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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
1922
2
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1829
3
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
1597
4
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
1433
5
Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
1243
6
Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
1230
7
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
1216
8
DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
1158
9
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
1095
10
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
1027
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring right now?
1083
2
What projects are you working on now?
809
3
Have you been laid off?
800
4
Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
679
5
Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
547
6
Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
527
7
Is UK government insane or genius?
524
8
Was the Y2K crisis real?
465
9
How to self-study physics?
451
10
Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
440
Top Show HN
1
Fraidycat
807
2
To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
515
3
Visual SQL
512
4
Skynet Simulator
500
5
Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
494
6
MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
471
7
From Markdown to Video
441
8
HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace
429
9
Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero
406
10
Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
388
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
1433
2
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
1216
3
Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
854
4
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
741
5
WeWork sells Meetup
641
6
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
641
7
Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races
550
8
Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
548
9
The internet should be a public utility
514
10
Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking
513
News [?]
1
Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
1243
2
Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
1230
3
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
953
4
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
920
5
Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
835
6
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
831
7
People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
822
8
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
790
9
Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
787
10
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
670
Scientific publications [?]
1
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
403
2
Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
355
3
Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf]
285
4
Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
284
5
Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
266
6
Knowledge Graphs
261
7
A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
242
8
Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
212
9
Protein discovered inside a meteorite
188
10
Stanza: A Python natural language processing toolkit for many human languages
186
Dev Blogs [?]
1
NPM Is Joining GitHub
1829
2
Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
672
3
Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
665
4
Speeding up Linux disk encryption
491
5
GitHub for mobile is now available
428
6
LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
401
7
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
399
8
Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration
328
9
Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
325
10
Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
284
Tech blogs [?]
1
NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like
244
2
New AMD side channel attacks discovered, impacts Zen architecture
208
3
Ventilators 101: What they do and how they work
197
4
The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
190
5
A Peek Into Graviton2
140
6
Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021
129
7
High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race
107
8
.ORG Isn’t Broken, and We Don’t Need Private Equity to ‘Fix’ It
94
9
Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
88
10
Google Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits Your Data Without 'Selling' It
62
FAANG+ [?]
1
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
638
2
New MacBook Air
574
3
AWS Ground Station
358
4
Mac mini
283
5
Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
250
6
New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
153
7
Apple’s WWDC 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format
77
8
Apple’s Covid-19 Response
71
9
AWS Bottlerocket: Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
66
10
Coronavirus (Covid-19) and CDC
42
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
362
2
Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
295
3
'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
263
4
Tesla appears to defy Bay Area shutdown, plans to operate Fremont factory
173
5
National Emergency Library
172
6
Zero Trust Information
167
7
Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America
153
8
How Soviet science magazines fantasized about life in outer space
150
9
Tesla produces its millionth car
148
10
OpenTable Restaurant Performance Data
137
Science News [?]
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Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
636
2
WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
452
3
What Is the Geometry of the Universe?
289
4
A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
281
5
Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)
267
6
25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
243
7
Machine translation of cortical activity to text with encoder–decoder framework
195
8
Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
191
9
Study suggests daily meditation slows brain aging
182
10
Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?
178
Social [?]
1
How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
796
2
GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
508
3
If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
431
4
Zoom monitors activity on your computer
405
5
Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call
284
6
What the last few weeks have been like for the CEO of Slack
282
7
Exponential Growth and Covid-19 [video]
278
8
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]
250
9
Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rental market were right
241
10
Farmers are hacking their tractors because of a repair ban (2018) [video]
223
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Things you can do with a browser in 2020
698
2
Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
480
3
AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation
473
4
MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust
437
5
MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons
398
6
Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system
375
7
Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project
326
8
Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, documents, or images to safe PDF
317
9
Popcorn Time 4.0
317
10
Postgres Explain Visualizer
309
Wikipedia [?]
1
1% rule
465
2
Boids
391
3
Kateryna Yushchenko
328
4
2020 Stock Market Crash
264
5
Pizza Effect
237
6
Beer distribution game
229
7
John Titor
206
8
Decision fatigue
184
9
Mass amateurization
169
10
Operation Dark Winter
149
Blogs [?]
1
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
617
2
The End of Starsky Robotics
357
3
GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
350
4
The human genome is full of viruses
318
5
How I recorded an album on my own, in my room
283
6
The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present
248
7
The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)
203
8
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
196
9
Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
172
10
Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You
157
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012)
266
2
What is the smallest possible valid PDF?
176
3
Is it normal that I see others’ Redis data on shared hosting?
144
4
Can XHTML be parsed with Regexps?
2
5
Sorting 1 million 8-decimal-digit numbers with 1 MB of RAM
2
6
CSS invert color without JavaScript
2
7
What is the purpose of static keyword in array parameter of function in C?
2
8
Wireshark vs. Firebug vs. Fiddler – pros and cons?
2
9
How much data can be stored in a QR code?
2
10
StackOverflow gives you a way to see less ads
2
Substack [?]
1
Using Anki to remember what you read
901
2
Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
448
3
Letter to Myself in Late 2008
311
4
Cyberpunk: Then and Now
216
5
How YC will be funding the S20 batch
150
6
How to make a web app work offline
149
7
Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
125
8
Belgian biscuits, packaging, and copywriting
60
9
Taking You Down to Tilde Town
53
10
You don't want quality time, you want garbage time
49