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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
1735
2
Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
1044
3
Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
978
4
SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
958
5
Write plain text files
739
6
Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
727
7
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
720
8
Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
709
9
SPAs Were a Mistake
692
10
Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
691

Top Ask HN

1
The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?
392
2
Who is hiring? (March 2022)
327
3
Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?
314
4
Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?
265
5
Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
248
6
Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
220
7
Should HN require/encourage job postings to have a salary range?
220
8
Should I give up and get a job?
191
9
What is the oldest, still supported OS?
180
10
Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?
179

Top Show HN

1
I made a web game called Almost Pong
1135
2
A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
478
3
Berkeley Mono Typeface
355
4
Huemint – Machine learning for color design
335
5
DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)
269
6
Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client
211
7
I made a little math game named Summle
189
8
I made a web game using emojis and no JS framework
188
9
WAPM – WebAssembly Package Manager
186
10
Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python
158

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
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
720
2
Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
691
3
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments
477
4
Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th
366
5
BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion
339
6
Ice cream machine hackers sue McDonald's
276
7
Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
264
8
Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd murder
138
9
Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps
129
10
After George Floyd’s murder, police built a surveillance machine in Minnesota
110

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
Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
1044
2
Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
978
3
BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion
496
4
Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
422
5
David Boggs has died
360
6
China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Biden officials say
344
7
Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis
336
8
New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
332
9
Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
313
10
What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
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
NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power
200
2
DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers
194
3
TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage
177
4
Gradients Without Backpropagation
87
5
Mitsubishi plans to include scene-aware interaction in cars
81
6
Basic Quantum Algorithms
56
7
Human toxicity from Covid-19 rapid home test kits
54
8
SpaceX launches 47 Starlink satellites and lands rocket making 11th flight
41
9
Discovery of ultrafast myosin, its amino acid sequence, and structural features
40
10
Using CMOS Sensors in a Cellphone for Gamma Detection and Classification
33

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
GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source
317
2
Better visibility into Linux packet-dropping decisions
132
3
CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754
119
4
WASI: A New Kind of System Interface
99
5
Mozilla and the EFF publish letter about the danger of Article 45.2
78
6
DNA data of sexual assault victims exposed in breach at US laboratory
63
7
Ruble-Denominated Bitcoin Volumes Surges to 9-Month High
46
8
Future Intel Systems to Be Even Less Friendly for Open-Source Firmware
38
9
Our Response to the War in Ukraine
38
10
Helping Ukraine
33

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet
260
2
$60 PC Oscilloscope Review
88
3
Protein tweak makes CRISPR gene editing 4k times less error-prone
87
4
The new ARM based ThinkPad X13s
50
5
New UCIe Chiplet Standard Supported by Intel, AMD, and Arm
44
6
Animal-free dairy milk set to finally hit US retail shelves
25
7
Graphics Card Prices Dropped 11% in February
23
8
Raspberry Pi Alternative Banana Pi Reveals Powerful New Board
22
9
Optical Discs Aren't Dead, as Pioneer's New Drive Doubles BD Write Speeds
21
10
“Drug factory” beads implanted in mice take out tumors within a week
21

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Lambda adds supports for .NET 6
213
2
“Peek Performance” Apple Event Scheduled for Tuesday
22
3
Customer Carbon Footprint Tool for AWS
6
4
Additional Checksum Algorithms for Amazon S3
4
5
Coq: The world’s best macro assembler? (2013)
4
6
Additional Checksum Algorithms for Amazon S3
4
7
Apple launches inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Latin founders
3
8
Apple March 2022 Keynote
3
9
Amazon Luna: Cloud Gaming
2
10
Apple welcomes the return of in-person Today at Apple sessions across US stores
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
200-foot-long railway to nowhere is a brilliant shipping loophole
206
2
Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia
183
3
An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
154
4
10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
150
5
Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (1965)
133
6
Russian state news declared victory too soon and quickly deletes article
71
7
FBI Gains Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Google Account Data
44
8
The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase (2003)
37
9
Threads (1984) – Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect
34
10
Jwz: Robot war dogs hunting migrants now
26

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
Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm with paper made from bananas
208
2
A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink the structure of nature’s laws
162
3
Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
155
4
An ALS Protein, Revealed
135
5
How Swahili became Africa's most spoken language
120
6
Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used
113
7
Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing
79
8
Mathematicians make sense of chaos
76
9
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
76
10
Wuhan market was epicentre of pandemic’s start, studies suggest
55

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Modern smartphone lenses are crazy
587
2
Newly published 9/11 footage [video]
257
3
Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline
205
4
An IT Army for Ukraine
202
5
Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning
201
6
Serious flaws in the way Samsung phones encrypt key material in TrustZone
185
7
I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
174
8
Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
163
9
Advice to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv
132
10
The implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices
114

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
958
2
My Stripe Tax Story
665
3
“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”
510
4
Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid
379
5
iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU
356
6
Open source alternatives to popular SaaS products
299
7
How generics are implemented in Go 1.18
288
8
MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation
282
9
Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites
258
10
What happened to my career after 2010? (2021)
244

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Wet-Bulb Temperature
112
2
Harold Hering
105
3
This Is the Boke of Cokery
91
4
Homo Sovieticus
65
5
Rossum's Universal Robots
59
6
An-225
56
7
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
48
8
Jesus Nut
29
9
Doomscrolling
24
10
Useful idiot
21

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
No RailsConf
68
2
Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix
32
3
My Battle with Post-Finasteride Syndrome, Part I
21
4
Employee NPS: The Golden Metric for Employee Performance Review
14
5
Vitalik Buterin Says Canada’s Use of Banks to Quell Trucker Protest Is Dangerous
9
6
Corn-Pone
8
7
A Gentle Introduction to Automatic Text Summarization
7
8
Let’s Understand Base64
5
9
How can Carvana afford to buy ADESA?
5
10
The other side of social media
5

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Make Linux look like Windows 95
473
2
Why not hire part-time developers?
349
3
The war on gifted education
264
4
P. J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022
251
5
The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
247
6
Class Bullshitters
161
7
Lessons from shipbuilding productivity
85
8
Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin
79
9
Russia's Plan C
55
10
Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship
51