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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Serverless: slower and more expensive

1787

2

Richard M. Stallman resigns

1747

3

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

1606

4

Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

946

5

ColorBox by Lyft Design

907

6

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

848

7

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

795

8

785

9

Pure Bash Bible

746

10

724

Top Ask HN

1

Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

268

2

How to keep yourself accountable?

231

3

PostgreSQL or MySQL?

196

4

Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?

129

5

Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

123

6

How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?

103

7

Resources for Learning about Databases

100

8

What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?

98

9

How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?

90

10

Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?

82

Top Show HN

1

See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

863

2

I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

502

3

I made a jobs board for developers without degrees

343

4

Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support

286

5

I made a resume generator for developers

265

6

Best of Show HN

249

7

Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

242

8

A website speed test tool to compare uBlock Origin with plain Chrome

192

9

Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

188

10

Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

164

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

566

2

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

506

3

Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

356

4

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

301

5

Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

295

6

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel

277

7

Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures

234

8

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

211

9

IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer

203

10

Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse

199

News [?]

1

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

848

2

Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

709

3

Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

685

4

Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125

649

5

Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

623

6

Birds Are Vanishing from North America

493

7

WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

450

8

Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO

369

9

The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation

367

10

U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

350

Scientific publications [?]

1

The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)

472

2

Hacking the Brain

389

3

Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)

210

4

Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion

128

5

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement

92

6

Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat

89

7

Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit

86

8

Forecaster: A Graph Transformer for Forecasting Spatial and Time-Dependent Data

62

9

Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report

58

10

Earth to warm more quickly, new climate models show (By 2100, could rise 6.5C)

50

Dev Blogs [?]

1

426

2

Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction

333

3

Welcoming Semmle to GitHub

256

4

Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

144

5

Cleaning up bad bots

98

6

Safari 13 Is Out

78

7

Richard Stallman Resigns from the FSF after Epstein Comments

72

8

Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences

71

9

Systemd-Homed: Systemd Now Working to Improve Home Directory Handling

66

10

Man Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months

56

Tech blogs [?]

1

Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist

248

2

TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well

135

3

Oracle's New Supercomputer Has 1,060 Raspberry Pis

14

4

The Stronger Patents Act Would Make Bad Patents Stronger Than Ever

10

5

Vintage Prototype Macintosh Portable M5120 Shown Off in New Photos

7

6

Pegleg: Raspberry Pi Implanted Below the Skin

6

7

Big Tech’s Disingenuous Push for a Federal Privacy Law

5

8

What's in a Name? Tales of Python, Perl, and the Gimp

4

9

Popular Ad Blockers AdBlock and UBlocker Deemed 'Fake'

4

10

Victory Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

946

2

Amazon S3 Introduces Same-Region Replication

16

3

EC2 Instances with Nvidia T4 Tensor Core GPUs

5

4

Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with Nvidia T4 Tensor Core GPUs

4

5

Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices

4

6

Microsoft – AI for Earth

3

7

AWS Launches G4 Instances with Nvidia T4 Tensor Core GPUs

3

8

KDE Okular PDF (and More) Viewer Released for Windows

3

9

Razer Blade Stealth Preorder with 10th Gen I7 Available

2

10

AWS Service Terms (Clause 57.10)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking

546

2

The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

379

3

Day Two to One Day

166

4

For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant Sequoias

149

5

A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe

145

6

Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business

103

7

Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)

76

8

Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars by InSight

76

9

Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars

68

10

London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

59

Science News [?]

1

Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions

280

2

Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics

211

3

A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages

167

4

The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway

153

5

Suicide Data Reveal New Intervention Spots, Such as Motels and Animal Shelters

146

6

DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces

127

7

Bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats

122

8

Math Reveals the Secrets of Cells’ Feedback Circuitry

91

9

Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another

55

10

California Promises to Fight EPA Plan on Car Standards

43

Social [?]

1

A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video]

191

2

Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside

158

3

Using TLA+ for fun and profit in the development of ElasticSearch [video]

135

4

Goodbye Aron Eisenberg:( — aka Nog (DS9)

132

5

iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer

128

6

On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper

69

7

Greta Thunberg: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood'

68

8

Facebook Employee Suicide Cover-Up

52

9

The Tandberg Way [video]

47

10

Quake speedrun record broken after 17 years

44

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Pure Bash Bible

746

2

Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

645

3

A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics

540

4

MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library

372

5

AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles

320

6

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

268

7

Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts

245

8

Git Blame-Someone-Else

225

9

Neqo, an Implementation of QUIC Written in Rust

141

10

114

Wikipedia [?]

1

353

2

Nebraska Furniture Mart

170

3

Trillion-dollar coin

152

4

117

5

98

6

Endurance Running Hypothesis

97

7

96

8

Potemkin Village

56

9

56

10

Charter of the Forest

38

Blogs [?]

1

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

153

2

I’m Suing Lyft

113

3

We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

112

4

A Reflection on the Departure of RMS

83

5

Pain Points of Web Development with WordPress

60

6

Concerning ‘Remove Richard Stallman’

50

7

Is WeWork a Fraud?

48

8

Functional RL with Keras and Tensorflow Eager

43

9

Remove Richard Stallman: Appendix A

36

10

Jira and Confluence Suck

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are five things you hate about your favorite language?

3

Substack [?]

1

Why I don't love Light Rail Transit

117

2

Lifestyles of the Broke and Nameless

3

3

Big Tech Meets Its Pecora Commission: Google's Toughest Opponent Is Now Congress

2

4

'Product Manager' means having empathy for the stakeholders of your product

2

5

Narrative Violations, First Principles and Data

2

6

A yarn about software development culture

2

7

Could Wework Collapse by 2020?

2

8

1

9

Narrative Violations, First Principles and Data

1

10

Empathy on the Margins

1