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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

1518

2

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

1248

3

Apple Faceshield

1170

4

How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

1149

5

How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

998

6

SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns

879

7

Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

816

8

Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”

777

9

Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

771

10

Coronavirus and Credibility

724

Top Ask HN

1

What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

1081

2

What is your blog and why should I read it?

910

3

What are you learning?

865

4

How can I pick a side project and stick with it?

686

5

Who is hiring? (April 2020)

413

6

Who has been laid off?

391

7

What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?

315

8

Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

296

9

Best practices for ethical web scraping?

270

10

Must Read from ACM Library?

239

Top Show HN

1

An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

539

2

418

3

DNS over Wikipedia

398

4

I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends

343

5

Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app

334

6

Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling

334

7

Export HN Favorites to a CSV File

240

8

Wikipedia over DNS

215

9

Fast Anomaly Detection in Graphs [pdf]

215

10

I'm releasing my game for free

195

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection

543

2

Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer

429

3

Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom

305

4

Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t

292

5

Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all

267

6

PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts

263

7

Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims

221

8

T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down

201

9

Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class

196

10

SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test

196

News [?]

1

SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns

879

2

A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume

544

3

Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

496

4

Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online

405

5

Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money

357

6

“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group

334

7

Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology

290

8

Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover

275

9

Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

265

10

Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx

226

Scientific publications [?]

1

Must, Should, Don't Care: TCP Conformance in the Wild

155

2

Deep Molecular Programming

130

3

Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals

123

4

NASA at Home: activities for children home from school

102

5

Hospitals Deploy AI Tools to Detect Covid-19 on Chest Scans

75

6

Deep-sea worms and bacteria team up to harvest methane

60

7

Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole

55

8

A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

54

9

Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism (2013)

54

10

In World War I, British biplanes had wireless phones in the cockpit

52

Dev Blogs [?]

1

‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems

585

2

Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t

477

3

1.1.1.1 for Families

414

4

Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom

102

5

Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ

93

6

A practical guide to writing technical specs

67

7

Avoiding Retpolines with Static Calls

66

8

A New York Power Plant Is Mining $50K Worth of Bitcoin a Day

62

9

Building dark mode on Stack Overflow

60

10

The Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination

55

Tech blogs [?]

1

The EARN IT Act Violates the US Constitution

644

2

New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer than MRI

147

3

Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name

121

4

New Intel Instructions for Alder Lake, Also BF16 for Sapphire Rapids

58

5

Schools Are Spying on Students

34

6

iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features

21

7

California Legislator Introduces Fiber Broadband for All Bill

14

8

Ex-NSA hacker finds Zoom flaws to takeover Macs, including webcam, mic, and root

14

9

Full-Colour, Full-Motion Video – On an Audio Cassette

6

10

AirTags: Everything We Know So Far

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

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

18

2

Attack Matrix for Kubernetes

9

3

Attack Matrix for Kubernetes

7

4

Say Goodbye to WordArt (2012)

3

5

Enhancing Workload Observability with Amazon Cloudwatch Embedded Metric Format

2

6

EC2 Image Builder

2

7

Revolt: Collaborative Crowdsourcing for Labeling Machine Learning Datasets

2

8

The Importance of Database Modernization

1

9

Amazon restricting hand sanitizer to hospital/govt agencies fighting COVID19

1

10

Simplified analysis of Top-N contributors to time-series data in CloudWatch Logs

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull

219

2

Introduction to Permaculture (1994)

197

3

Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (1991)

116

4

Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies

113

5

Navy sacks carrier captain, pulls another carrier off station over Covid-19

104

6

Unmasking Northrop Grumman's XRQ-72A

85

7

Ballerinas defy the corporeal in a quest for the ethereal (2019)

48

8

Spreadsheet of San Francisco Bay Area Covid-19 Data and Charts

28

9

Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret

18

10

Blenheim Ginger Ale

12

Science News [?]

1

Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak

184

2

Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates

140

3

Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa

138

4

Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research

135

5

Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroquine+Azithromycin

123

6

Mochizuki's proof of the ABC conjecture accepted for publication

116

7

Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates

106

8

Time-restricted feeding can reset disrupted clock rhythm, protect against cancer

85

9

To make the perfect mirror, physicists confront the mystery of glass

77

10

Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks

72

Social [?]

1

Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script

562

2

This Video Has X Views

493

3

New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system

447

4

Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief

347

5

Microservices [video]

261

6

Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video]

221

7

Tesla Ventilator

162

8

Large-Scale BGP Hijack

161

9

“Good Enough” Architecture [video]

132

10

“farewell outline. we have all been laid off.”

115

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers

448

2

Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support

408

3

Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution

384

4

SteamCAD – 2D CAD designed to draw steam locomotives

180

5

Lean Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf]

177

6

What happens when, Kubernetes edition

168

7

Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

163

8

Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly

161

9

StarCharter – CLI tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky

160

10

Rust Dataframe: Update 1

147

Wikipedia [?]

1

254

2

77

3

The Opium of the Intellectuals

73

4

Problem of Time

63

5

Tired Mountain Syndrome

47

6

Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)

25

7

20

8

8

9

Banach–Tarski Paradox

6

10

5

Blogs [?]

1

Coronavirus and Credibility

724

2

PostgreSQL's Imperfections

331

3

Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)

274

4

Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)

196

5

The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?

141

6

History of Erlang and Elixir

132

7

The most expensive typefaces (2019)

113

8

When debugging, attitude matters

86

9

Six Months with Julia: Parse-Time Transpilation in 80 Lines or Less

72

10

Programming Servo: Workers at your Service

69

Stackoverflow [?]

1

AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with 'Amazon' vs. 'AWS'

11

2

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

7

3

How does C compute sin() and other math functions?

3

4

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi [2011]

3

5

Algorithm for Simplifying Decimals to Fractions

2

6

How to solve the “Mastermind” guessing game?

1

7

What database does Google use

1

Substack [?]

1

How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People

92

2

Resetting the Bomb

9

3

The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted

9

4

Quibi Will Be a Multi-Billion Dollar Company

7

5

Quarantine Reading Guide: “The Machine Stops”

5

6

Visibility Bias in the Instagram Era

4

7

Announcement to Readers: I'm Moving to Substack Fulltime

4

8

Product Stories: How Reddit Achieved Its Product Market Fit?

4

9

Daily Covid-19 Updates: April 3 Recap

3

10

Monetization Strategies for Marketplaces

3