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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
2
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
1675
3
Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
1460
4
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1324
5
Thank You, Guido
1269
6
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
946
7
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
884
8
Text Editing Hates You Too
875
9
Build Your Own X
867
10
Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia
828
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (November 2019)
402
2
What is your passive income 2019?
307
3
Getting started in biology with a software background
222
4
What are some resources to improve speaking skills?
216
5
How do you roll back production?
205
6
How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?
140
7
Who wants to be hired? (November 2019)
133
8
How to remove voice from a music file?
121
9
What to do after the workday?
119
10
Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?
110
Top Show HN
1
Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)
332
2
Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework
295
3
I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit
151
4
Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs
147
5
SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
143
6
HR code – Designed to be recognized by humans and OCR
124
7
Own your Kubernetes: installation, addons, best practices – as code
122
8
Open sourcing a data flow engine for Clojure/Script
116
9
A minimal Fortran TCP client and server
110
10
Perceptual hashing tools for detecting child sexual abuse material
92
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1324
2
How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game
380
3
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
307
4
Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
269
5
Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
260
6
The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
186
7
Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm
185
8
A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend
179
9
Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420
177
10
New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices
176
News [?]
1
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
946
2
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
884
3
NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
686
4
Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
665
5
WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
534
6
Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
492
7
AMD is having its day
394
8
U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
393
9
'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
387
10
Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
374
Scientific publications [?]
1
Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)
330
2
Plants “panic” when it rains
230
3
A 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets
154
4
Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell
103
5
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
83
6
Multiplayer AlphaZero
53
7
Worldwide observations confirm nearby 'lensing' exoplanet
45
8
The homeland of modern humans
17
9
Quantized 8Bit Bert
4
10
Researchers uncover an anomaly in the electromagnetic duality of Maxwell Theory
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
1675
2
Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
432
3
I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
372
4
Python adopts a 12-month release cycle
231
5
Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud
228
6
Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
194
7
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
132
8
Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
77
9
GitHub Student Developer Pack
59
10
Test-Driven Development Is Fundamentally Wrong
43
Tech blogs [?]
1
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
208
2
Adding Client-Side Scanning Breaks End-to-End Encryption
170
3
SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core
137
4
Rubber concrete that self-seals and is cheaper and more environmentally friendly
111
5
AirPods Pro Launching on October 30
16
6
Linux's Marketing Problem
9
7
Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home
9
8
Gigantic FPGA in a Game Boy Form Factor, Supercon Badge Is a Hardware Siren Song
6
9
RPi4: Now Overclocked, Net-Booted, and Power-Sipping
5
10
TSMC and GlobalFoundries Dismiss All Lawsuits, Announce 10-Year Cross-License
5
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Q4 Results
148
2
Apple commits $2.5B to combat housing crisis in California
46
3
The New Microsoft Project
17
4
Project Silica
12
5
Amplify enables Amazon Cognito Groups, user management in apps
4
6
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming over Time
4
7
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Python
4
8
AWS Region in Spain
3
9
In the Works – AWS Region in Spain
3
10
The influence of organizational structure on code quality (2008) [pdf]
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
215
2
The AdaOS Operating System (2000)
87
3
The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
72
4
What We Know The X-37B Was Up To During Its 780 Days In Space
50
5
Hacking the Xbox 360 DVD Drive (2006)
24
6
Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky? (2015)
18
7
Mexico’s Most Sorrowful Spirit Became a Cultural Phenomenon
15
8
Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success
15
9
Living with ADHD: how I learned to make distraction work for me
6
10
We need standardized rented autonomous tugs to move customized unpowered wagons
4
Science News [?]
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Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
266
2
Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed
225
3
Feeling stuck? Write a poem
201
4
Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II
156
5
New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates
156
6
Is Death Reversible?
154
7
Journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
89
8
What Shape Is the Universe, Closed or Flat?
87
9
BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface
79
10
Can You Overdose on Happiness?
76
Social [?]
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Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
2
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
665
3
Visualizing Music with GANs
249
4
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
239
5
35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]
230
6
Krispy Kreme mule will be allowed to continue operating
153
7
Doom (1993) Encryption
114
8
If you're autistic, once you hit 18 you are tossed out with the trash
66
9
Steve Jobs on how The Beatles influenced his approach to business (2003) [video]
64
10
"My phone's camera is damaged and makes noise upon activation..."
41
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
1460
2
Build Your Own X
867
3
Unfork()
568
4
Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
439
5
Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
283
6
Remove default "terraform" partner_id
238
7
Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters
237
8
Lack of cdnjs activity
236
9
A GUI framework for C# console applications
228
10
LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack
226
Wikipedia [?]
1
Stanisław Lem
82
2
CleanFlicks
51
3
Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
41
4
Sator Square
38
5
List of Lists of Lists
18
6
Ohio-class Submarine
6
7
The average color of the universe is "Cosmic latte"
5
8
Exec is the 13 KB multitasking microkernel of AmigaOS
5
9
Synecdoche
5
10
Zip Fuel
3
Blogs [?]
1
Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
516
2
The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back
332
3
FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
154
4
The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)
144
5
YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education
120
6
Unexpected Beauty in Primes
42
7
Reinforcement Learning Library from Scratch – Deep Dive into Reinforce.jl
40
8
A Not-So-Brief Thought on Zoning (2017)
28
9
Synthetic Content
20
10
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
17
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard
7
2
So Answer: Which “href” value should I use for “JavaScript links”?
2
3
CSS – Firefox: How to test prefers-color-scheme?
2
4
Chrome Console SameSite Cookie Attribute Warning
2
5
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1
1
Substack [?]
1
The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
349
2
Rise of the Mathematicians
98
3
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
53
4
Quantum Supremacy Survey: Has Google Achieved It?
2
5
Naveen Keeps Track
1
6
Steam game sales for 'the other 50%'
1
7
The Trillion Dollar Lawsuit, Part One
1
8
A email or a meeting? A Slack message or go to their desk?
1