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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
2
We lost 54k GitHub stars
1883
3
Inside the longest Atlassian outage
1232
4
Etsy Strike
1135
5
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
996
6
Heresy
929
7
Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
879
8
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
864
9
New(ish) command line tools
760
10
Van life (cancer edition) finale
678

Top Ask HN

1
Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
469
2
Have you created programs for only your personal use?
423
3
When did tech stop being cool?
308
4
What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?
289
5
How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?
249
6
Where can we find the unsexy jobs?
247
7
What Happened to Evernote?
200
8
Do you manage your family's digital safety?
163
9
Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?
149
10
Why Blog at All?
140

Top Show HN

1
I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
390
2
Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time
241
3
Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir
221
4
How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework
217
5
I made a website to search for half loaves of bread
196
6
Monocle – bidirectional code generation library
148
7
Add live runnable code to your dev docs
128
8
Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio
122
9
A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#
121
10
Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience
115

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
San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on
311
2
Tax the Land
231
3
Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)
191
4
Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch
156
5
Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
142
6
Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food
140
7
Europe Is Building an International Facial Recognition System
137
8
The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running
135
9
Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is amiss'
113
10
She was missing a chunk of her brain – it didn’t matter
108

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
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
2
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
669
3
Europe is investing heavily in trains
581
4
Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid
534
5
A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
494
6
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981
424
7
Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union
363
8
FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'
317
9
Apple starts manufacturing iPhone 13 in India
272
10
The most popular chess streamer on Twitch
251

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 Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
181
2
A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself
166
3
French court revokes Starlink's internet license
21
4
Watermarked ReRAM: A Technique to Prevent Counterfeit Memory Chips
20
5
Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space Modulation: A Promising Next-Generation Waveform
19
6
What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?
15
7
Collision hotspots for migrating birds revealed in new study
15
8
SARS Escaped Beijing Lab Twice: Then Lab Moved to Wuhan (2004)
13
9
Analysis of Roman coins uncovers evidence of financial crisis
11
10
James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
9

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
Git security vulnerability announced
549
2
Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
321
3
RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
319
4
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
289
5
Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
281
6
Rustaceans at the border
260
7
What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla
233
8
Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
203
9
Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs
75
10
Negative dentries, 20 years later
63

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit
203
2
Apple's App Tracking crackdown estimated to cost Facebook another $13B
29
3
The Future of Energy Storage on Both Sides of the Meter
13
4
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency estimated to cost Facebook $13B in 2022
10
5
We’ve Heard of Bricking a Hard Drive, But
10
6
Nvidia Claims Arm Grace CPU Superchip 2X Faster Than Intel Ice Lake
9
7
Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Made Inside Metaverse
9
8
Open Source Coreboot BIOS Ported to MSI Z690-A Motherboard
8
9
Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Inside the 'Metaverse'
6
10
A Close Look at a Little Known 8-Bit Computer
6

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie
265
2
Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
249
3
AP Computer Science Done Right
6
4
Apple helps suppliers rapidly accelerate renewable energy use around the world
4
5
Apple Myeongdong now open in South Korea
2
6
The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
2
7
Apple has silently lowered Mac Studio prices by 10%
2
8
The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store [pdf]
2
9
First-class TypeScript support in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript
2
10
Tarrask malware uses scheduled tasks for defense evasion
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
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
864
2
Shirky.com is gone
331
3
Playing with DALL-E 2
298
4
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
153
5
Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
140
6
License to Use JSLint for Evil
132
7
The world’s largest bee and the cautionary tale of its rediscovery
106
8
Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
77
9
Police shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 arrested for copyright infringement
67
10
What the world’s most remote islands were like before humans arrived
59

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
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
616
2
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
569
3
Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal
225
4
More Fakery
152
5
What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
136
6
Two-qubit silicon quantum processor with operation fidelity exceeding 99%
110
7
Hitler’s Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945 (2018)
90
8
Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption benefits heart health
77
9
The Power of Narrative
63
10
Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations
54

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
591
2
Elon has decided not to join our board
512
3
Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks
502
4
Insider Trading at Coinbase
477
5
Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]
381
6
Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
381
7
Top Mac app store dev abuses free with in-app purchase for bait-and-switch apps
304
8
Apple's M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck
287
9
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]
266
10
How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]
254

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Eden
624
2
Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private API
413
3
Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault
380
4
Neovim 0.7 Released
336
5
What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
277
6
Bore: A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
272
7
Iced – A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
220
8
Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot ROM, line 442?
217
9
Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust
167
10
Privacy-Respecting Software
162

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Insect Hotel
206
2
List Of Adhesive Tapes
162
3
VRML
150
4
Wanderwort
66
5
Bibi-binary
35
6
Constraint Logic Programming
21
7
Cherenkov radiation – Faster then light in water
13
8
The Powell Put
9
9
Timeline of the Far Future
7
10
Hyperphantasia
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Heresy
929
2
New(ish) command line tools
760
3
Success and Failure at Pebble
557
4
We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure
227
5
If I see an ‘accept cookies’ banner on a website, I close it immediately
47
6
A Public and Transparent Formula for Engineering Salaries Ethena
13
7
Whatnot Built 5 New Beta Features in Its First Hackathon, with Minimal Planning
12
8
Gnome 42 – The Nonsense Continues
8
9
Can you buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. by Paul Graham
8
10
Threat landscape of Mozilla Firefox and Chromium: security, forks, and Rust
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What does if __name__ == “__main__”: do?
4

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
394
2
Psychedelics and mental illness
180
3
Patina and Intimacy
170
4
How did I get so unhappy working in tech?
155
5
The fake artists problem on streaming platforms
154
6
Due dates are a lazy way to gain commitment
68
7
The Evolution of Indoor Climate
63
8
William Gaddis: Below Deck on the Ship of Fools
50
9
Encouraging Self-Doubt
49
10
Things not being said about Chinese tech management
31