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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2760

2

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

2292

3

Wacom tablets track every app you open

1594

4

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

1582

5

I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

1564

6

My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

1545

7

Google Maps Hacks

1410

8

Larry Tesler Has Died

1346

9

Freeman Dyson Has Died

1238

10

Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

1232

Top Ask HN

1

What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

930

2

What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

852

3

Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

766

4

What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

621

5

What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?

496

6

What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?

492

7

A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

442

8

What are some examples of good database schema designs?

437

9

How do you learn complex, dense technical information?

420

10

What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

408

Top Show HN

1

Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

614

2

Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

528

3

Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation

386

4

A stream of AI-generated art

277

5

My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]

272

6

Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

247

7

Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable

234

8

A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages

232

9

Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats

214

10

Goodreads Data Pipeline

213

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Larry Tesler Has Died

1346

2

Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

910

3

No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

687

4

Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

631

5

Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

549

6

DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

477

7

A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’

420

8

Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL

378

9

Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

377

10

Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

372

News [?]

1

Freeman Dyson Has Died

1238

2

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

962

3

More bosses give four-day workweek a try

934

4

Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

683

5

Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment

621

6

Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

603

7

The boss who put everyone on 70K

537

8

Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

536

9

Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

532

10

Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

511

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

400

2

A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit

346

3

Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking

263

4

Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

214

5

MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law

211

6

Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language

184

7

Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment

119

8

Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

115

9

A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

112

10

Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM

112

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

831

2

Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years

714

3

GitHub CLI is now in beta

669

4

Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs

648

5

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

520

6

A new hash algorithm for Git

465

7

Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale

406

8

Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

384

9

Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned

356

10

Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

346

Tech blogs [?]

1

Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

760

2

AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs

373

3

64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

187

4

64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

135

5

A modern take on the “paperclip computer”

94

6

What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera

89

7

Raspberry Pi releases new PCB version with USB-C power fix

75

8

AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update

67

9

Netflix cuts sockets by a factor of two with AMD Epyc

51

10

Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana Processors

47

FAANG+ [?]

1

Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

367

2

Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training

218

3

Challenges with distributed systems

188

4

Interview with Simon Peyton Jones (2018)

71

5

Investor update on quarterly guidance

66

6

Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world

34

7

Mac Pro Technology Overview [pdf]

18

8

New Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN

14

9

Theory of People: Understanding Behaviors, Business, Feelings, and the Mind

11

10

Azure Sphere Goes GA

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

400

2

Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google

270

3

How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)

239

4

What Coronavirus Does to the Body

166

5

You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)

152

6

How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (2018)

148

7

“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted

127

8

Why has progress stalled? (2014)

109

9

Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom

105

10

First, Do No Harm

105

Science News [?]

1

Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

1115

2

Simple, solar-powered water desalination

501

3

A Map of Mathematics

414

4

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

387

5

Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

252

6

Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial

239

7

The mysteries of aerodynamic lift

228

8

Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence

223

9

Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes

214

10

Board Games of the Ancient World

209

Social [?]

1

“We already store data. In a database. It works well”

847

2

Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

694

3

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

602

4

I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca

502

5

Brown: color is weird [video]

498

6

I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf

422

7

Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

417

8

"This community is available in the app"

399

9

Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.

380

10

Cursed Adapters

375

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

2292

2

1-on-1 meeting questions

1030

3

Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas

687

4

Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

543

5

Draft of the Fast.ai Book

509

6

C4: C in Four Functions (2014)

436

7

Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video

429

8

Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

417

9

Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras

389

10

Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

370

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bert Sutherland Has Died

680

2

Mondragon Corporation

442

3

381

4

350

5

Maryam Mirzakhani

299

6

Year Without a Summer

295

7

Verlan: French slang that inverses words

178

8

Frankenstein Veto

177

9

Hallucinogenic Fish

148

10

145

Blogs [?]

1

How to Write Usefully

821

2

Suspicious Discontinuities

644

3

95th percentile isn't that hard to reach

444

4

Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps

296

5

64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks

258

6

Why do incompetent managers get promoted?

224

7

ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components

185

8

How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina (2019)

154

9

What Exactly is Docker?

152

10

How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)

148

Stackoverflow [?]

1

There are 9 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML

3

2

What Are the Benefits of Apache Beam over Spark/Flink for Batch Processing?

3

3

How to check if a variable is a string in JavaScript

3

4

What Is Multisorted Algebra

2

5

Python: Should I implement __ne__() operator based on __eq__?

2

6

The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ

2

7

What is the actual x86 instruction decode overhead?

2

8

Apollo React – `UseMutation` in ApolloClient Setup?

1

9

Auto-submit HTML form and insert to database using Ajax

1

10

C++ compile time counters, revisited

1

Substack [?]

1

Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

491

2

Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

403

3

How important are 'economies of scale'?

171

4

What does happiness at work mean?

148

5

Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel

112

6

The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction

107

7

The Iowa Caucus, Pseudo-Events, and Hyperreality

48

8

Rich people can't build social networks

30

9

Easy as A, B, Chromebook

26

10

Transitioning to a sustainable economy is fiscally conservative. Why can't we?

21