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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
My Business Card Runs Linux
2595
2
Having Kids
1992
3
IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
1721
4
Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
1673
5
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
1536
6
Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
1393
7
The Lesson to Unlearn
1333
8
This Page is Designed to Last
1321
9
Fast
1314
10
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1303
Top Ask HN
1
Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
882
2
Best books you read in the past decade?
873
3
How Can I Learn Music Theory?
673
4
Best Talks of 2019?
643
5
What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
622
6
Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
485
7
How do you create a successful community from zero?
441
8
Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
423
9
Books you plan to read in 2020?
421
10
Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
407
Top Show HN
1
Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
716
2
A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
656
3
A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript
593
4
AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
584
5
One Page Calendar 2020
517
6
Space Invaders in C
478
7
Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
406
8
Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
406
9
Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper
386
10
Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic
367
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
908
2
ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
730
3
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
660
4
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
624
5
Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
424
6
Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
390
7
Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
384
8
LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
380
9
ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
355
10
French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold
352
News [?]
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Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
743
2
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
690
3
Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
659
4
White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
506
5
Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
502
6
Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died
433
7
You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
414
8
An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
405
9
U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
386
10
Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric
376
Scientific publications [?]
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Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach
190
2
NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars
178
3
Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law
140
4
Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
128
5
Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident
126
6
The Consumer Electronics Hall Of Fame: Sony Trinitron (2018)
123
7
What are your options for cognitive enhancement?
122
8
Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death
116
9
YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
115
10
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]
113
Dev Blogs [?]
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1204
2
BPF: A New Type of Software
603
3
How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
372
4
Speeding Up the Rust Compiler
351
5
‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
345
6
Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
299
7
Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
269
8
The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
206
9
Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
201
10
Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
195
Tech blogs [?]
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Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
708
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Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
256
3
Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
226
4
Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial
214
5
Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
171
6
Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029
164
7
Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
120
8
Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability
88
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Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
83
10
A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
83
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
740
2
The Amazon Builders' Library
469
3
Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
451
4
Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
429
5
Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
231
6
Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
195
7
AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
153
8
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
141
9
Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
137
10
Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances
132
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
544
2
All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus
349
3
Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
294
4
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)
290
5
Who Was the Buddha?
236
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Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
223
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The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
198
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Layout 101
195
9
How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll
186
10
Software Library: MS-DOS Games
169
Science News [?]
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Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
361
2
Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas
322
3
Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
284
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Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
247
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
218
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New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
192
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Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky
189
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Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics
186
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United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze
166
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How Microbiomes Affect Fear
146
Social [?]
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
1236
2
JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
1168
3
The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
783
4
Google claims copyright on employee side projects
738
5
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
728
6
The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
676
7
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
639
8
A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
589
9
Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
586
10
Windows 95 UI Design
555
Github repos and gists [?]
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Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1303
2
What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
863
3
Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
741
4
T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)
595
5
Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
542
6
Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
466
7
Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
403
8
WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
396
9
Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
396
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If this project is dead, just tell us
395
Wikipedia [?]
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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
528
2
Cyc
357
3
Category:Obsolete occupations
300
4
Transputer
236
5
Immortal Game
227
6
A Tesla Valve
197
7
List of Fictional Microsoft Companies
188
8
Sand Theft
171
9
Polytope Model
157
10
Wisdom (albatross)
147
Blogs [?]
1
Having Kids
1992
2
The Lesson to Unlearn
1333
3
My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
419
4
How tracking pixels work
413
5
Fashionable Problems
365
6
We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
351
7
Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
302
8
How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
292
9
37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
287
10
How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
196
Stackoverflow [?]
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The most popular Stack Overflow question of all time
5
2
Which Scheme Is Used in This Paper
4
3
Compiling Python to WebAssembly
3
4
C# – Visual studio long compilation when replacing int with double
3
5
Celery message queue vs. AWS Lambda task processing
1
6
Any reason not to use global lambdas?
1
7
Best Practices for API Versioning
1
8
Answer: Any Way to Test EventEmitter in Angular2?
1
Substack [?]
1
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
781
2
Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
395
3
Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
336
4
Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
195
5
The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn
186
6
Business Models
186
7
Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
140
8
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
114
9
The future of finance is self-driving money
90
10
How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web
75