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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
I Am Deleting the Blog
2450
2
The End of the Redis Adventure
2282
3
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
2003
4
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
1869
5
iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
1847
6
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
1483
7
I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
1469
8
Mozilla VPN
1363
9
Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
1220
10
Teach Yourself Computer Science
1169
Top Ask HN
1
My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
855
2
A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
668
3
Who is hiring? (June 2020)
515
4
How does your company manage its encryption keys?
488
5
What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
472
6
Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
442
7
How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
437
8
Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
413
9
Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
385
10
How are you holding up?
303
Top Show HN
1
A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper
638
2
Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
627
3
Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
550
4
My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
528
5
Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
457
6
Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
390
7
Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor
389
8
PJDL an open alternative to 1-wire with a range of 2000m
337
9
Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page
289
10
HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper
281
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
1869
2
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
1483
3
Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
489
4
A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
474
5
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
472
6
YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
463
7
Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
428
8
IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
422
9
Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
399
10
Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores
391
News [?]
1
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
2003
2
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
1069
3
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
836
4
Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
795
5
Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
689
6
For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
677
7
After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
677
8
Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
661
9
Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert
613
10
DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
599
Scientific publications [?]
1
Looking Back at Postgres
290
2
People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds
218
3
Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds
211
4
The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
169
5
Unsupervised translation of programming languages
166
6
Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
155
7
Gated Linear Networks
150
8
12 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
145
9
Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
143
10
Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
134
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Mozilla VPN
1363
2
Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
738
3
Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
716
4
Cloudflare TV
696
5
Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
647
6
GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
622
7
Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
523
8
‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
501
9
Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
435
10
What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
408
Tech blogs [?]
1
Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately
417
2
Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
358
3
Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions
347
4
iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps
293
5
TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act
262
6
Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
232
7
Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications
223
8
Strike a Solder Joint Behind Enemy Lines
216
9
400 TB Storage Drives in Our Future: Fujifilm
205
10
California agency blocks release of police use of force, surveillance training
186
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
603
2
AWS Snowcone
478
3
macOS Big Sur Preview
277
4
A shared file system for lambda functions
173
5
AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
167
6
A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro
115
7
A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels (1995) [pdf]
76
8
Serverless LAMP stack
69
9
macOS Big Sur Preview
66
10
Amazon EC2 C5a Instances Powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Now Available
52
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
657
2
EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers
600
3
Apple, ARM, and Intel
456
4
The End of OS X
376
5
Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
375
6
Apple and Facebook
318
7
Dust in the Light
278
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It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously
216
9
The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)
160
10
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick
154
Science News [?]
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MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
1104
2
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
815
3
536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
531
4
Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
454
5
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
336
6
A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
325
7
Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
324
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I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)
300
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Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
270
10
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier
233
Social [?]
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iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
1847
2
Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
1094
3
When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
1039
4
You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
821
5
Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa
710
6
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
534
7
Quora goes permanently remote-first
488
8
“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
476
9
Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
474
10
Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
449
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
699
2
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
673
3
BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
510
4
macOS in QEMU in Docker
490
5
Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
475
6
Curl Wttr.in
461
7
The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
443
8
Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
436
9
Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
417
10
OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
395
Wikipedia [?]
1
Ghoti
317
2
Sortition
189
3
Micromort
152
4
Transmeta Crusoe
126
5
Autopen
124
6
Police Riot
112
7
Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase
96
8
Toki Pona
89
9
Berlin Gold Hat
87
10
DeCSS Haiku
85
Blogs [?]
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Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
1100
2
Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots
531
3
Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences
492
4
How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
480
5
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
456
6
A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
397
7
Behind tech layoffs lay cash flow-negative companies
300
8
How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
295
9
What happens when you update your DNS
255
10
Old Code Gets Younger Every Year
240
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How do I change the background color of the HTML page? Install a library
17
2
Why required and optional is removed in Protocol Buffers 3
2
3
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
2
4
Why can't decimal numbers be represented in binary?
2
5
Stackoverflow Adds Reactions
2
6
Does Python forbid two similarly looking Unicode identifiers?
2
7
Could anything with a Z80 processor run Gameboy games?
2
8
An answer to stackoverflow asking “Why no love for SQL?”
2
9
How do I achieve the theoretical maximum of 4 FLOPs per cycle?
2
10
Python – What is the purpose of floating point index in Pandas? – Stack Overflow
2
Substack [?]
1
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
489
2
Mastering Jq: Part 1
205
3
I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC
204
4
Apple is building an operating system for health
198
5
Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures
171
6
Circle of Competence: Avoid Ambiguity Traps
170
7
What the Hell Is a Deno?
166
8
Software should be designed to last
159
9
Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once
155
10
On “White Fragility”
123