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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
1417
2
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
1292
3
55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
1260
4
This word does not exist
1184
5
Facebook Renames to Meta
1089
6
NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
1062
7
I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
832
8
The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
818
9
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
817
10
RSS is wonderful
812

Top Ask HN

1
Best way to host a website for 500 years?
666
2
Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
325
3
Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
320
4
Can Firefox be revived?
259
5
Which NoCode platforms are fine?
221
6
I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it?
217
7
State of PHP at Facebook?
123
8
What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
112
9
Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?
110
10
I'm 10 years into CS career, but rarely code anymore. Is this normal?
76

Top Show HN

1
I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
674
2
Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
443
3
CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
415
4
“HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots
262
5
Low-latency jamming over the internet
236
6
Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast
158
7
Made a web app to read a book carefully, paragraph by paragraph
137
8
Pimp My Readme
97
9
Semgrep App
79
10
Online editor to create animated SVG
66

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
The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
818
2
John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
817
3
Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners
450
4
Apple Is Normalising Surveillance
307
5
Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack
291
6
Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack
246
7
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS
180
8
Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute
163
9
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
141
10
The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science
100

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
Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
808
2
Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
752
3
The Financial Times’ 404 page
609
4
Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules
521
5
Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years
426
6
Google sought fellow tech giants' help in stalling kids' privacy protections
342
7
Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid
317
8
Where have all the insects gone?
307
9
Hertz orders 100k Teslas
300
10
Barcelona’s Bicibús: hundreds of families biking to school together
274

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
Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
204
2
Knowledge Graphs
160
3
Helium: South Africa strikes new 'gold'
142
4
Autonomous boats seem more solvable than autonomous cars
97
5
MRI and ultrasound can usher treatments through the blood-brain barrier
72
6
Cognition Without Computation
71
7
System sniffs out hardware trojans in electromagnetic emissions
62
8
Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science
49
9
Sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, possible wide-area radio blackout
31
10
Our datasets are flawed. ImageNet has an error rate of ~5.8%
23

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
Debian's Which Hunt
366
2
Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K
345
3
1.1.1.1 for Families
325
4
.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
319
5
Sudan woke up without Internet
129
6
Hooks are the best thing to happen to React
95
7
Microservices and the layers to watch for when architecting your system
78
8
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
76
9
Zales.com Leaked Customer Data Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018
44
10
Indexing the Creator Economy
40

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
592
2
Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated
287
3
Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth
136
4
EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board
68
5
AnandTech Interviews Mike Clark, AMD’s Chief Architect of Zen
29
6
Building a Devil’s Toothpaste Rocket Motor
28
7
Intel Adler Lake CPU with P and E cores
24
8
Vizio in Hot Water over Smart TV GPL Violations
19
9
Original iPod Macrumors Thread
12
10
New MacBook Pro Models Include HDMI 2.0 Port Instead of HDMI 2.1
11

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
macOS Monterey
440
2
Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
185
3
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, hello Babelfish
92
4
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
85
5
macOS Monterey is now available
7
6
Microsoft finds new macOS vulnerability, Shrootless, that could bypass SIP
7
7
AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Las Vegas, New York City, and Portland
5
8
Fitness+ introduces workouts and meditations with SharePlay
3
9
Nobelium targeting delegated administrative privileges to facilitate attacks
3
10
Apple charges forward to 2030 carbon neutral goal, adding 9 gigawatts of clean
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
I don’t know how to count that low
309
2
A librarian and a food historian rediscovered the recipes of Moorish Spain
113
3
The Air Force has a plan to make jet fuel out of air
109
4
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse
98
5
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006)
91
6
Sequoia Productive Capital
90
7
Affordable 70 MPH electric motorcycle is already here and no one noticed
63
8
Space-Related Applications of Forth (1998)
61
9
Alaskan Air Base Will Host an Experimental Mini Nuclear Reactor
38
10
Lemurs sing in a rhythm previously only found in humans and birds
36

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
Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
477
2
In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using classical mechanics
339
3
SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
253
4
An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity
189
5
Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway
169
6
Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
168
7
Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for murder?
140
8
Tadayuki Watanabe disproved a major conjecture about spheres
132
9
No time to die: An indepth analysis of James Bonds exposure to infectious agents
105
10
Where transcendental numbers hide in everyday math
82

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
1417
2
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
1292
3
An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
737
4
What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
735
5
Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations
678
6
Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
653
7
The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]
512
8
Something special is happening in Barcelona
313
9
Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis
290
10
Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies
263

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
540
2
Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
471
3
Offline-First Database Comparison
415
4
A bug that doesn’t exist on x86: Exploiting an ARM-only race condition
291
5
Scryer Prolog: A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust
272
6
ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer
250
7
Nsh: A fish/bash-like Posix shell in Rust
179
8
Microsoft removes hot reload from open source .NET, locks it to Visual Studio
164
9
It appears that private keys for generating EU Covid Certificates have leaked
123
10
GPT Code Clippy, the Open Source Version of GitHub Copilot
115

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Signal for Help
231
2
Ephemeralization
146
3
Uranium Glass
104
4
Wall of Sound
69
5
Intelink
53
6
Low-Background Steel
27
7
Retrieve a random Wikipedia page
19
8
The Myth of Mental Illness
14
9
Original Antigenic Sin
13
10
Jesuit Reduction
13

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS
454
2
The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies
188
3
Programmer Moneyball (2016)
104
4
Twenty-year truck driver: America’s “shipping crisis” will not end
96
5
The Codeless CTO (2019)
59
6
The Seven Rules of the Metaverse
15
7
The Ghost of Silverlight, or “Lessons Learned from Dying Frameworks”
12
8
We’re not as smart as Google makes us think we are
12
9
Genius Qualities of Extraordinary People I Wish I Had Known Earlier in Life
8
10
Monitoring and Forensics Tools on Windows
6

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
A single man answered 76k questions about SQL on Stack Overflow
4
2
How to prevent inspect element, users should not be able to edit disabled fields
3
3
MySQL – how to change this code – Stack Overflow
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
DIY Acoustic Camera
394
2
“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
247
3
Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
242
4
Chilling Effects
167
5
Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment
156
6
Epistemic Minor Leagues
110
7
The main thing with kids is to keep them alive
66
8
What We Lose When We Lose Thomas Jefferson – By Samuel Goldman
41
9
How to Catch a Cheating Candidate in an Interview
30
10
Maybe we need a moral panic about Facebook
19