Go dark

Top HN Stories

[from Mar 12, 2022 to Mar 19, 2022)

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
2191
2
EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
1099
3
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
848
4
First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations
839
5
DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
825
6
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
811
7
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
801
8
Go 1.18
773
9
Zotero 6
768
10
Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
721

Top Ask HN

1
I'm So Lonely
314
2
My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
291
3
I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?
242
4
Full-text browser history search forever?
235
5
Anyone have stock option horror stories?
216
6
Is Public WiFi Dangerous?
213
7
What is your Git commit/push flow?
198
8
How can I prepare for hard economic times?
180
9
What ML platform are you using?
149
10
Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews?
144

Top Show HN

1
HN Avatars in 357 bytes
701
2
I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
425
3
I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH
391
4
Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands
250
5
I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming
229
6
I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites
217
7
Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page
214
8
Calenday, real-time collaborative calendars for trip planning
207
9
PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents
204
10
A Graphviz Implementation in Rust
182

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
Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer
499
2
Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
434
3
Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference
240
4
Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes
217
5
Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
189
6
Antiproton Orbiting Helium Ion
179
7
Amazon completes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM
137
8
Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync
121
9
The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”
109
10
The global streaming boom is creating a translator shortage (2021)
107

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
Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
721
2
Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
609
3
CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques
534
4
How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London
450
5
US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
436
6
Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project
345
7
The case for induction cooking
327
8
Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers
279
9
Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll
261
10
Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people
250

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
Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function
276
2
Lagrange points solved one of physics' biggest problems
112
3
Seafloor changes associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost
67
4
Measuring the Earth with Traceroute (2002)
57
5
NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully
56
6
Hydrogen production from water electrolysis: role of catalysts (2021)
33
7
Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
24
8
Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices
23
9
Understanding Visualization: Formal Approach Using Category Theory and Semiotics
12
10
Mitsubishi joins movement to ship carbon dioxide from emission sites to storage
12

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
Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
369
2
Google Analytics 4
185
3
New Capabilities for GPT-3: Edit and Insert
185
4
Diary of a first-time on-call engineer
130
5
Linux Perf Examples
128
6
Sharding a database can make it faster
91
7
Python finally offloads some batteries
84
8
The glibc s390 ABI break (2014)
72
9
Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware
61
10
Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook
52

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090
173
2
AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips
161
3
Intel Finds Bug in AMD's Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix
121
4
UK Network Operators Target iCloud Private Relay in Complaint to Regulator
60
5
Owning a ShortWave Radio Is Once Again a Subversive Activity
38
6
Record-breaking hydrogen electrolyzer claims 95% efficiency
37
7
Russian agents threatened Apple and Google employees over protest vote apps
25
8
Apple Studio Display Runs Full Version of iOS 15.4
24
9
Military-Spec Raspberry Pi Mission Computer Revealed
17
10
Enforcement Overreach Could Be a Real Problem in the EU’s Digital Services Act
15

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon S3 Stores 200T Objects and Handles 100M RPS
18
2
Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics to create a new kind of qubit
5
3
Composing AWS Step Functions to abstract polling of asynchronous services
4
4
Microsoft Quantum team reports observation of a 30 μEV topological gap
3
5
The Case for Purpose-Built Databases
2
6
Apple’s Impact Accelerator unlocks new opportunities for US businesses
2
7
Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work
2
8
How to connect your GraphQL API to AWS data sources
2
9
Why you should develop a Correction of Error (COE)
2
10
Hidden dangers of duplicate key violations in PostgreSQL and how to avoid them
2

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
Demand for ornamental plants is ravaging South Africa’s rare desert flora
164
2
The undercover special agent who busted a dangerous biker gang
70
3
The Invisible, Afflicted Spy Who Led the U.S. Army into Occupied Manila
48
4
A game-changing transplant could treat dying organs
32
5
NEETS: Naval Electricity and Electronics Training Series
29
6
The average age of a successful startup founder is 45 (2018)
27
7
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
26
8
Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth
24
9
The Current Thing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
16
10
Xtraceroute (2009)
15

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
Deliberately optimizing for harm
445
2
Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)
224
3
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
155
4
Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record
143
5
Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation
130
6
An antimatter experiment shows surprises near absolute zero
125
7
Are there limits to economic growth?
98
8
In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech
85
9
Tiny galaxies reveal secrets of supermassive black holes
83
10
What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?
78

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
2191
2
Vanced has been discontinued
502
3
Senate votes unanimously to pass bill making Daylight Savings Time permanent
463
4
Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday
426
5
Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers
345
6
Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]
323
7
Linux on an M1 Mac
275
8
Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless you disable Chrome
239
9
33 years ago today I submitted a proposal for a system called the World Wide Web
234
10
The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating “Change Password”
196

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
TUIs
557
2
Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator
486
3
TinyRenderer – how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
328
4
Osm.el – OpenStreetMap Viewer for Emacs
257
5
Twitter Client for UEFI
200
6
Plasticity Is CAD for Artists
181
7
An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)
164
8
Cascade: Open-source Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration
161
9
Fish 3.4.0 Released
131
10
My entire PC got wiped Do not download
126

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
707
2
Negative temperature
121
3
Pólya Urn Model
59
4
Cosmopolitan Railway
43
5
Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (Poseidon)
29
6
Zone System
23
7
Christopher Alexander Has Died
22
8
Perpetual Stew
18
9
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
14
10
Bellard's Formula
14

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
848
2
Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)
177
3
Celebrate tiny learning milestones
116
4
What You Can't Say (2004)
107
5
Building the Google Photos Web UI: A peek under the hood
10
6
Latency is driving edge and serverless computing infrastructure
7
7
I Can't Tell the Difference
7
8
The Great Messaging-App Migration (That Didn’t Happen)
4
9
Don’t Use Electron Terminals
4
10
Celebrate Tiny Learning Milestones
4

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
C++ – Why doesn't std:swap work on vector elements under Clang/Win?
2
2
Accessing Firefox WebExtension data via command line
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored
477
2
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
369
3
I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing
174
4
There are not enough BTUs
152
5
The sunny side of firing someone
103
6
The Godfather almost never happened
66
7
As Moore’s Law slows, Apple is forced to use cheaper chipsets in non-pro iPhones
36
8
Radical Interoperability Is a Political Agenda
33
9
Out of the Valley
22
10
Antitrust Cops Put Handcuffs for CEOs on the Table
12