask HN
1
How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
1094
2
What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
573
3
Great Blogs by Programmers
322
4
Has anyone sold their employee stock on the secondary market?
277
5
Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
270
6
How to raise funds for rare disease research?
260
7
Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
254
8
Best books on managing software complexity?
253
9
What Has Happened to Twitter?
193
10
Neurodiversity/ADHD Friendly Companies
181
Top Show HN
1
SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
1241
2
EdgeDB 1.0
947
3
Jless, a command-line JSON viewer
344
4
PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover
233
5
Three Magic Words
204
6
Makers.so – A website builder inside Figma
180
7
Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative
168
8
Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source
162
9
LiveViewJS – TypeScript back end for LiveView Apps (Phoenix LiveView)
146
10
EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
136
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm
302
2
Atari asks for help finding developer of 2600 game Aquaventure
285
3
Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network
205
4
Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
188
5
FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show
163
6
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
127
7
Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
98
8
Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (2016)
92
9
A Married Undercover Cop Having Sex with Activists Killed a Climate Movement
57
10
Carvana bought my seven-year-old car for more than I paid brand-new
44
News [?]
1
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
1128
2
Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
698
3
France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
688
4
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
574
5
SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO
491
6
TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
474
7
Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again
431
8
J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story
428
9
Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory
399
10
Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list
378
Scientific publications [?]
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Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary
205
2
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (2019)
141
3
'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago
100
4
Regulation of neurotransmitters by gut microbiota, effects on cognition (2021)
92
5
The Invention of Battlezone (1982)
63
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Moore’s Not Enough: New Laws of Computing
57
7
Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
51
8
Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition? (2014)
49
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Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers
48
10
Rogue black hole spotted on its own for the first time
20
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Web hacking techniques of 2021
567
2
Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
448
3
IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
399
4
Privacy preserving attribution for advertising
234
5
Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus
191
6
Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer
117
7
Rust API for the Firefox Profiler
91
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IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
76
9
Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
53
10
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance
45
Tech blogs [?]
1
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
736
2
CadQuery Comes of Age
63
3
Tiny Core Linux 13 Released: Needs Just 46MB of RAM, 50MB of Disk
58
4
Developers react to 27% commission with astonishment and anger
29
5
Intel's Pay-as-You-Go CPU Feature Gets Launch Window
20
6
Facebook tried to buy controversial tool to spy on iPhone users
16
7
Rare form of sulfur offers a key to triple-capacity EV batteries
15
8
Safari Team Asks for Feedback:'Safari Is the Worst, It's the New IE'
14
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Apple hit with another fine as Dutch regulator says it’s ‘disappointed’
12
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Turning the PS4 into a Useful Linux Machine
11
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
847
2
An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
358
3
“Now apps from both the App Store and the internet can be installed worry-free.”
27
4
Sustainability with Rust
12
5
Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems (2nd Edition)
2
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Apple lands historic first Best Picture Oscar nomination for “CODA” and more
2
7
Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces
2
8
A Cross-Modal Audio Search Engine Based on Joint Audio-Text Embeddings (2018)
2
9
Revealing the Hidden Structure of Corruption
1
10
Proactively keep resources secure and compliant with AWS CloudFormation Hooks
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists?
119
2
Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?
81
3
Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Links to Pirated Content
76
4
Digital Advertising in 2022
73
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Accidental implosion yields new measurement for ocean's deepest point
52
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Video shows Tesla full self driving running into pole
25
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An unsolved murder that haunted a beloved Italian poet
25
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The US Army is going electric – and wants to be net-zero by 2050
13
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Navy Releases Timeline for Mysterious 2019 “UAS Swarm” Involving Warships Off CA
10
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'Particulate Warheads' Full of Dust Could Help Defeat Hypersonic Weapons
8
Science News [?]
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Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
468
2
Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
450
3
Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better
282
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Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane
241
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Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star
231
6
An ancient geometry problem falls to new mathematical techniques
184
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New map of meaning in the brain changes ideas about memory
174
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A new programming language for high-performance computers
173
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New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
142
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Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19
136
Social [?]
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Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
1607
2
Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company
327
3
You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way
305
4
Cool ice formations my friend discovered on his deck this morning
237
5
The unlimited storage that Google promised my university is being discontinued
228
6
Tesla FSD Beta Lunges Toward Bicyclist
226
7
Starship Update [video]
204
8
This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system
202
9
I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
175
10
My CEO’s rating on Glassdoor is so bad that all we are getting are shitty hires
159
Github repos and gists [?]
1
uBlock Origin 1.41
540
2
High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime
493
3
Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
394
4
Django: Reformatted code with Black
284
5
Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE
227
6
Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs
198
7
A Quick Introduction to R
171
8
Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs
169
9
Csv.vim: A Filetype plugin for CSV files
147
10
Phantom OS: Persistent Operating System
136
Wikipedia [?]
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Core War
236
2
Comparative Illusion
77
3
Starfish Prime
69
4
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
42
5
Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy
29
6
Why you hate tasks that you love, when they become your day job
22
7
Religious Views of Isaac Newton
13
8
Recursive Islands and Lakes
11
9
Simpson’s Paradox
11
10
Strč Prst Skrz Krk
10
Blogs [?]
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A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
138
2
Google Slides Is Hilarious
132
3
Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (2019)
65
4
GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser
38
5
Scrum is not for software engineering
33
6
The Intellectual yet Idiot
12
7
Go Truck Yourself
9
8
The Geography of Inequality (Paris, France)
9
9
After two weeks with no Covid restrictions in Denmark
9
10
Google Slides Is Hilarious
9
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance
25
2
Is it possible to detect if an email was sent via Gmail's “Schedule Send”?
5
3
How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?
4
4
StackOverflow Is Down
4
5
Vim Lisp mode is hard-coded to two space indent
3
6
HPA on GKE Using Back End Latency from an Ingress LB via Stackdriver Externl Mtc
1
Substack [?]
1
Heuristics that almost always work
1000
2
Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?
373
3
Advice gathered from people smarter than me
221
4
Web3 doesn’t care about privacy
207
5
How Japan saved Tokyo's rail network from collapse (part 1, 1945-1982)
194
6
I decided to build a nine-bit computer
180
7
On Being Broke
107
8
Jay Powell traded during blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates
100
9
Connor Leahy on EleutherAI, Replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, AI Risk and Alignment
84
10
The Reality War – It’s just Gnostics all the way down
69