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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

2

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

1384

3

Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

1256

4

Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

1095

5

Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

1061

6

Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

987

7

In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously

979

8

Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

958

9

I have no capslock and I must scream

897

10

Why I will never buy another Samsung device

828

Top Ask HN

1

Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?

316

2

Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?

288

3

Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?

283

4

What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

267

5

Can we ban Twitter links, please?

235

6

Why is there no small Android phone?

191

7

How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?

168

8

Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?

126

9

What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?

119

10

What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry?

106

Top Show HN

1

Full text search on 630M US court cases

698

2

Test your shape rotation skills

659

3

Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

463

4

Google Drive to SQLite

305

5

I Designed and Built an eBike

304

6

Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

251

7

Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks

238

8

Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3

235

9

The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines

232

10

Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python

203

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

382

2

Epic Games is making hundreds of temp testers into full employees with benefits

233

3

Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google

173

4

An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

149

5

Facebook, Google other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law

108

6

What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop

96

7

Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files for copyright violation

95

8

Grocery delivery “dark stores” in Amsterdam

95

9

The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot (2020)

89

10

Scientists discover centuries-old Arctic creatures surviving on fossils

72

News [?]

1

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

2

Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

987

3

Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

958

4

Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

597

5

Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament

438

6

A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

400

7

Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT

353

8

AMD is now worth more than Intel

350

9

Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

333

10

FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s

332

Scientific publications [?]

1

Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way

150

2

Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (2017)

100

3

Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language

88

4

PACSafe: Leveraging ARM Pointer Authentication for Memory Safety in C/C++

40

5

How USB Came to Be

31

6

E-Nose Sniffs Out Whiskey: Can identify the brand, region, and style of whiskey

21

7

Is Math the Key to Quantum Entanglement Protection?

13

8

Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863, study finds

9

9

'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope

9

10

A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

683

2

The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

535

3

Missouri governor’s office responsible for teacher data leak

308

4

Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

293

5

Logging at Twitter

207

6

Thoughts on Intel software-defined silicon

160

7

Cloudflare to acquire Area 1 Security for $162M

149

8

IRS: Selfies now optional, biometric data to be deleted

47

9

Python Support for Regular Expressions

26

10

Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating and Removing ReiserFS

25

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue

251

2

DYMO's new label printer uses RFID tags to prevent the use of non-OEM paper

159

3

Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of 80s Home Computers

46

4

Here's how Google shares, monetizes, and exploits your data

26

5

The Last x86 via Chip: Unreleased Next-Gen Centaur CNS Saved from Trash, Tested

26

6

Windows 10 and 11 21H2 Data Wiping Tool Leaves User Data on Disk

16

7

Windows 10 and 11 21H2 Data Wiping Tool Leaves User Data on Disk

13

8

Windows 12 Development Reportedly Begins in Earnest Next Month

13

9

Smallest battery assembles itself like a Swiss roll cake

9

10

Cloning the AirTag

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities

11

2

Amazon Fire TV Source Code

4

3

Microsoft Security delivers new multicloud capabilities

4

4

How to secure API Gateway HTTP endpoints with JWT authorizer

3

5

Apple Al Maryah Island Opens Friday in the Heart of Abu Dhabi

3

6

AWS Backup for AWS S3

2

7

Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies for Dummies

2

8

Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB

2

9

New AWS Scholarship Program for Careers in AI and ML

2

10

Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Moral injury can occur in many contexts and populations, including the workplace

149

2

OK for Apple to Call Sagan 'Butt-Head Astronomer' (1994)

110

3

BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)

62

4

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

37

5

Revolving-door Gray code for all 4-vertex graphs [video]

34

6

Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books

31

7

The Love Story Story

19

8

Russia and Ukraine: The Tangled History That Connects – and Divides– Them

14

9

Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10

12

10

AT&T 3G Shutdown Today Will Kill Connected Features for Millions of Cars

11

Science News [?]

1

Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

311

2

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

205

3

Brain doesn't slow down until your 60s – later than we thought

179

4

Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span

159

5

Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells

128

6

Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices

101

7

Lit-up fishing nets reduce catch of unwanted sharks, rays and squid: study

82

8

The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring

75

9

Australian magpies help each other to remove tracking devices

69

10

A “hot Jupiter's” dark side is revealed in detail for first time

63

Social [?]

1

I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss

797

2

As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place

590

3

A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters

505

4

Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

491

5

Radiation spikes in Chernobyl

324

6

C meeting is over. C23 added:

231

7

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)

202

8

“Sustainability with Rust” post misleading about Go

190

9

Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”

187

10

Parallels Desktop Pro now sends spam notifications with ads to your desktop

166

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

568

2

A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine

428

3

OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems

308

4

Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently

274

5

PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide

271

6

Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform

256

7

Ngrok Alternatives

244

8

222

9

Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter

189

10

How to secure anything

188

Wikipedia [?]

1

140

2

Belling the Cat

116

3

All You Zombies

111

4

91

5

The Battle of Snake Island

59

6

List of U.S. states and territories by net migration

26

7

17

8

14

9

14

10

12

Blogs [?]

1

Things that used to be hard and are now easy

371

2

I was wrong, we need crypto

240

3

Misidentifying talent

230

4

Apple’s Mistake (2009)

177

5

95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

166

6

Squeezing Performance from SQLite: EXPLAINing the Virtual Machine

109

7

A six-fold improvement in the Merkle tree storage for Tezos

99

8

What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)

58

9

Highly Specific Commonalities Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Co-Founder of PayPal

10

10

The Python Paradox (2004)

10

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Many Endpoints per AWS Lambda

2

2

Explain dependency injection to a 5-year-old

2

3

What is the difference between raw_input() and input() in Python 3?

1

Substack [?]

1

Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse

416

2

Here comes the first TikTok war

223

3

The time has come to replace file systems

177

4

Minsky Moments in Venture Capital

128

5

We Are Experiencing Definitional Collapse

54

6

Help I can't become a digital nomad, I have too much stuff

52

7

Time Series Forecasting in SQL

42

8

So you want to be a trillionaire

28

9

A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada

26

10

Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might or Might Not Work

22