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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
My students cheated... a lot
1840
2
Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
1633
3
Installing a payphone in my house
1129
4
So I took a corporation to arbitration
986
5
Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
914
6
Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
760
7
VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
723
8
Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
700
9
How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
698
10
SomaFM
679

Top Ask HN

1
Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
798
2
How to learn math from zero for adults?
559
3
If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?
437
4
Who is hiring? (June 2022)
390
5
Favourite open source game?
378
6
Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
335
7
Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?
158
8
Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?
156
9
What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?
152
10
Have you experienced decline in problem-solving skills? How to improve?
128

Top Show HN

1
A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
1157
2
Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
676
3
I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system
439
4
Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
354
5
I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
281
6
An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
241
7
Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text
235
8
I spent my vacation writing a modern JVM assembler
218
9
I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
211
10
Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML
182

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
The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)
257
2
Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)
253
3
Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on
244
4
Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse
179
5
You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazon app on Android
177
6
The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset
123
7
Older iPads May Soon Be Able to Run Linux
96
8
Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to wood treatment (2021)
94
9
NASA just bought the rest of the space station crew flights from SpaceX
56
10
Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’ (2021)
55

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
Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
760
2
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO
544
3
Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
430
4
CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
417
5
Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules
326
6
Britain should scrap its online safety bill
261
7
Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days
247
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Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds
243
9
Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
217
10
Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors
213

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
A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
163
2
Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200
74
3
Video2StyleGAN: Disentangling Local and Global Variations in a Video
50
4
Aerosol particle emission increases exponentially above moderate exercise
45
5
Stratolaunch reveals its first hypersonic design for high-altitude flights
40
6
Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected aggression
20
7
Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission
20
8
Aliens could colonize the galaxy even if they don't have starships
19
9
Big tobacco's environmental impact is 'devastating': WHO
16
10
First Images from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Coming Soon
16

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
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
490
2
Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
139
3
Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
124
4
When it comes to privacy, default settings matter (2019)
96
5
Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL (2018)
55
6
HDMI specification no longer being public
42
7
Linux ID-Mapped Mounts
17
8
Connecticut becomes fifth US state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy law
12
9
Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game
10
10
Kafka on Pulsar. The new world order
9

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier
216
2
New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects
95
3
Taiwan Restricts Russia, Belarus to CPUs Under 25 MHz Frequency
37
4
Intel's Raptor Lake CPU Appears 20% Faster Than Core I9-12900K on UserBenchmark
22
5
3D Print Glass with a Laser Cutter
22
6
Twitter Shutting Down TweetDeck for Mac in July, Will Remain Available on Web
21
7
Better robots through gallium
19
8
AMD-Powered Frontier Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier, Now #1 in the World
16
9
Apple’s Safari browser now has more than 1B users
14
10
Rackmount Hardware Placement Issues? IKEA Lack to the Rescue
13

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs
7
2
The Microsoft TerraServer [pdf]
7
3
Android apps with millions of downloads exposed to high-severity vulnerabilities
6
4
Microsoft Entra
5
5
The Dafny Programming Language
3
6
App Store stopped nearly $1.5B in fraudulent transactions in 2021
2
7
What You Need to Know When Starting a DevOps Journey
1
8
Making your Go workloads up to 20% faster with Go 1.18 and AWS Graviton
1
9
New Mac Pro (2019)
1
10
Apple’s WWDC22 Swift Student Challenge winners help communities through coding
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
Problems in Linear Algebra (1978), a book of solved problems
160
2
Thin Platforms
115
3
Software Library: MS-DOS Games
112
4
NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (1994)
94
5
Three Men Discuss Relativity (1926)
42
6
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
42
7
Philosopher of the Apocalypse
37
8
You Can't Sit Out Office Politics
30
9
Toyota unveils home battery pack to compete with Tesla Powerwall
29
10
Ford starts customer deliveries of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck
28

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
Science needs more research software engineers
532
2
Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers
368
3
Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears
165
4
World’s largest organism found in Australia
145
5
Persist or let it go: a study of entrepreneurial decision making
124
6
Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?
117
7
Brain-signal proteins evolved before animals did
108
8
Indoor air filtration could lead to increased airborne endotoxin levels (2020)
88
9
The real story of Pinocchio
56
10
A vase kept in an ordinary kitchen turned out to be a Qing-dynasty artwork
50

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
DALL-E 2 has a secret language
619
2
In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
563
3
DALL-E 2 generates images of Kermit The Frog in various films
390
4
No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language
257
5
Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable
253
6
Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]
215
7
In Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans
197
8
“I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”
189
9
Drawing on a plasma display with a laser pointer
160
10
Elon Musk on Remote Work
141

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
914
2
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
653
3
WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
460
4
All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc
287
5
Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
262
6
Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
247
7
Modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface
211
8
Make formal verification and provably correct software practical and mainstream
204
9
4coder editor is now fully open source
177
10
Commercial-Emacs
156

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Two envelopes problem
249
2
Werner Herzog eats his shoe
117
3
Radio Yerevan Jokes
38
4
Pittsburgh Toilet
21
5
Those Thieving Image Farms
19
6
List of countries by home ownership rate
19
7
Broodfunds
11
8
Wow Signal
10
9
Otolith
9
10
F-Droid – an app store and software repository for Android
9

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
174
2
Typosquatting Attack on ‘Requests’ Python package
62
3
Streak's (YC S11) edge-based infrastructure powering millions of tracked links
17
4
The Worst Bug Ever–Randomly Losing Your Best Players
11
5
Why we’ve ditched scrum sprints (and you should too)
7
6
Why useEvent is bad (and here is a better solution)
6
7
Branch Prediction – Everything you need to know
5
8
LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC (2018)
5
9
Trying to build an App to improve book based learning experience
4
10
Tattoo Shop in Jerusalem Is One of the Oldest in the World
4

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?
434
2
What is the difference between null and undefined in JavaScript?
2
3
Changing a program while it is running (Lisp)
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Asking robots to design stained glass windows
477
2
Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok
292
3
Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
263
4
Science Is Getting Harder
187
5
In defense of coding interviews
162
6
Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel
161
7
Behind the Scenes: The pots, pans, and people that make millions of meals
116
8
Adding rollback netplay to a Game Boy Advance game from 2005: Part 1
106
9
A society without a counterculture?
82
10
Scott Alexander's correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists
81