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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636
3
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2603
4
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
2594
5
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
2363
6
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
7
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
8
Tony Hsieh has died
1598
9
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
1530
10
Your Computer Isn't Yours
1514
Top Ask HN
1
What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
524
2
Top Coursera Courses?
486
3
As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
479
4
Are you depressed?
408
5
Who is hiring? (November 2020)
348
6
Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
301
7
How do custom software dev firms make money?
219
8
Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
199
9
What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?
186
10
How to effectively get feedback from users?
151
Top Show HN
1
I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
726
2
Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
537
3
Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
441
4
Zfs.rent
403
5
A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
377
6
I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
355
7
Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
308
8
I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
261
9
I made a Mahjong browser game
252
10
LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
233
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
2
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
924
3
A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
743
4
WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic
691
5
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
664
6
Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
639
7
A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
624
8
Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
593
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Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
532
10
Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
519
News [?]
1
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
3
Google users locked out after 15 years' use
1087
4
YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
974
5
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
906
6
South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
813
7
Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
780
8
Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
680
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Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
671
10
Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
653
Scientific publications [?]
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Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows
203
2
Texas astronomers revive idea for 'Ultimately Large Telescope' on the moon
195
3
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
188
4
Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)
176
5
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)
162
6
The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System
160
7
TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents
154
8
Geometric Algebra (2012)
147
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Field geology at Mars' equator points to ancient megaflood
122
10
Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine
118
Dev Blogs [?]
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YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636
2
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
1275
3
Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
950
4
.NET 5.0
791
5
Deprecating scp
690
6
Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
427
7
Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
374
8
Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
363
9
TypeScript 4.1
339
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Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures
298
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
1080
3
Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
751
4
2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
724
5
Cover Your Tracks
694
6
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
457
7
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
434
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RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
414
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Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac
337
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Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
241
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
830
2
macOS Big Sur
654
3
Introducing the next generation of Mac
642
4
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
492
5
Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
355
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AWS pre-announces public container image registry
224
7
Transparency Report
199
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AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
169
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Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
159
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Amazon Sidewalk
144
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
337
2
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
324
3
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
321
4
Apple's Shifting Differentiation
292
5
Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
287
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NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report
253
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Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
253
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The biology of dads
236
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Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
231
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The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016)
209
Science News [?]
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Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
830
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Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
502
3
No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
450
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U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
392
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Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill
313
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How to seriously read a scientific paper
289
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Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells
279
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Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients
274
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Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality
264
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
240
Social [?]
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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2603
2
Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
1337
3
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
981
4
Alex Trebek has died
911
5
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
754
6
“Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
637
7
Amazon Review Scam
579
8
I now have an Oculus paperweight
567
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Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
515
10
The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
512
Github repos and gists [?]
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No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1070
2
“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
716
3
Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
679
4
Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
655
5
ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
627
6
AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
595
7
Pimp My Microwave
529
8
PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
504
9
Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
423
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Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
416
Wikipedia [?]
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UVB-76
195
2
Holodomor
172
3
British Airways Flight 5390
169
4
The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
153
5
Al-Adudi Hospital
121
6
Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle
77
7
Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
55
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Nipkow Disk
39
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Carrosses à Cinq Sols
35
10
Naming Law
28
Blogs [?]
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How to Think for Yourself
1090
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My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
474
3
Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
175
4
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
158
5
Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing
137
6
Why Concurrency Is Hard
122
7
Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
111
8
Moving BBC Online to the Cloud
109
9
Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019)
103
10
Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years
83
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is your favorite C programming trick? (2009)
229
2
Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (2011)
108
3
Stackoverflow: Lesser Known but Useful Datastructures
64
4
Disabling Chrome Autofill
4
5
Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments
4
6
How to get the source directory of a Bash script from within the script itself?
3
7
Stackoverflow: Difference Between DTO,VO,POJO,JavaBeans
2
8
What is the "goes to" operator in C++? (2009)
2
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What is the purpose of having an empty pair base class? (C++)
2
10
How to generate short uid like “aX4j9Z” (in JavaScript)
2
Substack [?]
1
The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
280
2
How I Spend My Attention
256
3
Hire people who give a shit
236
4
Tips for Founders Doing Sales (From a Founder)
196
5
A Worsening Culture War
182
6
Prediction Markets Beat Polls
162
7
DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
129
8
As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
113
9
The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
106
10
Ad block and you don't stop
103