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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
2585
2
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1737
3
Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
1232
4
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
944
5
Google is discontinuing Inbox
916
6
SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
798
7
Apple's best product is now privacy
717
8
How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
649
9
The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
580
10
Dry Water
543
Top Ask HN
1
Favorite teachers on YouTube?
770
2
What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
259
3
What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?
253
4
What's a starting point for learning how to write programming languages?
213
5
How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?
201
6
How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?
177
7
Solutions for collaborative code review, pair programming?
98
8
Why Does the European Tech Industry Have Such a B2B Focus?
87
9
Washed up at 40 when you're crazy?
81
10
Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
81
Top Show HN
1
Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
660
2
Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists
590
3
TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals
514
4
Hacklily – sheet music editor
285
5
Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles
157
6
Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text
146
7
Mindstamp – Make Any Video Interactive in Seconds
138
8
Namegine – find a name for your startup or product
121
9
Start a small crowdfunding campaign to prove product demand
100
10
Re:consent – View and change the consent you have given to websites
86
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1737
2
Google is discontinuing Inbox
916
3
SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
798
4
Apple's best product is now privacy
717
5
The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead
391
6
A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone
376
7
UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR
342
8
Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert
278
9
Airware is shutting down after raising $118M
204
10
Ericsson and T-Mobile ink $3.5B deal for 5G
144
News [?]
1
Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
475
2
Brave files adtech complaint against Google
464
3
Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
450
4
Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
448
5
Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
431
6
China now the most prolific contributor to physical sciences, engineering, math
423
7
Where in the World Is Larry Page?
314
8
The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
301
9
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
280
10
How to Be Better at Parties
275
Scientific publications [?]
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Future Directions for Optimizing Compilers
144
2
Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7-nm Smartphone Chips
135
3
Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions
124
4
Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (2005)
120
5
New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time
76
6
Single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
67
7
Digging into Browser-Based Crypto Mining
67
8
Learning Dense Visual Object Descriptors By and For Robotic Manipulation
62
9
Visual Transfer Between Atari Games Using Competitive Reinforcement Learning
49
10
Researchers demonstrate the first single-photon transistor using a semiconductor
48
Dev Blogs [?]
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Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
320
2
Git 2.19.0 released
158
3
Protecting Mozilla’s GitHub Repositories from Malicious Modification
152
4
Fixing an old hack – why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU
103
5
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
87
6
First Wave of Spiking Neural Network Hardware Hits
80
7
AMD Contributes 8.5x More Code to the Linux Kernel Than Nvidia
76
8
The Psychology of Security (2008) [pdf]
37
9
S3 trickery: using it as a scheduler
32
10
Agile Makes No Sense
13
Tech blogs [?]
1
Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
438
2
Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back
433
3
New “Terrorist Content” Regulations: A Grim Day for Digital Rights in Europe
150
4
The Nvidia Turing GPU Architecture Deep Dive: Prelude to GeForce RTX
120
5
Android devices send data 10x more often to Google than iOS devices to Apple
70
6
AMD Announces Four New Ryzen CPUs: 2700E, 2600E, 2500X, and 2300X
35
7
Doing One Thing, Well: The Unix Philosophy
28
8
The Pre-CRT Oscilloscope
23
9
YouTube, Netflix Publish First Videos Transcoded Using AV1
14
10
Congress Invites No Consumer Privacy Advocates to Its Consumer Privacy Hearing
10
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Special Event [video]
197
2
iPhone XS – A12 Bionic
48
3
Apple Watch Series 4
8
4
New AWS Session Manager for Shell Access to EC2 Instances
7
5
New Apple Watch
5
6
Apple iPhone XR
5
7
iPhone XR
5
8
iPhone XS
4
9
Apple Special Event – watch live
4
10
Mapillary uses Amazon Rekognition to build parking solutions for US cities
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
271
2
Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
185
3
The iPhone Franchise
177
4
Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for electric vehicles
164
5
Intent to Implement: Display Locking
87
6
Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
83
7
More than ‘know thyself’: on all the other Delphic maxims
64
8
Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents
59
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Tesla Model 3 Stolen from Mall of America Using Smartphone
50
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Tesla Model 3 vs. Amtrak's Acela Express: The Electric Future Acid Test
39
Science News [?]
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Why are conversations limited to about four people?
171
2
Brain's Dumped DNA May Lead to Stress, Depression
161
3
The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found
160
4
Burning Man's Mathematical Underbelly
134
5
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
122
6
Post-crash economics: have we learnt nothing?
118
7
What Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos Reveal About Copper Age Medical Practices
80
8
How Mammals Maintain Symmetry During Development
79
9
A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story
74
10
Why a Pterosaur Is Not a Dinosaur
68
Social [?]
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Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back
249
2
Using Rust for Game Development [video]
247
3
Portrait of Terence Tao [video]
63
4
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape and Mozilla (2000) [video]
54
5
SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon
37
6
Visualization of storm surge – Unreal Engine real-time rendering
35
7
How Fighting Wildfires Works [video]
33
8
Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
21
9
Google indexer is two-pass, first run is without js
19
10
Sony Claims They Own 47 Seconds of a Musicians Own Recording of Bach
17
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
362
2
HTTPS-Portal: Automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker
242
3
You Don't Need Moment.js
241
4
WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web
161
5
Jupytext: Jupyter notebooks as Python scripts
151
6
Forest, a multi-syntax functional language that compiles to WebAssembly
132
7
WatermelonDB, a database for React and React Native apps
118
8
Lumen: A Lisp for Lua and JavaScript
114
9
Apple 1 ROM disassembly
109
10
Carbon – Create images of your source code
103
Wikipedia [?]
1
Dry Water
543
2
Bellman's lost in a forest problem
139
3
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
58
4
Krukenberg procedure
56
5
The Cult of Reason
56
6
Zip gun
50
7
Apollo 11 missing tapes
43
8
Thunderstone (folklore)
36
9
Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle
13
10
Pilot wave theory
7
Blogs [?]
1
How to be alone: the difference between loneliness and solitude
223
2
What I Learned Making ARKit Prototypes
89
3
We Can Stop Pretending LTE-M Is a Low-Power WAN
88
4
Defusing COBOL Bombs with Smart Automation
74
5
GitHub banned us without notice – Is Microsoft the risk we didn’t consider?
53
6
Why reading 100 books a year won’t make you successful
49
7
Teaching foreign policy majors to code
46
8
Why Clojure?
34
9
George Hotz Steps Down as Comma.ai CEO
34
10
Why it's worth learning Go
30
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stackoverflow – Calculate your salary
2
2
Why Bother with Recurrent Neural Networks for Structured Data?
1
Substack [?]
1
Bitcoin is under attack in India
5
2
SEC cracks down on Bitcoin product, while Citigroup considers jumping in
3
3
The Winklevoss twins are playing the crypto long game
2
4
A federal judge dealt a devastating blow to ICO issuers yesterday
1
5
Crypto companies need to stop looking for regulation arbitrage opportunities
1