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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
A few things to know before stealing my 914
1501
2
FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
1291
3
Mourning loss as a remote team
1190
4
Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
1179
5
Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
997
6
The smallest and worst HDMI display
969
7
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
890
8
I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
865
9
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
841
10
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
839

Top Ask HN

1
Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
553
2
If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
514
3
What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
413
4
Who is hiring? (April 2022)
264
5
How to move away from Google
254
6
Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
203
7
Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
188
8
What do you do when competition signs up for your service?
176
9
Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?
170
10
What happened to Clubhouse?
154

Top Show HN

1
I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
777
2
A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
452
3
Search Engine for Blogs
335
4
A website to find public pianos
294
5
Caddy-SSH
276
6
EnvKey 2.0 – End-To-End Encrypted Environments (now open source)
225
7
I Made a Stupid Game
202
8
Visualize your day as 144 rectangles
201
9
Coolify v2 – Open-source and self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative
158
10
Visualize SQL Queries
126

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
FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free
351
2
My own phone number is now spam texting me
339
3
Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
317
4
OpenBB wants to be an open source challenger to Bloomberg Terminal
237
5
Critical Gitlab vulnerability let attackers take over accounts
224
6
Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
196
7
A history of Hup, the jump sound of shooting games
174
8
Portal 2: Desolation is giving the classic puzzle game a graphics overhaul
160
9
Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera and said nothing
75
10
EU is going to require interoperability between messaging platforms
62

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
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
841
2
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
494
3
Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium
361
4
Chrome 0day is being exploited now for CVE-2022-1096; update immediately
262
5
Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
206
6
When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged
168
7
Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep pace with rivals
157
8
Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters drummer, dies at 50
126
9
Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords
115
10
The Shaming-Industrial Complex
115

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
The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival
228
2
Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time
179
3
Axial-Flux Motor with a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World
134
4
Humanly traversable wormholes (2020)
92
5
Some AI Systems May Be Impossible to Compute
18
6
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
14
7
Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
13
8
Researchers discover source of super-fast electron rain
9
9
An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
8
10
James Webb Space Telescope's first science targets remain super secret
6

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
Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”
506
2
Countering threats from North Korea
346
3
Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak
285
4
Debian decides to allow secret votes
234
5
Fake emergency search warrants draw scrutiny from Capitol Hill
207
6
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
199
7
Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
184
8
Pointer Tagging for x86 Systems
161
9
Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps
72
10
A Linux security fix briefly breaks DMA
69

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car
314
2
HB11's hydrogen-boron laser fusion test yields groundbreaking results
95
3
First chicken-free egg white product reaches US markets
43
4
Replaceable batteries are coming back to phones if the EU gets its way
31
5
Ban Online Behavioral Advertising
18
6
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Officially Launches Starting at $1,999
13
7
Nvidia Releases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: Ampere the All-Powerful
10
8
Apple Developing In-House Payment Processing for Future Finance Products
8
9
Apple's Fines in Dutch Antitrust Case Hit 50M Euros
7
10
EFF Client Erik Johnson and Proctorio Settle Lawsuit over Bogus DMCA Claims
6

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Running Cross-Account Workflows with AWS Step Functions and Amazon API Gateway
35
2
Apple’s “Coda” Wins Historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards
35
3
Microsoft MakeCode
4
4
Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
3
5
Optimizing AWS Lambda Function Performance for Java – AWS Compute Blog
3
6
Apple launches driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona
3
7
Apple: People and Environment in Our Supply Chain [pdf]
2
8
Apple Launches $50M Supplier Employee Development Fund
2
9
Amazon GameSparks: Managed Backend Game Services
2
10
The Bitcoin ABC Book
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
Corruption Has Shaped History. Why Do We Still Ignore It?
95
2
A deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater
85
3
Organized Crime Took over Canada’s Towing Industry
45
4
The Unsung Women of the Betty Crocker Test Kitchens
34
5
Kafka the hypochondriac
30
6
Magician's Own Book: Experiments in Electricity (1862)
29
7
Crash-Only Software and Recursive Microreboots
17
8
Classics for the People (2019)
15
9
The 5ESS Telephone Switch
13
10
Ukraine Captured Part of One of Russia's Most Capable Electronic Warfare Systems
11

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 Uselessness of Phenylephrine
799
2
Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals?
335
3
I couldn’t get over my brother’s death
241
4
Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail
230
5
Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug
204
6
I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner
176
7
With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes from Equality (2019)
123
8
Chronic lower back pain linked to atrophy in pain-related brain regions
111
9
New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects
109
10
Study conspiracy theories with compassion
93

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
997
2
Ubiquiti is suing Brian Krebs for his reporting on their breach
449
3
Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing
335
4
TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
310
5
Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global wheat crop
219
6
Patrick's Parabox
189
7
Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007)
188
8
I have been terminated from Zoom for refusing to remove the following tweets
160
9
New documents for the Okta breach
147
10
We were a few days away from being settled for life
118

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
890
2
Firefox UI/UX History
437
3
A userspace WireGuard client that exposes itself as a proxy
340
4
Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
288
5
Raygui – A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode GUI library
257
6
The SHA-256 Project: learn how hash functions work by implementing one yourself
213
7
Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux
187
8
Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
182
9
Inclusive Coding Bot on GitHub
163
10
Firejail: Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
153

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Johns Hopkins Beast
198
2
Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
99
3
Olbers' Paradox
74
4
The Scottish Play
59
5
IBM Parallel Sysplex
36
6
Wojtek
22
7
Sackler Family
20
8
Ever Dream This Man?
19
9
V (1983 Miniseries)
18
10
Cryotron
16

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income
325
2
Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years
305
3
I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid
140
4
Operation Jumbo Drop: How sending large packets broke our AWS network
80
5
Process Scheduling in Linux (2021)
47
6
Sellix: Netflix’s Password Sharing Problem
15
7
Open Letter: IEEE Spectrum editors apparently fell for Russian propaganda
8
8
Open Letter: IEEE Spectrum editors apparently fell for Russian propaganda
7
9
The Peak Programming Keyboard and Key Layout
6
10
Send Notifications to Yourself with Curl
5

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
New Stackoverflow theme
7
2
What length can a Linux network interface name have?
3
3
Stackoverflow.com is unusable without JavaScript (due to April Fools)
3
4
Searching for UUIDs in Text with Regex
2
5
Is there a Python equivalent of the C# null-coalescing operator?
1
6
Why is std::is_copy_constructible_v std::vector MoveOnlyType true?
1
7
Stack Overflow April Fools
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
$625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network
538
2
We can do better than “same, but electric”
281
3
Idol Words
271
4
GPT-3 can run code
254
5
What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
244
6
Why we need Lisp machines
221
7
No news is good news
206
8
The singularity is close?
170
9
On Being Disappeared
156
10
What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?
124