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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Life is not short
820
2
Thunderbird 102
811
3
Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE
769
4
How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
766
5
Things to know about databases
730
6
Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
684
7
YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips
682
8
Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)
642
9
Give up GitHub: The time has come
610
10
Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died
606

Top Ask HN

1
GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
710
2
Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?
349
3
Can I see your cheatsheet?
346
4
Who is hiring? (July 2022)
328
5
What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
220
6
Where and how do you find your early adoptors?
180
7
Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?
168
8
If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?
129
9
How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?
126
10
Where have all the forums gone?
116

Top Show HN

1
I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
663
2
Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
497
3
PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL
378
4
I ranked news websites by speed
320
5
Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
193
6
Yboard is a multiplayer desktop-like workspace based on CRDT
165
7
We made a fast audio editor for podcasting
154
8
Featureform – An open-source Feature Store for ML
136
9
UI Filler – placeholders for your designs
129
10
MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone
88

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
Unity is laying off hundreds of employees
372
2
Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
326
3
The GPU shortage is over
302
4
FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs
295
5
Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
221
6
Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs
185
7
Labrador's robotic shelf for people with mobility issues
112
8
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
110
9
Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants
85
10
13-year-old voice recorder captured my entire professional career
78

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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Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE
769
2
FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns
536
3
Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn
461
4
Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
448
5
Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M
375
6
Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
338
7
How Hong Kong became a police state
278
8
Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
265
9
Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr
213
10
New California law requires high schools to start later
202

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
Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
371
2
Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol
341
3
AI-guided robots are ready to sort recyclables
100
4
Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older
92
5
Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos
63
6
Bayesian Workflow (2020)
49
7
Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards
44
8
Landsat proved the power of remote sensing
40
9
Shacl: A Description Logic in Disguise
32
10
Signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)
30

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
An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love
371
2
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
203
3
Thank you to our maintainers
193
4
The Path Is Set for PCI-Express 7.0 in 2025
108
5
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
98
6
Xcode 14 deprecates bitcode for watchOS and tvOS
66
7
Becoming a Better Engineering Team
65
8
The first RISC-V laptop announced with quad-core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux support
64
9
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages
44
10
Highlights from Git 2.37
36

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Optical microphone can separate multiple instruments from afar
222
2
Former Apple exec who enforced insider trading rules admits to insider trading
202
3
CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
143
4
TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes and move to 28nm
114
5
Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro with M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
49
6
Tools: Proxxon Mini Drill Press TBM115 / TBM220 (2009)
39
7
T-Mobile is now selling app usage data to advertisers
38
8
EFF: Security and privacy tips people seeking abortion
17
9
Apple TV+ has highest-rated content of any streaming service for 2nd year in row
13
10
macOS from 1984 to 2022 – a fascinating video trip down memory lane
13

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microwriter: A portable, one-handed word processor with 6 button keypad (1978)
7
2
Toll fraud malware: How an Android application can drain your wallet
4
3
Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022 [pdf]
3
4
Amazon CodeWhisperer – ML-powered coding companion
3
5
Amazon CodeWhisperer: Build apps faster with ML-powered coding companion
2
6
An Overview of the CAL Time-Sharing System [pdf]
2
7
The New AWS Step Functions Workflows Collection
2
8
Escaping the Build Trap
1
9
MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 Processor
1
10
Easy Learning Java (kindle book)
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
Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record
193
2
Geometric exercises in paper folding (1917)
61
3
Chestnut Tools Universal Sharpener – Popular Woodworking Magazine (2016)
60
4
Condemning the Deployment of GPT-4chan
44
5
Taiyo No Tamago
39
6
The ideal praise-to-criticism ratio (2013)
37
7
The Moroccan Food Forest That Inspired an Agricultural Revolution
27
8
Spotify, Netflix, and Aggregation
22
9
Our Trip to Antioch
16
10
What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?
13

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
MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
428
2
Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
398
3
Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
275
4
The gut metabolite indole-3 propionate promotes nerve regeneration and repair
233
5
How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
154
6
People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research
150
7
Are you a naïve realist?
133
8
Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers vanish (2013)
130
9
How are the bees?
112
10
CandyCodes: Simple unique edible identifiers for authenticating pharmaceuticals
96

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
456
2
Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
454
3
Tech layoffs keep stacking up
288
4
Lego Battle of Verdun [video]
269
5
Super Mario Bros warp zones were intended to work slightly differently [video]
254
6
As eng manager, you so frequently get request to drop what you are doing
178
7
The popularity of country music in rural sub Saharan Africa
143
8
Severe thermal throttling discovered in Apple's M2 MacBook Pro
123
9
How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]
103
10
An employee at EpicGames wants me to fill out this questionnaire to use my OSS
85

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly
587
2
Functional programming jargon in plain English
557
3
The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges
439
4
Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables
252
5
V 0.3
251
6
VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
218
7
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
208
8
Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub
168
9
Deprank: Use PageRank to find the most important files in your codebase
164
10
Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API
157

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
William of Rubruck
75
2
Mponeng Gold Mine
69
3
Quantum Zeno effect
66
4
Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder
28
5
Corporate Memphis
22
6
“Wikipedia's independence” or “Wikimedia's pile of dosh”?
21
7
Duck Curve
13
8
Hitler and Mannerheim Recording
11
9
Jury Nullification
9
10
Magnetocaloric Refrigeration
9

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
537
2
The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
217
3
Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge
80
4
Java's Cover (2001)
50
5
Flow Batteries Are Here and They Will Change Everything
46
6
Blacklist is not a racist word
45
7
Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest
42
8
Notes on Running Containers with Bubblewrap
38
9
Sentence Embeddings have a problem, the reason sometimes Dall-E2 fails
23
10
Misunderstood Parts of the Scrum Guide
20

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
601
2
Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
302
3
Where did the long tail go?
281
4
Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids)
257
5
USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets
204
6
4 in 5 Americans who need insulin have taken on credit card debt to cover cost
194
7
Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival
185
8
Who is going to replace Google for us?
173
9
How do poor countries get rich?
153
10
Basement Fertility
137