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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Having Kids
1992
2
Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
1673
3
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
1536
4
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1303
5
JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
1168
6
Challenging projects every programmer should try
911
7
FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
840
8
SQL Murder Mystery
823
9
ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
814
10
Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
787
Top Ask HN
1
Books you plan to read in 2020?
421
2
What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
373
3
My company wants my side project. What can I do?
264
4
Best ways to volunteer?
170
5
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?
156
6
Fun Tech Book Recommendations?
139
7
Which is the best book on nutrition?
70
8
Do you still code in BASIC?
49
9
I have nothing to do at work and it's killing me
48
10
What tech stack would you choose for building your next app?
39
Top Show HN
1
Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency
294
2
A guitar tab viewer that listens
190
3
I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]
186
4
Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune
179
5
Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels
155
6
Clayoven – a minimalist website generator for math, code, and articles
149
7
HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal
139
8
LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle
138
9
Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
131
10
Falco – Open-Source Web Performance Monitoring
119
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
730
2
A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live
335
3
AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results
299
4
Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown
266
5
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer
266
6
Shopping Sucks Now
233
7
Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS
194
8
Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020
174
9
Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
174
10
Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over
149
News [?]
1
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
690
2
White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
506
3
Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
502
4
Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died
433
5
Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages
355
6
Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes
348
7
Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January
334
8
The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
330
9
Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content
301
10
New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
299
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars
178
2
Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident
126
3
Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice
102
4
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
97
5
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
77
6
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way which also decays?
43
7
Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next
34
8
Arizona Man Sues State Agency over Right to Call Himself an Engineer
33
9
Danny Cohen, Inventor of the First Flight Simulator, Dies at 81
29
10
Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard
20
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Speeding Up the Rust Compiler
351
2
‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
345
3
Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
269
4
Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
201
5
Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code
153
6
The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
129
7
What Happened to Software Development?
84
8
N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack
51
9
Git v2.24.1 and Others
26
10
Firefox 71 and WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux
26
Tech blogs [?]
1
Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
708
2
Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
171
3
Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029
164
4
So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?
81
5
A maxed-out Mac Pro will cost you $53,000 – without display
31
6
Apple's Pro Display XDR Can Only Be Cleaned with Special Apple-Provided Cloth
26
7
Apple confirms 16-inch MacBook Pro 'popping' sound is software issue
6
8
A Deep Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
5
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Comment Is the Touch Bar a gimmick? Two years in, I think I can safely answer it
5
10
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Showdown: AMD's Ryzen Picasso vs. Intel's Ice Lake
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Mac Pro Available to Buy
118
2
AWS Re:Invent Presentations
61
3
Apple Mac Pro is now available to buy
19
4
Fork() Considered Harmful [pdf]
6
5
Challenges with Distributed Systems
5
6
Azure Mystery Mansion
5
7
Amazon Connect adds chat as a channel
5
8
Alexa can now speak and swear like Samuel Jackson
4
9
Apple Pro Display XDR Available to Buy
4
10
Defensive Design for the Web (2004 Book by 37Signals/Basecamp)
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)
290
2
The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
198
3
Layout 101
195
4
How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll
186
5
Software Library: MS-DOS Games
169
6
The Feedback Fallacy
115
7
A White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas
110
8
Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981)
84
9
Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
77
10
Revenue Contribution, Margin Analysis and Growth Rates of SaaS Companies
52
Science News [?]
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Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture
361
2
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
128
3
A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates
117
4
Object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision models
104
5
Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations
50
6
The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics
45
7
Questioning the Law of Conservation of Energy
33
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Keep US research open amid threat from China, says elite JASON group
30
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Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games
26
10
A City Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking Water
25
Social [?]
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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
1168
2
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
728
3
The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
676
4
A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
589
5
Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
586
6
An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
554
7
Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
545
8
Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now
491
9
A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
348
10
Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?
227
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1303
2
Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
396
3
If this project is dead, just tell us
395
4
Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything
379
5
Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C
332
6
Using Clojure for Web Apps
226
7
Informer: A bot library that allows masquerading as real users on Telegram
204
8
Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2
177
9
Pointer Authentication
162
10
Rustysd – A minimal drop-in for a subset of systemd in Rust
162
Wikipedia [?]
1
Cyc
357
2
Category:Obsolete occupations
300
3
Sand Theft
171
4
4.2 Kiloyear Event
136
5
Zugzwang
132
6
The Society of the Spectacle
125
7
Airbus Beluga XL
99
8
Symmetry454
71
9
Granular convection
46
10
Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates
39
Blogs [?]
1
Having Kids
1992
2
We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
351
3
37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
287
4
Linux Toolbox
129
5
My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work (2015)
59
6
Sushi Design System
38
7
Computational Thinking Exercises for Kids (With No Computers)
17
8
Web support for Flutter goes beta
15
9
What it’s like managing 10 million users as a solo developer
14
10
A short tutorial on decorators and meta-classes in Python
13
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]
1
The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn
186
2
The future of finance is self-driving money
90
3
New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster
57
4
The Magically Unstructured Life of a Crypto Baller
5
5
How to build brand for your product (using Away as an example)
4
6
Keybase and the Chaos of Crypto
4
7
Analysis of Boston University life sciences inventors and their inventions
3
8
How successful life sciences tools companies closed their first deal?
3
9
Minimum Viable Practice: A starter pack for optimum health and longevity
3
10
On the Tragedy of Paul Volcker
3