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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
1831
2
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
1400
3
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
904
4
No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
896
5
A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)
816
6
A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
804
7
John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
741
8
The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
735
9
Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code
687
10
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
655
Top Ask HN
1
How Do You Read?
686
2
Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
408
3
How do you handle logging?
268
4
What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?
114
5
Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?
97
6
Where is Julian Assange, what's happening to him now?
90
7
What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?
87
8
What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
80
9
Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?
68
10
Looking for an Alternative to Jira
60
Top Show HN
1
Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia
375
2
I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
280
3
Face Generator
256
4
Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency support
229
5
A clean and minimalist theme for Jekyll
220
6
Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project
179
7
TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game
170
8
I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News
151
9
Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists
134
10
Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
131
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
NPM Bans Terminal Ads
424
2
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
358
3
Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
312
4
Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
244
5
China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)
222
6
Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
204
7
Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked
155
8
Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints
149
9
Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
145
10
Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
144
News [?]
1
Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
609
2
Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets
460
3
Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
328
4
WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants
319
5
3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia
296
6
A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
238
7
Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine
214
8
Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running
203
9
YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
199
10
SpaceX Refused to Move Satellite at Risk of Collision with a European Satellite
183
Scientific publications [?]
1
Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment
389
2
Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
209
3
How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
108
4
DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees
107
5
Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)
106
6
Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
66
7
Engineers develop bone-like metal foam that can be 'healed' at room temperature
64
8
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
57
9
Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years
47
10
Intermittent Fasting (Alternate Day Fasting) in Healthy, Non-Obese Adults
43
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
372
2
On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
306
3
TypeScript 3.6
295
4
Thank you, Chris
240
5
The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
224
6
What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)
181
7
Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
179
8
One byte used to cost a dollar
19
9
Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
16
10
Windows Terminal 0.4 Released
6
Tech blogs [?]
1
Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4
239
2
CPU Made from 74HC Chips Is a Glorious Mess
24
3
Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox
22
4
Ryzen 3000 CPUs not hitting rated boost speeds
9
5
EFF and Mozilla Release Public Letter to Venmo
9
6
Tarnished: Google Responds to Serious Chrome Vulnerability
6
7
SCrapyard Milling Machine Gets Work Done on a Budget
5
8
Xilinx Announces World Largest FPGA: Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P with 9m Cells
5
9
There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s ToS
4
10
Five Concerns about Amazon Ring’s Deals with Police
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
586
2
Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
92
3
Apple Special Event – September 10
24
4
Microsoft Icecaps
13
5
Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% on Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs
4
6
Luca Cardelli Fest (PL Researcher, 2014) [pdf]
3
7
Amazon Forecast Generally Available
2
8
Making Games for the NES by Steven Hugg
2
9
Music Video from a Moonshot Founder
1
10
Access AWS private instances with native port forwarding
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
212
2
Privacy Fundamentalism
126
3
Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (2017)
117
4
Bad Customer Service Is Profitable
105
5
Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol
47
6
A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive
45
7
What Not to Do When You’re Trying to Motivate Your Team
35
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The MeToo Backlash
28
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30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan Club
28
10
Should You Accept a Lower-Level Job After a Career Break?
12
Science News [?]
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Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible
189
2
The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
164
3
Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes
155
4
Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World
133
5
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels
82
6
Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses
78
7
Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated
68
8
Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
63
9
Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors
61
10
Dividing Droplets Could Explain Origin of Life
55
Social [?]
1
John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
741
2
Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
425
3
What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]
248
4
150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video]
217
5
Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag
216
6
Fridge Condenser Fans – Old and New [video]
184
7
5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
182
8
Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
166
9
Activists release code to generate free public transportation tickets in U.K
117
10
Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran
86
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code
687
2
TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
467
3
The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
278
4
Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
268
5
Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
264
6
Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
252
7
Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
218
8
Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image
156
9
NanoLog – a nanosecond scale logging system for C++
144
10
FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript
122
Wikipedia [?]
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Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
620
2
Anna Karenina Principle
299
3
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925
200
4
Entropic Gravity
193
5
Alcohol Belts of Europe
166
6
The Amiga Smart File System
129
7
Operation Northwoods
82
8
Penn Effect
68
9
Baltic Way
66
10
Quasicrystals
54
Blogs [?]
1
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
1400
2
Curl exercises
273
3
What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does
115
4
API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
113
5
Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)
112
6
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015)
106
7
Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests
77
8
Why Shame Stifles Creativity and How to Unwrap the Gift of Curiosity
69
9
PostgreSQL WASM Extension
56
10
Avoid Most Rebase Conflicts
55
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Chrome v76 Manifest V3 changes CORS Requests
2
2
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) vs. Paxos or Raft
2
Substack [?]
1
Jeff Bezos Mocks France
3
2
Gitlab- Story of a Pioneer in Remote Work
3
3
Frntier- identifying the narratives, trends and shifts in every sector
2
4
Dismantling Macho Engineering Culture
2
5
Big companies won't fix their bugs
2
6
The VC Playbook
1
7
Frntier #001: Enterprise Software and Services
1
8
Frntier #002: Media and Publishing
1
9
Frntier- identifying the narratives affecting every sector
1
10
Investing in Your Ordinary Powers
1