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Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?

New top story on Hacker News: Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Technical Delivery Manager (US Based)

New top story on Hacker News: Things I learned writing my first technical book

New top story on Hacker News: SuperTokens (YC S20) Is Hiring a head of technical content

The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups

That Job at Harvard? It’s Not Real.

At Amazon Site, Tornado Collided With Company’s Peak Delivery Season

Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.

Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars

How to Carry Your Covid Health Data on a Smartphone

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Steps Down From C.E.O. Role

New top story on Hacker News: Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”

New top story on Hacker News: Sociotechnical Lenses into Software Systems

The C.E.O. of Afiniti, an A.I. start-up, steps down after accusations of sexual assault.

New top story on Hacker News: DeepSource Is Looking for a Technical Product Marketer in San Francisco

What Apple’s New Repair Program Means for You (and Your iPhone)

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a tool to create animated technical papers

New top story on Hacker News: Haskell IHP Framework, from a Technical and Business Perspective

New top story on Hacker News: Explaining ML Models: A Non-Technical Guide to Interpreting SHAP Analyses

New top story on Hacker News: Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are some technically inspiring movies, TV shows or documentaries?

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System

New top story on Hacker News: Webiny (YC W21) Is Hiring – Technical Content Writer

New top story on Hacker News: Hexing the Technical Interview (2017)

Apple’s Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect

The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch

Facebook Renames Itself Meta

New top story on Hacker News: So you want to write a technical book

New top story on Hacker News: How to Prepare for a Technical Interview

Inside Amazon’s Worst Human Resources Problem

Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role

Hackers lay claim to Donald Trump’s social app before its launch.

New top story on Hacker News: Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone

New top story on Hacker News: Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis

New top story on Hacker News: Fly.io (YC W20) is hiring technical writers

Instagram Struggles With Fears of Losing Its ‘Pipeline’: Young Users

New top story on Hacker News: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Caribou – a GitHub app to help you manage technical debt

New top story on Hacker News: Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN

Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them.

Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew

Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’

Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously.

Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says

‘Stalkerware’ Apps Are Proliferating. Protect Yourself.

YouTube bans all anti-vaccine misinformation.

New top story on Hacker News: Are Random Trading Strategies More Successful Than Technical Ones?

New top story on Hacker News: Technical deep dive into how OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

New top story on Hacker News: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties

No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever

Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple

Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw

Judge Orders Apple to Ease Restrictions on App Developers

Your Batteries Are Due for Disruption

Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb. Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try.

New top story on Hacker News: Vast project to consolidate CERN’s technical galleries gets under way

The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives

Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men

These two rumors are going viral ahead of California’s recall election.

TikTok Users and Coders Flood Texas Abortion Site With Fake Tips

New top story on Hacker News: Writing, Technically

New top story on Hacker News: The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues

Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial.

New top story on Hacker News: Project Horizon – Technical Considerations and Plans (1959) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)

California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.

Culture Change and Conflict at Twitter

New top story on Hacker News: Nerds Don't Respond to Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead

Now Going Viral: Meeting Online Friends in Real Life

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack

Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 7 days over vaccine misinformation.

Text Memes Are Taking Over Instagram

New top story on Hacker News: CSAM Detection Technical Summary [pdf]

The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators

New top story on Hacker News: Technical blogging in the era of Stack Overflow

New top story on Hacker News: Technical debt is not debt; it’s not even technical

QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.

New top story on Hacker News: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Articles on Player Piano Repair

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Introduction to the Use of Trusted Platform Module 2.0 with Linux [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation