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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Use one big server
1413
2
Librarian's Letter to Google Security
1082
3
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
1070
4
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo
1045
5
NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
974
6
Productivity porn
770
7
We're improving search results when you use quotes
741
8
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
672
9
Understanding Jane Street
671
10
How I regained concentration and focus
671

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (August 2022)
446
2
Have You Left Kubernetes?
317
3
What HN post made you money?
317
4
Working in tech for climate?
298
5
Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?
208
6
Who do you talk to about system architecture and design?
177
7
Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?
174
8
Any solo game developers here?
173
9
Any great books about technical writing?
161
10
What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?
135

Top Show HN

1
Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression
420
2
Adadot – analytics for better, happier developers
325
3
Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
267
4
Emery – Personal productivity workspace
261
5
Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
193
6
I created a browser automation tool
176
7
PDF-Diff - Visualize any differences between two PDFs
169
8
Tiny PS1-like Renderer in 500 lines
141
9
Property Trends Scraped from Zillow
136
10
SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative
122

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
Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
589
2
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
376
3
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
295
4
Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship
278
5
Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California
224
6
French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
199
7
Samsung’s “repair mode” lets technicians look at your phone, not your data
181
8
What ever happened to the transhumanists?
158
9
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour
122
10
A man’s lonely fight to ban private jets
93

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
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
672
2
Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story
503
3
Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
482
4
Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
408
5
AMD passes Intel in market cap
329
6
TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
316
7
Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
314
8
The end of Optane is bad news
270
9
A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
268
10
Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim
247

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
Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
315
2
The richer people get, the more meat they eat
113
3
400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast
105
4
ArcGIS Maps SDK brings geospatial data to Unity and Unreal Engine
101
5
It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)
100
6
Future trains could provide carbon capture
87
7
Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
73
8
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climatechange scenarios
44
9
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (2013)
42
10
Detection of Compiler- and Linker-Introduced Leakage
18

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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We're improving search results when you use quotes
741
2
Linux 5.19
351
3
Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers
167
4
Intel let the chips fall where they might
61
5
Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank
56
6
Cloud Computing Without Containers: Hello Isolates
36
7
E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is
27
8
Simple things you can do with GitHub Packages to level up your workflows
20
9
Nomad Bridge Drained of Nearly $200M in Exploit
19
10
Lenovo Expects 30+ Platforms with Linux Support This Year, Both AMD and Intel
17

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona
82
2
Hackable $20 Modem Combines LTE and Pi Zero W2 Power
22
3
Blowhole wave energy generator exceeds expectations in 12-month test
16
4
Intel to Introduce Wi-Fi 7 in 2024 as Apple Plans Imminent Move to Wi-Fi 6E
15
5
Apple claims human rights violation over iPhone ban in Colombia
12
6
Africa's own electric motorcycle, the $1,500 Roam Air
9
7
Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive
8
8
Apple expanding App Store ads from search to ‘Today’ tab and more
7
9
The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
7
10
macOS Stationery Pad (built-in Finder file templates)
7

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Tiered Pricing for AWS Lambda
13
2
Tiered Pricing for AWS Lambda
6
3
AWS Nitro Enclaves
5
4
Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
2
5
Microsoft new solutions for threat intelligence and attack surface management
2
6
Apple and MLB Announce September “Friday Night Baseball” Schedule
2
7
Amazon Cloud Drive Is Being Sunsetted
1
8
Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput
1
9
Sci-Fi from an AI: Flash Fiction Co-Written by an Artificial Intelligence
1
10
Using Tensor Diagrams to Represent and Solve Geometric Problems
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
Librarian's Letter to Google Security
1082
2
Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)
259
3
Political Chips
167
4
The Echidna Is Australia’s Most Delightfully Different Mammal
132
5
Chinchilla's Wild Implications
88
6
Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels?
19
7
2023 Chevy Bolt EV is still the best value EV in America, by far
16
8
Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports
16
9
Russia Is Building 'Ghost Bridges' with Radar Reflectors
11
10
I Tried the Honda Key Fob Hack on My Own Car. It Worked
10

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
Black holes finally proven mathematically stable
237
2
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
198
3
Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
198
4
Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells
189
5
Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs
173
6
My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year
165
7
Particle physicists puzzle over a new duality
146
8
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
95
9
Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion
89
10
Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most
86

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
468
2
The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
367
3
Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
301
4
Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?
238
5
Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments
215
6
Nichelle Nichols Has Died
209
7
FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19
200
8
New open source project: Common Lisp 3D graphics system
188
9
Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum
185
10
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, Programming, Games – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
91

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
422
2
StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song
391
3
ImHex – A Hex Editor
374
4
Introduction to Apple Silicon
373
5
Part of my code makes Copilot crash
282
6
Serverless DNS: Self-hosted DNS resolver at the edge
239
7
Art of README (2020)
203
8
OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative
200
9
Minify your container
175
10
Photogrammetry Guide
174

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Disneyland with Death Penalty
230
2
ISO Warning Signs
81
3
The “Recession” Affair
29
4
Waffle House Index
17
5
China's Final Warning
16
6
The Cat Gap
13
7
Detransition
8
8
Doggerland
7
9
Musca Depicta
7
10
Illusory Truth Effect
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Dear Customer, Shame on You. (40 Examples)
32
2
The VC Crypto Swindle
30
3
What I wish I knew before accepting a startup offer
14
4
Summarizing text to create storyboards with DistilBART model and DiscoArt
13
5
The next level of multi-modality in DocArray
13
6
Don’t Use Electron Terminals
10
7
We Don’t Know What We Are Talking About When We Talk about Religion (2016)
10
8
Is Walking a Good Enough Exercise?
10
9
Platform Engineering KPIs
10
10
Not Every Startup Should Be Venture Backed (2015)
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why Swift Sucks
16
2
Stack Overflow Is Down
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
432
2
Airflow's Problem
261
3
The endless search for a crypto use case
178
4
Against Discipline
166
5
What the Hell Is Up with Dilbert?
155
6
How prestige outlets get away with copypasta
121
7
The hero's journey of getting laid off
110
8
Safety: A comparaison between Rust, C++ and Go
109
9
The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe
102
10
Intel Cuts Fab Buildout by $4B to Pay Billions in Dividends
63