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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
GitHub Sponsors
2082
2
Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
1370
3
Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
1276
4
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
993
5
I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
892
6
Go is Google's language, not ours
885
7
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)
798
8
After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
775
9
The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
732
10
A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
695
Top Ask HN
1
How can I work towards building a company while employed?
413
2
How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
324
3
Starting Your Own LLC?
274
4
Should I quit my job?
192
5
Blogs about Being CTO/Head of/Lead Dev?
190
6
How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)?
168
7
What tools/methods do you use to focus your time well?
144
8
Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?
141
9
Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
136
10
Was data science just hype?
121
Top Show HN
1
Turn an Excel file into a web application
386
2
nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
372
3
Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
363
4
A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
278
5
Write code using natural language
209
6
Workstation – Showcase Your Setup
206
7
Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
196
8
Imgsquash – My image compression website project
178
9
G-Fu – a pragmatic Lisp embedded in Go
123
10
Empirical – a language for time-series analysis
111
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
323
2
Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
317
3
Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
258
4
Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity
245
5
How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?
232
6
Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
196
7
Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?
194
8
A Rocket Built by Students Reaches Space
191
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What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)
177
10
Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds
174
News [?]
1
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
993
2
Niki Lauda has died
537
3
In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
375
4
Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review
363
5
IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
335
6
Murray Gell-Mann Has Died
325
7
Power Is Overrated
321
8
Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
291
9
Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)
283
10
America is turning against facial-recognition software
269
Scientific publications [?]
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Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
143
2
A Survey of Symbolic Execution Techniques (2018)
117
3
Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis
91
4
Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment
88
5
SpaceX launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing
87
6
Onion Curve: A Space Filling Curve with Near-Optimal Clustering (2018)
86
7
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
82
8
Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space
68
9
The Sparse Manifold Transform (2018) [pdf]
36
10
Hubble spies curious galaxy moving a little closer
36
Dev Blogs [?]
1
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
418
2
Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
247
3
Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
213
4
Fingerprinting iPhones
150
5
Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop
132
6
The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
69
7
The secret life of DNS packets: investigating complex networks
46
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Building a To-Do List with Cloudflare Workers and KV
44
9
Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
35
10
A New Look for Google Search
31
Tech blogs [?]
1
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
657
2
Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time
233
3
Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers
214
4
Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers
106
5
Samsung announces first 3nm PDK
102
6
Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear Danger to Journalism, Speech
76
7
Lawsuit accuses Apple of selling iTunes data
43
8
Reddit Commenter's Fight for Anonynmity Is a Win for Free Speech and Fair Use
42
9
Electricity deters antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
16
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Chinese media say it's now “embarrassing” to use an iPhone in China
13
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
674
2
Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules
39
3
Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle
24
4
AWS Ground Station
4
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Amazon Aurora Serverless Supports Capacity of 1 Unit and a New Scaling Option
4
6
Apple releases new Keyboard Service Program
3
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Building Serverless Pipelines with CloudWatch Events
3
8
AWS Ground Station – Ready to Ingest and Process Satellite Data
3
9
AWS Ground Station
3
10
13-Inch MacBook Pro Display Backlight Service Program
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)
187
2
Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth in 2013, report says
174
3
China, Leverage, and Values
127
4
Byte Magazine – Smalltalk (1981)
123
5
Google's New Manager Student Workbook
110
6
In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises
73
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Moving a 320 year old house across an ocean from Japan to California
57
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Nissan says Leaf batteries will outlast the car by 10-12 years
41
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The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji
41
10
Tesla's Wall Street Romance Is Over
17
Science News [?]
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A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
695
2
Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash
387
3
Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)
212
4
Superconductivity near room temperature
164
5
Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble
151
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Air conditioner ‘in a patch’ provides portable cooling
115
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Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
112
8
How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015)
108
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Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory
94
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Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution
92
Social [?]
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Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
1276
2
Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow
371
3
Why is chicken so cheap? [video]
109
4
U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?”
100
5
Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
78
6
Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the Starlink constellation
68
7
Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon? [video]
56
8
The Smartest Guys in the Room Eerily Describes Tesla
50
9
Sam Altman on Twitter: It's gross seeing so many root against Tesla
39
10
CMC Cartonwrap box packing machine [video]
25
Github repos and gists [?]
1
GitHub Sponsors
2082
2
The Art of Command Line (2015)
597
3
SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
469
4
ZetaSQL – A SQL Analyzer Framework from Google
211
5
ZFS on Linux 0.8.0
177
6
Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
168
7
5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus
157
8
Pip3 install videoflow – new Python library to do computer vision on video
151
9
Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript
140
10
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub
117
Wikipedia [?]
1
Bonini's Paradox
88
2
Greta Thunberg
32
3
Hybridogenesis in water frogs
21
4
Canadian Traveller Problem
20
5
Wikipedia: Terminal Event Management Policy
18
6
FOGBANK
11
7
ARkStorm
7
8
Wide Area Information Server (WAIS)
4
9
Chiune Sugihara (The Japanese Who Saved 6,000 Jewish People from Nazis)
4
10
Cheney's algorithm (stop and copy method of tracing garbage collection)
4
Blogs [?]
1
The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
317
2
How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
131
3
Blockchain-Flavored WASI
61
4
OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry
48
5
Buttons on the Web: Placement and Order
47
6
Amoma.com is a scam (2017)
45
7
VictoriaMetrics – Massively Parallel TimeSeries Database Is Now Open Source
25
8
Build a $150 Hardware Face Recognition System with Nvidia Jetson Nano and Python
22
9
Why We’re Switching Off Airflow – Sort Of
18
10
My Git workflow as a solo-developer
16
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to Create a Minimal, Reproducible Example
6
2
Why does the hash of INF have the digits of Pi in Python?
3
3
Why does the hash of infinity have the digits of π?
2
4
The hash of infinity in Python was hardcoded to have the digits of π
2
Substack [?]
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WhatsApp, Too, Gets Hacked
4
2
Silk Road goes parabolic after founder changes username??
2
3
Who Controls the Internet?
2