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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

1456

2

Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

1325

3

Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts

998

4

Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

918

5

SQL queries don't start with SELECT

905

6

Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

841

7

Pricing niche products

769

8

753

9

For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

708

10

EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances

665

Top Ask HN

1

Who Wants to Be Fired?

942

2

What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

434

3

Who is hiring? (October 2019)

380

4

Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?

294

5

Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?

244

6

What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?

190

7

Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)

173

8

Where do you get your cheap servers?

75

9

Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)

66

10

What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

59

Top Show HN

1

Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

442

2

I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

422

3

Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

290

4

Able – an alternative to Medium

248

5

My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

232

6

Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression

231

7

Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust

212

8

Small Clojure Interpreter

143

9

8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax

132

10

I am a high school student and I did research on 3D adversarial attacks

116

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS

645

2

Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access

411

3

Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices

372

4

Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

295

5

A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks

236

6

I hate living in my tiny house

231

7

Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

225

8

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition

185

9

Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws

180

10

Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside

171

News [?]

1

Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

1325

2

For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

708

3

EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances

665

4

Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

538

5

I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media

373

6

Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

365

7

Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality

351

8

Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process

269

9

In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

268

10

Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste

236

Scientific publications [?]

1

Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

378

2

X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it

244

3

Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded

235

4

Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning

213

5

Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer

191

6

Learning How to Prove: From the Coq Proof Assistant to Textbook Style

115

7

104

8

Why are there no animals with three legs?

73

9

The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf

40

10

Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors

25

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel

603

2

A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM

278

3

Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina

221

4

Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent

138

5

Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing

124

6

TypeScript 3.7 Beta

117

7

Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it

90

8

API design: Which version of versioning is right for you?

51

9

New Workflow Editor for GitHub Actions

33

10

Representing a complex line with fewer points in a visually proper way

27

Tech blogs [?]

1

Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption

530

2

EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use

518

3

Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition

202

4

Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs

97

5

Apple Releases macOS X Catalina

29

6

Navi Goes Mainstream, Mobile: AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 Aims for Smooth 1080p Gaming

15

7

SwiftUI now supported in Swift Playgrounds app

14

8

Open Letter from the Govts of US, UK, Aus to FB Is All-Out Attack on Encryption

12

9

Microsoft Unveils New Surface Laptop and Pro Lineup, Neo Foldable

7

10

Apple to Launch 'iPhone SE 2' in Early 2020

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

477

2

The Future of Mathematics?

5

3

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

3

4

AWS Instance Scheduler

3

5

10-Minute Tutorials with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

3

6

3

7

macOS Catalina has been released

3

8

AWS IQ: Complete Your AWS Projects Faster with Help from AWS Certified Experts

2

9

Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available

2

10

Building REST APIs with Flask

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pigs recorded using tools

134

2

What's Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]

107

3

Beachheads and Obstacles

58

4

A simple file encryption tool and format

54

5

A Man Who Went to War with Canada

50

6

Lego Upsets Fans by Taking Down Homebrew 3D Print Designs

34

7

An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)

15

8

Entrepreneurs who sleep more are better at spotting good ideas

14

9

Mega.nz and Openload Blocked in Brazil Following Court Order

6

10

Entrepreneurs Who Sleep More Are Better at Spotting Good Ideas

6

Science News [?]

1

Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases

400

2

A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals

276

3

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

208

4

Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

206

5

Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi

195

6

New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms

147

7

Early-career setback and future career impact

133

8

Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)

112

9

Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay

99

10

Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers

97

Social [?]

1

Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

918

2

Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

628

3

The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy

542

4

South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

453

5

An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]

386

6

Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app

379

7

LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%

232

8

3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler

227

9

Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]

149

10

Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]

142

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source

357

2

List of open source applications for macOS

327

3

296

4

Sonos smart speaker controller API and CLI written in Rust

200

5

Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)

130

6

GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility

112

7

Dnscrypt-proxy 2 – A flexible DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols

58

8

Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford

44

9

How to host a full mirror of Wikipedia.org

38

10

Isopod: Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Config

36

Wikipedia [?]

1

Galactic Algorithm

382

2

Project MKUltra

229

3

Karatsuba Algorithm

170

4

142

5

131

6

Ackermann Steering Geometry

118

7

I Can Eat Glass

109

8

84

9

Traveling Wave Reactor

76

10

69

Blogs [?]

1

SQL queries don't start with SELECT

905

2

Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

511

3

My application ran away and called home from Redmond

497

4

My Time at Snap

481

5

Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications

366

6

The Founding of Google Maps (2015)

142

7

46

8

Netflix – Evolving Regional Evacuation

32

9

Doing enterprise financial data visualization after data journalism

15

10

How I Transitioned from Startup Founder to Product Manager

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why should I always enable compiler warnings?

69

2

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

2

3

Why does allocating a single 2D array take longer than multiple 1D arrays?

1

4

Why doesn't my processor have built-in BigInt support? (2010)

1

Substack [?]

1

Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China

93

2

Please Make Money

2

3

The Law of Crappy Investments

2

4

An Expectation of Gatitude

2

5

1

6

How to use Amazon ads for non-Amazon products

1

7

The Law of Crappy Investments

1

8

Andrew Taggart's Substack Book on Work Is Going to Blow Open a Hole in Work

1

9

Frntier- identifying the narratives, trends and shifts in every sector

1