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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
My First Impressions of Web3
3187
2
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
2793
3
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
1704
4
The UX on this small child is terrible
1061
5
Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
1001
6
Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
780
7
Burn My Windows
761
8
Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
756
9
Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
744
10
What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
740

Top Ask HN

1
Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?
374
2
Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
338
3
Who is hiring? (January 2022)
334
4
Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?
323
5
Why is there a chip shortage?
319
6
My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
313
7
Who wants to help promote RSS?
273
8
How do you take care of yourself?
237
9
How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
225
10
How do I manage the profit of a successful website?
213

Top Show HN

1
OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
555
2
Clone your voice and speak a foreign language
509
3
I make $3K/mo from a browser extension
324
4
3D map of shade around the world
320
5
Meetup with other travelers in a new place
234
6
A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc.
218
7
A web app to turn photos into 3D AR models.
190
8
Changedetection.io detect changes in websites and JSON feeds
145
9
No Trash Search
135
10
Bel in Clojure
109

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
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
576
2
Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
121
3
Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)
119
4
Asus will release a 17“ foldable OLED laptop
115
5
Google home speakers are about to get slightly worse because Sonos sued and won
80
6
Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down
71
7
America’s largest companies quietly give worker data to Equifax (2017)
43
8
Google will pay top execs $1M each after declining to boost workers’ pay
43
9
The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse
33
10
ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was–until it wasn’t (2016)
30

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
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
1704
2
We need to reclaim our attention
628
3
New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
569
4
EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green
349
5
Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity
343
6
No Way to Grow Up
342
7
A neuroscientist prepares for death
329
8
ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory
319
9
Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
318
10
Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting
268

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
Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
229
2
Deep learning can’t be trusted, brain modelling pioneer says
105
3
Automated Code Optimization with E-Graphs
102
4
Mechanical computing systems using only links and rotary joints
99
5
Three decades of nanopore sequencing (2016)
32
6
Research explores why popular baby names come and go
31
7
Optimization of brain and life performance: Striving for playing at the top
28
8
Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality
23
9
The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its sunshield
18
10
Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope
17

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
“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
548
2
2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell”
391
3
Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer
255
4
Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme
181
5
GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining
151
6
AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security
105
7
Restricting SSH Agent Keys
95
8
Programs that were launched with impossible command line options
51
9
Miniflare 2.0: fully-local development and testing for Workers
25
10
FTC to Go After Companies That Ignore Log4j
23

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price
188
2
$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash
127
3
Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel
93
4
Apple engineering director responsibl for leading M1 transition leaves for Intel
33
5
CPUs Could Use 85 Percent Fewer Transistors with New Adaptive Tech
32
6
Meta Halts Development of In-House AR and VR Operating System
25
7
The Future Is in Interoperability Not Big Tech: 2021 in Review (Cory Doctorow)
15
8
Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset will feature ‘three-display configuration’
11
9
New patent-free Covid vaccine developed as “gift to the world”
11
10
Google Basically Pays Apple to Stay Out of the Search Engine Business
9

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
iCloud Private Relay Overview White Paper [pdf]
19
2
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking
4
3
Lumberyard
2
4
AWS CloudTrail Lake
2
5
AWS Karpenter: A Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Autoscaler
2
6
AWS Lambda Now Supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
2
7
Apple Fitness+ Introduces Collections and Time to Run Starting January 10
2
8
Welcome Back, Pluto: We're glad that you're a PLANET again
2
9
CxO Insight: Reporting Cybersecurity to the Board
1
10
Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces with PL Plus Constraints
1

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
Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)
335
2
Heuristics for Development in Erlang
50
3
At This Armenian Restaurant, the Ovens Are Satellite Dishes
46
4
Flaw of Averages (2002)
40
5
7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013)
34
6
Tesla announces record deliveries of over 305k Q4 vehicles, 936K for 2021
19
7
GM unveils sharp-looking Equinox EV starting at game-changing $30k price
13
8
Call of Duty Cheat Maker Sued by Activision
12
9
2024 Chevy Silverado EV: 780 LB-FT, a Midgate and a Claimed 400-Mile Range
11
10
The Navy Is Betting Big on High-Power Microwave Weapons
7

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 Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets
339
2
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
258
3
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from asteroid Ryugu
139
4
Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity
123
5
High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy and higher brain dysfunctions
122
6
E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way
93
7
Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (2017)
93
8
Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
92
9
Stars may form 10 times faster than thought
89
10
Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests
88

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
2793
2
Search engines and SEO spam
590
3
Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)
567
4
Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
462
5
Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
424
6
“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
379
7
Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021
329
8
I analyzed 20k recommendations made by Jim Cramer during the last 5 years
142
9
I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library
130
10
“I just got *another* copyright claim for TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD!”
128

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Burn My Windows
761
2
Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
471
3
OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
427
4
A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor
412
5
Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator
226
6
RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it
194
7
IPv6-ghost-ship: Using TOTP as part of an AWS EC2 IPv6 address
190
8
Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options
186
9
Do not use 'week year': YYYY
165
10
Log4jscanner
156

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Jerrycan
270
2
Turboencabulator
118
3
Firehose of Falsehood
68
4
Airbus Beluga
59
5
List of Laboratory Biosecurity Incidents
25
6
Gish Gallop
22
7
Jane's Information Group
11
8
Animated Population Pyramid of France: 1901 – 2020
9
9
Gall’s Law
9
10
Islamic Banking and Finance
9

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why might you run your own DNS server?
305
2
Notes on BPF and eBPF
213
3
A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)
111
4
The Idiocy of Tiny Houses and Electric Vehicles
35
5
Python 4.0 will never arrive
16
6
Why Agile Sucks for Building Quality Software
12
7
RSS is still awesome. Some tips for trying it in 2022
10
8
Why Your Side Project Never Became a Product
8
9
DHH on “Should you vaccinate your kids?” debate: US vs. Denmark(EU)
8
10
The Metaverse of the 1990's (how a vibrant field fell into a 15 year VR winter)
8

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Python threads difference for 3.10 and others – Stack Overflow
4

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
How to design a house to last 1000 years
584
2
Lab Leak 2.0?
563
3
Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
376
4
High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching
263
5
You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead
192
6
Look How Big Is My Team
139
7
50 Years of Text Games: The End of a Journey
111
8
Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics
108
9
A deleted subplot from “The Matrix” contradicts its sequels
96
10
70 First Co-Founder Dates
80