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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

It’s Time to Build

1820

2

Shirt Without Stripes

1676

3

1539

4

What Happened to Lee

1298

5

Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

1210

6

Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

1134

7

The Decline of Usability

996

8

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

988

9

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

838

10

Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

748

Top Ask HN

1

I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

3270

2

How do I overcome mental laziness?

618

3

604

4

Why did you leave the tech industry?

472

5

What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?

299

6

Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

292

7

How is your PPP loan application coming along?

254

8

How to get good at social media?

146

9

As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?

124

10

Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem?

114

Top Show HN

1

A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

971

2

I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

519

3

Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

332

4

ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

327

5

Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

246

6

A programmable tooltip on Mac OS

242

7

Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness

236

8

I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls

232

9

FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?

178

10

Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust

168

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

What Happened to Lee

1298

2

Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

350

3

Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)

198

4

LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA

186

5

Unicorn layoffs keep piling up

167

6

Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations

153

7

Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight

153

8

Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with malicious packages

151

9

Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code

145

10

Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

139

News [?]

1

Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

721

2

Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

632

3

Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

592

4

I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)

413

5

U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

400

6

Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020

382

7

Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

373

8

Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

268

9

Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study

261

10

Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession

254

Scientific publications [?]

1

Psilocybin Produced in Yeast

282

2

Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket

167

3

Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems

97

4

Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet

71

5

Researchers uncover the art of printing extremely hard steels flawlessly

66

6

How Reliable Are University Rankings?

65

7

Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics (2019)

61

8

VLT sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein right

60

9

Greenland ice loss caused about 40 percent of total sea level rise in 2019

58

10

Mainframes Are Having a Moment

57

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

988

2

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

439

3

Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1

392

4

GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM

312

5

Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL

276

6

Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020

32

7

Sapienz: Intelligent automated software testing at scale (2018)

30

8

Better Stack Fixing for Firefox

25

9

API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them

23

10

How to Unbreak LTTng

18

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS

322

2

Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

230

3

The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina

163

4

AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99

134

5

XCode May Come to iPhone and iPad in iOS 14

31

6

Leaker Claims Mobile Version of Xcode Coming to iPad

8

7

Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realizes the SFF Dream

7

8

AMD's Updated Ryzen 3 1200 with 12nm Zen+ Architecture Hits Retailers

7

9

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope

6

10

Metabolic compound could rewind fertility clock for women

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

1539

2

Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]

57

3

AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch

46

4

Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies

18

5

Blue Screen: Teenage hacker tries to save the world but accidentally destroys it

6

6

Apple Services now available in more countries around the world

5

7

TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework

4

8

The AWS CDK public roadmap

4

9

Apple Mac Pro Wheels Kit

4

10

Wolfram: A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)

271

2

How Tech Can Build

199

3

An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit

94

4

The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams

94

5

Billboard / Hollywood Reporter lays off entire IT staff due to Covid19

26

6

Do Covid-19 death rates by age suggest a path to staying open in a second wave?

25

7

Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon

10

8

The Scholar's Vocation

9

9

Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands to Keep Six-Foot Distance Between Factory Workers

7

10

Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating

5

Science News [?]

1

For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

669

2

Possible dinosaur DNA has been found

240

3

People may know the best decision and not make it: study

201

4

Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains

171

5

How does the coronavirus kill?

164

6

Buildings have their own microbiomes

103

7

Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved

92

8

Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review

87

9

Gravitational waves reveal collision of heavy and light black holes

66

10

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

64

Social [?]

1

SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise

348

2

Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day

315

3

Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]

286

4

A Taste of GPU Compute [video]

280

5

Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

280

6

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]

245

7

The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]

214

8

Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers

196

9

Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign

168

10

How to Run Wordpress on AWS

134

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Shirt Without Stripes

1676

2

Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

645

3

Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

604

4

I've been writing TILs for 5 years

558

5

OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

494

6

Phoenix LiveDashboard

419

7

Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32

397

8

OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web

290

9

EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times

208

10

Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction

193

Wikipedia [?]

1

Don't Mess with Texas

218

2

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

202

3

Crimson Contagion

175

4

104

5

Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world

82

6

Granfalloon technique

54

7

35

8

25

9

8

10

Ting Hai Effect

8

Blogs [?]

1

The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices

273

2

The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

238

3

A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t

141

4

Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)

110

5

Diving into Silicon for the First Time

61

6

Fuck You Android Framework (2018)

58

7

Google is kind of bad now? (Rather than finding answers it ranks SEO spam)

32

8

Life Without Children

19

9

Paketo Buildpacks: Modular Buildpacks in Go

19

10

Node.js version 14 available now

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?

23

2

Why is “asdf”.replace(/.*/g, “x”) == “xx”?

1

3

Should all sites use SSL by default? The top answer is no

1

Substack [?]

1

A theory of Zoom fatigue

232

2

Bangkok Smoking Kid

197

3

Assuming Responsibility for Time

39

4

It's Going to Get Worse

24

5

Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?

11

6

A Congress Without Lobbyists and the Coming End of Federal Reserve Independence

10

7

GitHub Free and what it means for developer tooling companies

9

8

Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?

4

9

It’s Going to Get Worse

3

10

Assuming Responsibility for Time: Progress, Prediction, Promise

3