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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Hertzbleed Attack
1461
2
The Floppotron 3.0
1398
3
Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project
1040
4
DNS Toys
946
5
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
877
6
Fresh – Next-gen web framework
791
7
Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
778
8
Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
724
9
Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
715
10
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
667

Top Ask HN

1
What's the coolest website you know?
450
2
Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?
390
3
Best dev tool pitches of all time?
314
4
Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?
259
5
Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
242
6
Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?
218
7
Pros and cons of V8 isolates?
171
8
How to remember technical topics which you don’t use/refer everyday?
138
9
CS grad who barely knows any CS
128
10
In these uncertain times, how do you handle anxiousness
117

Top Show HN

1
A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
815
2
Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
313
3
I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously
306
4
Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri
268
5
Tuc – When cut doesn’t cut it
241
6
Visualizing the math that powers 3D character animation
238
7
My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
220
8
Offline voice messages transcription in Signal Desktop
191
9
IoT device to warn you of a supernova hours before Earth is destroyed
145
10
Reddit search engine for startup founders
113

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
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
626
2
Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed
279
3
Senator Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales
233
4
US Army deploys its first floating solar array
178
5
North Carolina wants to ban free EV charging
148
6
Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal insult in this stone
117
7
Watchdog uses open-source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing crisis
112
8
How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music
97
9
Over 13k Vivo phones found to be using same IMEI number (2020)
96
10
Uvalde Hires Law Firm, Argues It Doesn't Have to Release Shooting Public Records
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
SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
614
2
Shortsightedness has become an epidemic
528
3
US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
522
4
Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
434
5
Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
388
6
Major crypto lender Celsius freezes withdrawals as markets tumble
384
7
A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
334
8
Amazon calls cops, fires workers in attempts to stop unionization nationwide
334
9
US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
328
10
Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm
312

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
Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment
171
2
Association between ADHD medication and depression: A 10-year follow-up
168
3
The first high-yield, sub-penny plastic processor
148
4
Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years
142
5
A C++17 thread pool for high-performance scientific computing
137
6
A mystery of the ketogenic diet: benevolent pseudo-diabetes in mice (2019)
135
7
Moth wing–inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough
120
8
Vision GNN: An Image Is Worth Graph of Nodes
57
9
A Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s SX-70 Camera (1989)
41
10
Magnetizing laser-driven inertial fusion implosions
14

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
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
877
2
Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
608
3
A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)
457
4
Calling for Antitrust Reform
286
5
Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab
270
6
Challenge: Pixel perfect design
221
7
What we learned in studying the most effective founders
191
8
Gitlab Now the Main Development Platform for Wine
125
9
“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison
123
10
Web Push for Safari
122

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 Could Kill CAPTCHAs with Private Access Tokens
134
2
The Celera 500L passenger plane gets hydrogen powertrain
126
3
New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin
75
4
Intel 4 Process Node in Detail: 2x Density Scaling, 20% Improved Performance
54
5
How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data
47
6
TSMC Reveals 2nm Node: 30% More Performance by 2025
43
7
Senator Says Amazon Ring Audio Surveillance Capabilities “Threaten the Public”
31
8
Below MSRP and Only Getting Cheaper: The GPU Deluge Begins
24
9
TSMC Reveals 2nm Node: 30% More Performance by 2025
20
10
Apple Faces German Antitrust Probe for iOS Privacy Changes
12

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023
205
2
Microsoft Teams uses AI and machine learning to improve calls and meetings
5
3
Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board
4
4
Chronicling the Faces of Juneteenth with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
4
5
Amazon Aurora now supports zero-downtime patching
3
6
Flute: A scalable federated learning simulation platform
3
7
13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 available to order starting Friday, June 17
2
8
Internet Explorer 11 has retired as of June 15, 2022
2
9
Apple invites families to create and learn together during Apple Camp
2
10
Apple invites families to create and learn together during Apple Camp
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
Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic
140
2
The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (2015)
104
3
Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script?
85
4
Drone swarms that harassed navy ships demystified in new docs
78
5
A new exhibit focuses on the Egyptian team who worked on finding King Tut’s tomb
57
6
Nintendo Nemesis Max Louarn: Hacker, Rebel, and Wanted by the FBI
46
7
The smile: a history
30
8
Armchair Science
29
9
The Dreams of Animals
28
10
British submariners' emails put UK nuclear deterrent at risk, judge rules
21

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
Voyager spacecraft begin to power down
432
2
Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
423
3
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien
319
4
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia
221
5
Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021)
209
6
Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era
145
7
Why can’t we remember being born or our first words?
138
8
Making the collective knowledge of chemistry open and machine actionable
102
9
Polar bears that can survive without sea ice
93
10
Recently discovered drawings for Statue of Liberty hint at a last-minute change (2020)
91

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance
539
2
Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]
442
3
The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a SQLite3 database with 1.2GB of metadata
293
4
Quake on the Game Boy Advance [video]
230
5
Mold/macOS is 11 times faster than the Apple's default linker to link Chrome
225
6
Reverse engineering Skifree
206
7
Laddering a Chimney (1978) [video]
189
8
Binance has paused Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck on-chain transaction”
187
9
Kickstarter Union voted 97.6% to ratify one of the first tech union contracts
179
10
Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]
176

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Make enterprise features open source
431
2
Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
394
3
CreuSAT: Formally verified SAT solver written in Rust and verified with Creusot
315
4
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
289
5
Watercolor Basics
240
6
Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls
194
7
Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
155
8
Worm: A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
141
9
Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel
138
10
age v1.1.0-rc.1: plugin and YubiKeys support
113

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Moon Illusion
129
2
Eternal September
95
3
Shepard Tone
94
4
Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages
14
5
Bioluminescence
13
6
.XIP
12
7
Poppy Seed Defence
10
8
Effects of legalized cannabis in the United States
8
9
Wolf warrior diplomacy (汉语) describes an aggressive style of coercive diplomacy
8
10
The True Believer
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Cult Inside Google
597
2
How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
281
3
Apple Just Wrecked 15 Startups in Less Than 1 Hour
34
4
How I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)
26
5
I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
19
6
Mac: It Just Works–Terribly
13
7
Bored Ape Yacht Club Owners Are Down Nearly 80% in Less Than 6 Weeks
10
8
The Covid Event Horizon
9
9
Whatever happened to the class of W11? – YC a decade+ later
7
10
Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Is Lisp the only language with REPL?
2
2
Python Performance discrepancy between OS X and Linux
1
3
Inlining of virtual functions (Clang vs. GCC)
1
4
Parsting HTML with RegEx
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
LaMDA is not sentient
366
2
I'm making drugs for cats
170
3
If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
137
4
It matters how you raise your kids
118
5
Remaining Ambitious
84
6
The Dubious Science of Microaggressions
59
7
Why America Will Lose Semiconductors
53
8
Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
34
9
A Turning Point in Cancer
25
10
Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down?
20