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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
2525
2
Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
3
Ken Thompson's Unix Password
2101
4
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
1757
5
Firefox 70
1595
6
TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
1519
7
Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
1456
8
Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
1438
9
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
1385
10
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
1368
Top Ask HN
1
Successful one-person online businesses?
1474
2
What's a promising area to work on?
1331
3
Who Wants to Be Fired?
942
4
Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
788
5
How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
781
6
How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
642
7
Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
563
8
What do you self-host?
538
9
What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
476
10
What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
474
Top Show HN
1
Bel
1288
2
Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
442
3
I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
422
4
Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet
391
5
pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans
321
6
Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy
290
7
uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
260
8
Able – an alternative to Medium
248
9
Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
245
10
My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing
232
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
1368
2
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1324
3
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
1083
4
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
896
5
Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
645
6
Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
605
7
After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
604
8
Firefox is getting language translation
556
9
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
505
10
Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption
502
News [?]
1
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
1325
2
Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
903
3
'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
888
4
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
836
5
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
765
6
Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
743
7
For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate
708
8
Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
701
9
NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
686
10
After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters
685
Scientific publications [?]
1
Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor
378
2
MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work
359
3
Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming
341
4
How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
261
5
X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it
244
6
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
235
7
Plants “panic” when it rains
230
8
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
213
9
Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
191
10
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
181
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
701
2
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
658
3
Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
603
4
D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched
522
5
Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2
339
6
A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
278
7
US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
230
8
Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
221
9
Containers in 2019: They're Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback
201
10
Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support
199
Tech blogs [?]
1
Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
530
2
EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
518
3
Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report
230
4
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
208
5
Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition
202
6
Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
197
7
SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core
137
8
Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
116
9
Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs
97
10
TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
82
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
927
2
macOS Catalina
477
3
AirPods Pro
393
4
AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project
304
5
Apple Q4 Results
148
6
Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house
136
7
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
123
8
Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available
70
9
Kindle Kids Edition
28
10
AWS Transfer for SFTP Now Supports Logical Directories for Amazon S3
16
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The China Cultural Clash
660
2
Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere
344
3
ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems
262
4
Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon
239
5
Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
215
6
RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
199
7
The Internet and the Third Estate
182
8
Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)
162
9
Google and Ambient Computing
142
10
Pigs recorded using tools
134
Science News [?]
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
494
2
Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators
427
3
Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
400
4
New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics
296
5
A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
276
6
NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
271
7
Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
266
8
California power outage triggers chaos in science labs
264
9
Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
245
10
Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
241
Social [?]
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Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
2
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
1385
3
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
1310
4
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
1175
5
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
1128
6
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
918
7
I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
781
8
Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?
669
9
Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
628
10
Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
572
Github repos and gists [?]
1
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
1757
2
US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
1198
3
“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
801
4
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
619
5
Unfork()
568
6
Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
439
7
Don't Use VPN Services
408
8
Stealing Ur Feelings
372
9
Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source
357
10
Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
355
Wikipedia [?]
1
Galactic Algorithm
382
2
Project MKUltra
229
3
Oberon Operating System
196
4
Karatsuba Algorithm
170
5
Bhopal disaster
156
6
Duck Curve
154
7
Stańczyk
142
8
Terror management theory
132
9
Unit 731
131
10
Kim Peek
125
Blogs [?]
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SQL queries don't start with SELECT
905
2
My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
644
3
A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
599
4
Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
516
5
Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him
511
6
My application ran away and called home from Redmond
497
7
My Time at Snap
481
8
Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
427
9
Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications
366
10
Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
300
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why should I always enable compiler warnings?
69
2
Image inside div has extra space below the image
13
3
Regular expression to match a line that doesn't contain a word
3
4
What Benefits Does Chisel Offer over Classic Hardware Description Languages?
3
5
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
2
6
How to Think in SQL?
2
7
Testing C++ Compiler Optimizations for ++I and I++
2
8
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
2
9
So Answer: Which “href” value should I use for “JavaScript links”?
2
10
CSS – Firefox: How to test prefers-color-scheme?
2
Substack [?]
1
Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability
188
2
Rise of the Mathematicians
98
3
Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China
93
4
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
53
5
We're in a Permanent Coup
37
6
How are people making money selling knowledge on the Internet?
22
7
U.S. Procurement Won the Civil War, Today It Would Lose a War to China
5
8
The Curse of Being Big on the Internet
4
9
Our bosses live in our phones
3
10
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
3