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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
1393
2
The Lesson to Unlearn
1333
3
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
1238
4
Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1204
5
The Great Cannon has been deployed again
1043
6
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
908
7
Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
895
8
The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
783
9
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
781
10
The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation
750
Top Ask HN
1
Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
882
2
What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
622
3
We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
382
4
Curious to know if people still use IRC?
260
5
What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
238
6
How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
200
7
Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
162
8
What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
145
9
Which charities do you donate to?
122
10
What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?
92
Top Show HN
1
A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
656
2
AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
584
3
Space Invaders in C
478
4
Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
263
5
Version Control for Databases
224
6
Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
187
7
Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D
182
8
Learn When to Quit
147
9
Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses
144
10
GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser
129
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
908
2
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
624
3
Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
424
4
A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier
308
5
The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand
287
6
The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
283
7
How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games
197
8
A new way to make quadratic equations easy
177
9
France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decline: study
128
10
FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine
116
News [?]
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United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
355
2
British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
314
3
Dating While Dying
298
4
America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says
294
5
College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor
288
6
Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
271
7
Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
265
8
Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans
260
9
FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
249
10
“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
244
Scientific publications [?]
1
The Consumer Electronics Hall Of Fame: Sony Trinitron (2018)
123
2
What are your options for cognitive enhancement?
122
3
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]
113
4
Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review
102
5
Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 Years Later
92
6
The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors
76
7
AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution
67
8
Experiment closes gap in weather forecasting
60
9
Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on Gut Microbiota etc.
57
10
Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality
51
Dev Blogs [?]
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1204
2
BPF: A New Type of Software
603
3
Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
299
4
The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
206
5
Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf]
79
6
Questions About .org
36
7
Android Firefox Preview Beta Reaches Another Milestone
10
8
Georgia Governor Appoints Bitcoin Exchange Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator
9
9
RSA-240 Factored
9
10
A Letter from Larry and Sergey
7
Tech blogs [?]
1
Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
256
2
Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability
88
3
A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
83
4
Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
83
5
Certbot 1.0 Is Released
42
6
AMD Challenges Intel's NUC
21
7
AMD Renoir APU Spotted with 8 CUs 1.75 GHz
12
8
AMD: More Cores Coming in the 'Era of a Slowed Moore's Law'
9
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It's official: EFF's Certbot goes 1.0
9
10
Apple may pull out all of its products from Russia
5
FAANG+ [?]
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The Amazon Builders' Library
469
2
Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
429
3
Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
231
4
Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
195
5
AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
153
6
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
141
7
Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
137
8
Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances
132
9
AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
124
10
Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda
78
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
294
2
Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
223
3
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exploded a Discipline
108
4
For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
96
5
America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again
96
6
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
85
7
Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray
74
8
If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories (2004)
58
9
Portability and Interoperability
54
10
A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet
13
Science News [?]
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Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas
322
2
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
247
3
Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics
186
4
New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater
144
5
A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts
108
6
Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
86
7
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in
78
8
Controlling attention with brain waves
69
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An extended bout of warm wet weather 232M years ago
69
10
Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
61
Social [?]
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The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
783
2
I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit
506
3
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
415
4
Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ
317
5
Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090
248
6
Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
198
7
Genius used watermarks to catch Google stealing its content
80
8
Toilet paper is only available if you scan the train station QR code
62
9
We don't allow users to pick password. We generate it and store it in plaintext
36
10
GDPR Data Export from Spotify
26
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
741
2
Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
384
3
NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
377
4
GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC
288
5
Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs
275
6
An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows
190
7
Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig
188
8
Natural Language Processing Best Practices and Examples
149
9
Weasel: A Stealthy DNS Beacon
136
10
Create-React-App 3.3
114
Wikipedia [?]
1
Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
528
2
Transputer
236
3
List of Fictional Microsoft Companies
188
4
The curious case of Croatian wikipedia
127
5
Long S
98
6
Gurgel Itaipu
94
7
Agner Krarup Erlang
69
8
Sequoyah – Inventor of the Cherokee Script
68
9
The Scottish Book
62
10
One Instruction Set Computer
54
Blogs [?]
1
The Lesson to Unlearn
1333
2
My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
419
3
How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
292
4
How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
196
5
If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
152
6
Mind your Logs: How a build log from a Jenkins leaked everything
101
7
Rock the Cash Box: Writing a Host Processor for a ATM
87
8
Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)
54
9
Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back
51
10
Things I Learned in 2019
49
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Celery message queue vs. AWS Lambda task processing
1
Substack [?]
1
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
781
2
Business Models
186
3
The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing
64
4
Calling on startups to support NumFOCUS
40
5
Anonymous messages from founders and VCs about the Away culture controversy
19
6
What founders and VCS think about the expose of Away's culture
5
7
Keybase and the Chaos of Crypto
4
8
The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing
3
9
Did Economists Stop Congress from Ending Prison Rape?
3
10
Case Study on Benchling
3