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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
2063
2
16-inch MacBook Pro
1840
3
John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
1574
4
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
1549
5
Build Your Own React
1478
6
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
1091
7
The cognitive costs of air pollution
1020
8
Brave launches 1.0
1008
9
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
911
10
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
873
Top Ask HN
1
What does your BI stack look like?
427
2
What is your ML stack like?
387
3
Do you write tests before the implementation?
248
4
A modern-looking UML diagram tool?
223
5
Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?
168
6
Does being practical act as a hinderance to one’s imagination?
159
7
Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
149
8
What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise?
113
9
Best Noise Canceling Headphones
87
10
Self taught programmer, now wanting to learn more about CS theory
77
Top Show HN
1
Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat
417
2
Testing HN titles against a neural network
285
3
A remote browser product, open-sourced
253
4
Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects
233
5
GPG on macOS and YubiKey
150
6
Autopilot written in Keras for Self Driving Cars
144
7
Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE
143
8
Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again
127
9
Faster UTF-8 validator
122
10
Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas (Python Data Science)
119
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
873
2
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
741
3
Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
570
4
Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease
395
5
Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed
389
6
Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
376
7
Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month
302
8
New 5G flaws can track phone locations and spoof emergency alerts
191
9
Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access
168
10
Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide
155
News [?]
1
Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
658
2
Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
571
3
Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
522
4
Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
510
5
Office noise bothers some people more than others
454
6
Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
416
7
Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city
414
8
Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators
337
9
One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
259
10
Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
258
Scientific publications [?]
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Ultrafast laser pulses produce a previously unseen phase of matter
195
2
New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water
195
3
NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'dance of avoidance'
178
4
Expansion of cytotoxic CD4 T cells in supercentenarians
100
5
Optical Proof of Work
81
6
The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
80
7
Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought
77
8
New AI System Predicts Seizures
71
9
Sand-slithering snakes behave like light waves
63
10
Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device
61
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
265
2
Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?
202
3
GNU Assembler Patches For Optimizing The Intel Jump Conditional Code Erratum
140
4
Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS
110
5
We’re Rewarding the Question Askers
95
6
Some near-term arm64 hardening patches
75
7
Cloud Run, a Managed Knative Service, Is GA
50
8
Emulated Iopl()
34
9
Google’s serverless containers platform Cloud Run is now GA
20
10
Fedora Devs Looking to Change Default Editor from Vi to Nano
20
Tech blogs [?]
1
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
434
2
NUVIA: New Server CPU Startup Going After Intel and AMD
98
3
EFF Urges Court to Reconsider Decision That Harms Internet Users
85
4
SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
71
5
Germany forces Apple to let other mobile wallet services use iPhone’s NFC chip
38
6
AAPL is now worth more than entire US energy sector, stock up 66% year to date
25
7
iOS 13.3 Supports NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-Compliant Security Keys
16
8
Apple removing all vaping apps from App Store
16
9
T-Mobile CEO John Legere to Be Replaced by COO Mike Sievert in May
10
10
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores Muscles into the Mainstream
9
FAANG+ [?]
1
16-inch MacBook Pro
1840
2
AWS Data Exchange
173
3
Apple launches three innovative studies today in the new Research app
9
4
Zero Trust strategy – what good looks like
4
5
AWS CloudFormation can now import existing resources
4
6
10M Active WebSocket Connections on AWS AppSync
4
7
CloudFormation Third Party Resources
3
8
Continuous Delivery of Container Applications to AWS Fargate with GitHub Actions
3
9
AWS – Introducing Savings Plans
3
10
Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR Available in December
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Google Squeeze
665
2
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
263
3
How to Be an Epicurean
101
4
All-Electric Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV
61
5
Cheese Makers Keeping Monterey Jack’s Local Legend Alive
42
6
Journalist Sharing Their Salary
30
7
Seoul is putting solar on all public buildings and 1M homes
22
8
DS-2CD7A2XYZ-JM/RX: Uyghur Detection Camera
21
9
Found: 17th-Century Warships at the Bottom of a Swedish Channel
21
10
LA adds hundreds of EV chargers to streetlights
17
Science News [?]
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Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues
426
2
More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
280
3
Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (2007)
181
4
Nature’s survey of 6k grad students reveals the turbulence of doctoral research
117
5
U.S. police may now be able to access online DNA database records
99
6
Eating food from plants that have struggled to survive toughens us up as well
98
7
Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
60
8
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
52
9
Correlation of Global Temperature, Sunspots, Solar Irradiance, Cosmic Rays
39
10
The Daredevil of Niagara Falls (2011)
28
Social [?]
1
John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
1574
2
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
1549
3
Developing open-source FPGA tools
277
4
Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests
250
5
You Promised Me Mars Colonies but I Got Facebook
221
6
Facebook iOS app has camera active during use
216
7
Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same network to crash/bootloop
122
8
Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video]
111
9
Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do
106
10
Valve: We're Excited to Unveil Half-Life: Alyx
91
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
1091
2
Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (2013)
445
3
Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
368
4
GitHub for Mobile
332
5
Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
216
6
OpenSwiftUI – An Open Source Re-Implementation of SwiftUI
196
7
Differentiable Programming Manifesto
180
8
Hacking Neural Networks: A Short Introduction
178
9
Decentralized VPN Written in Go
167
10
Remove almost all online garbage using Dnsmasq
111
Wikipedia [?]
1
Crinkle Crankle Wall
214
2
Einstein Refrigerator
195
3
Microsoft Comic Chat
192
4
33 Thomas Street
156
5
Roar (1981 Film)
85
6
Weird Number
70
7
Gödel, Escher, Bach
56
8
Daniel W. Dobberpuhl
48
9
Aviation safety: Transport comparisons
45
10
Police target CUHK university as it holds HKIX which routes 99% of net traffic
42
Blogs [?]
1
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
636
2
How Containers Work: Overlayfs
582
3
Why is everyone a bank?
232
4
Colossal Holograms
161
5
Brokering Bricks: The World of Lego Investing
66
6
Can We Just Cut to Infrastructure-as-Declarative-Code?
50
7
The Concurrent 2-Trie
40
8
D Day rehearsal that killed 600 men
27
9
Interview Questions (and When to Ask Them)
25
10
Java's Cover
18
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance
5
2
Is It Safe to Download/Use Code from GitHub?
1
Substack [?]
1
How VCs Make Money
412
2
Facebook, Political Ads and Free Speech
3
3
Google, Fitbit, Banking: Big Tech's Bust Out?
3
4
Communicating technical concepts to non-technical people
3
5
Copyright, Antitrust, and Disney's Monopoly
2
6
Edward Snowden and our great cross-hatch
2
7
Aggregating Daily Cloud News from Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud
2
8
Bitcoin and the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’
2
9
Are metrics ruining AI? A view from econometrics
2
10
Analysis of Berkeley life sciences inventors and their inventions
2