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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Mechanical Watch
4298
2
Google Search Is Dying
3636
3
My First Impressions of Web3
3187
4
GPS
2900
5
Queen Elizabeth II has died
2827
6
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
2793
7
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
8
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
2498
9
Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
2410
10
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
2336

Top Ask HN

1
What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
2048
2
Gmail account security
1508
3
What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
1147
4
How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
1094
5
What game do you wish existed?
859
6
Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
798
7
YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
750
8
When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
711
9
GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
710
10
Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
696

Top Show HN

1
I'm building an open-source Amazon
1335
2
Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
1241
3
SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
1241
4
A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
1157
5
I may have created a new type of puzzle
1144
6
I made a web game called Almost Pong
1135
7
EdgeDB 1.0
947
8
Warp, a Rust-based terminal
946
9
A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
815
10
I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
777

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
I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
1180
2
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
1135
3
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
1040
4
Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
1032
5
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
924
6
MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
885
7
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
855
8
PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds
814
9
US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
796
10
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
720

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
Queen Elizabeth II has died
2827
2
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
2747
3
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
2498
4
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
2336
5
Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
2278
6
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
1765
7
Facebook loses users for the first time
1749
8
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
1704
9
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
1128
10
Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
1044

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
Deepest infrared image of universe
1136
2
James Webb is fully deployed
1127
3
Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
692
4
James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
555
5
OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
461
6
The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game
391
7
Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021)
371
8
“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
370
9
Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis'– turning methane into methanol
341
10
Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens
333

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
Dall-E 2
1820
2
The Ethereum merge is done
1394
3
Sunsetting Atom
1320
4
Blocking Kiwifarms
994
5
DALL·E now available in beta
923
6
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
902
7
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
877
8
GitHub Copilot is generally available
863
9
Apple Passkey
817
10
We're improving search results when you use quotes
741

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 director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
1069
2
The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
775
3
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
736
4
T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
692
5
EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
691
6
Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
532
7
GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge
502
8
Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
466
9
Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech
394
10
TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month
393

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple previews Lockdown Mode
1577
2
Apple M1 Ultra
1168
3
Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
847
4
Apple is discontinuing the iPod
664
5
Apple Mac Studio
653
6
Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
643
7
Apple Unveils M2
602
8
Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
464
9
New MacBook Air with M2
420
10
Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
382

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
Librarian's Letter to Google Security
1082
2
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
864
3
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
765
4
Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
522
5
I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)
479
6
How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices
417
7
Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements
337
8
Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)
335
9
Shirky.com is gone
331
10
Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density
326

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
The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
799
2
Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
776
3
Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
755
4
A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
753
5
Multiple Sclerosis Causality
635
6
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
616
7
Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s
602
8
Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure
589
9
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
569
10
Science needs more research software engineers
532

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
2793
2
US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
2191
3
Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
1926
4
Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
1607
5
Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
1165
6
Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
1157
7
I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
1141
8
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
1117
9
Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
997
10
Amazon Pip Horror Story
902

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Framework Laptop Mainboard
1019
2
SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
958
3
HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
921
4
Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
914
5
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
890
6
Danish government makes its new economic model open source
842
7
Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
831
8
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
766
9
Burn My Windows
761
10
YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
756

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
707
2
Stolperstein
445
3
Tarrare
388
4
The Last Question
314
5
Jerrycan
270
6
Ant mill
251
7
Two envelopes problem
249
8
Flanderization
248
9
Preparedness Paradox
236
10
Core War
236

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Heresy
929
2
Some tiny personal programs I've written
873
3
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
848
4
New(ish) command line tools
760
5
Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
699
6
The Cult Inside Google
597
7
Success and Failure at Pebble
557
8
“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
537
9
Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
488
10
The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
477

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does this code execute more slowly after strength-reducing multiplications?
434
2
How does database indexing work? (2008)
254
3
Why introduce `std::launder` rather than have the compiler take care of it?
72
4
Yes, this is embarrassingly slow, so I solved your problem
71
5
Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (2015)
40
6
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance
25
7
How do I exit Vim?
20
8
Why Swift Sucks
16
9
What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about?
13
10
StackOverflow Jobs posting that specifically excludes men from applying
11

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
1143
2
Heuristics that almost always work
1000
3
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
768
4
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
742
5
No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
704
6
One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
685
7
Are you a baby? A litmus test
660
8
What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
601
9
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
585
10
How to design a house to last 1000 years
584