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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

1793

2

Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

1179

3

WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

1158

4

Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

1105

5

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

785

6

In Defense of Richard Stallman

744

7

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

728

8

What do executives do, anyway?

666

9

657

10

WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

645

Top Ask HN

1

Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?

243

2

Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?

130

3

Who has the best personal website/blog?

114

4

Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity?

97

5

I am addicted to Porn. Help me quit

67

6

Which email software do you use on Linux?

62

7

How do you work with the fear of your own incompetence?

51

8

YC company walked away with customer funds – alert YC?

48

9

Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?

42

10

Do's/don'ts of working with Kubernetes you learned through experience?

39

Top Show HN

1

Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

444

2

HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup

341

3

Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

220

4

Aristotl – an intuitive logical fallacy lookup tool

173

5

Ansible Crash Course

160

6

A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386

147

7

Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support

132

8

Beating the Turing Test

87

9

Watermill – Building event-driven applications easy way in Go

85

10

Geodata API for country and city select drop-downs

78

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants

526

2

Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer

411

3

Science’s pirate queen

331

4

No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting

298

5

Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

276

6

Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police

261

7

Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte

230

8

We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone

205

9

Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network

190

10

Amazon and Apple are building rival networks that know where everything is

187

News [?]

1

Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

1179

2

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

785

3

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

728

4

WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

645

5

Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

519

6

Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

464

7

Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea

394

8

Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes

339

9

WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, Stepping Down Under Pressure

333

10

U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in

329

Scientific publications [?]

1

Starship Prototype Unveiled

543

2

Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric

345

3

China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon

331

4

What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

285

5

Bats use private and social information as they hunt

67

6

Delicate wash cycles release more microfibres

64

7

A Unified Finite Strain Theory for Membranes and Ropes

41

8

Physicists score double hit in LED research

39

9

Worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake

28

10

Comercial household water filter system up to 10000 more bacteria than tap water

23

Dev Blogs [?]

1

657

2

A patent lawsuit against GNOME

604

3

GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge

428

4

MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

401

5

Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

374

6

Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO

333

7

HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future

315

8

Upstreaming multipath TCP

167

9

Fixing Getrandom()

132

10

How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?

109

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks

181

2

AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W

109

3

Arm and TSMC Showcase 7nm Chiplet, Eight A72 at 4GHz on CoWoS Interposer

105

4

Google Chrome Update Damages macOS File System

81

5

iOS 13 bug grants third-party keyboards full access to iPhones

77

6

Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy. Is Encryption Safe?

38

7

Microsoft Stops Trusting SSD Makers

36

8

Amazon executive promotes the company’s new Echo Buds while wearing AirPods

18

9

3D-Printed Extension for Extreme Macro Photography with Lens Electronic Control

9

10

The FISA Oversight Hearing Confirmed That Things Need to Change

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

500

2

New Mac Pro Tech Specs

246

3

Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa

221

4

Amazon Echo Buds

152

5

Amazon Echo Loop

87

6

The Apple Store (2004)

36

7

Building a Modern CI/CD Pipeline in the Serverless Era with GitOps

26

8

Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available worldwide

15

9

AWS IQ – Get Help from AWS Certified Third Party Experts on Demand

8

10

Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature

159

2

Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund

106

3

A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland

66

4

A French Tunnel Sculpture That Took 30 Years to Complete

49

5

For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind

13

6

Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

11

7

Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong

9

8

The unexpected difficulty of comparing AlphaStar to humans

7

9

Some of the most successful people are also some of the most anxious

6

10

What if your consciousness is an illusion created by your brain?

5

Science News [?]

1

New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

382

2

Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper

326

3

Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity

319

4

To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight

285

5

Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months

254

6

Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide

231

7

How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth – in pictures

196

8

Exotic Physics Phenomenon Involving Time Reversal Observed for First Time

177

9

Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (2015)

172

10

Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language

119

Social [?]

1

Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

1793

2

Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

411

3

SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips

256

4

Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

241

5

Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story

195

6

Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathroom breaks

190

7

How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?

108

8

APL Demonstration (1975) [video]

78

9

I dropped out of MIT and started a new college in San Francisco, AMA

68

10

How Buildings Learn (1997) [video]

63

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science

474

2

Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

471

3

465

4

Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices

345

5

Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

309

6

How Apple Kills Indie Developers

306

7

JSON for Modern C++

189

8

The Science of Functional Programming [pdf]

180

9

Graal Autovectorization

137

10

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

446

2

128

3

Accelerationism

97

4

76

5

List of selected stars for navigation

76

6

63

7

Top 500 supercomputers by processor family

57

8

Buffon's Needle Problem

51

9

Stalin's Poetry

50

10

Tempest prognosticator

47

Blogs [?]

1

Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies

175

2

Registering to vote can allow re-identification of your anonymized data

81

3

Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver

80

4

Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)

76

5

We need decentralized communication

73

6

Why Blameless Post-Mortems

61

7

Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)

43

8

Richard Feynman's Integral Trick

42

9

Candor, Bluntness, Impedance Matching

42

10

How to find a job in a tech company helping to combat climate change?

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why were JavaScript atob() and btoa() named like that?

2

2

How to set proper orientation in 3D model in Augmented Face?

1

3

What Is a Memory Fence?

1

Substack [?]

1

WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

1158

2

The Quest to Be Good at Everything

189

3

The Quest to Be Good at Everything

3

4

Why New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster

3

5

Matrices for evaluating early-stage startups

2

6

How Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve

2

7

Coding Like It's 1983

2

8

Three matrices for evaluating early-stage startups

2

9

Matrices for evaluating early-stage startups

1

10

The Quest to Be Good at Everything

1