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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Queen Elizabeth II has died
2827
2
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
1887
3
Blocking Kiwifarms
994
4
Bitwarden raises $100M
967
5
What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
953
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Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
900
7
Peter Eckersley has died
846
8
Reddit's favorite products in one place
837
9
NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions
792
10
Congress.gov API
765

Top Ask HN

1
Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
378
2
What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
312
3
Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?
255
4
Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?
239
5
What happened to theregister.com?
219
6
Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?
219
7
Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?
188
8
Working as a software engineer for 5 years, I've forgotten all CS stuff
181
9
Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
112
10
Is there a Hacker News for writers?
101

Top Show HN

1
Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
692
2
Zelda Breath of The Wild Street View
456
3
I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
308
4
Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math
252
5
TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-binary GUI app
192
6
Chitchatter – P2P chat app that is serverless, decentralized, ephemeral
191
7
Simulate dollar-cost averaging in any mix of stocks
173
8
WakaQ - a Python distributed task queue
146
9
VoxelChain – An Experimental Voxel Engine
118
10
Ringer – Get and provide expert help on Open Source Software
112

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
Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
208
2
Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis
181
3
Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Generated Images?
122
4
AI is getting better at generating porn
104
5
Peter Eckersley, tech activist and founder of Let's Encrypt, dies at 43
94
6
Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
91
7
Fujifilm’s new X-H2 finally pushes its APS-C camera system to higher resolution
81
8
Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
73
9
DIY mechanical keyboard switch lets you set its actuation point
65
10
The Air Force Just Survived a Reply-All Apocalypse
53

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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Queen Elizabeth II has died
2827
2
IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
663
3
If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
453
4
Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team
453
5
Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says
403
6
What to read to understand central banking
305
7
Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church
251
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Companies are buying large numbers of carbon offsets that don’t cut emissions
242
9
Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year
231
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Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data
216

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
Python type hints are Turing complete
244
2
Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change
208
3
The tyranny of the rocket equation (2012)
111
4
More than 90% of the bots are Pro-Ukrainian, with fewer than 7% pro-Russian
67
5
Meta’s metaverse hype leads to real-world backlash
57
6
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller: First US PhD in Computer Science
47
7
Genomics of mortal and immortal cnidarians unveils keys behind rejuvenation
42
8
The benefits of breakfast cereal consumption (2014)
30
9
Impact of floods and droughts increasing worldwide
8
10
New fur for quantum cat:Entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time
7

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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Blocking Kiwifarms
994
2
Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
321
3
Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings and Shootings for Hire
144
4
Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor
119
5
Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
115
6
Crash recovery for user-space block drivers
53
7
Lazy Imports for Python (PEP 690)
30
8
Arm64 Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog
24
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VMware: ESXi VM Performance Tanks Up to 70% Due to Intel Retbleed Mitigation
22
10
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons for Transaction Processing
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
Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
140
2
Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S.
84
3
SK Hynix Starts Prepping for Next Semiconductor Boom with $11B Memory Fab
62
4
Apple Pay processes $6T annually, edges out Mastercard
33
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ADSL Router as Effects Pedal
27
6
Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages
27
7
Apple introduces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus – with satellite connectivity
22
8
Anti-insulin protein helps queen ants live five times longer than workers
21
9
Apple Event Live Blog: iPhone 14, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro, and More Expected
19
10
New AirPods Pro Do Not Support Lossless Apple Music
19

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
iOS 16 Available September 12th
323
2
Emergency SOS via satellite is included for free with iPhone 14 Pro for 2 years
270
3
AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
265
4
Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
114
5
A serverless architecture for high performance financial modelling
92
6
AWS Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images
6
7
Amazon Drive is shutting down
5
8
Open Sourcing Event Ruler
4
9
Apple debuts iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max
3
10
Apple Airpod Pro (2nd gen) lanyard on sale for $12.95
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
Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)
308
2
How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
137
3
When Every Ketchup but One Went Extinct
114
4
Why Haskell Is Interesting? (2005)
55
5
OOP “is really just a common sense extension of structured programming”
39
6
Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread
38
7
Kiwifarms: Where the Sidewalk Ends
16
8
Daniel Weinreb: Rebuttal to RMS’s Story About the Formation of Symbolics and LMI
13
9
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is the Real Wealth (2020)
10
10
History by Numbers
9

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
Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity
239
2
Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
227
3
Two atomic clocks have been quantum entangled for the first time
168
4
Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible
167
5
How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series
140
6
Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial Covid-19 illness
118
7
Eight Secret Societies (2016)
108
8
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points
104
9
Hydrogen production from the air
102
10
A good memory or a bad one? One brain molecule decides
93

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
575
2
Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
504
3
Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
417
4
Has tiktok_us been breached?
399
5
Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
397
6
Patreon laid off their security team
377
7
Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service
308
8
Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
288
9
Citibank may lock bank accounts for 45 days if breach suspected
221
10
PayPal blocked Flipper Zero account with $1.3M
213

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Tipi – A personal homeserver for everyone
447
2
Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant
402
3
“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
334
4
Deviations from Chromium (features we disable or remove)
290
5
Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
284
6
A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
283
7
Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft
282
8
Common Lisp vs Racket
249
9
I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete
229
10
MinGPT: Minimal PyTorch re-implementation of GPT
223

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Flanderization
248
2
The Long S
127
3
Black Hours, Morgan MS 493
38
4
Man of the Hole
30
5
Inco Superstack
27
6
Kanye Quest 3030
12
7
Queen Elizabeth II has died
11
8
Operation London Bridge
10
9
Ice Cream Barge
9
10
TIL: Wikipedia has a native dark mode
8

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers
208
2
How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
43
3
Steamship: Heroku for Language AI
24
4
Don't Move to Estonia
20
5
What is multi-objective optimization?
19
6
ORoaming: Why haven't any other smartphone manufacturers built this yet?
16
7
Is Docker eating up disk space?
13
8
Why task management apps don’t work out for individuals
12
9
Swift was poised to replace Python. Then it tanked
11
10
Stable Diffusion painting some most famous paintings
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
3
2
Don't try to sanitize Pickle files in Docker
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
742
2
Don't ignore the janitor
324
3
All poverty is energy poverty
309
4
The tyranny of the wagon equation
242
5
Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
195
6
I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week
168
7
Science is political, and that's a bad thing
106
8
Being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
78
9
Where do economies of scale come from? Part II
66
10
Stoicism is not enough
43