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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
3883
2
The Framework Laptop
2563
3
Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
2023
4
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
1941
5
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
1801
6
My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
1723
7
Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
1692
8
Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
1669
9
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
1663
10
Total Cookie Protection
1527

Top Ask HN

1
Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
740
2
What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
544
3
Who is hiring? (February 2021)
461
4
Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?
334
5
Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?
302
6
What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
228
7
What entry-level telescope should I choose?
223
8
Why aren't you coding?
221
9
Team fun event ideas during WFH?
216
10
What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?
194

Top Show HN

1
Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
1998
2
Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
1422
3
I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems
632
4
Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
582
5
Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose
547
6
Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
473
7
ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
465
8
Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
451
9
QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
418
10
Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
412

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
1232
2
Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters
969
3
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
758
4
Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
640
5
California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs
413
6
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
371
7
New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped
368
8
‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos
326
9
New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag
306
10
Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming
283

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit
981
2
MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
975
3
America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
870
4
Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test
792
5
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
789
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The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
669
7
Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
656
8
Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
623
9
Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
618
10
WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
615

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week
300
2
DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
291
3
How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars
234
4
What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)
202
5
New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum
184
6
The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]
143
7
Cname / DNS based third party tracking
108
8
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
94
9
A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
86
10
Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention
85

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
Total Cookie Protection
1527
2
Pattern matching accepted for Python
654
3
What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
440
4
Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
436
5
I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
354
6
Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
312
7
Best practices for REST API design (2020)
296
8
IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
292
9
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
276
10
Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
275

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
623
2
Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate
280
3
Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth
198
4
Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’
184
5
We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite
184
6
New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests
172
7
Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
163
8
Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes
139
9
Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled
112
10
Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster
109

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
10
2
We Read Too app developer Kaya Thomas explores trends in Black literature
8
3
Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages
6
4
Introducing Microsoft Viva
6
5
AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 Is Now Generally Available
5
6
Busting the Myth of Vendor Lock-In
4
7
AWS Joins the Rust Foundation
4
8
Using Zero Trust Principles to Protect Against Sophisticated Attacks
4
9
Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function
3
10
“Hometown,” shot on iPhone 12 Pro
3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
638
2
Making Vaccine
536
3
Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
490
4
Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs
279
5
In-car touchscreens are dangerous
249
6
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk
245
7
Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin
225
8
Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order
201
9
Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)
182
10
The Relentless Jeff Bezos
180

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
502
2
Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
407
3
Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm
343
4
Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)
285
5
Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter
260
6
The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
187
7
The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
171
8
Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics
168
9
U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'
156
10
A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
156

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
2023
2
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
1663
3
Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
1185
4
“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
1168
5
Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
761
6
Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
648
7
Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]
507
8
Fry's Electronics is closing all stores
488
9
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed
474
10
NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
427

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
1692
2
System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code
536
3
Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
502
4
Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
499
5
SpaCy 3.0
484
6
Native Mac APIs for Go
480
7
Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
476
8
Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups
446
9
GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
433
10
Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
413

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Elfstedentocht
295
2
Pravetz Computers
171
3
Zooko's Triangle
153
4
Reversible Computing
149
5
Project Xanadu
132
6
Banned in Boston
100
7
Long Hundred
97
8
Zone of Death (Yellowstone)
96
9
Bangui magnetic anomaly
82
10
Crypto-Anarchism
74

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
1107
2
What I Worked On
986
3
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play
210
4
Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet
207
5
Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
205
6
A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village
184
7
Do Things that Don't Scale (2013)
177
8
Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
122
9
Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016)
94
10
HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry
85

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017)
108
2
What is the case against F#? (2009)
59
3
Replacements for Switch Statement in Python?
10
4
Replacing 32- with 64-bit loop counter introduces crazy performance deviations
5
5
Rest Versioning: URL Path vs. HTTP Header
2
6
How do I split the date and time into two elements? (2016)
2
7
What is the case against F# (2009)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Statement on New York Times Article
866
2
NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
452
3
Are You Trading or Gambling?
372
4
“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
369
5
Short fat engineers are undervalued
369
6
What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes
333
7
Commenting vs. Making
306
8
1977: Zork
280
9
Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
224
10
Fictional Cryptocurrencies
213