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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1595

2

Perfectly Cropped

1232

3

US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

1198

4

Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]

1128

5

877

6

Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

836

7

Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing

830

8

BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

765

9

Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]

757

10

Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

701

Top Ask HN

1

Successful one-person online businesses?

1474

2

What's a promising area to work on?

1331

3

Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?

788

4

What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?

476

5

How do B2B startups sell to corporations?

427

6

How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

324

7

Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

318

8

I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?

281

9

What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?

267

10

What do you automate in your life and work?

244

Top Show HN

1

pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans

321

2

MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5

127

3

Glaze – Illustrations for Products and Presentations

120

4

Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks

118

5

Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps

110

6

Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead

110

7

Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories

110

8

Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pretty' table

107

9

Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule

105

10

Make a video of any word forming out of candy

101

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Firefox is getting language translation

556

2

Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption

502

3

Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

368

4

Estonia is running its country like a tech company

365

5

Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival

311

6

Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels

309

7

Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year

236

8

Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache

218

9

I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)

183

10

A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster

180

News [?]

1

Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

836

2

BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

765

3

Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

701

4

Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

561

5

After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes

398

6

U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them

341

7

Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?

324

8

Stripe to move to South San Francisco

324

9

Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads

309

10

By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence

308

Scientific publications [?]

1

MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work

359

2

Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

172

3

Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover

125

4

Losing Confidence in Quality: Unspoken Evolution of Computer Vision Services

65

5

Space: A Major Legal Void

59

6

Physicists simulate critical 'reheating' period that kickstarted the Big Bang

29

7

Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms

17

8

New Antenna Uses Saltwater and Plastic to Steer Radio Beams

14

9

Building Dynamic Knowledge Graphs from Text-Based Games

10

10

Marpa, A practical general parser: the recognizer

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

701

2

Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

658

3

Containers in 2019: They're Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback

201

4

Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support

199

5

U.N., Unicef, Red Cross Under Ongoing Mobile Attack

167

6

Applying BERT models to Search

165

7

Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules

140

8

A Framework for Purposeful Open Source (2018) [pdf]

40

9

Public keys are not enough for SSH security

29

10

Study Estimates 50% of Sites That Use WebAssembly Use It for Malicious Purposes

27

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy

197

2

TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction

82

3

The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill

43

4

Realtek 2.5 GbE PCIe Cards Now for Sale

36

5

Limited reports of Catalina installation bricking some Macs via EFI firmware

15

6

iOS 13.2 now available with Deep Fusion

14

7

AMD's 64-Core EPYC CPU Stripped: A Detailed Inside Look – Tom's Hardware

11

8

Micron Finally Announces a 3D XPoint Product: Micron X100 NVMe SSD

9

9

Street level surveillance: a guide to law enforcement spying technology

9

10

Intel Posts Record Earnings, Desktop PC Volume Down 10 Percent YoY

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

393

2

Amazon Joins Java Community Process (JCP)

3

3

Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection

3

4

Microsoft design new security requirements to protect against firmware attacks

2

5

A more effective way to train deep neural networks using pipeline parallelism

2

6

Announcing Image Scanning for Amazon ECR

2

7

GoDaddy ships code faster with AWS and Serverless

1

8

Apple Premieres “See,” Coming to Apple TV+ November 1

1

9

Amazon Becomes Member of JCP

1

10

Microsoft Earnings Release FY20 Q1

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon

239

2

The Afterlives and Second Acts of America’s Movie Palaces

24

3

Capitalism, modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment

23

4

The CEO Lifecycle

22

5

Internet Archive Is Offline

10

6

The Thing About Burnout

7

7

Tesla vandal turns himself in after seeing Sentry Mode video online

6

8

Why wonder is the most human of all emotions

5

9

Managers, You’re More Intimidating Than You Think

5

10

A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance

5

Science News [?]

1

Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

241

2

Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams

191

3

The effort to preserve a million letters written by U.S. soldiers during wartime

155

4

Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain

73

5

The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (2015)

70

6

Why We're Drawn into Darkness

46

7

The Color of Noise: What Do Hues Have to Do with Sound?

34

8

Prenatal THC exposure yields hyperdopaminergic phenotype rescued by pregnenolone

31

9

Endoplasmic reticulum stress response regulation by mitochondrial microprotein

21

10

Are the common elements in our dreams the result of basic biology? (2015)

20

Social [?]

1

Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]

1128

2

Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger

476

3

Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982

328

4

Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

266

5

Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]

245

6

TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public

222

7

New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position

216

8

Is “Investing in improving structure” better than “Paying off technical debt”?

192

9

Startpage is now owned by an advertising company

182

10

No XBL Components Left in Firefox

137

Github repos and gists [?]

1

US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

1198

2

Don't Use VPN Services

408

3

Stealing Ur Feelings

372

4

PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild

341

5

Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

290

6

Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query

288

7

3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal

229

8

Git repository summary on your terminal

155

9

Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

147

10

Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

Oberon Operating System

196

2

Bhopal disaster

156

3

154

4

Monty Hall Problem

122

5

South-Pointing Chariot

75

6

HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons

72

7

Six Nines in Pi

60

8

60

9

Tulsa Race Riot

50

10

44

Blogs [?]

1

My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?

644

2

Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

427

3

Reflections on My Career at Microsoft

300

4

SQLite is easy to compile

192

5

Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity

96

6

What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?

59

7

Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious

55

8

Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

41

9

Mapping at Aurora

34

10

Was NordVPN hacked or is it false? What Reddit has to say

25

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Image inside div has extra space below the image

13

2

What Benefits Does Chisel Offer over Classic Hardware Description Languages?

3

3

Testing C++ Compiler Optimizations for ++I and I++

2

4

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

2

Substack [?]

1

How are people making money selling knowledge on the Internet?

22

2

Autocracy Comes to America: Big Tech and National Security

3

3

The United States Is Suffering from the Innovator's Dilemma

3

4

Our bosses live in our phones

3

5

How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life

3

6

The Next Big Startup in Silicon Valley? Retool

2

7

Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours

2

8

Writing in English as a non-native English speaker

2

9

Investment Memo: Otis

2

10

Investment Memo: Otis

1