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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
I got pwned by my cloud costs
1398
2
Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
1195
3
Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
1165
4
I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
1141
5
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
1117
6
AirPods don't “just work”
927
7
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
855
8
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
813
9
Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
784
10
I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
770

Top Ask HN

1
Gmail account security
1508
2
Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
617
3
Is the past disappearing on the web?
569
4
What's Up with Google?
350
5
How do you get out of a rut?
264
6
Why the obsession with note taking?
252
7
Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring practices)
244
8
Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?
181
9
Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
179
10
Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?
164

Top Show HN

1
Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy
261
2
Marginalia – Exploration Mode
236
3
Hibiki HTML – New frontend framework – no scaffolding, no Webpack
232
4
Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases
231
5
Bulk convert images online without sending to server
188
6
Shoot the neural network before it shoots you
146
7
An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML
140
8
Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client
136
9
Social network that looks and works more like a forum
133
10
Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies
121

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
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
855
2
22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
525
3
Searching for Susy Thunder
494
4
WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack
468
5
To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work
429
6
Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
334
7
Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing
269
8
A prisoner who worked out how to input Chinese characters into a machine
154
9
2FA app with 10k Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan
148
10
Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan
143

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
Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
784
2
James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away
754
3
The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation
396
4
Dozens of U.S. states say Apple stifles competition, back Epic
342
5
In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
336
6
We have jetpacks and we do not care
333
7
UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
322
8
Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials
302
9
The case against masks at school
267
10
Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions
248

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
How E Ink developed full-color e-paper
317
2
AlphaFold-Powered Drug Discovery of a Novel CDK20 Inhibitor
173
3
Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice
150
4
How Claude Shannon helped kick-start machine learning
142
5
50 Years of Prolog and Beyond
101
6
The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant
68
7
Lock-Free Locks Revisited
49
8
Wi-Fi 7 at 40 gigabits per second, it’ll be four times as fast as Wi-Fi 6
47
9
How the Hall Effect still reverberates
35
10
GPT-3 implicitly favor text written by authors from powerful social positions
34

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
Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
681
2
Highlights from Git 2.35
258
3
Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix
210
4
Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide
191
5
Unlisted App Distribution
156
6
Open Sourcing the App Engine Standard Java Runtime
75
7
Get to Know the New Topics API for Privacy Sandbox
68
8
Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions
59
9
Chain of vulnerabilities led to RCE on Cisco Prime servers
48
10
StylEx: A New Approach for Visual Explanation of Classifiers
47

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's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency
80
2
The U.K. paid $724k for its “Encryption is Bad” campaign. It won’t work
23
3
MoonBounce Malware Hides in Your BIOS Chip, Persists After Drive Formats
16
4
Mandatory Olympics iOS and Android apps are spying on athletes for China
14
5
Upcoming iOS Update Will Allow iPhones to Accept Credit Cards Directly Using NFC
13
6
Dutch Regulator Says Apple's Plan for Payments Is Insufficient, Fines Apple € 5M
12
7
GPU Prices Drop Along with Crypto
12
8
Google kills FLoC and will stick with cookies because of privacy complaints
9
9
U.S. Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill That Would Allow Sideloading
7
10
Seagate: We Are Shipping 22TB HDDs
7

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Request your personal information
139
2
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
97
3
Don't let computers generate your advertising or things like this will happen
75
4
Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (2020)
54
5
Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness
6
6
Amazon.com: Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win: Books
5
7
Microsoft Earnings Release FY22 Q2
3
8
Apple's Q1 Results
3
9
Microsoft Reports Q2 Earnings
3
10
Apple spotlights Black voices during Black History Month
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
The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)
139
2
In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale
105
3
Orcas found to kill blue whales
93
4
In southern France, unique boats revive a lost way of life
56
5
Amazon.com Homepage (1999)
36
6
Sloth poaching in northwestern Colombia
36
7
F-35 and F-117 Spotted Flying with Mysterious Mirror-Like Skin
30
8
The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned
21
9
Google Drive Flags Text Files with “1” or “0” as Copyright Infringements
20
10
New x-ray scanning technology reveals Covid-19’s damage to the body
19

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
Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11k per article
341
2
Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)
172
3
Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences
169
4
In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–like symptoms
156
5
Vitamin D supplementation reduces autoimmune disease risk in trial findings
138
6
Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
127
7
Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral
119
8
Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
117
9
Metal Detectorist Discovers One of England’s Earliest Gold Coins in a Farm Field
83
10
Emergence of Life in an Inflationary Universe (2020)
82

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
1165
2
I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
1141
3
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
1117
4
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
740
5
Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube
510
6
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download
343
7
The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out
221
8
I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me
192
9
A Padlock I’d Use [video]
152
10
Twitter doesn't care about spam?
151

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
722
2
PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
650
3
Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox
383
4
Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
307
5
Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics
278
6
Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH
274
7
Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online
270
8
Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
247
9
Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator
227
10
ImageGlass added malware with this commit
214

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Ant mill
251
2
Tabby's Star
88
3
Great Stirrup Controversy
40
4
Isochronous Curves
16
5
Uranium can be extracted from seawater in useful amounts
14
6
Death of Gloria Ramirez
10
7
Mr. Yuk
9
8
Carbon Bubble
8
9
Largest Known Prime Number
8
10
Mitsubishi Super Shift Transmission
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
So you want to run a space shot (2021)
19
2
Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods
16
3
Splitting Compilation and Execution in v8go
15
4
Presence Prison
14
5
Hosting my static sites with Nginx
14
6
A molecular beverage printer in every home
12
7
The Disney+ Application Development Kit (ADK)
8
8
It's data privacy day, but you should not have to care about privacy
8
9
Efficient and Easy Training of Large AI Models – Introducing Colossal-AI
8
10
A Pandemic Dispatch from Denmark
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
StackOverflow Jobs posting that specifically excludes men from applying
11
2
Stackoverflow Is Down
6
3
How Does the Yin Yang Puzzle Work?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
413
2
The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
302
3
How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
274
4
A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes
267
5
I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety
188
6
Lessons from Seoul's controversial privatized subway line
107
7
Theoretical Advances in AMM (Automated Market Maker) Understanding
91
8
New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century
75
9
Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria)
68
10
Why should you care about Ethereum Layer-2?
59