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Top stories
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Bye, Amazon
3816
2
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
3
SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
2856
4
Deno 1.0
2081
5
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
2031
6
The Day AppGet Died
1930
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
1915
8
Zoom Acquires Keybase
1879
9
Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
1783
10
GitHub Codespaces
1769
Top Ask HN
1
Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
2634
2
What's your quarantine side project?
1336
3
Name one idea that changed your life
1084
4
What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
1006
5
Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
961
6
Dark mode for HN please?
780
7
Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
779
8
Keybase Alternatives?
726
9
How do you manage self-study?
666
10
Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
578
Top Show HN
1
Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
1087
2
SHA-256 Animation
1053
3
This Word Does Not Exist
956
4
Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
785
5
Caddy 2
778
6
Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
732
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RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
696
8
Bear – Minimal blogging platform
685
9
Make Your PDF Look Scanned
607
10
Lite – A small, fast text editor
607
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
1108
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Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
791
3
Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
707
4
Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
669
5
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
652
6
Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
566
7
Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
500
8
Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
478
9
FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters
414
10
Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
414
News [?]
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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
2
New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
1237
3
Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
1227
4
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
1063
5
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
957
6
Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
723
7
Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
701
8
Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
596
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Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
588
10
Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
571
Scientific publications [?]
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SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
2856
2
GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
431
3
Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
321
4
Featherweight Go
252
5
New species of fungus identified via Twitter
246
6
Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD
181
7
Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal
168
8
SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype fires rocket engine for first time
150
9
How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?
136
10
Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (1973)
133
Dev Blogs [?]
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Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
791
2
A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
771
3
Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
755
4
DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
706
5
US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
676
6
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
655
7
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
546
8
Making Emacs Popular Again
544
9
Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
531
10
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
471
Tech blogs [?]
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FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge
395
2
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
307
3
New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile
286
4
The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it
220
5
Best CPUs for Workstations
163
6
FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data
137
7
The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
133
8
ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm
128
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Prototype of a rotating detonation engine, previously thought impossible
121
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Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
120
FAANG+ [?]
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New 13-inch MacBook Pro
726
2
Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
268
3
Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22
182
4
AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
174
5
AWS EC2 General Price Cut
137
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New – M6g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
74
7
Amazon.com was down
68
8
Updated 13in MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double storage, faster performance
62
9
Amazon.com Is Down
43
10
$699 Apple Pro Wheels
39
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains
515
2
GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
512
3
Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
452
4
110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)
244
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X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment
202
6
Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability
172
7
MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]
138
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How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11?
133
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The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism
129
10
Are There Laws of History?
118
Science News [?]
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
479
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Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
401
3
Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966
386
4
Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
309
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Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
304
6
Why we have so many problems with our teeth
281
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Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
275
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An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles
250
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Electrons May Well Be Conscious
232
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Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models
208
Social [?]
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Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
1375
2
92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
1077
3
Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
1061
4
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
993
5
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
827
6
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
659
7
I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
649
8
The Miracle Sudoku [video]
596
9
A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
594
10
Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
571
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub Codespaces
1769
2
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
1527
3
Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
824
4
Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models
719
5
Product Marketing for Engineers
688
6
Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
643
7
Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
519
8
SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
446
9
Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
428
10
Termux and Android 10
412
Wikipedia [?]
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Whale fall
491
2
Two capacitor paradox
438
3
Room 641A
333
4
Onfim
322
5
Norsk Data
301
6
Secessio plebis
258
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Port knocking
254
8
Prowords
242
9
1989 California Medfly Attack
213
10
Intelligent disobedience
212
Blogs [?]
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Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets
513
2
AWS services to avoid
399
3
The Death of Couchsurfing?
353
4
Why strace doesn't work in Docker
329
5
A simple way to get more value from metrics
280
6
Why Restaurants Are So Fucked
264
7
Notion encourages busy-work
217
8
Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal
210
9
What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS
173
10
The mystery of 'hacked' Houseparty users may have been solved
171
Stackoverflow [?]
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How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?
269
2
Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
268
3
How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
5
4
Immutability in JavaScript: A Contrarian View
4
5
Why does HTML think Chuck Norris is a color?
3
6
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
2
7
Weird Stackoverflow URL? (Fuckshit)
2
8
What is logic behind “Broadcast” or “Room” based Websocket for chat room?
2
9
How to store Unix timestamps with MySQL
2
10
Is there a smooth path to migrate from Xtext to Racket?
2
Substack [?]
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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
1393
2
Software will eat software in a remote-first world
619
3
How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
266
4
Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated
217
5
Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation
170
6
How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide
166
7
Stop trying to make hard work easy
142
8
Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
114
9
Immutable Databases
114
10
How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers
91