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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

2525

2

Ken Thompson's Unix Password

2101

3

A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

1757

4

1354

5

Why Enterprise Software Sucks

1310

6

Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

1175

7

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project

1083

8

Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up

904

9

Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

896

10

'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

888

Top Ask HN

1

What do you self-host?

538

2

How do I make the move to consultant?

343

3

How did your startup change after an exit?

281

4

How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?

164

5

How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?

119

6

How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

110

7

Does old concrete reveal information about air quality?

88

8

What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

88

9

What are your favorite Linux applications?

70

10

People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options?

56

Top Show HN

1

1288

2

Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

391

3

uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart

260

4

I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not?

190

5

Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS

156

6

153

7

React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation

112

8

A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django

106

9

A Gnus Back End for HN

103

10

Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project

1083

2

Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

896

3

Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

605

4

After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

604

5

China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

372

6

Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

368

7

A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies

361

8

Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans

339

9

Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa

297

10

Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation

282

News [?]

1

'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

888

2

Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

743

3

After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters

685

4

Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier

626

5

LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

574

6

System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware

570

7

Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

440

8

Apple Has Removed a Mapping App That Let Protesters in Hong Kong Track Police

429

9

U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

419

10

Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime

408

Scientific publications [?]

1

Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming

341

2

Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

119

3

Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]

82

4

Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says

43

5

The Failed Promise of Genetic Programming

23

6

Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?

21

7

Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment

10

8

Enriching Bert with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Document Classification

9

9

Heat waves could increase substantially in size by mid-century, says new study

8

10

The Fundamental Laws of Sofware Engineering: A Satirical Short Paper

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched

522

2

Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2

339

3

BPF at Facebook and beyond

185

4

GitHub and US Government Developers

155

5

Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers

136

6

Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications

114

7

Fibers aren’t useful for much any more

93

8

Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots

88

9

Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020

78

10

Einstein Analytics and Go

55

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life

45

2

Secret Court: FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment

36

3

NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018

32

4

Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government

26

5

Apple told Apple TV+ creators to avoid portraying China ‘in a poor light’

10

6

Apple’s relationship with China is turning into a liability

9

7

Twitter desktop app returns to macOS

6

8

Apple analyst says AR glasses nearing production

5

9

Apple told Apple TV+ creators to avoid portraying China ‘in a poor light’

5

10

Court Rules That FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project

304

2

Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available

70

3

Kindle Kids Edition

28

4

AWS Transfer for SFTP Now Supports Logical Directories for Amazon S3

16

5

EC2 Instances with 18 and 24 TB of Memory

6

6

Bare Metal ARM-Based EC2 Instances Now Available

5

7

iCloud's Terms and Conditions in China Mainland

4

8

Running AWS Infrastructure on Premises with AWS Outposts

3

9

New M5n and R5n EC2 Instances, with Up to 100 Gbps Networking

2

10

AWS Firewall Manager Update – Support for VPC Security Groups – AWS News Blog

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The China Cultural Clash

660

2

Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere

344

3

ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems

262

4

Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers

114

5

The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h

107

6

China has increased fishery subsidies

87

7

Categories: Models of Models

73

8

Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

71

9

404: Disney Scrubs Winnie the Pooh Off the Internet

68

10

A Navigator for America's Deadliest Cold War ICBM

60

Science News [?]

1

Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

494

2

Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators

427

3

NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

271

4

California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

264

5

Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints

245

6

The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)

234

7

Fast inverse chirp z-transform found

223

8

Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test

134

9

Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016)

127

10

Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)

124

Social [?]

1

Why Enterprise Software Sucks

1310

2

Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

1175

3

I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced

781

4

Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?

669

5

Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

572

6

YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

465

7

Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

446

8

Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry

408

9

Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

382

10

Goodbye with Love

375

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

1757

2

“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

801

3

Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

619

4

Uber Go Style Guide

309

5

The Open Book Project

297

6

Bazel Release 1.0

263

7

Watt: A runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly

165

8

Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them

125

9

Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON

122

10

Swift compiler driver rewritten in Swift

115

Wikipedia [?]

1

125

2

123

3

Goodyear Inflatoplane

108

4

82

5

Relativistic Quantum Chemistry

70

6

Rapatronic Camera

60

7

46

8

Georgia Guidestones

42

9

DNA Digital Data Storage

31

10

27

Blogs [?]

1

A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation

599

2

The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI

241

3

What You Can't Say (2004)

241

4

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

193

5

SRE as a Lifestyle Choice

170

6

Function Currying in Go

88

7

I created the same app with React and Redux

71

8

The Moon made twice, at home

68

9

The Crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121: Analysis

59

10

A Scheduler for the Internet

46

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to Think in SQL?

2

2

How to avoid Java code in JSP files?

1

3

How do you lay out your custom binary file format?

1

Substack [?]

1

Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability

188

2

We're in a Permanent Coup

37

3

The Curse of Being Big on the Internet

4

4

BIG by Matt Stoller: Joe Biden Empowered China's Censorship of the NBA

3

5

There's no pot of gold at the end

2

6

Rippling: OS for Employee Management

1

7

Remembering and Forgetting Music

1

8

The Problem with '12 Years'

1

9

Incerto Companies

1

10

The Audio Revolution [Part One]

1