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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
But life had other plans
1716
2
Please put units in names
1281
3
Windows needs a change in priorities
1192
4
Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
1157
5
Start Self Hosting
1045
6
The end of the nice GTK button
876
7
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
804
8
Web3 is centralized and inefficient
801
9
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
695
10
A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
681

Top Ask HN

1
Who operates at scale without containers?
599
2
What book changed your life?
391
3
Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?
261
4
Is Apple down?
253
5
Codebases with great, easy to read code?
232
6
Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
226
7
Starting a Career in Programming at 61?
177
8
What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?
159
9
I'd like to practice coding GUI from scratch. Any recommendations?
154
10
Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for desktop/web?
120

Top Show HN

1
A game that tests how well you know your local area
652
2
Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
409
3
Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative
325
4
We made an open-source personalization engine
283
5
Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno
257
6
Typebeat: Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth
201
7
BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS
176
8
I’m Building a Nerf Dart Missile Defense System [video]
174
9
Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
141
10
Lunar XDR Brightness control
124

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 tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
604
2
Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat
329
3
Almost 37 years after its launch, someone found an Easter egg in Windows 1.0
314
4
Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code
243
5
TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India
208
6
Qualcomm is adding AV1 support, which could be huge for online video
204
7
Silicon Valley's sex censorship harms everyone
147
8
New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other platforms
127
9
Mariupol computer retro museum has been destroyed
108
10
Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges
104

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
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NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
333
2
Facebook approved paid ads inciting violence against the Rohingya
325
3
EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants
308
4
US Justice Department accuses Google of hiding business communications
271
5
Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds
255
6
Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
219
7
BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down entire newsroom
214
8
Major government surveillance revelations fail to make a big splash
199
9
Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows
194
10
Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia
190

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
Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
140
2
When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream
135
3
Scientists may have solved Stephen Hawking's black hole paradox
103
4
Mounting evidence for a 95 GeV Higgs boson
88
5
The difficulty of computing stable and accurate neural networks
59
6
Fifty Years Later, Curators Unveil One of Last Sealed Apollo Samples
50
7
Physics in a diverse world, or a spherical cow model of physics talent
38
8
Exploring and mapping chemical space with molecular assembly trees
33
9
Roberta Williams, the Queen of Graphic Adventure Video Games
33
10
'Worm-on-a-chip' device could someday help diagnose lung cancer
33

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
A Way Out for A.out
334
2
Why Don't You Use
325
3
An update on recent service disruptions
258
4
A Closer Look at the Lapsus$ Data Extortion Group
180
5
A Primer on Proxies
142
6
Aggregating away the signal in your data
113
7
Cloudflare’s investigation of the January 2022 Okta compromise
66
8
UK Cops Arrest 7 Suspected Lapsus$ Gang Members
35
9
Easy to Use Cloudflare Tunnels
32
10
A Primer on Proxies
20

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator
278
2
M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs
118
3
Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip
113
4
Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display
101
5
Anti-War Hacktivism Is Leading to Digital Xenophobia and a More Hostile Internet
57
6
Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, but Only 2GB Used
48
7
Drug-delivering contact lens approved for use in the U.S.
32
8
Stop Invasive Remote Proctoring
30
9
Nvidia Unveils 144-Core Grace CPU Superchip “1.5X Faster Than AMD's EPYC Rome”
21
10
Mac Studio Storage Not User-Upgradeable Due to Software Block
16

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction
320
2
Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
145
3
AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage
57
4
Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona
19
5
The Network State
8
6
Apple announces new coaching program and features for educators
3
7
Circadian Algorithms – a technothriller about sleep and dream hacking
2
8
AWS Amplify new mapsTo directive to iterate on GraphQL APIs
2
9
Apple’s $4.7B in Green Bonds support innovative green technology
2
10
Amazon GameSparks (Preview)
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
The quest to make a 'contagious' animal vaccine
106
2
U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy
95
3
Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup
90
4
How did Europe become the richest part of the world?
87
5
The conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar
71
6
Aaron Swartz introducing Infogami (2006)
53
7
Sofonisba Anguissola, a female superstar of the Renaissance
49
8
A record-setting 19th-century adventure was the result of a bet
45
9
Modular Cognition
22
10
Ukraine Just Captured 1 Part of Russia's Most Capable Electronic Warfare Systems
19

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
37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
413
2
The illusion of evidence based medicine
324
3
Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts
206
4
These are real compounds
196
5
Simple electrical circuit learns on its own–with no help from a computer
130
6
A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing
100
7
Beauty and wonder of science boosts researchers’ well-being
98
8
Dogs are good models for human psychiatric disorders, study argues
87
9
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (2018)
81
10
Scientists say they can read nearly the whole genome of an IVF-created embryo
81

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
1157
2
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
695
3
CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
487
4
Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages
461
5
Why income share agreements did not work out
276
6
Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video]
222
7
The Interview Process at Canonical - application withdrawn
161
8
Mac Studio M1 Ultra Teardown [video]
157
9
This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew
129
10
Mac Studio: Those aren't SSDs. Those are raw storage modules
114

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Vulnerability in Honda's Remote Keyless System
430
2
Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
411
3
ReVanced
344
4
Cat Printer
299
5
Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
282
6
Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
279
7
A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh
249
8
One Year with R
247
9
Modern Turbo Vision 2.0
214
10
React Arborist – A full-featured tree component for React
210

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Gravity Hill
102
2
Borys Romanchenko, survivor of concentration camps was killed in Kharkiv
26
3
The Nordic Model
23
4
Anne Morelli: The Basic Principles of War Propaganda
14
5
NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
13
6
List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
13
7
See Wikipedia articles of places nearby you
12
8
Turin Papyrus Map
12
9
Special Atomic Demolition Munition
10
10
Longest Wikipedia Pages
10

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
224
2
Verilog Is Weird
162
3
Bashing the Bash – Replacing Shell Scripts with Python (2017)
91
4
I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
61
5
Linear Hammer: PCA is not a panacea (2013)
53
6
Something New Is Brewing
45
7
Sellix: Netflix’s Real Password Sharing Problem
18
8
How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds
17
9
Please don’t make me use Databricks notebooks
13
10
Hans Gruber Would Have Loved Web3
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Yes, this is embarrassingly slow, so I solved your problem
71
2
Any tools can randomly generate the source code according to a language grammar?
4
3
That's one nice thing about Rust: It's not hard to spot expensive operations
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
404
2
Microservices: Why Are We Doing This?
303
3
The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
283
4
'Children of Men' is happening
240
5
The flood that filled the Mediterranean Sea - in one year
207
6
The takeover of America's legal system
207
7
Old Spleens Suck (2021)
197
8
When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX
188
9
'Perfect Blue' and 'Requiem for a Dream'
169
10
A contrarian take on working long hours
86