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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Factorio 1.0
1878
2
Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
1858
3
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
1704
4
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1602
5
American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
1600
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Mozilla Lifeboat
1518
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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
1410
8
Africa declared free of wild polio
1387
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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
1383
10
Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
1326
Top Ask HN
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Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
1403
2
Who is hiring? (August 2020)
592
3
How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
416
4
I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
409
5
Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
359
6
Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
345
7
How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
327
8
What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
326
9
What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
314
10
How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?
307
Top Show HN
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I built an After Effects for dummies
868
2
Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
667
3
Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
509
4
Photo Realistic QR-Codes
482
5
Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
442
6
Healthcare Is Dumb
441
7
Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
375
8
Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
371
9
I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
312
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I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
289
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
1704
2
Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
769
3
Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
621
4
Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
612
5
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
518
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Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
483
7
Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
461
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Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation
439
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Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
424
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Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
409
News [?]
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Africa declared free of wild polio
1387
2
I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
1383
3
Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
1194
4
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
884
5
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
824
6
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
734
7
Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall
719
8
Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
637
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Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
611
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NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975
576
Scientific publications [?]
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Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light
290
2
Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
217
3
Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun
196
4
The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
168
5
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
168
6
5G Just Got Weird
167
7
Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases
150
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Humanly Traversable Wormholes
149
9
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study
139
10
First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail
113
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1602
2
Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
789
3
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
648
4
App Review process updates
541
5
Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model
443
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Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
436
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The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
360
8
Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
271
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Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
236
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
217
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
1169
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
274
3
Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
272
4
‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
198
5
Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
193
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Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada
187
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TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm
144
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“Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner
124
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Spacetime wave packets: New class of laser defies laws of light physics
121
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Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
118
FAANG+ [?]
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27-inch iMac gets a major update
340
2
Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
225
3
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
189
4
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
126
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
100
6
EBS Storage Improvements
73
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Apple announces Apple Music radio
69
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Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations
41
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Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services
24
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Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers, goes GA
13
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
508
2
The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft
490
3
The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’
347
4
Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students
299
5
The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
291
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I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF
283
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A Database of Historical Cookbooks
272
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Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot
262
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Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
246
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US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
243
Science News [?]
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Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
340
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The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
324
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Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea
317
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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
305
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Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health
277
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Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish
261
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Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores
254
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No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
254
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Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
245
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Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
227
Social [?]
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20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
1062
2
Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
1043
3
I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
792
4
A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
785
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Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
699
6
Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
697
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Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
595
8
US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
585
9
SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]
530
10
Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
476
Github repos and gists [?]
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Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
721
2
What's the future of Servo?
578
3
Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
503
4
A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
455
5
Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
415
6
Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
410
7
Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
385
8
Karpathy's MinGPT
374
9
The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
356
10
A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
352
Wikipedia [?]
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Arcosanti
230
2
Metcalf Sniper Attack
210
3
Ubuntu Philosophy
95
4
Blissymbols
81
5
Albanian Civil War
68
6
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
54
7
The Third Wave (experiment)
50
8
Mancala
45
9
Backbone Cabal
37
10
Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
35
Blogs [?]
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Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
662
2
Modeling a Wealth Tax
645
3
Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
553
4
Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
465
5
Life Is Short (2016)
346
6
Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
326
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Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
230
8
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
171
9
What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
170
10
Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development
168
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is an example of the Liskov Substitution Principle?
7
2
What is a “cache-friendly” code?
3
3
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
3
4
An intense story told by a StackOverflow comment
2
5
AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with Amazon vs. AWS
1
6
How to access physical addresses from user space in Linux?
1
7
How to redundently remove elements from an array
1
8
StackOverflow Announces Articles
1
9
How to create a full-text search index
1
10
Why is “1000000B in range(1000000B+1)” so fast in Python 3?
1
Substack [?]
1
Oatly: The New Coke?
456
2
Ghost.org deleted my website
421
3
Is Hacker News Bullshit?
253
4
The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes
245
5
MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue
152
6
UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
137
7
An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
133
8
Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable
117
9
Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
111
10
The time it takes to run a paid newsletter
92