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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

1735

2

Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

1044

3

Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest

978

4

SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file

958

5

Write plain text files

739

6

Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

727

7

Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

720

8

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp

709

9

SPAs Were a Mistake

692

10

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

691

Top Ask HN

1

The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?

392

2

Who is hiring? (March 2022)

327

3

Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?

314

4

Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?

265

5

Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

248

6

Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

220

7

Should HN require/encourage job postings to have a salary range?

220

8

Should I give up and get a job?

191

9

What is the oldest, still supported OS?

180

10

Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?

179

Top Show HN

1

I made a web game called Almost Pong

1135

2

A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

478

3

Berkeley Mono Typeface

355

4

Huemint – Machine learning for color design

335

5

DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)

269

6

Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client

211

7

I made a little math game named Summle

189

8

I made a web game using emojis and no JS framework

188

9

WAPM – WebAssembly Package Manager

186

10

Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python

158

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

720

2

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

691

3

'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

477

4

Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

366

5

BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

339

6

Ice cream machine hackers sue McDonald's

276

7

Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

264

8

Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd murder

138

9

Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps

129

10

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a surveillance machine in Minnesota

110

News [?]

1

Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

1044

2

Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest

978

3

BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion

496

4

Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination

422

5

David Boggs has died

360

6

China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Biden officials say

344

7

Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis

336

8

New York Times tech workers vote to certify union

332

9

Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug

313

10

What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped

305

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power

200

2

DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers

194

3

TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage

177

4

Gradients Without Backpropagation

87

5

Mitsubishi plans to include scene-aware interaction in cars

81

6

Basic Quantum Algorithms

56

7

Human toxicity from Covid-19 rapid home test kits

54

8

SpaceX launches 47 Starlink satellites and lands rocket making 11th flight

41

9

Discovery of ultrafast myosin, its amino acid sequence, and structural features

40

10

Using CMOS Sensors in a Cellphone for Gamma Detection and Classification

33

Dev Blogs [?]

1

GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source

317

2

Better visibility into Linux packet-dropping decisions

132

3

CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754

119

4

WASI: A New Kind of System Interface

99

5

Mozilla and the EFF publish letter about the danger of Article 45.2

78

6

DNA data of sexual assault victims exposed in breach at US laboratory

63

7

Ruble-Denominated Bitcoin Volumes Surges to 9-Month High

46

8

Future Intel Systems to Be Even Less Friendly for Open-Source Firmware

38

9

Our Response to the War in Ukraine

38

10

Helping Ukraine

33

Tech blogs [?]

1

Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet

260

2

$60 PC Oscilloscope Review

88

3

Protein tweak makes CRISPR gene editing 4k times less error-prone

87

4

The new ARM based ThinkPad X13s

50

5

New UCIe Chiplet Standard Supported by Intel, AMD, and Arm

44

6

Animal-free dairy milk set to finally hit US retail shelves

25

7

Graphics Card Prices Dropped 11% in February

23

8

Raspberry Pi Alternative Banana Pi Reveals Powerful New Board

22

9

Optical Discs Aren't Dead, as Pioneer's New Drive Doubles BD Write Speeds

21

10

“Drug factory” beads implanted in mice take out tumors within a week

21

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Lambda adds supports for .NET 6

213

2

“Peek Performance” Apple Event Scheduled for Tuesday

22

3

Customer Carbon Footprint Tool for AWS

6

4

Additional Checksum Algorithms for Amazon S3

4

5

Coq: The world’s best macro assembler? (2013)

4

6

Additional Checksum Algorithms for Amazon S3

4

7

Apple launches inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Latin founders

3

8

Apple March 2022 Keynote

3

9

Amazon Luna: Cloud Gaming

2

10

Apple welcomes the return of in-person Today at Apple sessions across US stores

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

200-foot-long railway to nowhere is a brilliant shipping loophole

206

2

Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia

183

3

An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

154

4

10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

150

5

Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (1965)

133

6

Russian state news declared victory too soon and quickly deletes article

71

7

FBI Gains Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Google Account Data

44

8

The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase (2003)

37

9

Threads (1984) – Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect

34

10

Jwz: Robot war dogs hunting migrants now

26

Science News [?]

1

Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm with paper made from bananas

208

2

A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink the structure of nature’s laws

162

3

Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination

155

4

An ALS Protein, Revealed

135

5

How Swahili became Africa's most spoken language

120

6

Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used

113

7

Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing

79

8

Mathematicians make sense of chaos

76

9

Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought

76

10

Wuhan market was epicentre of pandemic’s start, studies suggest

55

Social [?]

1

Modern smartphone lenses are crazy

587

2

Newly published 9/11 footage [video]

257

3

Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline

205

4

An IT Army for Ukraine

202

5

Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning

201

6

Serious flaws in the way Samsung phones encrypt key material in TrustZone

185

7

I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again

174

8

Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

163

9

Advice to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv

132

10

The implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices

114

Github repos and gists [?]

1

SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file

958

2

My Stripe Tax Story

665

3

“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”

510

4

Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid

379

5

iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU

356

6

Open source alternatives to popular SaaS products

299

7

How generics are implemented in Go 1.18

288

8

MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation

282

9

Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

258

10

What happened to my career after 2010? (2021)

244

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wet-Bulb Temperature

112

2

105

3

This Is the Boke of Cokery

91

4

Homo Sovieticus

65

5

Rossum's Universal Robots

59

6

56

7

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

48

8

29

9

24

10

21

Blogs [?]

1

68

2

Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix

32

3

My Battle with Post-Finasteride Syndrome, Part I

21

4

Employee NPS: The Golden Metric for Employee Performance Review

14

5

Vitalik Buterin Says Canada’s Use of Banks to Quell Trucker Protest Is Dangerous

9

6

8

7

A Gentle Introduction to Automatic Text Summarization

7

8

Let’s Understand Base64

5

9

How can Carvana afford to buy ADESA?

5

10

The other side of social media

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts

2

Substack [?]

1

Make Linux look like Windows 95

473

2

Why not hire part-time developers?

349

3

The war on gifted education

264

4

P. J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022

251

5

The decline and fall of Java on the desktop

247

6

Class Bullshitters

161

7

Lessons from shipbuilding productivity

85

8

Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin

79

9

Russia's Plan C

55

10

Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship

51