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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Which Emoji Scissors Close?

1545

2

Software Disenchantment (2018)

934

3

The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

928

4

Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

864

5

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

815

6

EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

814

7

What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

803

8

Products I Wish Existed

798

9

Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

792

10

758

Top Ask HN

1

I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

1337

2

A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

908

3

A New Decade. Any Predictions?

815

4

Are books worth it?

553

5

Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s

441

6

What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

428

7

Who is hiring? (January 2020)

403

8

What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

363

9

How do you manage logs for your backend services?

250

10

What landing page do you love?

199

Top Show HN

1

Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript

308

2

A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

308

3

Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices

251

4

jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

217

5

Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems

187

6

Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”

172

7

I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project

158

8

Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads

151

9

An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top

126

10

Neural networks tutorial series with code

107

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

450

2

New Cambridge Analytica Leaks

404

3

Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?

292

4

Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks

153

5

Predicting where AI is going in 2020

122

6

How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015)

103

7

IRS stops firms like TurboTax from hiding free tax-filing products in searches

88

8

AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake laptop chips

88

9

Particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin

87

10

Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

81

News [?]

1

U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software

595

2

Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online

479

3

Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study

447

4

Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

386

5

Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’

382

6

One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

349

7

SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets

274

8

How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing

248

9

How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)

247

10

California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access

209

Scientific publications [?]

1

Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error

486

2

Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier

159

3

A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

149

4

First evidence found of tool use by seabirds

127

5

Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo

77

6

Towards fungal computer (2018)

67

7

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes

62

8

Fungal Architecture

53

9

Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics

46

10

The Remarkable Recurrent Novae

25

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

265

2

Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit

163

3

A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

102

4

Systemd Is Approaching 1.3M Lines

38

5

Torvalds' Comments on Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”

34

6

Linux Kernel's Scheduler Causing Issues for Google Stadia Game Developers

25

7

Security on the Internet with Cloudflare for Teams

19

8

Cloudflare for Teams

15

9

California Adopts Strictest Privacy Law in U.S.

11

10

Mind Hacking: Using Technology to Rewire Your Brain Like a Monk

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

432

2

AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

252

3

Linus Torvalds: Linux Scheduler Not to Blame for Google Stadia Port Issues

131

4

Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into

130

5

AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs: 7nm, 8-core on both 15W and 45W, Coming Q1

30

6

An Interconnected Interview with Intel’s Ramune Nagisetty: A Future with Foveros

20

7

$25 x86 Computer: Is It Worth It?

8

8

SSDs May Get Pricey This Year with NAND Prices Expected to Rise 40%

4

9

Intel's Overclocking Lab: The Team Pushing CPUs to New Limits

4

10

Coreboot Devs Improve Support for Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Ice Lake CPUs

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs

185

2

Low energy antimatter particle physics

2

3

Amazon CodeGuru automated code reviews

1

4

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

1

5

Stream Powers Feeds and Chat for over 500M End Users with AWS

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)

232

2

The End of the Beginning

202

3

Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)

187

4

Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

161

5

Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data

148

6

Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples

116

7

The propeller is giving way to the pump-jet propulsor on larger submarines

87

8

Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?

79

9

The Manhattan Eruv

62

10

How an English Energy Crisis Helped Create Champagne

55

Science News [?]

1

Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

289

2

How strong is your knot?

286

3

Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)

262

4

Alone in a Crowded Milky Way

243

5

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

166

6

Philosophy as a public service

166

7

Tree rings show the Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts

99

8

A surprising new source of attention in the brain

90

9

A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900

90

10

International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening

86

Social [?]

1

Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

864

2

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]

355

3

Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money

331

4

Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”

294

5

Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes

234

6

The dark side of GraphQL: performance

199

7

How to be successful (at your career, Twitter edition)

170

8

Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software

165

9

Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs

136

10

Green card applicant banned from ever coming to USA because of a checkmark

87

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code

720

2

C Compiler from Scratch

484

3

A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

422

4

Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

365

5

Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig

355

6

Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0

234

7

Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API

224

8

RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python

222

9

Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3

170

10

JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator

160

Wikipedia [?]

1

272

2

Wanggongchang Explosion

204

3

125

4

59

5

Self-Replicating Machines in Fiction

10

6

Sophomore’s Dream

8

7

Pixel-Art Scaling Algorithms

6

8

5

9

Gess, a chess-like game with mutating pieces

4

10

Digital Research

4

Blogs [?]

1

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

815

2

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

265

3

Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance

201

4

Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995)

135

5

Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing

134

6

The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)

103

7

Swift as a C Language REPL

89

8

The Future Is Grim

81

9

Building a self-contained game in C# under 8 kilobytes

50

10

Google Will Collapse

34

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

2

2

What programming language is most like natural language?

2

3

How to write binary data to file in C without implementation-defined behavior?

1

4

std::vector (ab)uses automatic storage

1

5

What is the function to replace string in C?

1

Substack [?]

1

The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

36

2

Bible Lobbyist: We Can't Print Bibles in America Anymore

32

3

Veblen values and the uncanny valley of interactivity

10

4

Console #15: Spying Tools and Risk Sharing

9

5

Console #15: Spying Tools and Risk Sharing

8

6

Lemonade and the Art of Spin

4

7

Trump's Surprising Embrace of Industrial Policy to Fight China

4

8

The Metagame: Notes on Paul Graham's “How to Get Startup Ideas”

4

9

Reflecting on My Notes from YC Startup School 2014

3

10

Learning to See

3