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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

2776

2

2297

3

Tesla Cybertruck

1765

4

Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

1439

5

1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface

1306

6

Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

1291

7

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

1164

8

Apple has locked me out of my developer account

1019

9

Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results

1007

10

uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

996

Top Ask HN

1

What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

1460

2

How do I understand the results of my job search?

243

3

Best Static Site Builder?

199

4

How would you bootstrap a space company?

123

5

Anyone else in constant anxiety and how do you cope?

98

6

What have you done to improve your desk ergonomics?

67

7

Do you feel the quality of SWE has gone down?

58

8

Who are your programming rockstars, and why?

57

9

Any good alternatives to pen and paper?

47

10

Best way to grow an arts startup?

37

Top Show HN

1

Hacker News Title Edit Tracker

366

2

Virtual pet game made for my daughter

256

3

I made a no-bullshit image host

248

4

TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

213

5

EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database

158

6

Space Invaders but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

155

7

A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands

154

8

Hide Likes Everywhere

151

9

Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

148

10

LegraJS – Draw using Lego-like brick shapes on Canvas

140

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information

376

2

PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B

313

3

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules

244

4

Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA

216

5

Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy

210

6

I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

205

7

YouTube’s annoying Premium spam

204

8

Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

156

9

Senators ask if Facebook 'really' lets users opt out of location tracking

155

10

Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention Hits Google the Hardest

149

News [?]

1

Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

803

2

Some users say they're getting rid of Fitbit because they don't trust Google

468

3

Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true

410

4

Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for 'final solution'

408

5

Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'

376

6

Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

344

7

Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

329

8

Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

318

9

Google to restrict political adverts worldwide

312

10

TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

298

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model

161

2

Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

160

3

Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design

126

4

Evaluating the Search Phase of Neural Architecture Search

122

5

The Linear Algebra Mapping Problem

110

6

Only eat oysters in months with an 'r'?

52

7

Photos show evidence of life on Mars, Ohio entomologist claims

34

8

Nature's recipe for making leaves

30

9

New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetical X17 particle

18

10

Vertebrates became predators by tweaking the neural crest

18

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Threadripper 3960X Compiles Linux Kernel in Under 30 Seconds

190

2

Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes

180

3

Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner

156

4

Keeping Memory Contents Secret

129

5

The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver

124

6

Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer

101

7

78

8

Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes

40

9

Lightweight Filesystem sandboxing with eBPF

32

10

Why does the Alpha AXP predict a coroutine transfer the way it does?

24

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review

488

2

Apple pulls all customer reviews from online Apple Store

203

3

PA Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password

35

4

Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG

18

5

Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG

12

6

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review: 24 and 32 cores on 7nm

4

7

The Saga of the Disappeared Baby Yoda GIFs

4

8

Former Apple execs create new chip company, will compete with Intel and AMD

4

9

Analysis of the WhatsApp Mp4 Flaw

3

10

Apple says its been losing money on its repair programs

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Fluent Design System

36

2

Security Enhancements to the AWS EC2 Instance Metadata Service

8

3

Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs

3

4

Amazon In-Car Delivery

3

5

Icebreaker: New model which reduces cost and data needed to train ML models

3

6

Apple partners with 100cameras to teach Chicago students photography with iPhone

2

7

CloudFormation Update – CLI and Third-Party Resource Support and Registry

2

8

AWS promotional credits for open source projects

2

9

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)

2

10

New Weighted Target Groups on AWS Application Load Balancer

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

I Wasn’t Prepared for Work (2013)

180

2

Volkswagen Axes All Non-Electric Racing Programs Worldwide

180

3

“Royalty-Free” Music Supplied by YouTube Results in Mass Video Demonetization

173

4

Trigger warnings don’t help people cope with distressing material

75

5

Ohio Submarines Were Designed to Be Drone-Carrying Clandestine Command Centers

68

6

The Uncertain Future of the World’s Largest Secondhand Book Market

66

7

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

38

8

Building JavaScript at Scale

14

9

Open Source LibreTorrent Client Kicked Out by Google Play

8

10

Open Source LibreTorrent Client Kicked Out by Google Play

5

Science News [?]

1

Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

346

2

The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated

339

3

An interview with Barbara Liskov

160

4

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Solution to Black Hole Information Paradox

124

5

Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

75

6

Astronomers Detect Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Bursts

69

7

Astronomers draw first global map of Titan

60

8

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)

60

9

Sounds of 1950s New York City and More from Folkways Magazine (2013)

41

10

Archaeologists Find Infants Wearing ‘Helmets’ Made from Skulls of Other Children

34

Social [?]

1

We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus

659

2

PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

452

3

SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident

283

4

Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number

262

5

Sacha Baron Cohen's Thoughts on Social Media and Tech Company Responsibilities

231

6

A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking [video]

141

7

Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode [video]

133

8

Tesla Tripp Police Report Released

111

9

How to (not) have sex in the 600s

90

10

Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video]

86

Github repos and gists [?]

1

uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

996

2

Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

690

3

How does a video codec work?

561

4

Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet

490

5

Tesla PowerWall 2 Hack

466

6

Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file

423

7

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

419

8

React Table is a “headless” UI library

257

9

Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman

248

10

Hacker Laws: Theories, principles and patterns that developers will find useful

203

Wikipedia [?]

1

224

2

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion

211

3

195

4

162

5

136

6

132

7

108

8

74

9

66

10

Agglutinative Language

59

Blogs [?]

1

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

1164

2

Novelty and Heresy

288

3

Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers

264

4

I Do Not See Myself Represented in Essays on Dating

65

5

Roku is cryptolocking TV’s until you give personal data

49

6

Another reason Prince Andrew is a disgrace

46

7

Why no one is exponentially smarter than others

36

8

Congress is about to reauthorize the Patriot Act

26

9

New trends in programming languages

25

10

On Becoming One (Collective Consciousness and the Fermi Paradox)

25

Stackoverflow [?]

1

GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

229

2

Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?

79

3

Java – What is the volatile keyword useful for

4

4

GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

3

5

What Have You Used Regular Expressions For?

2

6

Difference between volatile and synchronized in Java

1

7

Add two integers using only bitwise operators?

1

Substack [?]

1

Analysis of Stanford life sciences inventors and their inventions

16

2

Platforms Don't Exist

10

3

The World Beyond Washington

6

4

A practical way of building your first Uber-like app

4

5

In 2 Hours: How to Build and Validate Startup Idea with a Landing Page MVP

3

6

How successful drug companies closed their first deal?

2

7

Finding Unicorns: A Quick Lesson from Adam Sandler

2

8

Case Study on 23andMe

2

9

Write the email that will avoid a meeting

2

10

Sleep matters, but Alexey Guzey is right

2