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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

2595

2

Oppose the Earn IT Act

2229

3

Grant Imahara Has Died

1963

4

Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

1782

5

1649

6

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

1594

7

U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

1489

8

Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

1285

9

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

1243

10

Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

1130

Top Ask HN

1

Is all of FAANG like this?

738

2

My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

657

3

What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

537

4

Who is hiring? (July 2020)

422

5

What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

361

6

Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?

333

7

Recommend a maths book for a teenager?

297

8

What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?

297

9

Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?

283

10

What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?

280

Top Show HN

1

TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

756

2

3D Book Image CSS Generator

638

3

Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

575

4

Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

462

5

USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

457

6

SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

425

7

Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

402

8

WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

393

9

MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

390

10

Runnaroo – A new search engine

380

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

841

2

Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

593

3

Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

560

4

Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

547

5

Google to Invest $10B in India

422

6

SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

392

7

Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps

324

8

Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

312

9

A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune

291

10

MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

288

News [?]

1

U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

1489

2

Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

1125

3

Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

1106

4

Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

698

5

ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

669

6

The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool

642

7

Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space

597

8

Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

561

9

Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays

559

10

One hour of slow breathing changed my life

550

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations

754

2

Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

524

3

Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away

373

4

Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

328

5

Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer

282

6

Neural programmer better than Quicksort

282

7

How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers

278

8

The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

195

9

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion thru social networks (2014)

166

10

What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed

158

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

2595

2

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

1106

3

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

746

4

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

737

5

An update on our security incident

547

6

Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020

522

7

LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

412

8

Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in

390

9

Apple Security Research Device Program

330

10

Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

275

Tech blogs [?]

1

Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers

337

2

AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

309

3

DDR5 Memory Specification Released

213

4

Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023

210

5

Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the camera on iOS 14

202

6

xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker

148

7

AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them

140

8

AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only

133

9

Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?

124

10

The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines

120

FAANG+ [?]

1

Intel in Macs (2007)

222

2

Apple reports Q3 results

185

3

Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030

166

4

Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

166

5

153

6

AWS App2Container

67

7

How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters

64

8

New Microsoft Edge

35

9

Container Networking Security Issue (CVE-2020-8558)

31

10

Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter

29

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

611

2

India, Jio, and the Four Internets

420

3

353

4

The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

344

5

Are we in an AI Overhang?

261

6

Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel

242

7

An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system

240

8

The Passport Payment (2000)

209

9

The Slack Social Network

204

10

When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)

194

Science News [?]

1

Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

650

2

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

489

3

A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness

430

4

MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations

365

5

Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)

266

6

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

247

7

Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time

233

8

Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

196

9

Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized

181

10

Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

179

Social [?]

1

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

1594

2

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

1243

3

LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

928

4

YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]

775

5

I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]

560

6

Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

546

7

The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

543

8

OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

503

9

Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective

488

10

PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

482

Github repos and gists [?]

1

DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

824

2

App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

596

3

Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

588

4

1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App

556

5

GitHub Public Roadmap

483

6

Hiring Without Whiteboards

481

7

Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone

450

8

EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

419

9

I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

404

10

NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

390

Wikipedia [?]

1

Low-Background Steel

359

2

181

3

142

4

Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect

141

5

119

6

Lincos language

80

7

72

8

Howland Will Forgery Trial

66

9

59

10

55

Blogs [?]

1

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

1074

2

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

638

3

Orthodox Privilege

610

4

Who gets invited to the party?

418

5

Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech

376

6

New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads

353

7

Designing a New Old Home: Part 1

304

8

Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

248

9

The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty

207

10

Entr: Rerun your build when files change

202

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string

104

2

Rust – How do I create a global, mutable singleton? (2015)

53

3

Closures are poor man's objects and vice versa (2010)

2

4

(2009) What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?

2

5

How to Create GUID / UUID in JavaScript?

2

6

What Is The arrow Operator in C++? (2009)

2

7

How Raku optimizes type checking – Jonathan Worthington

1

8

Breaking Changes Across Microservices

1

9

Ledger Investing (YC W17) Is Hiring UI/UX Designers (Full-Time and Remote)

1

10

How to compare char* to string literal in C? [closed]

1

Substack [?]

1

Building a Developer Cult

282

2

Robinhood and How to Lose Money

255

3

To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance

209

4

Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking

198

5

Why are toys such a bad business?

180

6

How to validate your startup idea quickly

175

7

Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase

160

8

A $500M call option on home gyms

150

9

Don't bet on the most likely winner

149

10

The gap between learning code and producing usable software

146