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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
1614
2
Design the next iPhone
1463
3
The Big [Censored] Theory
1444
4
4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
1428
5
Use one big server
1413
6
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
1313
7
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
1297
8
Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
1258
9
Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
1212
10
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
1135

Top Ask HN

1
In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
539
2
What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
495
3
Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
488
4
Who is hiring? (August 2022)
446
5
Can I see your scripts?
374
6
I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
368
7
Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
336
8
Boring but important tech no one is working on?
330
9
What HN post made you money?
317
10
Have You Left Kubernetes?
317

Top Show HN

1
Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
711
2
Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
515
3
AutoHotkey for Linux
500
4
I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
488
5
Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression
420
6
Figure is a daily logic puzzle game
417
7
I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
393
8
Adadot – analytics for better, happier developers
325
9
A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text
303
10
Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
282

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
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
1135
2
The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
630
3
Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
589
4
The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun
399
5
Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection
381
6
Snap lays off 20% of employees
381
7
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
376
8
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
295
9
Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards
279
10
A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)
276

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
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
1005
2
Mikhail Gorbachev has died
970
3
A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
949
4
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
672
5
SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
621
6
Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
555
7
OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
541
8
Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
512
9
Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story
503
10
Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
482

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
“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
370
2
Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
315
3
Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation
314
4
The strength of the strong force
245
5
Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals
245
6
JWST: Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
149
7
Research shows circadian clock influences metabolism, cell and tumor growth
148
8
Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (2000)
128
9
Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing
112
10
Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)
110

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
We're improving search results when you use quotes
741
2
Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
539
3
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
450
4
Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
403
5
.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
371
6
Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)
371
7
Linux 5.19
351
8
PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
320
9
The container orchestrator landscape
271
10
A laptop hard drive model could crash when exposed to a certain audio frequency
256

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
393
2
30TB Portable SSD Hits Walmart for $39 but Stay Away from It
299
3
IFixit: Self Repair Program makes M1 MacBooks less repairable
176
4
Apple and Globalstar Rumored to Announce Satellite Connectivity for iPhone 14
145
5
AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch: Ryzen 7950X and More, Coming Sept. 27th
126
6
Apple Collects the Least Amount of User Data Out of Major Tech Companies: Study
82
7
Battery made of aluminum, sulfur and salt proves fast, safe and low-cost
75
8
TSMC: N2 to Start with Just GAAFETs, Add Backside Power Delivery Later
72
9
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
59
10
Lowering a dumbbell 6 times a day offers significant gains in strength
57

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
464
2
Shazam turns 20
361
3
AWS Just Walk Out Technology
57
4
AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network
25
5
AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers
24
6
General Availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances for macOS
22
7
AWS Private 5G
19
8
HTTP/3 Support for Amazon CloudFront
15
9
Tiered Pricing for AWS Lambda
13
10
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/3 powered by QUIC
13

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
Librarian's Letter to Google Security
1082
2
Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
324
3
Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
305
4
Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)
259
5
Risk Everything (2007)
246
6
The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)
233
7
GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
229
8
Rights, Laws, and Google
173
9
A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park
167
10
Political Chips
167

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 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
753
2
“Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
357
3
Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe
353
4
A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system
342
5
Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
334
6
Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
307
7
Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)
297
8
Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity
273
9
Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird
269
10
White House requires public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025
259

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Things people blamed on bicycles
780
2
AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage
489
3
You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
468
4
John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
461
5
Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]
437
6
GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
392
7
The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
367
8
Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
355
9
Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories
354
10
Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google
338

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
618
2
Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
530
3
Hacker News Official API
500
4
Diablo 1 for Web Browsers
449
5
Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
442
6
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
438
7
FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
422
8
Open AirPlay 2 Receiver
422
9
StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song
391
10
Zig is now self–hosted by default
387

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Preparedness Paradox
236
2
Disneyland with Death Penalty
230
3
2022 Oder Environmental Disaster
215
4
Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
208
5
Nocturnal bottleneck
203
6
The Secretary Problem
202
7
List of Creepypastas
190
8
Dublin Whiskey Fire
169
9
Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Men's Marathon
137
10
Mozart Effect
84

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Guessing C for Every Answer Is Now Enough to Pass the NY State Algebra Exam
133
2
Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch
116
3
To speak meaningfully about art
104
4
DALL-E + GPT-3 = ♥
97
5
Some ways to get better at debugging
94
6
Replayability in game design
85
7
To reinvent the processor (2019)
75
8
Terminal Latency (2017)
66
9
The Trouble with the Segway (2009)
57
10
I Stopped Reading Hacker News Comments
55

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How do I exit Vim?
20
2
Why Swift Sucks
16
3
What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about?
13
4
Stack Overflow Is Down
3
5
What Are the Differences Between NP, NP-Complete and NP-Hard?
3
6
Get the diff between commits that occurred between two dates with Git
3
7
Are disk sector writes atomic?
2
8
What Is Declarative Programming?
2
9
Find Date for Start of Week(I.e. Mon) for Any Date in JavaScript/G Apps Script
2
10
Get Word Count Diffs with Git
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
685
2
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
585
3
Fake IMDB credits
552
4
The coming tsunami of fakery
461
5
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
432
6
Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards
368
7
Why aren't smart people happier?
348
8
Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
305
9
Airflow's Problem
261
10
Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
256