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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
GitHub is now free for teams
2589
2
John Conway has died
2305
3
New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
1429
4
Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
882
5
Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
862
6
Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
829
7
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
823
8
After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
809
9
Why I’m Leaving Elm
732
10
A (possible) solution to Covid-19
716
Top Ask HN
1
Programs that saved you 100 hours?
629
2
Recommend me a course on Coursera
603
3
How to rediscover the joy of programming?
483
4
How to properly manage a product roadmap?
421
5
What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
337
6
Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
314
7
Successful one-person online businesses?
221
8
Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?
178
9
In the current crisis is starting freelancing doable?
130
10
How can I restore my concentration when reading?
129
Top Show HN
1
FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
770
2
Tom Nook's Laptop
552
3
Write generative fine art in Rust
306
4
Online Town – A better way to gather online
261
5
TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database
231
6
Watch YouTube videos in a 3D world with your friends
212
7
A tool for your learning, like Anki and WorkFlowy in one
209
8
Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
202
9
We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter
185
10
A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs
184
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
460
2
After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
319
3
Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later
268
4
Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)
247
5
Amazon fires 2 tech workers after they publicly criticized warehouse conditions
176
6
Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?
164
7
“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos
164
8
Over 500k Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web
163
9
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
135
10
There Is No Plan to Return to Normalcy in 2020
127
News [?]
1
Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
882
2
After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife
809
3
Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China
513
4
China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
329
5
Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
303
6
Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
302
7
How to Edit Your Own Writing
272
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Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions
265
9
William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned
242
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Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support
237
Scientific publications [?]
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COBOL programmers answer call
320
2
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
111
3
V0LTpwn: Attacking x86 Processor Integrity from Software
102
4
Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity
101
5
Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover
92
6
Self-Management of Fatal Familial Insomnia: Case Report (2006)
74
7
First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common metal
73
8
Lucid Motors' Peter Rawlinson Talks E-Car Efficiency
33
9
Zn(2) Inhibits Coronavirus (2010)
18
10
A Rapid Test for Covid-19 Arrives via a 20-Year-Old Technology in Many Hospitals
14
Dev Blogs [?]
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GitHub is now free for teams
2589
2
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
438
3
Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
240
4
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
90
5
Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
80
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TalkBack: A new keyboard for typing braille on Android
75
7
Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla
57
8
UDepth: Real-time 3D Depth Sensing on the Pixel 4
53
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Records and Sealed Types – Coming Soon to a JVM Near You
41
10
The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments
27
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs
523
2
Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads
124
3
Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service
51
4
Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws
35
5
Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws
11
6
Zhaoxin KX-U6780A x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips
10
7
Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws
9
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iOS 14 Might Allow Users to Partially Interact with Apps Without Installing Them
7
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AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
7
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Apple Glasses: VR and AR Are Coming
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
823
2
Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
272
3
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems
106
4
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification
91
5
Apple makes mobility data available to aid Covid-19 efforts
30
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Apple makes mobility data available to aid Covid-19 efforts
28
7
Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
3
8
Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview)
3
9
AWS Well-Architected
3
10
AWS Fargate Data Plane
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
652
2
Social distancing is bringing drive-in theaters back to life
301
3
Modern submarine torpedo attacks are not like in the movies
220
4
Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]
191
5
'Oumuamua could be a shard from a dead planet
116
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Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year
82
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Beyond the Read-Eval Loop: The Artifacts System (1994)
42
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Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model Is Obvious Nonsense
26
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An amateur astronomer became one of history’s greatest solar observers (2017)
24
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A Globemaker Navigates a Digital World
18
Science News [?]
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John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)
226
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)
191
3
How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters
184
4
Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math
153
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Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (2015)
143
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‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
83
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners (2018)
68
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Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
66
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Why is the microbiome important in some animals but not others?
53
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Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
26
Social [?]
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John Conway has died
2305
2
John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]
379
3
My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie
279
4
Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video]
227
5
First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
208
6
I found an obscure political joke in the scan of a 1971 IBM logic block manual
183
7
Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM [video]
159
8
Two Chainsaw Secrets – Turning a Tree into Perfect Boards (2019) [video]
154
9
Timely Dataflow in Fifteen Minutes [video]
136
10
Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]
125
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
669
2
Simula: A VR window manager for Linux
372
3
mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files
258
4
Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs
235
5
Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
213
6
Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
204
7
Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU
190
8
AinD: Android in Docker
174
9
Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations
172
10
Building a ternary computer at home: a software emulator
153
Wikipedia [?]
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Guédelon Castle
202
2
Entropy and Life
144
3
Anton (Computer)
91
4
Surveillance Capitalism
71
5
Code of Hammurabi
50
6
Marsh Chapel Experiment
48
7
SCOOP: Simple Concurrent Object Oriented Programming
41
8
August Engelhardt
29
9
Kakistocracy
28
10
Blohm and Voss BV 141
27
Blogs [?]
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YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
674
2
Ways to surf some of the decentralized web
196
3
We need to talk about AirPods Pro
125
4
Programming Servo: My own private runtime
89
5
Programming languages are not languages (2018)
78
6
Lessig vs. NYT: Very. Good. News
36
7
How YipitData slashed $2.5M, or 50%, off our AWS bill
29
8
All 200 Google Cloud products described in 4 words or less
28
9
3 Commandments for CLI Design in 2020
23
10
Why are people bad at recognizing and interpreting exponential growth?
14
Stackoverflow [?]
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Python multiprocessing understanding logic behind `chunksize` – Stack Overflow
18
2
Map Inches on Screen CSS?
4
3
.NET stack trace is about where the code is returning to, not where it came from
3
4
Map Inches on Screen CSS?
3
5
The C++ '–->' Operator
2
6
What does __asm__ __volatile__ do in C?
2
7
When are x86 LFENCE, SFENCE and MFENCE instructions required?
2
8
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
2
9
Can we map inches on screen CSS accurately now?
2
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Why is there no documentation on GMON_OUT_PREFIX for gprof in glibc?
1
Substack [?]
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Quantifying the Adpocalypse
109
2
Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don't
53
3
Productivity Is a Fuck
41
4
Why Roam Is Cool
38
5
The SEC Rule That Destroyed the Universe
33
6
Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric IV: SDK
6
7
Dune, Part 1: Dune in print and pictures
4
8
Quantifying the Adpocalypse
4
9
The New Populist Right Imagines a Post-Pandemic America
4
10
Great Expectations
4