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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Dall-E 2
1820
2
One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
1260
3
Jd
1212
4
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
1144
5
Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
936
6
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
848
7
Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
843
8
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
790
9
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
768
10
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
765

Top Ask HN

1
When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
711
2
Share your personal site
665
3
I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?
444
4
Have you ever switched cloud?
274
5
How do I develop focus?
217
6
Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
203
7
Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?
163
8
Hybrid/Remote software team rituals
147
9
Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?
135
10
Have you invested in self-development and done inner work?
126

Top Show HN

1
Warp, a Rust-based terminal
946
2
Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
448
3
I made a puzzle game in HTML5
368
4
Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
301
5
A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day
229
6
Zaplib – Speed up your webapp with Rust+Wasm
175
7
HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software
156
8
I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination
152
9
Tilepieces – An open source project for visually editing HTML documents
123
10
Rust test harness that measures energy consumption
120

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
“Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod
285
2
A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site
221
3
Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code
167
4
Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years
138
5
A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
138
6
Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world
123
7
Twitter is adding an edit button
119
8
What it’s like to get custom earbuds made
114
9
Ballooning spiders rely on electric fields to generate lift
100
10
The full Windows 95 launch event video is finally online
85

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
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
790
2
Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
693
3
I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
600
4
Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
414
5
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan
335
6
Proposed EU rules would require clothes to last longer and be easier to repair
277
7
Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
277
8
CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
254
9
How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (2018)
207
10
Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers
192

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
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
209
2
Single-chip processors have reached their limits
203
3
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story
145
4
The State of Fortran
137
5
Gmail sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study
19
6
'Now or never' to avoid climate catastrophe, warns UN
18
7
Measurement of W boson mass suggests Standard Model needs improvement
13
8
Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
8
9
Hardship early in life increases entrepreneurship in adulthood
7
10
Nvidia’s Next GPU Shows That Transformers Are Transforming AI
7

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
Dall-E 2
1820
2
Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters
235
3
Debian still having trouble with merged /usr
232
4
Reading academic computer science papers
229
5
Use Git tactically
198
6
Meta quickly detects silent data corruptions at scale
167
7
We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
159
8
Stripe 2021 Business Update [pdf]
155
9
ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Manages to Run Some Battlefield Games
138
10
The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers
68

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 Pay surpasses Venmo and PayPal as teens’ favorite payment app
37
2
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking
21
3
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking
14
4
Diabetes successfully treated using ultrasound in preclinical study
7
5
Apple demands Telegram remove posts related to Belarus protests (2020)
6
6
Converting Your Bike to Electric: Why You Should, and When You Shouldn’t
5
7
Open-Source Lawn Mowing Robot with ROS
5
8
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Review: Firing Back at Alder Lake
5
9
AMD's Future CPUs Could Feature a 3D-Stacked ML Accelerator
5
10
Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500 Review: Firing Back at Alder Lake
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
277
2
Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses
106
3
AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
47
4
WWDC22 online-only on June 6-10
10
5
AWS Organizations now provides central AWS account closure
7
6
Software Defined Radio Transceiver: Theory and Construction of Amateur Radio SDT
3
7
Jigsaw fixes bugs in machine-written software
2
8
The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
2
9
Adam Smith: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
2
10
AWS AppSync releases enhanced filtering in real-time GraphQL subscriptions
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
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
765
2
Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
159
3
Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button
112
4
Netflix Should Sell Ads
96
5
Women and their hair transformed South Korea
82
6
In 1980 an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian Town and Revealed Another
65
7
A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years
52
8
A Secret Vice (1931) [pdf]
10
9
To Make Better Software, Do What Artists Do
7
10
CodeMirror, Ship Fast, and the State of Replit: Feedback from the Community
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 existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity
439
2
Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations
356
3
Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne
234
4
Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
192
5
Why I got a PhD at age 61
135
6
IPCC’s starkest message yet: extreme steps needed to avert climate disaster
123
7
Cholesterol and mortality: Evidence of a U-shape Relationship
121
8
What happens in your dog’s brain when you speak
114
9
Father-Son Team Solves Geometry Problem with Infinite Folds
106
10
Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do
103

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
848
2
What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
503
3
Drone footage of Tesla factory
408
4
Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
399
5
AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent
365
6
Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years
316
7
AT&T's website raising the price every time I refresh the page
290
8
YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite
261
9
Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter
226
10
FAANG promo committees are killing Kubernetes: A Short Thread
218

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Why I'll never use Affirm again
512
2
NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
420
3
Tinygrad
405
4
Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
313
5
The Personal Security Checklist
253
6
MIT-0 License
226
7
Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode
146
8
YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube
137
9
Navi- an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line
132
10
NPM package event-source-polyfill compromised by political activists
124

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Nicaraguan Sign Language
84
2
Dead Hand
73
3
Bucha Massacre
57
4
Induced Demand Is Real
31
5
Palmer Notation
22
6
Big Mac Index Manipulation
20
7
Emmy Noether
18
8
Massacre in Korea by Pablo Picasso
12
9
Molle
12
10
Vinegar Tasters
11

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
In defense of simple architectures
368
2
How to organize yourself as a solo founder
207
3
‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020)
185
4
Advantages of Monorepos (2015)
183
5
How private are Erlang private functions? (2018)
36
6
What should Russia do with Ukraine?
14
7
What I want (and don’t want) to see on your software engineering resume
12
8
I’m not a prophet, but I play one on the Dark Net
9
9
I Spent $20k Testing Social Media Strategies, Here’s What I Learned
9
10
Steward Brand Saw and Sparked the Future (again and again and again)
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Duplicate highlighter one-liner [Vim]
2
2
Comparing Two Images with Imagemagick
2
3
How to handle video autoplay on web just like YouTube
2
4
Is it ok to run Docker from inside Docker?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
768
2
Are you a baby? A litmus test
660
3
Are you nice or kind?
255
4
Life advice from NYC chess hustlers
249
5
Money Stuff is Linear-ish
182
6
All you need is links
164
7
Watching the World Wrecking
122
8
35mm cinema film and digital audio
110
9
The true purpose of propaganda
69
10
Digital models preserve game show history
65