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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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1596

2

Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

1240

3

PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

1004

4

ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B

994

5

Lessons learned building an ML trading system

914

6

Open-Source Home Automation

869

7

The world needs more search engines

795

8

The Real Class War

773

9

Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)

770

10

0.30000000000000004

768

Top Ask HN

1

Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?

670

2

What are you thankful for?

418

3

Who is hiring? (December 2019)

295

4

278

5

What should be taught in high school?

200

6

How do you deal with atomicity in microservice environments?

116

7

What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?

114

8

Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

100

9

What has made you a better problem solver in software engineering?

96

10

Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)

89

Top Show HN

1

Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

404

2

I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service

393

3

patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless

362

4

We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph

295

5

How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python

264

6

Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter

152

7

Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch

140

8

TrackingTheTrackers – Is a website disguising its 3rd-party trackers?

124

9

Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

109

10

Keycat – A self-hosted end-to-end encrypted password manager

87

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

316

2

Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast

290

3

Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding

274

4

The next generation of wall chargers

247

5

AMD is dominating Intel in Amazon's best-selling CPUs list

203

6

Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

189

7

The successor of SMS has already been hacked

166

8

Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China

154

9

"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."

145

10

Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors (2017)

137

News [?]

1

Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

481

2

Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia

428

3

Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest

397

4

RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

379

5

Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

375

6

Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

372

7

The Great American Eye Exam Scam

365

8

Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users

323

9

Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

307

10

Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

298

Scientific publications [?]

1

Single Headed Attention RNN

212

2

Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)

197

3

Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes

144

4

New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all

123

5

Superconductivity Theory Under Attack

95

6

Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists

85

7

SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image

77

8

Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search (2017)

45

9

How mantis shrimp make sense of the world

37

10

Don’t Lose Your Brain at Work – The Role of Recurrent Novelty in Brain Aging

14

Dev Blogs [?]

1

It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

438

2

Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)

195

3

Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones

167

4

This Is How Google Will Collapse

58

5

Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don't have a Facebook account)

50

6

Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release

23

7

VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features for Graphics in VMs

11

8

A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 2

7

9

Using Open-Source Software to Disrupt Marketplaces

7

10

TrickBot Evolves to Go After SSH Keys

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

1240

2

AWS Designing a 32-Core Arm Neoverse N1 CPU for Cloud Servers

17

3

Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive into the Tech of Corporate Surveillance

11

4

US ranks #68 out of 100 in mobile video quality, loading time, and buffering

9

5

Solid state battery breakthrough could double the density of lithium-ion cells

4

6

A7: How Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

3

7

Intel CPU Shortages Worsened in Q4

3

8

Raspberry Pi 4 HDMI Is Jamming Its Own WiFi

3

9

Tales from the Sysadmin: Dumped into the Grub Command Line

2

10

Joled Starts Trial Production of Printed OLED Sheets at 5.5G Plant

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing

451

2

AWS DeepComposer

70

3

AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models

29

4

Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core

25

5

AWS Lambda Destinations

18

6

Amazon open sources streaming machine learning for Elasticsearch

8

7

AWS IAM Access Analyzer

7

8

AWS EC2 Image Builder

5

9

Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Speech Recognition for Healthcare

5

10

Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Tibetan meditation research of Herbert Benson

143

2

Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design

140

3

Classics for the People

59

4

More Teslas on the Road Meant Hours-Long Supercharger Lines over Thanksgiving

53

5

Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?

24

6

The Golden Kubernetes Tooling and Helpers List

21

7

The First Narco Submarine Ever Seized Off a European Coast Is a Monster

14

8

Los Angeles sets aggressive 2028 EV targets: 80% of all vehicle sales

13

9

The Daring Mission That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb

11

10

Why Investors React Negatively to Companies That Put Women on Their Boards

10

Science News [?]

1

Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons

243

2

Health Concerns Mount as More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined with Plastic

200

3

Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)

143

4

Giant tortoises show surprising cognitive powers

114

5

ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more

106

6

Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It

104

7

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

100

8

The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis

81

9

Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration

75

10

Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers

63

Social [?]

1

Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

535

2

My .in domain has been transferred to another registrant without notification

374

3

Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

340

4

CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]

227

5

The Air Force of the Knights Hospitaller

212

6

React in concurrent mode: 2000 state-connected comps re-rendered at 60FPS

194

7

The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found

149

8

Simon Peyton-Jones on computer science in school curriculums [video]

147

9

Origami Levels of Complexity [video]

138

10

Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles

133

Github repos and gists [?]

1

RoughViz: JS library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn style charts in the browser

466

2

HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

367

3

Tensorflow 2.0 AMD Support

296

4

Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser

220

5

Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages

218

6

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal

196

7

179

8

Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks

172

9

Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog

164

10

Jor1k: Run Linux in the browser with multicore and network support

161

Wikipedia [?]

1

157

2

Man or boy test

148

3

Illusory Truth Effect

110

4

Inca Road System

90

5

90

6

64

7

Master–Slave Morality

47

8

Community Memory Terminal

24

9

Automated Vacuum Collection

17

10

100 Years – The Movie You Will Never See

14

Blogs [?]

1

Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US

419

2

How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?

374

3

Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm

273

4

How Y Combinator Started (2012)

222

5

Files Are Hard (2015)

170

6

Latency/throughput tradeoffs, illustrated with coffee

160

7

A Computability Proof of Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem

102

8

The ghosts of technology in today’s language (2018)

99

9

Shenzhen and Yiwu: Supply Chains and Consumerism

78

10

What Is Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol and How to Use It?

39

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux? (2009)

38

2

Stackoverflow peak detection algorithm with academic citations

1

Substack [?]

1

Can You Copyright Work Made by Artificial Intelligence?

89

2

Observability Pipelines at Kubecon

46

3

The Qualcomm Case: Why China Uses U.S. Technology Americans Are Locked Out Of

7

4

Conspiracy Theories and Osint Hong Kong

4

5

One VC Wrote an OS for Her Life

3

6

Analysis of Harvard life sciences inventors and their inventions

2

7

Case Study on Guardant Health

2

8

Case Study on Merck

2

9

Cancer Vaccines

2

10

The Decentralization of Revolutions

1