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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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This Page is Designed to Last
1321
2
Fast
1314
3
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
807
4
UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
775
5
Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
743
6
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
740
7
Google claims copyright on employee side projects
738
8
Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
705
9
The Deep Sea
703
10
Downsides to working at a tech giant
700
Top Ask HN
1
How Can I Learn Music Theory?
673
2
Best Talks of 2019?
643
3
How do you create a successful community from zero?
441
4
Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
407
5
CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
384
6
What is your financial “setup”?
200
7
Do you know any good audio books for developers?
163
8
Partial Bootstrap for a SaaS Startup
83
9
Best practices for hiring software contractors?
80
10
How do you keep your notes organized?
79
Top Show HN
1
Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
716
2
Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
406
3
Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation
237
4
A simple garbage collector for C
192
5
I built a website for sharing salary info
186
6
Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle
158
7
ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine
131
8
CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
124
9
Ordinary Puzzles – An open-source mobile puzzle game
116
10
Timelite, a simple time tracking solution
109
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
660
2
Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
390
3
Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
384
4
LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
380
5
The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained
320
6
New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
306
7
Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
254
8
Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year
208
9
Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
188
10
German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection
137
News [?]
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Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
743
2
Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
659
3
You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
414
4
An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
405
5
U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
386
6
France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
349
7
Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey
347
8
Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study
300
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People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
294
10
Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
293
Scientific publications [?]
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Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law
140
2
NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly
90
3
Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland?
84
4
The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
71
5
Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots That Didn't Make It
36
6
New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1k to 10k times
18
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New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1k to 10k times
17
8
Sick Building Syndrome
15
9
Smelly, poisonous molecule may be a sign of extraterrestrial life
13
10
Gazing into crystal balls to advance understanding of crystal formation
13
Dev Blogs [?]
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How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
372
2
New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
167
3
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
144
4
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
112
5
One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody
111
6
Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay
103
7
Binary Authorization for Borg
102
8
Apple Security Bounty
99
9
BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters
75
10
BeyondProd: Google's Cloud Native Security
56
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
226
2
Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial
214
3
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs. Intel Core I9-10980XE
13
4
Linux Fu: Stupid SSH Tricks
9
5
iFixit Shares 2019 Mac Pro Teardown: 'A Masterclass in Repairability'
7
6
Chinese CPUs Now Work on Domestically-Produced Operating System
5
7
Ring Throws Customers Under the Bus After Data Breach
5
8
California DOJ Cuts Off ICE Deportation Officers from State Law Enforcement DB
4
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A Deep Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
4
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Using the FCC OET to find internal device pictures
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
740
2
Why do Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria? (2012)
22
3
Setting the record straight on AWS and open source
7
4
What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? (2017) [pdf]
4
5
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
4
6
Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2019
3
7
The influence of organizational structure on software quality (2008) [pdf]
2
8
Amazon Echo Loop – Smart Ring with Alexa
1
9
Windows 10 random number generation
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Who Was the Buddha?
236
2
Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)
138
3
Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
94
4
Henry Heinz used ketchup to improve food safety
51
5
Kodak Reference Handbook (1945)
37
6
Hg Init: A Mercurial Tutorial (By Joel Spolsky)
17
7
Senior Engineer Jobsearch: Land your dream offer in 100 days [pdf]
14
8
Tesla launches $2k Acceleration Boost for 3.9s 0-60 MPH in Model 3 Dual Motor
6
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Tesla Trans-Canada Supercharger route goes live all at once – mostly V3 250kW
5
10
The AI Transparency Paradox
5
Science News [?]
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Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
284
2
New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
192
3
Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky
189
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United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze
166
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The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian
134
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The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots
120
7
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (2018)
119
8
The Year in Biology
107
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How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food
104
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Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
88
Social [?]
1
Google claims copyright on employee side projects
738
2
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
639
3
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
461
4
Scaling Etsy
352
5
You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
228
6
A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]
189
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Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden
98
8
Demonstration of 4-Row Janko Keyboard (1986) [video]
92
9
Tech companies will post incoherent ads for open positions in tiny local papers
89
10
Gsuite suspended my account because I paid
81
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
542
2
WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
396
3
Open-Source Spotify App
345
4
Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
332
5
Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
243
6
Radeon Open Compute 3.0
208
7
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
195
8
Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go
153
9
Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code
130
10
Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development
119
Wikipedia [?]
1
A Tesla Valve
197
2
Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
113
3
List of Statements Independent of ZFC
104
4
Wolf 359
84
5
Magic Eye Tube
54
6
Null Island
46
7
Stenotype
29
8
Bogle–Chandler Case
23
9
Srinivasa Ramanujan
22
10
Coffin Texts
21
Blogs [?]
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How tracking pixels work
413
2
Fashionable Problems
365
3
Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
117
4
RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled
72
5
Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?
69
6
The One Notebook Habit (2018)
58
7
Cities of the World Where You Don’t Need AC or Heat, Mapped
23
8
How we went from 0 to 10k users in 4 months with $0 spent on marketing
16
9
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held – A Framework for Thinking
15
10
A Review of Netflix’s Metaflow
15
Stackoverflow [?]
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Compiling Python to WebAssembly
3
2
Any reason not to use global lambdas?
1
3
Best Practices for API Versioning
1
Substack [?]
1
Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
395
2
Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
336
3
Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
195
4
Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
140
5
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
114
6
How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web
75
7
Console #14: 500 Headlines About Bitcoin
10
8
One VC Wrote an OS for Her Life
10
9
Impeachment, Debate, and How to Double Your Money
7
10
Google's Dangerous Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
5