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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Adblocking: How about Nah?

918

2

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

752

3

No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers

692

4

639

5

Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

601

6

Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth

599

7

How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

594

8

Some items from my “reliability list”

567

9

Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

561

10

Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

549

Top Ask HN

1

What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?

539

2

What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

392

3

What did you do when you suddenly got rich?

248

4

Recommendations for AI generated music software?

205

5

Best Lisp for software development?

168

6

How to invest safely in Europe?

81

7

Twitter perma-banned my popular bot for a false reason

77

8

I don’t have a company, how can I be paid on the internet?

51

9

How to Be a Decent Manager?

49

10

Will tech be saturated in 10 years?

44

Top Show HN

1

Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust

255

2

Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative

236

3

TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

235

4

Memorize Terminal Commands

166

5

A tool to create printable UI mockups and wireframes templates

155

6

A tool to convert Jupyter notebooks to beautiful blogs

150

7

CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux

136

8

Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network

101

9

A Demo IDE for Scheme

97

10

Minimal Twitter – drastically simplify and declutter the new Twitter UI

93

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

549

2

GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

284

3

Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it

267

4

Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M

200

5

Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

197

6

In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes

169

7

Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M

168

8

Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down

152

9

Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem

148

10

Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.80) mobile-only monthly plan in India

147

News [?]

1

Uber Lays Off 400

515

2

Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

491

3

YouTube faces creator backlash

441

4

The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight

382

5

IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders

367

6

India tiger census shows rapid population growth

359

7

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

342

8

Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies

327

9

A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets

316

10

New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

279

Scientific publications [?]

1

Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017

177

2

Remembering Chris Kraft

103

3

The Mathematics of Text Structure

89

4

Scientists discover chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular life

68

5

Benchmarking TPU, GPU, and CPU Platforms for Deep Learning

51

6

Human species-specific genetic mutation enhances atherosclerosis

28

7

First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry

26

8

MixNet: Mixed Depthwise Convolutional Kernels

22

9

A Power Efficient Artificial Neuron Using Superconducting Nanowires

6

10

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at life origins

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Rust compiler is still getting faster

324

2

SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

159

3

MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency

105

4

How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

85

5

(Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4

50

6

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Performance on AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

30

7

The Switch-Router War Is Over, and Hyperscalers Won

7

8

Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

6

9

Learning Better Simulation Methods for Partial Differential Equations

6

10

Future Kubernetes will mimic what Facebook already does

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Adblocking: How about Nah?

918

2

Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro

124

3

The floppy disk orphaned by Linux

59

4

Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for upcoming 16" MBP

42

5

The Key to Safety Online Is User Empowerment, Not Censorship

23

6

Twisted graphene exhibits previously-unseen form of magnetism

19

7

Airless Tire for Your Car: Michelin Says 2024, Here’s What They’re Up Against

19

8

EFF Extensions Recommended by Firefox

9

9

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Was Taunted by Steve Jobs with Mystery Phone Calls

8

10

Raspberry Pi Competitor Pine64 Opens Pinebook Pro Notebook Pre-Orders

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business

219

2

Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets

105

3

AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS

44

4

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 3rd Edition

3

5

Leveraging blockchain to make machine learning models more accessible

2

6

The Wrong Answer Faster (2012)

1

7

Authenticating to EKS Using GitHub Credentials

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Problem of Mindfulness

226

2

Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought

106

3

Make meaning your vocational goal

105

4

The Trust Crisis

70

5

USAF’s Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (2016)

60

6

A new study of rudeness in the workplace

58

7

Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations (1937)

38

8

Moving to IPv6 (2002)

37

9

The “greased sled” theory of Stonehenge

33

10

What Do You Call the Corner Store?

31

Science News [?]

1

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

752

2

The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

462

3

Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

324

4

Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research

309

5

Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments

296

6

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted

272

7

Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine

256

8

A Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4k Years Ago

212

9

Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests

143

10

Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack

143

Social [?]

1

The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System

529

2

About the “Security Issue” on VLC

405

3

How I use the good parts of AWS

357

4

I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice

218

5

Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]

134

6

Lightning video adapters feature Apple Secure Boot, run Darwin kernel

128

7

LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video]

53

8

Learn Neural Networks with Go, Not Math [video]

40

9

Doom 1/2 on Nintendo Switch requires Bethesda account login on first-play

30

10

Barr's crypto backdoor claim is a fallacy, which I'll show with math

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Users hate change

465

2

“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

396

3

Data Engineering Cookbook

382

4

Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox

335

5

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server in Go

242

6

191

7

Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript

180

8

SVG Icons Using MIT License

169

9

List of programming talks

164

10

Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

149

Wikipedia [?]

1

Vital Wikipedia Articles

436

2

Surprisingly popular

241

3

Valonia ventricosa

132

4

Gödel's Ontological Proof

125

5

Spaced Repetition

106

6

Antikythera Mechanism

83

7

Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater

73

8

Van Allen radiation belt

37

9

25

10

Engines of Creation, by K. Eric Drexler (1986)

19

Blogs [?]

1

639

2

Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer

508

3

Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

301

4

Files Are Fraught with Peril

240

5

Facebook Is Dying

179

6

B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes

167

7

Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners

136

8

What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections

106

9

How to Bypass “Slider Captcha”

91

10

GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard

88

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Gcloud the zone does not have enough resources available

5

2

Image Processing: Algorithm Improvement for 'Coca-Cola Can' Recognition

1

3

Vim Sessions [StackOverflow]

1

Substack [?]

1

Planning to Start, Planning to Finish

78

2

Trump Antitrust: Going After Big Tech or Covering for Corruption?

5

3

Power in the 21st Century

3

4

Russian Antitrust Enforcers Defeated Google's Monopoly

2

5

Is Your Data Yours?

2

6

Big Recsys Redux: Recs at Netflix

1

7

Dispatch – the curated weekly newsletter for the Paramedic profession

1

8

Harvard Life Sciences Research

1

9

Amazon's Ad Copy

1

10

Is Your Data Yours?

1