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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
1937
2
YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
1553
3
YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
1362
4
Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
1358
5
Choose Boring Technology
1357
6
YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
1355
7
MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
1336
8
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
1188
9
Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1119
10
How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
991
Top Ask HN
1
What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
539
2
Who is hiring? (July 2019)
485
3
Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
474
4
What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
418
5
What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
392
6
Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
341
7
How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
329
8
How do you deal with professional envy?
314
9
Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
275
10
Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
262
Top Show HN
1
I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
446
2
Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners
359
3
Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
343
4
Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
322
5
OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go
310
6
Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
296
7
Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust
255
8
Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
236
9
TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
235
10
Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet
218
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
1358
2
Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
549
3
Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
467
4
Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server
426
5
Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
356
6
Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
343
7
Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
342
8
The rise of remote working will continue
342
9
I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy
338
10
Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars
337
News [?]
1
To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
859
2
A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
734
3
California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
709
4
Employee happiness and business success are linked
690
5
Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
664
6
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
626
7
Why wasn't this page found?
622
8
Uber Lays Off 400
515
9
Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
494
10
Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
491
Scientific publications [?]
1
A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
381
2
Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites
348
3
Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
294
4
Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
284
5
Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
269
6
Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
257
7
A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
245
8
Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series
196
9
Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
177
10
Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span
153
Dev Blogs [?]
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1119
2
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
698
3
Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
648
4
What's Coming in Python 3.8
638
5
John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better
432
6
Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
348
7
The Rust compiler is still getting faster
324
8
Understanding Kafka with Factorio
318
9
Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
270
10
BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
261
Tech blogs [?]
1
Adblocking: How about Nah?
918
2
Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
802
3
The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar
383
4
India's First CPUs Are Ready for App Development
226
5
The Backbone of VHF Amateur Radio May Be Under Threat
220
6
Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
172
7
AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
145
8
Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
124
9
AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
112
10
Apple to include new keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
104
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
219
2
Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues
210
3
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
123
4
Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets
105
5
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless
88
6
AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS
44
7
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
37
8
“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing
31
9
Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for Your SaaS Applications
26
10
Amazon Polly Introduces Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
15
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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YouTube was launched as a dating site
680
2
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
549
3
Game Source Code Collection
405
4
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
267
5
The Problem of Mindfulness
226
6
An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin
194
7
Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
175
8
Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week
147
9
When Pirates Studied Euclid
138
10
The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix
134
Science News [?]
1
Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
752
2
Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
652
3
Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
565
4
Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
543
5
No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
524
6
The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions
462
7
Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
400
8
Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning
324
9
Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research
309
10
Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
296
Social [?]
1
YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
1355
2
YouTube video has its own URL in it
681
3
Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
600
4
The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
529
5
Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
513
6
About the “Security Issue” on VLC
405
7
How Diablo Was Reverse-Engineered Without Source Code [video]
403
8
A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
397
9
Neuralink Live Stream [video]
390
10
How I use the good parts of AWS
357
Github repos and gists [?]
1
BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
588
2
Is this Paypal experience customary?
537
3
Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”
474
4
Users hate change
465
5
Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive
438
6
“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
396
7
Data Engineering Cookbook
382
8
Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox
335
9
Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
316
10
Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.
315
Wikipedia [?]
1
Vital Wikipedia Articles
436
2
Wringing
356
3
Kriegspiel
291
4
Radiotrophic fungus
262
5
Surprisingly popular
241
6
Atlantropa
238
7
List of Cognitive Biases
214
8
Eastgate Centre, Harare
201
9
Inferno Operating System
188
10
Better Portable Graphics
186
Blogs [?]
1
Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
1937
2
Saving Lydia
639
3
Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
561
4
Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
508
5
Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)
400
6
Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
399
7
Google Photos is making photos semi-public
386
8
How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
324
9
Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
301
10
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
289
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stackoverflow is down
33
2
Why does Rust not optimize code assuming that mutable references cannot alias?
13
3
Stack Overflow Is Down
11
4
Gcloud the zone does not have enough resources available
5
5
C++: Initializing variables in an “if” statement
4
6
Prefer Composition over Inheritance?
2
7
How would you pick a uniform random element in linked list with unknown length?
2
8
Uncatchable ChuckNorrisException
2
9
Is it unsafe for the JavaScript client to set the CSRF token?
1
10
Vim Sessions [StackOverflow]
1
Substack [?]
1
The Coming Boeing Bailout?
330
2
It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
277
3
The Slow Death of Hollywood
246
4
Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
208
5
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
78
6
Is a Boeing Bailout Taking Shape?
62
7
Substack (YC W18) Raises $15.3m from Andreessen Horowitz
5
8
Trump Antitrust: Going After Big Tech or Covering for Corruption?
5
9
Power in the 21st Century
3
10
New Free Logos
3