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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Facebook loses users for the first time
1749
2
Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
1049
3
The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
1018
4
Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
1016
5
Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
947
6
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
906
7
Amazon Pip Horror Story
902
8
The New York Times buys Wordle
902
9
Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
896
10
Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
790

Top Ask HN

1
At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
427
2
Who wants to collaborate?
390
3
Who is hiring? (February 2022)
269
4
How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?
252
5
What are some good tech magazines?
237
6
General Mood of the Community
177
7
How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
157
8
Has anyone leveraged GDPR to overturn automated bans?
146
9
Who wants to be hired? (February 2022)
129
10
Where do you hang out virtually online?
127

Top Show HN

1
Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
631
2
Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers
279
3
I made a little digital circuit simulator that operates on PNGs
259
4
Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
209
5
Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences
171
6
High-order Virtual Machine (HVM) – A Parallel Functional Runtime
150
7
Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension
135
8
Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
126
9
I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%
123
10
Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo
120

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
Please make a dumb car
633
2
North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
475
3
The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
468
4
Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online
305
5
Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app
252
6
Finnish diplomats’ phones infected with NSO Group Pegasus spyware
224
7
U.S. companies are hiring Latin America’s tech talent
214
8
Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco
103
9
MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software–for better or worse
101
10
The Great Unconformity: Research points to glaciers being the culprit
87

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
Facebook loses users for the first time
1749
2
The New York Times buys Wordle
902
3
America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich
528
4
iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
503
5
Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
489
6
Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
445
7
Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
417
8
An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf
342
9
Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal
309
10
New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation
305

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
New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy
189
2
A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics
102
3
Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018)
99
4
The Integrative Role of the Sigh
61
5
'Quantum friction' slows water flow through carbon nanotubes
60
6
Evidence of long-term directionality in origination of human mutation: study
47
7
Symbolic-Numeric Integration of Univariate Expressions via Sparse Regression
12
8
Active Dendrites Enable Multi-Task Learning in Dynamic Environments
9
9
Two-dimensional polymer helps create a new material that is stronger than steel
9
10
Variational Neural Cellular Automata
9

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
Zero-copy network transmission with io_uring (2021)
244
2
Solving some formal math olympiad problems
203
3
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections
195
4
Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel
178
5
Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
141
6
Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Based Cloud Services
138
7
Linux bcc/BPF tcplife: TCP Lifespans (2016)
86
8
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware (2010)
86
9
Bittersweet Symfony: Devs accidentally turn off CSRF protection in PHP framework
78
10
Critical Samba flaw presents code execution threat
74

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 will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
532
2
BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M
273
3
It’s Back: Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
82
4
Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
70
5
Samsung Austin Spilled 763,000 Gallons of Acid Waste into Local Ecosystem
40
6
Shop Safe Will Stomp Out Online Sales of Used and Homemade Goods
39
7
Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up to 8 Hours to Update
36
8
How We Ended Up with the Pregnant Man Emoji
18
9
Microsoft: If Apple isn't stopped now, its antitrust behavior will get worse
16
10
Senate Approves another Antitrust bill that would allow sideloading on iOS
15

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
New Book called “What if? 2” by Xkcd creator Randall Munroe
42
2
Route53 – Control planes and data planes
15
3
Apple Original series “Foundation” unveils new cast and first look at season two
3
4
Advancing AI trustworthiness: Updates on responsible AI research
3
5
Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology
3
6
AutoML experiments with large parquet datasets using Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
2
7
Apple celebrates Heart Month with new resources across services
2
8
The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression
2
9
All-New Apple Yas Mall Now Open in Abu Dhabi
2
10
The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression
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
Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image
240
2
Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years
167
3
The Story of Maxis Software (1999)
154
4
DaVinci-style drone with 600-year-old screw rotor design
141
5
U.S. Seeks 5-Year Prison Sentence for Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser
54
6
The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island and created many mysteries
51
7
What energized this Arctic hare to keep going and going and going?
40
8
The Wondrous Wordplay of Lunar New Year Food
31
9
Gaming the Smiling Curve
29
10
Some Applications of Mechanics to Mathematics (1961)
28

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
A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner
415
2
Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension
320
3
Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
319
4
What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
302
5
New lightweight material is stronger than steel
274
6
Biologist decided to disavow his own study
192
7
What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?
174
8
Turning back time with epigenetic clocks
166
9
Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation
108
10
Highly virulent HIV variant found to be circulating in Europe for decades
108

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Amazon Pip Horror Story
902
2
Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims
768
3
For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
734
4
Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
725
5
Did I just lose half a million dollars?
638
6
My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi
559
7
Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
333
8
Dip Switch USB Stick
209
9
YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views
205
10
1999 Repeal of Glass-Steagall was the worst deregulation enacted in US history
135

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Fetch API has landed into Node.js
679
2
Is it safe to use __secret_internals_do_not_use_or_you_will_be_fired?
350
3
Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps
336
4
A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash
271
5
Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system
244
6
Pyflow – Visual and modular block programming in Python
229
7
Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files
229
8
Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
228
9
Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux
174
10
YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs
163

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
IBM Simon
47
2
Kvass
22
3
Anti-Tank Dog
21
4
Countries with Free and Universal Healthcare
20
5
Computers Don't Argue
17
6
_NSAKEY
15
7
Greater Fool Theory
12
8
Wikipedia: Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile
10
9
High-Entropy Alloys
9
10
Brilliant Pebbles ballistic missile defense system
8

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
A toy DNS resolver
309
2
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
266
3
I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author
239
4
Cocktail party ideas
188
5
Schlep Blindness (2012)
53
6
Programming Book List
44
7
Flutter for Windows
32
8
Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods
29
9
Hacking the rebel heart: an experiment in incentive design
23
10
Gnome Linux – A Complete Disaster?
20

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How and when to align to cache line size (2011)
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
531
2
People don't work as much as they say
492
3
Don't forget Microsoft
429
4
Over-reliance on CGI in movies
300
5
How should net metering affect your electric bill?
234
6
Mergers ruin everything
190
7
On Why I'm Quitting Alcohol
135
8
There are too many video games
127
9
That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
124
10
The Economics of Data Businesses
109