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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
I regret my website redesign
2007
2
Compare Webb's Images to Hubble
1636
3
Apple previews Lockdown Mode
1577
4
Standard Ebooks
1574
5
Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig
1431
6
Felt
1382
7
Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
1324
8
Absurd Trolley Problems
1296
9
I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
1180
10
Glassdoor not so anonymous
1147

Top Ask HN

1
What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
2048
2
YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
750
3
I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?
453
4
How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
407
5
Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel?
363
6
What can you realistically manufacture in your garage?
352
7
I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
352
8
Who is hiring? (July 2022)
328
9
Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
323
10
What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
304

Top Show HN

1
Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux
571
2
PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file
563
3
Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid
537
4
Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
517
5
Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns
507
6
I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings
451
7
tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
378
8
Copy React code from any site
374
9
Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator
367
10
I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
344

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
I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
1180
2
US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design
710
3
Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
440
4
Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
435
5
Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range
359
6
Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment
342
7
Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
328
8
The GPU shortage is over
302
9
Polio Detected in US
299
10
Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship
278

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
Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
965
2
Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent
818
3
Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
704
4
Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
681
5
Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
655
6
Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
633
7
Spain will introduce free train travel
615
8
Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
526
9
Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
507
10
Elon’s Out
498

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
Deepest infrared image of universe
1136
2
Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
692
3
Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol
341
4
Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens
333
5
The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges
318
6
SATAn: Air-Gap Exfiltration Attack via Radio Signals from SATA Cables
312
7
Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery
280
8
Strange new phase of matter acts like it has two time dimensions
264
9
No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias
243
10
Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades
224

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 now available in beta
923
2
It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
436
3
Experian, you have some explaining to do
385
4
An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love
371
5
WeatherKit
335
6
Log4j: The pain just keeps going
258
7
Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
241
8
An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
232
9
Celsius acknowledges $1.2B hole in balance sheet
231
10
The trouble with symbolic links
227

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
691
2
Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k
316
3
Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing
136
4
A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
101
5
TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona
82
6
Earthgrid aims to rewire the USA using super-cheap tunnel tech
79
7
Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
73
8
An Airbus A380 was flown on fuel derived from cooking oil
59
9
Even Doom can now run Doom
55
10
Visual cryptography for physical keyrings
50

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple previews Lockdown Mode
1577
2
New MacBook Air with M2
420
3
Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers
150
4
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
126
5
Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS
79
6
Amazon Drive is closing on January 31, 2023
53
7
Uncovering a macOS App Sandbox escape vulnerability
49
8
Microsoft Earnings Release FY22 Q4
40
9
Amazon Prime Day 2022 – AWS for the Win
27
10
Hive ransomware gets upgrades in Rust
11

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 bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)
479
2
For centuries, English bakers’ biggest customers were horses
271
3
Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
200
4
Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)
189
5
Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty
157
6
BMW Makes Heated Seats an $18/Month Subscription Service – Again
95
7
Is the silence of the Great Plains to blame for ‘prairie madness’?
89
8
Imaginary numbers are real
76
9
A World Tour of Abandoned Amusement Parks
66
10
World War II frogmen who trained in secret off the California coast
57

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
Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
776
2
Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s
602
3
“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
491
4
He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal
355
5
Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees
264
6
Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean?
250
7
People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'
216
8
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
198
9
Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
198
10
‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond our Solar System
193

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
894
2
Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
879
3
Intel Microcode Decryptor
830
4
The dark side of Shopify
782
5
Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit
663
6
Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)
580
7
TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business
564
8
A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
465
9
I made a Google sheet of local elections and it's been removed from Google Drive
464
10
There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
456

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
715
2
Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
580
3
Intel Microcode Decryptor
578
4
Functional programming jargon in plain English
557
5
Build Your Own X
528
6
Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework
515
7
Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
483
8
Lichess: The free and open source chess server
466
9
A Framework for Engineering Managers
412
10
Popcorn Time Is Back
405

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Black MIDI
234
2
General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy
199
3
Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse
195
4
Gunslinger Effect
138
5
Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
113
6
StretchText
111
7
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi
90
8
Aztec Diamond
70
9
Mponeng Gold Mine
69
10
Faxlore
67

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
408
2
Monitoring tiny web services
218
3
The Poor ROI of Autonomy (2020)
152
4
You Don't Need Microservices
113
5
Beating the Averages (2001)
58
6
GraalVM 22.2: Smaller JDK size, improved memory usage, better library support
48
7
Flow Batteries Are Here and They Will Change Everything
46
8
Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest
42
9
I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
41
10
Data Alignment and Caches
26

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Postgres query slow by adding 'limit 1'
3
2
Coreaudiod constantly at around 12.5% CPU on macOS
3
3
Why is Git not considered a “block chain”?
3
4
1.9m views on “How do I make Git forget about a file”
3
5
Why are sequential regular expressions more efficient than a combined exp?
3
6
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
2
7
Why are explicit lifetimes needed in Rust?
2
8
Stackoverflow wiki: Skater Obfuscator protects .NET 6 assemblies
2
9
“if” statement syntax differences between C and C++
1
10
Has Mdfind Changed with macOS
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
601
2
Problems at Roblox
485
3
Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
382
4
Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
380
5
Did the early medieval era ever take place?
298
6
Learning The Elite Class
271
7
My experience writing and selling a short story
266
8
Is the Kalman filter just a low-pass filter?
260
9
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
250
10
Ambition as an anxiety disorder
207