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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mechanical Watch

4298

2

Google Search Is Dying

3636

3

My First Impressions of Web3

3187

4

2900

5

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

6

Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

2747

7

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

2498

8

Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

2410

9

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

10

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

Top Ask HN

1

What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

2048

2

Gmail account security

1508

3

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

1147

4

How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

1094

5

What game do you wish existed?

859

6

Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

798

7

YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

750

8

When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

711

9

GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?

710

10

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

696

Top Show HN

1

Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

1241

2

SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually

1241

3

A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released

1157

4

I made a web game called Almost Pong

1135

5

947

6

Warp, a Rust-based terminal

946

7

A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model

815

8

I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch

777

9

Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

752

10

HN Avatars in 357 bytes

701

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

1180

2

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

1040

3

Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

1032

4

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps

924

5

MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips

885

6

Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

855

7

PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

814

8

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

720

9

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

710

10

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

691

News [?]

1

Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

2747

2

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

2498

3

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

2278

4

Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

1765

5

Facebook loses users for the first time

1749

6

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

1704

7

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

1128

8

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

1044

9

Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

987

10

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

978

Scientific publications [?]

1

Deepest infrared image of universe

1136

2

James Webb is fully deployed

1127

3

Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates

692

4

James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

555

5

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

461

6

Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)

371

7

Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol

341

8

Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens

333

9

Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads

318

10

The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges

318

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1820

2

Sunsetting Atom

1320

3

DALL·E now available in beta

923

4

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

902

5

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users

877

6

GitHub Copilot is generally available

863

7

817

8

Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022

703

9

Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

683

10

Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

681

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

1069

2

The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

775

3

Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

736

4

T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US

692

5

EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms

691

6

Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands

532

7

Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

466

8

Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech

394

9

Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k

316

10

Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car

314

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple previews Lockdown Mode

1577

2

1168

3

Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone

847

4

Apple is discontinuing the iPod

664

5

Apple Mac Studio

653

6

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available

643

7

Apple Unveils M2

602

8

New MacBook Air with M2

420

9

Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

382

10

An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking

358

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

864

2

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)

765

3

Coinbase employees petition to remove execs

522

4

I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)

479

5

How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices

417

6

Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements

337

7

Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)

335

8

Shirky.com is gone

331

9

Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density

326

10

The Intel Split

322

Science News [?]

1

The Uselessness of Phenylephrine

799

2

Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy

776

3

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

755

4

Multiple Sclerosis Causality

635

5

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

616

6

Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s

602

7

Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure

589

8

Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy

569

9

Science needs more research software engineers

532

10

Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

506

Social [?]

1

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

2793

2

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent

2191

3

Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]

1926

4

Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

1607

5

Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

1165

6

Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

1157

7

I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law

1141

8

Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

1117

9

Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”

997

10

Amazon Pip Horror Story

902

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Framework Laptop Mainboard

1019

2

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

958

3

HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

921

4

Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

914

5

Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax

890

6

Danish government makes its new economic model open source

842

7

Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing

831

8

GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

766

9

Burn My Windows

761

10

YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

756

Wikipedia [?]

1

In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

707

2

445

3

388

4

The Last Question

314

5

270

6

251

7

Two envelopes problem

249

8

236

9

234

10

206

Blogs [?]

1

929

2

Some tiny personal programs I've written

873

3

Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

848

4

New(ish) command line tools

760

5

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

699

6

The Cult Inside Google

597

7

Success and Failure at Pebble

557

8

“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

537

9

Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick

488

10

What happens when you press a key in your terminal?

408

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?

434

2

How does database indexing work? (2008)

254

3

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

72

4

Yes, this is embarrassingly slow, so I solved your problem

71

5

Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (2015)

40

6

Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

25

7

StackOverflow Jobs posting that specifically excludes men from applying

11

8

New Stackoverflow theme

7

9

Stackoverflow Is Down

6

10

Is it possible to detect if an email was sent via Gmail's “Schedule Send”?

5

Substack [?]

1

“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti

1143

2

Heuristics that almost always work

1000

3

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

768

4

No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

704

5

Are you a baby? A litmus test

660

6

What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?

601

7

How to design a house to last 1000 years

584

8

563

9

$625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

538

10

Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

531