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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Search Is Dying

3636

2

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

1449

3

Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

1291

4

1211

5

Akamai to Acquire Linode

986

6

956

7

Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website

923

8

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

902

9

879

10

What does it mean to listen on a port?

853

Top Ask HN

1

What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

1147

2

How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

696

3

Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

486

4

Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

391

5

Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?

244

6

Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?

233

7

Easiest way to build a CRUD app?

211

8

Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology

195

9

Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?

192

10

How do you manage your companies knowledge base?

187

Top Show HN

1

Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

572

2

hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors

481

3

Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create

313

4

Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake

249

5

ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line

227

6

Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

224

7

Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust

176

8

Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding

124

9

Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy

123

10

No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.

123

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup

386

2

Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline

241

3

The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper

125

4

Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

118

5

Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us

83

6

New preview build adds Microsoft account requirement to Windows 11 Pro

65

7

Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)

60

8

Why are letters shaped the way they are?

58

9

Rebuffing cable lobby, FCC bans deals that block competition in apartments

57

10

Is Firefox Okay?

53

News [?]

1

Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant

447

2

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline

403

3

Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

338

4

Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack

329

5

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

292

6

Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

271

7

The Dubai Debt Trap

249

8

Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor

234

9

Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019)

230

10

Starship is threatening NASA’s moon contractors

222

Scientific publications [?]

1

Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

276

2

Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

228

3

New atomic clock loses only one second every 300B years

188

4

Video Game Project Management Anti-Patterns [pdf]

96

5

A Formal Model of Checked C

90

6

Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records

85

7

Some argue that synthetic data can make AI systems better

83

8

Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index

80

9

An empirical investigation of personalization factors on TikTok

65

10

Conceptual knowledge increases infants' memory capacity (2008)

59

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

902

2

Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

275

3

HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol

220

4

Going Big with TCP Packets

144

5

Uniting the Linux random-number devices

125

6

Firefox And Pixar Animation Studios team up to help you show your true colors

96

7

Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)

95

8

Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

41

9

Secret CIA Data Collection Program

33

10

Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool

28

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech

394

2

$4 solar desalination system produces a family's daily drinking water

58

3

The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now

56

4

T2 Mac security vulnerability means passwords can now be cracked

32

5

The Federal Circuit Helps a Patent Troll Block Public Access to Court Records

24

6

AMD's Market Cap Surpasses Intel for the First Time in History

23

7

AMD 6nm Ryzen 6000 'Rembrandt' SoC Deep Dive: Gunning for Alder Lake

13

8

Raspberry Pi Captures Microscopic Wonders with HQ Camera for $115

11

9

AMD Closes Xilinx Deal: First Products Expected in 2023

11

10

Apple SSD Supplier Hit with Contamination Disaster

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

Sustainability with Rust

137

2

Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency

135

3

AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks

41

4

AWS Virtual Waiting Room – buffer users during peak or bursty traffic

7

5

Sustainability with Rust

5

6

s2n-quic, a new open-source QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

4

7

Emergence by Roy Hammond

2

8

Preventing, Detecting, & Hunting for Exploitation of the Log4j 2 Vulnerability

2

9

Microsoft Soundscape - A map delivered in 3D sound

2

10

Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again

190

2

Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) (2000) [pdf]

132

3

The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found

89

4

Tipasa, Algeria’s ancient melting pot, faces an uncertain future

65

5

In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice

47

6

Design and Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook: Reflective Analysis (1996)

37

7

Police in Japan arrest man for uploading movie summaries to YouTube

32

8

Make megaprojects more modular

32

9

The Dropout: A History

29

10

$3,375 Electromagnetic Gun Declared “A Serious Weapon” in Expert Range Report

15

Science News [?]

1

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

755

2

Guinea worm disease nears eradication

242

3

Love is biological bribery?

157

4

Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory (2019)

151

5

Land-use changes across Europe linked to mortality during the Black Death

88

6

How light is a neutrino? The answer is closer than ever

83

7

Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

71

8

Quantum complexity tamed by machine learning

71

9

Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 PeV from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources (2021)

67

10

Transgenic glowing fish invades Brazilian streams

67

Social [?]

1

811

2

Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

656

3

Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads

525

4

Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]

489

5

Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

471

6

Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH

434

7

I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

429

8

Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

400

9

Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”

270

10

Kubernetes: The Documentary

263

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets

580

2

Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays

466

3

Lets Get Arrested (2019)

392

4

Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

338

5

Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes

291

6

Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

259

7

Software defined USB port (Raspberry Pi pico RP2040)

182

8

Open-source online SVG path editor

169

9

All you should know about Flutter development

158

10

Fullmoon – Redbean-based Lua web framework deployed as single file

155

Wikipedia [?]

1

Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs

161

2

American chestnut

118

3

76

4

23

5

19

6

Domesticated Silver Fox

12

7

European Green Belt

12

8

Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano

8

9

Transmeta Crusoe

7

10

Capstan Equation

7

Blogs [?]

1

Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

699

2

Putting Ideas into Words

209

3

Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)

152

4

The multiple meanings of “nameserver” and “DNS resolver”

73

5

Real Businesses (2017)

22

6

Viaweb's First Business Plan

22

7

I spent $1M to make my machine translator. Thoughts and Results

12

8

NFT's Aren't as Stupid as You Think

10

9

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Haskell

9

10

Scrabble is nowhere close to a solved game

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to create a minimal, reproducible code example

3

2

Why is 'this' a pointer and not a reference?

3

3

I have been making a Chrome app called Postman (2012)

2

4

How much data can we store in a QR code?

1

5

Examples of GoF Design Patterns in Java's Core Libraries

1

Substack [?]

1

How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?

197

2

How to commit murder inside a locked room

146

3

Some conclusions about the high desert after five months of desert life

95

4

Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free

90

5

Can GPT-3 AI write comedy?

88

6

57

7

Welcome to the User Testnet

32

8

ECO2: More Than a Speech Synthesizer

28

9

How to Commit Murder Inside a Locked Room

25

10

Reality Honks Back: A Reflection on the Reality War

22