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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
1680
2
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
1658
3
“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
1143
4
I spent two years launching tiny projects
923
5
9-Euro-Ticket
875
6
Vangelis has died
790
7
Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
777
8
Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
734
9
Outhorse Your Email
729
10
Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
699

Top Ask HN

1
How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle?
350
2
What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
291
3
6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO
280
4
Thoughts on being “boring”
246
5
Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
188
6
Why are people in real life so different?
188
7
Cloudflare broke my domain's DNSSEC making it unreachable since 4 days
139
8
Senior Engineers with ADHD, any mental/physical structures for work?
128
9
Why is Google Premium not a thing?
114
10
I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not sure what to do
107

Top Show HN

1
Bike – macOS Native Outliner
513
2
AI generated Magic The Gathering cards
188
3
Natural Language Processing Demystified (Part One)
166
4
Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here
153
5
WebApp to Create 3D Plants
144
6
KittenDNS – Easy to setup, rule engine, LetsEncrypt compatible
107
7
Objectiv – Open-source product analytics infrastructure
88
8
Privaxy – Adblocking / tracker blocking by MITMing HTTPS traffic
86
9
I built a minimal website for Los Angeles
84
10
A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored (Attempt #2)
62

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
SQLite may become foundational for digital progress
165
2
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is personally liable for $750M SoftBank loan
114
3
How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news
112
4
Nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium
97
5
Please stop making Discord servers for things that shouldn't be Discord servers
68
6
How long mined metals circulate before being lost
57
7
SpaceX paid $250,000 to cover up Elon Musk sexual harassment of flight attendant
42
8
YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown
41
9
Apple will let your subscription apps charge you more money without asking
41
10
Texas law allowing users to sue social networks for censorship is now in effect
37

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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$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse
420
2
Town Seized Building, Offered to Return It If Owners Bought Two Cars for Police
419
3
Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
375
4
Netflix lays off about 150 employees
307
5
The Coming Food Catastrophe
292
6
Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage
289
7
Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams
248
8
Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month
246
9
IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
234
10
More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments
183

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
Memorizing Transformers
179
2
Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human brain (2021)
151
3
The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality (2021)
150
4
Gato – A Generalist Agent
140
5
On efficiently partitioning a topic in Apache Kafka
80
6
Learning Car Speed Using Inertial Sensors
35
7
Simple, Cheap and Portable: A Filter-Free Desalination System
35
8
Physics-Informed Machine Learning For Modeling Turbulence In Supernovae
32
9
Are Prompt-Based Models Clueless?
30
10
Berkeley position paper on the future of cloud computing
19

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
Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
524
2
Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data
257
3
Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
206
4
Bringing Bcachefs to Linux Mainline
203
5
Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
181
6
When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware
168
7
Google open sourced PSP (hardware cryptographic offload)
144
8
.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
143
9
Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
139
10
LWN Is Hiring
139

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels
193
2
Apple Facing Lawsuit After AirPods Allegedly Ruptured Eardrums with Amber Alert
41
3
EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to Hardware and Software
36
4
Chonky Palmtop Will Slide into Your Heart
21
5
BOE may lose millions of iPhone 14 orders after unauthorized screen changes
11
6
EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack
10
7
Apple's AR/VR Headset Nearing Completion as Board Gets Demo
9
8
Apple Reinstating Employee Mask Mandate at Approximately 100 U.S. Retail Stores
6
9
Things are getting Rusty in the Linux kernel
6
10
Apple Testing Color E-Ink Display Technology for Future Foldable iPhones
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple introduces new professional training to support growing IT workforce
142
2
Apple previews innovative accessibility features
60
3
Excel’s Advanced Formula Editor
35
4
Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022 – Microsoft Research
7
5
Haynes Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer Manual – 2010 Onward
6
6
Flute: A scalable federated learning simulation platform
2
7
Gene editing parable (DNA enslaved RNA? ML to enslave DNA?)
2
8
Neurocompositional computing in human and machine intelligence: A tutorial
2
9
Debugging AWS Step Functions executions with the new console experience
1
10
In hot pursuit of ‘cryware’: Defending hot wallets from attacks
1

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
Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements
337
2
US Army's Land Trains (2020)
284
3
Understanding Stresses and Strains (1968)
52
4
My College Students Are Not OK
14
5
First Public UFO Hearing in over 50 Years to Be Held by Congress Next Week
12
6
Tesla has the top 3 electric cars in the US, and it’s not even close
10
7
Now There’s a Drum Magazine for Dropping Multiple Bombs from Commercial Drones
8
8
Gato as the Dawn of Early AGI
7
9
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
7
10
MiraclePtr or how chromium protects against use-after-frees
6

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
Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
386
2
Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice
325
3
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
313
4
The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
309
5
Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition
288
6
Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
217
7
Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months
143
8
Hundreds of patient data breaches are left unpunished
143
9
Learning Chess at 40 (2016)
119
10
“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects
111

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers
653
2
Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]
597
3
Y Combinator's Message to Founders
580
4
GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
238
5
Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]
179
6
Generative art using C++ printer commands and a receipt printer
148
7
Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
147
8
Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]
139
9
Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read
138
10
Porn Actress Kitty Lixo Gets IG Account Unbanned by Having Sex W Meta Employees
131

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard
440
2
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
432
3
`curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal
368
4
Common libraries and data structures for C
322
5
Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark
248
6
Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping
218
7
Obsidian Dataview: Turn Obsidian Vault into a database you can query from
211
8
Mainboard Terminal – A Retro-Style Computer with a Modern Core
203
9
AutoAnimate – Add motion to web apps with a single line of code
183
10
Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database
182

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Unsolved problems in economics
157
2
Corsi–Rosenthal Box
81
3
QB64
14
4
The Hague Invasion Act
13
5
List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation
10
6
Sega Channel
8
7
Superfluous Man
7
8
Equation Group
6
9
All Models Are Wrong
5
10
Australia-Asia Power Link
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
199
2
How Airbnb Built “Wall” to prevent data bugs
116
3
A16Z Is Gaslighting Us
62
4
Train 18B-parameter GPT models with a single GPU on your personal computer
27
5
The Tough Legacy of Ulrike Meinhof (2016)
22
6
Data salaries at FAANG companies in 2022
19
7
The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
15
8
Founders' Accents
9
9
A Few Reasons Why Signal End-to-End Encryption Algorithm Needs Fixes
8
10
Sonshi Style – A Style of Putting HHKB Keyboard on Laptop
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (2015)
40

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
1143
2
Teach your kids poker, not chess
217
3
Lavender's Game: Silexan for Anxiety
144
4
He Was a World Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He’s Collecting Unemployment
124
5
Narcissism is rampant, so how do we address it?
108
6
Book Review: Consciousness and the Brain
74
7
Searching 32M academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles
72
8
Troof on Nootropics
67
9
Letter to Myself in Late 2008 (2020)
59
10
Ten years of trying to meditate
46