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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Apple previews Lockdown Mode
1577
2
Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig
1431
3
Felt
1382
4
Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
1324
5
Absurd Trolley Problems
1296
6
HN is up again
1010
7
Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
996
8
Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
767
9
Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
715
10
EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
691

Top Ask HN

1
How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
407
2
I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
352
3
What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
304
4
Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?
296
5
What'd you do while HN was down?
254
6
I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
232
7
First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
192
8
Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon?
145
9
Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
117
10
Resources on learning System Design (back end/data engineering)?
116

Top Show HN

1
PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file
563
2
Credentials dumper for Linux using eBPF
235
3
PDFs that are readable by human eyes only
216
4
RemoteFriendly – A remote job board inspired by HN
202
5
C3 – A C alternative that looks like C
182
6
Wiby is now free software
161
7
Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI
159
8
Copper – A Go framework for your projects
146
9
3D live tracking two climbers attempting a Sierra Nevada record
132
10
Trane, an automated system for learning complex skills
119

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
Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app
204
2
A phone app called Lumenate claims to alter the brain’s rhythms (2021)
189
3
Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore
164
4
Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay
105
5
Upcoming RISC-V laptop promises free silicon upgrades
98
6
Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy
85
7
Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
82
8
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
76
9
Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform
67
10
YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
62

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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Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
655
2
Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
419
3
Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019
354
4
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
339
5
Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts
308
6
The local news crisis is deepening America's divides
296
7
Private equity may be heading for a fall
262
8
Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
212
9
Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Lender Vauld Suspends Withdrawals
191
10
Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks
191

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
Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery
280
2
Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades
224
3
The first million-transistor chip: The engineers’ story
93
4
Robotic surgery turns surgical trainees into spectators
82
5
Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots
81
6
Spain, Portugal dryness 'unprecedented' in 1,200 years
38
7
Programming with union, intersection, and negation types
35
8
Ancient DNA yields surprising findings on earliest seafarers
35
9
We’re Training AI Twice as Fast This Year as Last
31
10
New constraints on dark photons using a new dielectric optical haloscope
31

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
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WeatherKit
335
2
An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
232
3
Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size
184
4
Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
158
5
PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat
106
6
Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically
102
7
Dependabot alerts paused for malware advisories
47
8
The Future of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
40
9
When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux
21
10
Support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers
21

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
691
2
Perovskite-silicon solar cells break 30% efficiency barrier
41
3
Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
32
4
Samsung Starts 3nm Production: The Gate-All-Around (Gaafet) Era Begins
14
5
World's first commercial sand battery begins energy storage in Finland
12
6
U.S. Wants ASML to Stop Selling Chipmaking Tools to China
10
7
Recreating Fast Oscilloscopes Is a Slow Process (2020)
9
8
Study argues insects feel pain, raises questions around ethical farming
9
9
Entanglement 20 Miles Record
8
10
Apple Watch Series 8
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple previews Lockdown Mode
1577
2
New MacBook Air with M2
420
3
Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers
150
4
Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS
79
5
Hive ransomware gets upgrades in Rust
11
6
Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances Are Now Generally Available
8
7
GitHub Copilot alternative: Amazon CodeWhisperer
4
8
Amazon CodeWhisperer – ML-powered coding companion
4
9
AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery
4
10
Extend AWS IAM Roles to Workloads Outside of AWS with IAM Roles Anywhere
3

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 Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
200
2
The Benefits of World Hunger
28
3
Automakers Are Starting to Drop Am Radio in New Cars
22
4
Psychology and the Instrument Panel (1953)
20
5
Oral History Panel on 8 Inch Floppy Disk Drives (2005) [pdf]
18
6
Rhode Island sets fastest timeline of any state for 100% renewable electricity
14
7
Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees
9
8
The curious case of Pretty Good human inner/outer alignment
9
9
Tesla achieves record quarterly production numbers
7
10
AI Forecasting: One Year In
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
He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal
355
2
Why walking on Legos hurts more than walking on fire or ice (2018)
101
3
Plutonium isotopes in the North Western Pacific sediments found
71
4
Psilocybin microdosers demonstrate improvements in mood and mental health
68
5
Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons (2005)
65
6
Understanding how others relate to you
63
7
A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers
63
8
Transporting food generates whopping amounts of carbon dioxide
60
9
Event-level prediction of urban crime reveals a enforcement bias in US cities
59
10
A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
58

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
414
2
Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
282
3
Twitter Layoff Started Today
263
4
Amazon has a book piracy problem
219
5
A working flight simulator, no computers necessary [video]
196
6
How does a USB keyboard work? (2021) [video]
170
7
ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
167
8
Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
138
9
Arbitrary Code Execution in Super Mario All-Stars [video]
108
10
How to Build a Real Igloo
79

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
715
2
Popcorn Time Is Back
405
3
Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story
349
4
Open source is not about you (2018)
304
5
Tao: A statically-typed functional language
257
6
AWS Nuke – delete all resources associated with AWS account
222
7
Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut
211
8
Raspberry Pico-based 100-Msps logic analyzer
205
9
MacintoshPi
199
10
Asset-Level Transition Risk in the Global Coal, Oil, and Gas Supply Chains
164

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Gunslinger Effect
138
2
Electret
67
3
1942–1944 Musicians' Strike
63
4
Quebec Sovereignty Movement
50
5
The first motion picture production studio: Edison’s Black Maria
21
6
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
18
7
List of sensors
17
8
Onion Futures Act
11
9
Depressive Realism
9
10
Lingua Latīna per Sē Illūstrāta
8

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Data Alignment and Caches
26
2
Modelling Distributed Locking in TLA+
15
3
We dropped event sourcing with Kafka Streams when given a second chance
8
4
How Conduit uses Buf to work with Protobufs
8
5
OMG. New management brought their people over
6
6
Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at Pipedrive
5
7
Bitcoin is “Reverse-Money”, which makes it a Scam
5
8
Breaking from the News
4
9
Haskell Safety
4
10
Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2022
4

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Postgres query slow by adding 'limit 1'
3
2
“if” statement syntax differences between C and C++
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Problems at Roblox
485
2
Did the early medieval era ever take place?
298
3
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
250
4
Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial
196
5
Vets today are like doctors yesterday
181
6
Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year
176
7
Books That Changed How I Hear Music
167
8
Linux Sucks 2022
120
9
Everything Is Anime
119
10
Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser comes to Linux
56