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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
GitHub is now free for teams
2589
2
John Conway has died
2305
3
It’s Time to Build
1820
4
Shirt Without Stripes
1676
5
New iPhone SE
1539
6
OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
1518
7
New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
1429
8
Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
1350
9
What Happened to Lee
1298
10
Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
1248
Top Ask HN
1
I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
3270
2
What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
1081
3
What is your blog and why should I read it?
910
4
What are you learning?
865
5
How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
686
6
Programs that saved you 100 hours?
629
7
How do I overcome mental laziness?
618
8
What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
607
9
Who Is Firing?
604
10
Recommend me a course on Coursera
603
Top Show HN
1
A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
971
2
FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
770
3
Tom Nook's Laptop
552
4
An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners
539
5
I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
519
6
Editly – Declarative command-line video editing
429
7
33 line React
418
8
Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
406
9
DNS over Wikipedia
398
10
I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
343
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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What Happened to Lee
1298
2
How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
543
3
Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
537
4
SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
460
5
Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer
429
6
Patreon lays off 13% of workforce
376
7
Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
350
8
After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
319
9
'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs
313
10
Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked
309
News [?]
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Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
1350
2
Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
882
3
SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
879
4
After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
809
5
In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
785
6
YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
768
7
Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
721
8
Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
632
9
Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
606
10
Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
592
Scientific publications [?]
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Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
343
2
COBOL programmers answer call
320
3
Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem
288
4
Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
282
5
YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
234
6
Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)
224
7
75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)
169
8
Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket
167
9
How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
166
10
Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild
155
Dev Blogs [?]
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GitHub is now free for teams
2589
2
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
988
3
When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
734
4
Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
604
5
‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems
585
6
Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
507
7
Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
477
8
Jukebox
470
9
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability
439
10
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
438
Tech blogs [?]
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The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution
644
2
AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs
523
3
AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
322
4
WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech
237
5
Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too
230
6
The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina
163
7
New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer than MRI
147
8
AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99
134
9
Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads
124
10
Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name
121
FAANG+ [?]
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New iPhone SE
1539
2
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
823
3
Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
272
4
Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
239
5
Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
186
6
Amazon AppFlow
161
7
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
109
8
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems
106
9
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification
91
10
Microsoft Beats Earnings; Revenue up 15%
63
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Anti-Amazon Alliance
681
2
A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
652
3
Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
301
4
Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)
271
5
Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies
220
6
Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull
219
7
A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades
205
8
How Tech Can Build
199
9
Introduction to Permaculture (1994)
197
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EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel
194
Science News [?]
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For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
669
2
Possible dinosaur DNA has been found
240
3
John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)
226
4
What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2
205
5
People may know the best decision and not make it: study
201
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The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
196
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)
191
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Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
184
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How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters
184
10
Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains
171
Social [?]
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John Conway has died
2305
2
Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
888
3
Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
562
4
This Video Has X Views
493
5
New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
447
6
John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
379
7
Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
378
8
SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise
348
9
Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief
347
10
Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day
315
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Shirt Without Stripes
1676
2
Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
669
3
Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
645
4
Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
604
5
A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
599
6
Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life
565
7
I've been writing TILs for 5 years
558
8
OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover
494
9
Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers
448
10
Phoenix LiveDashboard
419
Wikipedia [?]
1
Lamest Edit Wars
441
2
List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
323
3
Nicomachean Ethics
282
4
OK Soda
254
5
0.999...= 1
218
6
Don't Mess with Texas
218
7
Guédelon Castle
202
8
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
202
9
Wi-Fi over Coax
185
10
Crimson Contagion
175
Blogs [?]
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Things I wished more developers knew about databases
1011
2
Coronavirus and Credibility
724
3
YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
674
4
I’ve Consed Every Pair
559
5
I could do that in a weekend (2016)
338
6
PostgreSQL's Imperfections
331
7
Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)
274
8
The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices
273
9
The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)
238
10
Ways to surf some of the decentralized web
196
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
23
2
Python multiprocessing understanding logic behind `chunksize` – Stack Overflow
18
3
AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with 'Amazon' vs. 'AWS'
11
4
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
7
5
Map Inches on Screen CSS?
4
6
How does C compute sin() and other math functions?
3
7
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi [2011]
3
8
Percentages in CSS vertical margin are calculated using the parent's width
3
9
Why does rand() repeat numbers far more often on Linux than Mac?
3
10
.NET stack trace is about where the code is returning to, not where it came from
3
Substack [?]
1
Career advice for people with bad luck
981
2
A theory of Zoom fatigue
232
3
Bangkok Smoking Kid
197
4
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis
127
5
Quantifying the Adpocalypse
109
6
An audio app that has consumed my life
108
7
When Tailwinds Vanish
104
8
How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People
92
9
Too Many 12mos
58
10
Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don't
53