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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
1389
2
OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
1147
3
Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
1138
4
ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
860
5
FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
853
6
Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
851
7
Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
713
8
Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
688
9
Economic costs of war
666
10
Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
613

Top Ask HN

1
Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
964
2
What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
614
3
Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
547
4
What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
529
5
I feel trapped in my job and city
185
6
I joined a FAANG and it is awful
169
7
My friend made it big. How to handle?
143
8
Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?
107
9
Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
79
10
Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
63

Top Show HN

1
Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
1216
2
Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
623
3
I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
399
4
Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options
285
5
Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing
225
6
Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off
165
7
Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events
153
8
Instantly listen to any URL
134
9
Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
128
10
Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact
126

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
Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
688
2
Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium
602
3
Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
568
4
Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster
439
5
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
432
6
Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
374
7
Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’
361
8
How Google bought Android
262
9
Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022
261
10
Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online
241

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
OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
1147
2
Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
585
3
Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
567
4
We built a system like Apple’s to flag CSAM and concluded the tech was dangerous
425
5
T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach
425
6
Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
413
7
U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes
391
8
Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
383
9
Why is it so hard to be rational?
354
10
Google Groups kills RSS support without notice
319

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
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
248
2
A Dyson sphere around a black hole
214
3
Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab
174
4
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
159
5
California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
132
6
For precision, the sapphire clock outshines even the best atomic clocks
117
7
Where did the web archive go?
94
8
Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
63
9
Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox
59
10
The Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial Success (2018)
58

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
Performance Improvements in .NET 6
362
2
Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead
345
3
T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
327
4
SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
286
5
Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search
207
6
Git 2.33
179
7
Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
120
8
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
104
9
New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks
93
10
Apple's NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
50

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
German parliament pens letter to Apple with concerns over CSAM detection system
430
2
Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD
145
3
German parliament wants Tim Cook to reconsider CSAM plans
117
4
US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones
65
5
Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-Less OLED with 25% Less Power
27
6
Apple Reverses iOS 15 Safari Changes with New Toggle for Top Address Bar
21
7
Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed
17
8
US Army fields first combat-capable laser weapon prototype
16
9
Apple Had a 'Double Agent' in the iPhone Leaker Community
15
10
DDR5-4800 Clashes with DDR4-3200 in Alder Lake Benchmarks
15

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]
325
2
AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second
101
3
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database
53
4
Non-Exhaustive List of Amazon Trademarks
22
5
Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign
7
6
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
7
7
Apple selects 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses for Impact Accelerator
5
8
Apple Card and Goldman Sachs ranked highest in customer satisfaction in J.D. Po
3
9
Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift
2
10
Alto User’s Handbook (October 1976)
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
The Zettelkasten Method (2019)
159
2
home.netscape.com in 1997
157
3
The quest to recreate a lost and ‘terrifying’ medieval mead
97
4
Unlocking the Secrets of ‘Invisible’ Animals
36
5
800 People Evacuated from Kabul Aboard a Single C-17 Cargo Jet: Reports
25
6
Charity in Texas Teaches Underprivileged Kids to Hunt Their Next Meal
20
7
Tesla is prepping for giant Supercharger expansion before opening for other EVs
20
8
The geoglyph known as the Cerne Abbas Giant has a new estimated age
18
9
The Making of Running Time (1997)
18
10
King Tut’s Mysterious Black Dagger Was Truly Out of This World
17

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
The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris
263
2
Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption
239
3
Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds
229
4
Complexity theory puts limits on performance of gradient descent
150
5
How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
126
6
Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta
102
7
Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
96
8
Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago
93
9
Lab-made dairy products are now a reality
87
10
Autocorrect errors in Excel still creating genomics headache
80

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
613
2
Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone
503
3
OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]
374
4
TikTok requests access to devices on local network
323
5
How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video]
262
6
San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)
260
7
Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]
180
8
Dubai Is a Parody of the 21st Century
144
9
“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”
131
10
25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0
121

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
1389
2
Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
1138
3
FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
853
4
Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX
505
5
Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
366
6
AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
298
7
A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff
288
8
WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
228
9
React Renderer for Three.js
213
10
Zx 3.0
189

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Carolyn Shoemaker has died
115
2
The Triple Revolution
75
3
Fall of Saigon
64
4
Stonewall Nation
58
5
The Overview Effect
44
6
South Atlantic Anomaly
33
7
Yahoo Pipes
23
8
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
18
9
List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita
16
10
Women-Are-Wonderful Effect
15

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
It’s not that hard to be in the top 10% of your field
47
2
The Lesson to Unlearn (2019)
38
3
The Top of My Todo List (2012)
31
4
Learnings Using Phoenix LiveView for Internal Web Applications
24
5
Patterns in Confusing Explanations
16
6
Can GitHub Copilot Crack a coding interview?
12
7
Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
9
8
Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
9
9
Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
9
10
Too Many SaaS Tools: Turn Your CRM into a PLG CRM
8

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How can I get this 8 year old VBA 64-bit compiler bug fixed?
146

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
439
2
The Bullshit
271
3
How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?
176
4
Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech
140
5
The DOJ’s Crypto Dragnet Is Bigger Than You Think
123
6
Avoiding Founder Burnout
84
7
DecisionOps: Effective Engineering Management
58
8
The Rich Don't Penny Pinch
43
9
The arc of history bends toward emotional support peacocks
37
10
The US Government Lied for Two Decades on Afghanistan
36