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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
2278
2
Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
1384
3
Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)
1256
4
Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
1095
5
Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
1061
6
Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
987
7
In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously
979
8
Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
958
9
I have no capslock and I must scream
897
10
Why I will never buy another Samsung device
828

Top Ask HN

1
Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?
316
2
Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?
288
3
Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?
283
4
What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
267
5
Can we ban Twitter links, please?
235
6
Why is there no small Android phone?
191
7
How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?
168
8
Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?
126
9
What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?
119
10
What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry?
106

Top Show HN

1
Full text search on 630M US court cases
698
2
Test your shape rotation skills
659
3
Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
463
4
Google Drive to SQLite
305
5
I Designed and Built an eBike
304
6
Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
251
7
Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks
238
8
Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3
235
9
The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines
232
10
Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python
203

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
Inside Pornhub
382
2
Epic Games is making hundreds of temp testers into full employees with benefits
233
3
Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google
173
4
An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived
149
5
Facebook, Google other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
108
6
What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop
96
7
Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files for copyright violation
95
8
Grocery delivery “dark stores” in Amsterdam
95
9
The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot (2020)
89
10
Scientists discover centuries-old Arctic creatures surviving on fossils
72

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
Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
2278
2
Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
987
3
Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
958
4
Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
597
5
Indian teen chess grandmaster beats Magnus Carlsen in online rapid tournament
438
6
A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
400
7
Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT
353
8
AMD is now worth more than Intel
350
9
Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline
333
10
FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s
332

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
Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way
150
2
Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (2017)
100
3
Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language
88
4
PACSafe: Leveraging ARM Pointer Authentication for Memory Safety in C/C++
40
5
How USB Came to Be
31
6
E-Nose Sniffs Out Whiskey: Can identify the brand, region, and style of whiskey
21
7
Is Math the Key to Quantum Entanglement Protection?
13
8
Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863, study finds
9
9
'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope
9
10
A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
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
1
Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C
683
2
The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
535
3
Missouri governor’s office responsible for teacher data leak
308
4
Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
293
5
Logging at Twitter
207
6
Thoughts on Intel software-defined silicon
160
7
Cloudflare to acquire Area 1 Security for $162M
149
8
IRS: Selfies now optional, biometric data to be deleted
47
9
Python Support for Regular Expressions
26
10
Linux Developers Discuss Deprecating and Removing ReiserFS
25

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue
251
2
DYMO's new label printer uses RFID tags to prevent the use of non-OEM paper
159
3
Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of 80s Home Computers
46
4
Here's how Google shares, monetizes, and exploits your data
26
5
The Last x86 via Chip: Unreleased Next-Gen Centaur CNS Saved from Trash, Tested
26
6
Windows 10 and 11 21H2 Data Wiping Tool Leaves User Data on Disk
16
7
Windows 10 and 11 21H2 Data Wiping Tool Leaves User Data on Disk
13
8
Windows 12 Development Reportedly Begins in Earnest Next Month
13
9
Smallest battery assembles itself like a Swiss roll cake
9
10
Cloning the AirTag
9

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities
11
2
Amazon Fire TV Source Code
4
3
Microsoft Security delivers new multicloud capabilities
4
4
How to secure API Gateway HTTP endpoints with JWT authorizer
3
5
Apple Al Maryah Island Opens Friday in the Heart of Abu Dhabi
3
6
AWS Backup for AWS S3
2
7
Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies for Dummies
2
8
Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB
2
9
New AWS Scholarship Program for Careers in AI and ML
2
10
Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB
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
Moral injury can occur in many contexts and populations, including the workplace
149
2
OK for Apple to Call Sagan 'Butt-Head Astronomer' (1994)
110
3
BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
62
4
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
37
5
Revolving-door Gray code for all 4-vertex graphs [video]
34
6
Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
31
7
The Love Story Story
19
8
Russia and Ukraine: The Tangled History That Connects – and Divides– Them
14
9
Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10
12
10
AT&T 3G Shutdown Today Will Kill Connected Features for Millions of Cars
11

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
Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms
311
2
First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
205
3
Brain doesn't slow down until your 60s – later than we thought
179
4
Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span
159
5
Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells
128
6
Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices
101
7
Lit-up fishing nets reduce catch of unwanted sharks, rays and squid: study
82
8
The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring
75
9
Australian magpies help each other to remove tracking devices
69
10
A “hot Jupiter's” dark side is revealed in detail for first time
63

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
797
2
As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place
590
3
A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters
505
4
Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4
491
5
Radiation spikes in Chernobyl
324
6
C meeting is over. C23 added:
231
7
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)
202
8
“Sustainability with Rust” post misleading about Go
190
9
Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War has begun”
187
10
Parallels Desktop Pro now sends spam notifications with ads to your desktop
166

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
568
2
A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find/replace regex engine
428
3
OrioleDB – solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems
308
4
Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently
274
5
PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide
271
6
Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform
256
7
Ngrok Alternatives
244
8
Microsoft YARP
222
9
Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
189
10
How to secure anything
188

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Nacirema
140
2
Belling the Cat
116
3
All You Zombies
111
4
Lithops
91
5
The Battle of Snake Island
59
6
List of U.S. states and territories by net migration
26
7
José Mujica
17
8
XKeyscore
14
9
UCI
14
10
Aral Sea
12

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Things that used to be hard and are now easy
371
2
I was wrong, we need crypto
240
3
Misidentifying talent
230
4
Apple’s Mistake (2009)
177
5
95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
166
6
Squeezing Performance from SQLite: EXPLAINing the Virtual Machine
109
7
A six-fold improvement in the Merkle tree storage for Tezos
99
8
What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)
58
9
Highly Specific Commonalities Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Co-Founder of PayPal
10
10
The Python Paradox (2004)
10

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Many Endpoints per AWS Lambda
2
2
Explain dependency injection to a 5-year-old
2
3
What is the difference between raw_input() and input() in Python 3?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse
416
2
Here comes the first TikTok war
223
3
The time has come to replace file systems
177
4
Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
128
5
We Are Experiencing Definitional Collapse
54
6
Help I can't become a digital nomad, I have too much stuff
52
7
Time Series Forecasting in SQL
42
8
So you want to be a trillionaire
28
9
A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada
26
10
Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might or Might Not Work
22