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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
No Cookie for You
2941
2
Google outage – resolved
2316
3
Cameras and Lenses
2132
4
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
1752
5
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1307
6
Tips for a Better Life
1271
7
Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
1245
8
Just Wanted to Say Thanks
1244
9
Do You Love Me? [video]
1218
10
How We Saved Dot Org
1187
Top Ask HN
1
Best Talks of 2020?
729
2
What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
705
3
Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
689
4
What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
476
5
What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
446
6
What Lived Up to the Hype?
424
7
Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
406
8
Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
399
9
What are the best advanced computer science courses online?
345
10
Who is hiring? (December 2020)
339
Top Show HN
1
PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
676
2
After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
647
3
This website is valid JSON
604
4
Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform
510
5
After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
442
6
Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
424
7
Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
405
8
Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old
375
9
Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display
357
10
Instantly search 2M recipes
349
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
933
2
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
752
3
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
630
4
Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
542
5
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
506
6
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
458
7
‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
423
8
SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
408
9
Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
364
10
Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
347
News [?]
1
Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
1245
2
All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
826
3
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
809
4
Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
783
5
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
773
6
Being kind to others is good for your health
690
7
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
657
8
EU countries team up for semiconductor push
633
9
Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
615
10
Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
571
Scientific publications [?]
1
Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
776
2
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
406
3
Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
294
4
Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone
203
5
Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation
144
6
Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]
116
7
Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany
115
8
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
111
9
Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network
99
10
Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries
98
Dev Blogs [?]
1
No Cookie for You
2941
2
Stripe Treasury
918
3
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
632
4
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
541
5
Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers
438
6
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
407
7
How We Built the GitHub Globe
376
8
Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
309
9
Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
266
10
Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
265
Tech blogs [?]
1
How We Saved Dot Org
1187
2
iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers
575
3
Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative
348
4
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial
281
5
LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract
278
6
The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
274
7
Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles
270
8
Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
138
9
Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers
134
10
Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested
84
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
1091
2
AirPods Max
996
3
S3 Strong Consistency
699
4
AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
629
5
AWS CloudShell
443
6
Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
288
7
Amazon Location Service
280
8
Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack
253
9
AWS Fault Injection Simulator
229
10
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
208
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
755
2
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices
552
3
About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
526
4
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive
274
5
BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
267
6
Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
239
7
Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration
229
8
An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM
219
9
Am I Disabled?
211
10
Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life
205
Science News [?]
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
365
2
The universe is expanding faster than expected
327
3
Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock
310
4
After centuries, a seemingly simple math problem gets an exact solution
305
5
Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology
288
6
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
269
7
Claude Shannon Invented the Future
259
8
Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping
239
9
U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant
215
10
Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition
193
Social [?]
1
Do You Love Me? [video]
1218
2
Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
725
3
A former Uber engineer's disaster story
710
4
AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
647
5
Chuck Yeager has died
636
6
Ethereum 2.0 launches
629
7
Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
602
8
My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
493
9
FFmpeg is 20 years old today
462
10
Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test
439
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1307
2
Just Wanted to Say Thanks
1244
3
Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
833
4
Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
717
5
GitHub Releases Dark Mode
700
6
Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
657
7
CSS in GitHub Readmes
544
8
Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
476
9
Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support
457
10
A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots
449
Wikipedia [?]
1
I am lonely will anyone speak to me
284
2
Cashew of Pirangi
177
3
Olbers' Paradox
162
4
L-System
112
5
Siteswap
110
6
Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch
107
7
18XX Train Games
101
8
One red paperclip
93
9
Circulation of Elites
75
10
WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position
73
Blogs [?]
1
Billionaires Build
520
2
Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
454
3
Earnestness
438
4
NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
336
5
Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why
287
6
Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)
278
7
Against Essential and Accidental Complexity
246
8
Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
129
9
Why nullable types?
126
10
Why a land-value tax is inevitable
104
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Pure Prolog Scheme Quine
3
2
How does crypto library in Go compare to OpenSSL? – Stack Overflow
3
3
Difference Arithmatic Shift and Logical Shift
3
4
Stackoverflow: Database Design using UML Class diagram
2
5
What is the “N+1 selects problem” in ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)?
2
6
Difference Between Microsoft Bond and Google ProtoBuf
2
7
Help hospital IT guy vaccinate his coworkers
2
8
Debugging what this LISP virus is doing (2009)
2
9
Silently install powershell modules from MSI file
1
10
Kafka cluster can freeze during a deployment
1
Substack [?]
1
Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
671
2
Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
628
3
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
613
4
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
531
5
Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship
321
6
The Internet Is for Porn
266
7
Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual
189
8
If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
178
9
Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team
177
10
What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study
173