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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

1519

2

Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

1438

3

I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

1385

4

NordVPN confirms it was hacked

1368

5

My Favourite Git Commit

1313

6

Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work

1166

7

Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

927

8

“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

925

9

Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

903

10

Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication

842

Top Ask HN

1

How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

781

2

How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?

642

3

Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

563

4

What are the most fundamental books on computer science?

474

5

How do you deal with depression?

90

6

How much do you make at a startup?

87

7

What's your worst undefined C story?

84

8

Which online communities do you hang out most on?

70

9

Slack Alternatives?

45

10

Where do you find products at their early stage?

38

Top Show HN

1

Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra

245

2

Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli

219

3

Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop

187

4

Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra

180

5

Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

132

6

USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller

124

7

Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere

117

8

Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem

113

9

Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager

108

10

Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust

106

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

NordVPN confirms it was hacked

1368

2

California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am

505

3

Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich

396

4

Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

367

5

Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage

358

6

Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service

318

7

Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)

303

8

The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms

283

9

Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US

254

10

Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices

223

News [?]

1

Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

903

2

Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone

668

3

Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

560

4

Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

480

5

Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say

464

6

Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

450

7

Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit

348

8

To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews

297

9

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

289

10

Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)

272

Scientific publications [?]

1

How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?

261

2

Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet

181

3

Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy

69

4

Road planning with slime mould (2009)

38

5

Analysis of Solitaire Cipher

37

6

Topical Keyphrase Extraction with Hierarchical Semantic Networks

35

7

Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation

14

8

Researchers design new material using artificial intelligence

13

9

The Distributed Bloom Filter

8

10

Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site

230

2

Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand

171

3

Designing Accessible Color Systems

167

4

Really Fixing Getrandom()

154

5

Video Architecture Search

119

6

Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch

116

7

Google Announces Nest WiFi

99

8

The Decline of Stack Overflow

94

9

Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen

75

10

An Interview with Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer and Former Purism CTO

56

Tech blogs [?]

1

Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report

230

2

Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia

116

3

AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible New Socket

72

4

Why Fiber Is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G

52

5

The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera

48

6

Apple CEO Tim Cook Named Board Chairman of Tsinghua University

36

7

Revisiting the BlackHat BCard hack of 2018

29

8

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home

20

9

Logic Analyzer on Chips (2017)

17

10

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home

17

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

927

2

Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house

136

3

Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

123

4

AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project

12

5

Amazon RDS on VMware Now Available

8

6

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection

5

7

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection

3

8

The inner magic behind the Z3 theorem prover

3

9

AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project

2

10

“We appreciate the fact that you like to buy the cool stuff we build.”

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler

199

2

The Internet and the Third Estate

182

3

Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)

162

4

Google and Ambient Computing

142

5

America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed

78

6

A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence

67

7

The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River

19

8

The 19th-Century French Frenzy for Species Swapping

10

9

Mailchimp Kicks Out TorrentFreak Because We’re ‘Too Risky’

7

10

Pennsylvania debating $250 annual electric vehicle tax

6

Science News [?]

1

New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics

296

2

Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

153

3

Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila

123

4

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

103

5

Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017)

93

6

The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals

83

7

Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready

79

8

Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef

66

9

The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt

59

10

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries

58

Social [?]

1

I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

1385

2

38 People are looking at this post right now

477

3

FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices

306

4

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

296

5

What should have been an IMG element became this

287

6

Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

278

7

Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised

271

8

Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video]

201

9

The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video]

196

10

Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles

193

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL

355

2

.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project

297

3

Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks

288

4

Email marketing regulations around the world

173

5

Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out

160

6

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)

160

7

The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds

123

8

Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production

123

9

F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification

122

10

An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C

104

Wikipedia [?]

1

Terror management theory

132

2

Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound

106

3

Comparison of X Window Managers

85

4

82

5

Soviet Space Dogs

33

6

29

7

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

14

8

11

9

5

10

EUPL: The European Union Public License

4

Blogs [?]

1

The Elm Architecture (TEA) animation

75

2

Software Test Desiderata

61

3

The Myth of 10,000 hours

61

4

REST Is the New Soap

32

5

The Future of PHP

27

6

To change your life, learn to write

23

7

Too Cool for Rules: Engineering Principles for Software Development Teams

17

8

Open Sourcing Mantis

10

9

Intentional (Software) Qualities

9

10

DIY Sleep Apnea Screening

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Regular expression to match a line that doesn't contain a word

3

Substack [?]

1

U.S. Procurement Won the Civil War, Today It Would Lose a War to China

5

2

Wheelhouse Issue #1

2

3

Two years of Substack: What’s passed, what’s happening, and what’s next

2

4

The Curse of Being Big on the Internet

1

5

Incerto Companies

1

6

The First Few Years

1

7

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

1

8

OneList to Rule Them All

1

9

Frntier- market theses and investment memos

1

10

Frntier- market theses and investment memos

1