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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Is that ship still stuck?
1453
2
All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
1345
3
Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
1167
4
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
1107
5
Click
1100
6
Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
1064
7
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
1055
8
SQLite is not a toy database
986
9
Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
972
10
Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
865

Top Ask HN

1
What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
360
2
Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
248
3
How to build empathy?
212
4
How do I improve boring README page?
73
5
Is Google still a cool place to work?
72
6
Literature on crisis response?
72
7
Are you using Go for web development?
65
8
What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
60
9
Am I wasting my time working as a software engineer in Western Europe?
58
10
Which book/essay changed your life?
57

Top Show HN

1
I wrote a book about Go
919
2
I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
375
3
Regular expression compilation visualized
219
4
PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way
200
5
Arc, an open-source Databricks alternative
175
6
Papercups – Open-source alternative to Intercom
148
7
Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow
148
8
WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos
104
9
Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors
95
10
Reclist.me – Share your favorite books, podcasts, newsletters
69

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
Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage
274
2
Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)
245
3
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
212
4
Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users
145
5
A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SEC first
144
6
After a remote year, tech’s shadow workforce barely hangs on
117
7
Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will not be competitive
105
8
The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)
92
9
Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation
91
10
AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not be blocking any workload
68

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
SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme
436
2
Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
410
3
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
350
4
Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place
348
5
As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds
329
6
Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
313
7
Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia
307
8
Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator
284
9
In January, there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.
270
10
Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo
256

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
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years
317
2
Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory
240
3
Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case
181
4
Part of Wright brothers' first airplane on NASA's Mars chopper
102
5
The algorithms that make Instacart roll
100
6
NASA completes engine test firing of moon rocket on 2nd try
91
7
Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43km [pdf]
81
8
Found in space: Complex carbon-based molecules
77
9
The Transformer Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem
49
10
Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI
36

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
Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
972
2
Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
389
3
The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
372
4
Learning Machine Learning for Game Development
271
5
Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
231
6
Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud
120
7
OAuth Attack Vectors
106
8
Reinstating Net Neutrality in the US
100
9
A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning
91
10
How GitHub Actions renders large-scale logs
75

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification
204
2
AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer
153
3
Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB
151
4
The Western Digital WD Black SN850 Review: A Fast PCIe 4.0 SSD
149
5
Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program
139
6
Intel’s New IDM 2.0 Strategy
122
7
Brazil agency fines Apple $2M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box
49
8
Statement on Re-Election of Richard Stallman to Free Software Foundation Board
33
9
T-Mobile Rolls Out Spam Prevention, Authenticates 98% of Wireless Callers
27
10
Today Marks 20 Years Since Mac OS X First Launched
24

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon S3 Object Lambda
170
2
Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend (2001)
38
3
A Fork() in the Road
10
4
The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work–Are We Ready?
5
5
Extensible Pattern Matching via a Lightweight LanguageExtension [pdf]
3
6
The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work–Are We Ready?
3
7
AWS S3 Object Lambda
2
8
Run Commands or Exec a Shell in AWS ECS Fargate
2
9
Australian primary school drives innovation and creativity with iPad
2
10
Apple expands free professional learning to help teachers champion creativity
2

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
Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast
299
2
Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0
276
3
DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights
248
4
Map shows how fertilizer is choking the Great Lakes
155
5
Sovereign writers and Substack
142
6
Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (2013)
95
7
Cărturești Carusel Bookstore - now one of the most beautiful bookstores
80
8
Iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank
65
9
Images of weapons before they obliterate targets
57
10
Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be a Level 2 System
53

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
Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal
310
2
The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
244
3
Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)
243
4
20-Minute Neighborhoods
202
5
High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders
175
6
Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis restores high-resolution responses
113
7
The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
82
8
Science relies on constructive criticism. How to keep it useful and respectful
82
9
Attributes and predictors of long Covid
81
10
Reproductive Problems in Both Men and Women Are Rising at an Alarming Rate
71

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
1064
2
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
1055
3
Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
823
4
Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
731
5
The absolute worst scenario happened
564
6
John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
445
7
Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode
443
8
Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web
397
9
Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]
278
10
I’ve made a Cursed USB-C 2.0 device
252

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
815
2
GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models
561
3
Sensible macOS Defaults
342
4
Please don't upgrade Docker without asking first
280
5
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit
269
6
Removed gem breaks Rails ActiveStorage
265
7
Differential Datalog
231
8
CXX - Safe interop between Rust and C++
183
9
Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software
156
10
TinaCMS: A toolkit for building visual editing into your site
153

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Letterlocking
168
2
Cistercian Numerals
149
3
Gödel's Loophole
131
4
Van Eck Phreaking
127
5
Amdahl's Law
118
6
Hutter Prize
111
7
Nowruz
105
8
Stuck in the Suez Canal for 8 Years – The Yellow Fleet
57
9
List of Unsolved Problems in Physics
29
10
Yarn Bombing
14

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
211
2
Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018)
187
3
Get better at programming by learning how things work
72
4
Tinder Experiment: Gini coefficient is 0.58 – worse than 95% of global economies
51
5
Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
42
6
Comp.programming.threads FAQ (2001)
38
7
Executing a distributed shuffle without a MapReduce system
15
8
My Software Engineering Reading List
14
9
Nano is a live financial network, the sustained spamming is considered an attack
11
10
The Modest Front End
10

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Backup Strategies for AWS S3 Bucket – Stack Overflow
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter
204
2
1982: The Hobbit
190
3
U.S. intelligence community increasingly involving itself in domestic politics
48
4
Hacktivism, leaktivism and the future
47
5
Book Review: Antifragile
34
6
The deep fake threat hardly anyone discusses
33
7
Manganese-rich cathode chemistries: The once and future king?
32
8
Crisis on Taiwan, Schrödinger’s Island
30
9
GLAAD Took False, Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt and Used It to Put Me on a List
14
10
GPT-3 tries pickup lines
14