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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

1362

2

Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

1358

3

QuickJS JavaScript Engine

948

4

Developers don't understand CORS

931

5

Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations

872

6

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

859

7

Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

836

8

I Can’t Stop Winning

786

9

Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

736

10

Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

698

Top Ask HN

1

How do you deal with professional envy?

314

2

Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

262

3

Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

261

4

How do you personally learn?

190

5

When does it make sense to roll your own X?

135

6

Getting Started Investing

91

7

Has anyone got a job by contributing to open source projects?

78

8

I'm trying to represent an entire building as a graph

77

9

Any logic based software dev tool which helps building code gradually?

46

10

What are some good books/resources about sales?

43

Top Show HN

1

Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

343

2

Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

296

3

Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet

218

4

Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

126

5

Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams

123

6

ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page

118

7

I made an interactive hex calculator in ncurses

113

8

Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform

106

9

Ilograph – Interactive AWS Serverless Architecture Diagram

72

10

Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transactions

65

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

Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch

326

3

VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

308

4

Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

304

5

Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4

255

6

Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC

244

7

EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

218

8

Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

208

9

German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks

198

10

Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera

163

News [?]

1

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

859

2

Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note

664

3

Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals

626

4

Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives

472

5

Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

432

6

Ross Perot Has Died

407

7

After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day

339

8

France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US

324

9

Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet

321

10

France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

309

Scientific publications [?]

1

Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware

257

2

Measuring Long-Term Causal Impact of Ads on LinkedIn Users

68

3

A Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning More Than 100 Times a Year

62

4

Striving for Simplicity in Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning

36

5

Heard More Than Heard: An Audio Steganography Method Based on GAN

29

6

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild

25

7

Scientists discover how to 'lock' heat in place using quantum mechanics

18

8

Models of Consciousness

17

9

Towards Automated Application-Specific Software Stacks

16

10

At Solar System's Edge, NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Copes with Reduced Power

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

698

2

Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68

648

3

John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better

432

4

BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability

261

5

Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

203

6

Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV

187

7

Google Acquires Elastifile

91

8

More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

48

9

Cloud TPU Pods Break AI Training Records

42

10

Updating our rules against hateful conduct

32

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses

145

2

Apple No Longer Sells a MacBook Pro Without a Touch Bar

28

3

DRM is technologically bankrupt; DRM law is deadly

28

4

Airmail suddenly requires a subscription for push notifications

25

5

Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks

7

6

DigiTimes Says Apple AR Glasses Have Reportedly Been 'Terminated' – MacRumors

6

7

Security Flaws Found in Intel Software, Data Center SSDs

6

8

Apple stops selling 12-inch MacBook

5

9

New 'Zip Bomb' Turns 46MB into 4.5PB

5

10

$1299 entry-level MacBook Pro now features 8thgen Intel processors, Touch ID Bar

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless

123

2

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless

88

3

“Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing

31

4

Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for Your SaaS Applications

26

5

MacBook Air and MacBook Pro updated for back-to-school season

13

6

AWS Cloud Development Kit Goes GA

7

7

Amazon EventBridge (Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications)

7

8

AWS Cloud Development Kit

4

9

Amazon Introduces Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP)

4

10

Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for Your SaaS Applications

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

549

2

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

267

3

U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be Huge for UFO Reporting

68

4

The Atlas of Moons

59

5

By 2050, many world cities will have weather like they’ve never seen

53

6

In search of the sea wolf along Canada’s coast (2015)

53

7

YouTube Blocks Popular MP3 Stream-Ripping Sites

7

8

Tesla Autopilot team loses several more engineers as Elon Musk takes over

6

9

Tesla Roadster’s SpaceX thruster will be hidden behind the license plate

5

10

I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why

4

Science News [?]

1

Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

652

2

No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

524

3

Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients

248

4

AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking

248

5

Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides

133

6

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)

124

7

HyperFoods: Machine intelligent mapping of cancer-beating molecules in foods

119

8

Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction

117

9

Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

107

10

First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission

99

Social [?]

1

Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download

513

2

A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles

397

3

How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?

317

4

Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

255

5

Zoom is reinstalling itself after a minute of being uninstalled [video]

223

6

Database as Filesystem [video]

175

7

You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

170

8

Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use

141

9

Alan Cooper on the “10x” Programmer

114

10

We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]

77

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.

315

2

Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

299

3

Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android

209

4

194

5

Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer

173

6

Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows)

166

7

Virtual Kubernetes

150

8

Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

145

9

Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode

136

10

Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor

128

Wikipedia [?]

1

Eastgate Centre, Harare

201

2

Better Portable Graphics

186

3

137

4

91

5

Polanyi’s Paradox

88

6

81

7

German submarine U-1206

66

8

Walking Stewart

55

9

Hofmeister Kink

49

10

Urban heat island

41

Blogs [?]

1

Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated

561

2

Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete

399

3

Google Photos is making photos semi-public

386

4

How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms

269

5

The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart

99

6

Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs

87

7

It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die

28

8

Why Paul Graham Is Still So Wrong

25

9

What Newly-Minted Millionaires Struggle With

21

10

A Framework for First Principles Thinking

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Uncatchable ChuckNorrisException

2

2

Behaviors of Sleep vs. Select in Go

1

3

Is there a reason for C#'s reuse of the variable in a foreach?

1

4

Java: Why are arrays covariant but generics are invariant?

1

Substack [?]

1

It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy

277

2

The Slow Death of Hollywood

246

3

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

208

4

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against Monopoly

2

5

Berkeley Life Sciences Research

2

6

2

7

UCSF Life Sciences Research

2

8

Case study of BridgeBio (rare disease platform)

1

9

Computational de novo design of proteins

1

10

Undruggable Genome

1