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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

1922

2

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

1597

3

Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

1433

4

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

1230

5

Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

963

6

Zotero: Personal Research Assistant

945

7

FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]

929

8

Apple acquires Dark Sky

894

9

Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

835

10

821

Top Ask HN

1

Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

679

2

How to self-study physics?

451

3

Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business?

379

4

Computer Science/History Books?

331

5

How to prosper under negative interest rates?

266

6

How to self study management, especially supply chain management?

212

7

Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class

205

8

Best sleep trackers?

181

9

I'm a small business and Google locked me out

178

10

Why aren't there many credible online bachelors programs?

147

Top Show HN

1

To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

515

2

Skynet Simulator

500

3

MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

471

4

From Markdown to Video

441

5

Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes

388

6

Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone

312

7

A “living” Linux process with no memory

312

8

Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

273

9

I made a site that aggregates entry-level positions

270

10

SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager

241

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

1433

2

WeWork sells Meetup

641

3

The internet should be a public utility

514

4

Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking

513

5

Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

478

6

Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

402

7

Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic

269

8

How TV Logos Were Made Before Computers (2017)

230

9

Instacart’s gig workers are planning a nationwide strike

212

10

The origin story of the N95 mask

212

News [?]

1

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

1230

2

Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

835

3

3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits

558

4

Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers

472

5

From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages

464

6

Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

442

7

Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

395

8

Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protection and pay

326

9

The northern-hemisphere winter of 2019-20 was the warmest ever on land

317

10

Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic

279

Scientific publications [?]

1

Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions

266

2

A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production

242

3

Scientists identify microbe that could help degrade polyurethane-based plastics

174

4

In slime molds, evolution selects 'loners' who refrain from collective behavior

117

5

A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

117

6

Revisiting Voyager 2 data, a new finding about Uranus's magnetic environment

54

7

Solar system acquired current configuration not long after its formation

50

8

Possibility of Disinfection of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in Human Respiratory Tract

50

9

Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations

43

10

The origin of the colors in the first color photographs

34

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

672

2

Speeding up Linux disk encryption

491

3

$800M to support small businesses and crisis response

151

4

Dark mode for Stack Overflow

90

5

Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale

86

6

Minimalist Hyperscale Servers for the Rest of Us

58

7

Quicksilver: Configuration Distribution at Internet Scale

50

8

US Government Sites Give Bad Security Advice

37

9

Linux 5.7 for 64-Bit ARM: In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors

11

10

The Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like

244

2

Ventilators 101: What they do and how they work

197

3

The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online

190

4

Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021

129

5

Folding Home Reaches Exascale: 1,500B,000,000 Operations Per Second for Covid-19

41

6

AMD's Big Navi and Xbox Series X GPU 'Arden' Source Code Stolen and Leaked

23

7

U.S. Gov't Using Mobile Ad Location Data to Track Compliance with Movement Curbs

16

8

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

11

9

Raspberry Pi Boat Computer Is for Sailors

6

10

Put the Power of PCR in Your Pocket with This Open-Source Thermal Cycler

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Ground Station

358

2

Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance

250

3

Coronavirus (Covid-19) and CDC

42

4

How a startup is helping to secure the open source ecosystem with huntr.dev

17

5

Coyote: Making it easier for developers to build reliable asynchronous software

6

6

AWS for Startups

3

7

Faster: Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf]

3

8

Introducing Microsoft 365

3

9

Apple Logic Pro X free trial is available

2

10

New – Low-Cost HDD Storage Option for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

National Emergency Library

172

2

Wayback Machine was down

112

3

An Ancient Ballcourt in Oaxaca Expands a Sport’s Footprint

57

4

Return to Nib’s Knoll (2014)

24

5

Covid-19 Employer Hall of Fame/Shame (Crowdsourced)

19

6

Unmasking Twitter

17

7

Divine Discontent: Disruption’s Antidote (2018)

9

8

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

9

9

Papers about effectiveness of basic masks

8

10

The Coronavirus Crisis Doesn’t Have to Lead to Layoffs

7

Science News [?]

1

Machine translation of cortical activity to text with encoder–decoder framework

195

2

Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

114

3

Why do matter particles come in threes?

99

4

A reduction in seismic noise is a boon for geoscientists

85

5

Lead pollution in ancient ice cores may track rise and fall of medieval kings

79

6

The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts

77

7

High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals

73

8

Solution: ‘Is It Turtles All the Way Down?’

67

9

MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for $100 Emergency Ventilator

42

10

Will string theory finally be put to the experimental test?

37

Social [?]

1

How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

796

2

Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call

284

3

What the last few weeks have been like for the CEO of Slack

282

4

Everybody Can Make DeepFakes Now [video]

184

5

“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our employees.”

177

6

Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks [video]

164

7

Cellular Automata: Rule 30 fed as input to Conway’s Game of Life (2019) [video]

141

8

Zoom private chat text between attendees is actually public

132

9

Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink

122

10

How the government prints and distributes money [video]

92

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

480

2

MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

437

3

Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

375

4

CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

280

5

Talkyard: Open-Source forum software – a StackOverflow, Reddit, Disqus hybrid

249

6

Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

223

7

Programming Models for Distributed Computation

174

8

AsyncAPI – OpenAPI-like specification for event-driven architectures

172

9

Gmailctl – Declarative Configuration for Gmail Filters

155

10

Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

147

Wikipedia [?]

1

391

2

148

3

Von Neumann Universal Constructor

90

4

Three-Domain System

65

5

Vulcan Salute (Handshake Alternative, U+1F596)

43

6

31

7

Letters of Last Resort

30

8

Autodidacticism

22

9

Cheeger constant as a measure of “bottleneckedness”

15

10

Waffle House Index

15

Blogs [?]

1

Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You

157

2

How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?

87

3

Pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference-to-const in C++

85

4

The Subtle Power of Booleans: Programming with truth and statefulness

73

5

Writing, Briefly (2005)

41

6

We Should All Wear Masks

34

7

Weirdest Bug Bounty – Getting PII from Office365

28

8

A call to honesty in pandemic modeling

28

9

Your biggest problem right now is denial

24

10

It is time to create a decentralized public social network

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012)

266

2

What is the purpose of static keyword in array parameter of function in C?

2

3

CSS invert color without JavaScript

2

4

Sorting 1 million 8-decimal-digit numbers with 1 MB of RAM

2

5

StackOverflow gives you a way to see less ads

2

6

What Is The “–” Operator in C++

1

Substack [?]

1

Letter to Myself in Late 2008

311

2

How YC will be funding the S20 batch

150

3

Belgian biscuits, packaging, and copywriting

60

4

Taking You Down to Tilde Town

53

5

Organic SaaS Growth: The Curiosity Framework

31

6

Stop the $6T Coronavirus Corporate Coup

17

7

Preferential copying – making sense of decision making during a pandemic

14

8

Black Swan Events

11

9

Yik Yak, Secret, and the Minimal State

7

10

Understanding the Covid-19 Recession

5