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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
3592
2
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
2425
3
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
2272
4
Goodbye, Clean Code
1678
5
Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
1636
6
Which Emoji Scissors Close?
1545
7
Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
1448
8
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
1375
9
A Sad Day for Rust
1243
10
Not everyone has an internal monologue
1225
Top Ask HN
1
I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
1337
2
A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
908
3
A New Decade. Any Predictions?
815
4
What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
698
5
What are the best unknown books you have read?
613
6
Are books worth it?
553
7
What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
444
8
What interesting problems are you working on?
442
9
Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
441
10
What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
428
Top Show HN
1
I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
695
2
I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
560
3
Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
533
4
Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
520
5
Write a private diary using good old email
515
6
ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
505
7
Regex Cheatsheet
499
8
OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
459
9
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
438
10
A set of standard document templates
433
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Mozilla lays off 70
929
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DigitalOcean is laying off staff
816
3
Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
759
4
Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
611
5
Google backtracks on search results design
605
6
What happened to Mint?
494
7
Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse
493
8
The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
450
9
Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
445
10
Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
414
News [?]
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
2272
2
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
1375
3
Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
834
4
Terry Jones has died
650
5
Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
625
6
U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
595
7
EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
591
8
U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
548
9
Visa Buys Plaid
538
10
Christopher Tolkien has died
514
Scientific publications [?]
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Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
486
2
Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
210
3
Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier
159
4
Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
153
5
Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention
151
6
The strange properties of the infinite power tower
150
7
A Modern Introduction to Online Learning
149
8
Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold
147
9
Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters
141
10
Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
137
Dev Blogs [?]
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Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
443
2
Banning facial recognition is missing the point
361
3
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
348
4
What is Rust and why is it so popular?
296
5
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
295
6
Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
265
7
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
256
8
Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
242
9
Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday
230
10
How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018)
229
Tech blogs [?]
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iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
781
2
BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
672
3
Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
595
4
AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs
432
5
EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
262
6
AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th
252
7
Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
246
8
Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
206
9
New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces
167
10
Off-Facebook Activity Is a Welcome but Incomplete Move
133
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
582
2
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
286
3
Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
185
4
AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
97
5
Announcing RDS/Aurora Snapshot Export to S3
70
6
Amazon Sumerian: create and run browser-based 3D, AR, and VR applications
34
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Amazon EKS Price Reduction
13
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Support for Windows 7 has ended
10
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Design Notes for Alto Operating System (1973) [pdf]
5
10
Exponential Backoff and Jitter
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
486
2
An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)
484
3
Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction
453
4
The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
312
5
New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market
267
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Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)
232
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The End of the Beginning
202
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VC List
191
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Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)
187
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Visa, Plaid, networks, and jobs
178
Science News [?]
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BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
627
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Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
418
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Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally
367
4
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
289
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Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
289
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How strong is your knot?
286
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
272
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Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs
266
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Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)
262
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
244
Social [?]
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
3592
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Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
864
3
“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
810
4
Off-Facebook activity
710
5
My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
457
6
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]
355
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Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money
331
8
How I make $400/month with my technical eBook
302
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Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”
294
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Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink
289
Github repos and gists [?]
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How to Exit Vim
1111
2
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
748
3
Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
720
4
Reverse engineering course
656
5
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
589
6
Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
556
7
How I write back ends
521
8
C Compiler from Scratch
484
9
Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia
447
10
A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
422
Wikipedia [?]
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Pantone 448 C
442
2
Loudness war
272
3
_NSAKEY
254
4
Boltzmann Brain
238
5
Wanggongchang Explosion
204
6
NOBUS (Nobody but Us)
184
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Hachikō
172
8
SoftICE
168
9
Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
163
10
Hoag's Object
130
Blogs [?]
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
815
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An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
629
3
Being a Noob
602
4
How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
396
5
Haters
321
6
Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
313
7
Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice
265
8
Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance
201
9
Incarcerated and Facebook
194
10
Normalization of Deviance (2015)
180
Stackoverflow [?]
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Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing
5
2
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
4
3
Why is x86 ugly? Why is it considered inferior when compared to others?
4
4
What programming language is most like natural language?
2
5
Disabling Chrome Autofill
2
6
What is the maximum value for an int32?
2
7
Difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\)
2
8
How to convert a date in Excel to ISO 8601 format
2
9
How does one make a Zip bomb?
2
10
Alternatives to Scanf in C Language
2
Substack [?]
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Facebook's PR feels broken
352
2
Dark Horse Discord
194
3
Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale
65
4
Trends for Social Networks, Messengers, and Digital Media
61
5
The Car Bundle
37
6
The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code
36
7
Why Boredom Is an Entrepreneur's Superpower
35
8
Bible Lobbyist: We Can't Print Bibles in America Anymore
32
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Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week? – Big Matt Stoller
26
10
Apple Is an Internet Company
24