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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
2
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
2498
3
We lost 54k GitHub stars
1883
4
Dall-E 2
1820
5
A few things to know before stealing my 914
1501
6
Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
1367
7
One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
1260
8
Inside the longest Atlassian outage
1232
9
Jd
1212
10
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
1144

Top Ask HN

1
When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
711
2
Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
685
3
Share your personal site
665
4
Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
518
5
Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
469
6
I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?
444
7
Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
424
8
Have you created programs for only your personal use?
423
9
Teach me something new
416
10
What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
355

Top Show HN

1
Warp, a Rust-based terminal
946
2
Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
752
3
Make your PDF look scanned in browser
579
4
I built a simulator for personal finance
463
5
A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
452
6
Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
448
7
This AI Does Not Exist
434
8
I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
390
9
I made a puzzle game in HTML5
368
10
Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations
346

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
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
1040
2
Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
622
3
ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
376
4
Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation
360
5
Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
353
6
North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden media
333
7
Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda
322
8
Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
317
9
San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on
311
10
Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
285

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
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
2
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
2498
3
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
841
4
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
804
5
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
790
6
Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
743
7
Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
693
8
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
669
9
A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
666
10
I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
600

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
James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
555
2
Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads
318
3
Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
275
4
Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
230
5
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
221
6
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
209
7
Single-chip processors have reached their limits
203
8
The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
181
9
A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself
166
10
Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items
160

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
Dall-E 2
1820
2
Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker
635
3
You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
615
4
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
554
5
Git security vulnerability announced
549
6
Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
321
7
RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
319
8
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
289
9
Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
281
10
Netflix End of Series 1
279

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves
245
2
NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit
203
3
Big Wind is the meanest firefighting tank you ever saw (2021)
180
4
Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores
171
5
Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks promise to make jet fuel obsolete
74
6
Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker
68
7
EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do
61
8
Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’
41
9
EFF Calls for Ban on Behavioural Advertising
38
10
Apple Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app
37

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
643
2
AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
277
3
Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie
265
4
Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
249
5
Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses
106
6
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
94
7
AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
47
8
AWS Aurora Serverless V2
42
9
Microsoft Q3
19
10
Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn
16

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
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
Shirky.com is gone
331
4
Playing with DALL-E 2
298
5
Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine
295
6
A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)
223
7
Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
159
8
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
153
9
Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?
148
10
Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
140

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
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
616
2
Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure
589
3
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
569
4
Mental speed is high until age sixty
466
5
The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity
439
6
MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker
374
7
Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations
356
8
Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals?
335
9
From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
258
10
How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021)
255

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
848
2
Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
699
3
Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
668
4
My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
591
5
Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
535
6
Elon has decided not to join our board
512
7
What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
503
8
Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks
502
9
Insider Trading at Coinbase
477
10
Drone footage of Tesla factory
408

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Framework Laptop Mainboard
1019
2
HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
921
3
Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
831
4
Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
752
5
Eden
624
6
Why I'll never use Affirm again
512
7
Memray: a memory profiler for Python
495
8
Go will use pdqsort in next release
433
9
Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
425
10
NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
420

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Insect Hotel
206
2
List Of Adhesive Tapes
162
3
VRML
150
4
Fourth-generation programming language
120
5
Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
99
6
Taxation of illegal income in the United States
85
7
Nicaraguan Sign Language
84
8
Dead Hand
73
9
Wanderwort
66
10
Perpetual Bond
66

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Heresy
929
2
New(ish) command line tools
760
3
Success and Failure at Pebble
557
4
In defense of simple architectures
368
5
What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)
252
6
We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure
227
7
How to organize yourself as a solo founder
207
8
GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
190
9
‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020)
185
10
Advantages of Monorepos (2015)
183

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
New Stackoverflow theme
7
2
What does if __name__ == “__main__”: do?
4
3
Stackoverflow.com is unusable without JavaScript (due to April Fools)
3
4
Should I use the existing WebSocket connection for request/response operations?
3
5
Duplicate highlighter one-liner [Vim]
2
6
Comparing Two Images with Imagemagick
2
7
How to handle video autoplay on web just like YouTube
2
8
What is the difference between Lucene and Elasticsearch
2
9
Why header and payload in the JWT token always starts with eyJ
2
10
When Will Ethereum Switch to Proof of Stake? – Stack Overflow
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
768
2
No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
704
3
Are you a baby? A litmus test
660
4
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
490
5
Is everything falling apart?
411
6
I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
394
7
The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
384
8
Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM
343
9
Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
316
10
Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
293