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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
1614
2
I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
1131
3
Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
814
4
RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
769
5
See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
763
6
Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
748
7
I hacked my car
688
8
Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
672
9
There’s no speed limit (2009)
671
10
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
659

Top Ask HN

1
In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
539
2
Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
488
3
Can I see your scripts?
374
4
Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
271
5
How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
252
6
Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
223
7
Where do you find the interesting jobs?
223
8
Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?
198
9
Did the Tesla return to work happen?
159
10
What is something you built but never marketed?
159

Top Show HN

1
I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
488
2
A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text
303
3
SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers
220
4
A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw
218
5
Japanese Complete Book 1 Released
165
6
GraphJSON – Easily log and analyze events using ClickHouse
128
7
I made a local development, debugging and hotreload tool for AWS Lambda
111
8
Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web
102
9
I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates
99
10
Match(it): A C++17 pattern-matching library with lots of good stuffs
85

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 Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
630
2
A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)
276
3
Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer
230
4
A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
219
5
Halo system link still holds up more than 20 years later
152
6
Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
146
7
The James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript, Apparently
115
8
W4 plans to monetize the Godot engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook
102
9
Machine learning, concluded: Did no-code tools beat manual analysis?
82
10
Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
80

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
Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
555
2
Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
409
3
Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
382
4
Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
309
5
FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available
280
6
AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage
240
7
Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M
190
8
Marc Andreessen and Ultra-Wealthy Neighbors Thwart Housing in California Town
184
9
Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept
182
10
Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths
170

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
“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
370
2
Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation
314
3
Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)
110
4
Complex of 500 standing stones found in Spain
78
5
NMN: A Stable, Reliable NAD+Activator and Anti-Aging Molecule (2020)
60
6
Quality of random number generator significantly affects Monte Carlo simulations
44
7
The dangers of non-empirical confirmation (2016)
42
8
Superlattices Could Make Bulky Capacitors Obsolete
38
9
Poly-time algorithm for deciding Hilbert Nullstellensatz. A proof of P=NP
34
10
Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive
19

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
.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
371
2
PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
320
3
A laptop hard drive model could crash when exposed to a certain audio frequency
256
4
More content by people, for people in Search
255
5
The growing image-processor unpleasantness
191
6
Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks
155
7
Tornado Cash and collateral damage
135
8
Android 13
132
9
Best Practices for Using Webhooks
125
10
An io_uring-based user-space block driver
102

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 to begin 3nm chip production next month
393
2
Lowering a dumbbell 6 times a day offers significant gains in strength
57
3
The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
52
4
Michigan man builds own ISP
50
5
Apple Remains Silent About Plans to Detect Known CSAM Stored in iCloud Photos
33
6
Nvidia Details Grace Hopper CPU Superchip Design: 144 Cores on 4N TSMC Process
20
7
SSDs Are Worse for the Planet Than HDDs
12
8
Samsung's $15B R&D Complex to Overcome Limits of Semiconductor Scaling
11
9
TikTok's In-App Browser Reportedly Capable of Monitoring Anything You Type
9
10
The Chip Shortage Leads to the Strangest Things
8

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Shazam turns 20
361
2
AWS Just Walk Out Technology
57
3
HTTP/3 Support for Amazon CloudFront
15
4
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/3 powered by QUIC
13
5
Disrupting SEABORGIUM's ongoing phishing operations
6
6
HTTP/3 over QUIC Support for Amazon CloudFront
4
7
HP iPAQ 4150 Pocket PC
4
8
SawStop table saws safety feature: 5 millisecond stop time from skin contact
3
9
For the second year, Apple Card and Goldman Sachs rank No. 1 in customer study
3
10
Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations
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
Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
305
2
John Muir's Alarm Clock Desk
114
3
A farmer’s hunch led to a lost monastery and a Neolithic surprise
108
4
CDC deletes statement that “mRNA and spike protein do not last long in the body”
83
5
Commercials make us like TV more (2010)
43
6
Can You Be a Great Leader Without Technical Expertise?
22
7
Tesla Superchargers Are Deemed Illegal in Germany
13
8
A High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science
11
9
The world’s largest offshore wind farm is about to officially launch
10
10
Tesla's virtual power plant had its first event helping the grid
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
Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’
213
2
Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions
211
3
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
211
4
Plasma reactors could create oxygen on Mars
158
5
Self-taught AI shows similarities to how the brain works
100
6
Another Path to Intelligence
97
7
Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?
97
8
Possible breakthrough to destroy PFAS using sodium hydroxide
95
9
A compute-in-memory chip based on resistive random-access memory
79
10
Animal melting pot created by climate change could lead to new disease outbreaks
67

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
461
2
Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]
437
3
Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
355
4
John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
287
5
The erosion of the Mac experience
266
6
Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network
260
7
Toptal trying to sue us for saying there are Toptal alternatives that cost less
157
8
A spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation [video]
154
9
Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case
132
10
A DAW made in Excel (2020) [video]
131

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
530
2
Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch
386
3
Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
381
4
A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
378
5
Quirky computing books
323
6
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
283
7
Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible
167
8
Exponential Smoothing: faster and more accurate than NeuralProphet
161
9
Stitching – A Python package for fast and robust Image Stitching (Panoramas)
155
10
DTrace-on-Windows
135

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Preparedness Paradox
236
2
2022 Oder Environmental Disaster
215
3
Nocturnal bottleneck
203
4
The Secretary Problem
202
5
Dublin Whiskey Fire
169
6
Zooko's Triangle
79
7
BRL-CAD
74
8
Gravity Probe B
70
9
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
60
10
Richat Structure
49

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Guessing C for Every Answer Is Now Enough to Pass the NY State Algebra Exam
133
2
The Trouble with the Segway (2009)
57
3
Airbnb’s Approach to Access Management at Scale
16
4
We Flooded our Dating App with Bots— to Scam Scammers
9
5
Work from Office
5
6
Files Are Hard
5
7
Defusing Crypto’s Ticking Time Bomb
4
8
Online Data Migration from HBase to TiDB with Zero Downtime
4
9
Why Unary Is the Best Number System (2015)
4
10
Typosquatting Attack Targeting 12 of Python's Top Packages
3

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about?
13
2
What Are the Differences Between NP, NP-Complete and NP-Hard?
3
3
What Is Declarative Programming?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies
189
2
Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance
155
3
Modern Malaise
143
4
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
143
5
Split Brain Psychology
104
6
Observations on tragedy in a digital age
102
7
Who Judges the Judges?
78
8
Ban Bottled Water: Microplastics Reside in Them Globally
77
9
The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time
72
10
Closing Down the Billionaire Factory
48