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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

1350

2

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

1011

3

Career advice for people with bad luck

981

4

If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

895

5

Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

888

6

Seinfeld Adventure

861

7

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

785

8

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

768

9

Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)

767

10

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

734

Top Ask HN

1

What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

607

2

What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

196

3

Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?

186

4

What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?

91

5

Best current mailing list manager?

84

6

What is your strongest argument against remote work?

75

7

Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?

73

8

I want to resign with nothing lined up

72

9

What are your favourite podcasts?

64

10

Has anyone been using VR to socialize lately?

57

Top Show HN

1

Editly – Declarative command-line video editing

429

2

Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board

271

3

A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust

261

4

Free foreign exchange rates API

249

5

Help Me Decide Please

194

6

Gmail CLI Utils (bulk delete mail by query, get/create filters)

192

7

A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS

169

8

Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

147

9

I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

133

10

Add license key verification to your apps

131

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

537

2

Patreon lays off 13% of workforce

376

3

'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs

313

4

Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked

309

5

Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

302

6

Why We Can't Build

221

7

The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future

167

8

Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers

134

9

71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit

94

10

Is This the End of Airbnb?

78

News [?]

1

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

1350

2

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

785

3

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

768

4

How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping

490

5

Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees

490

6

Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021

482

7

Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies

421

8

JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers

411

9

How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master

372

10

Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing

344

Scientific publications [?]

1

Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

343

2

YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection

234

3

Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)

224

4

75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)

169

5

How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law

166

6

Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale

89

7

Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19

89

8

A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford

59

9

DNA may not be life's instruction book, just a jumbled list of ingredients

58

10

What It’s Like Inside a Chip Foundry During the Covid-19 Pandemic

58

Dev Blogs [?]

1

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

734

2

Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

507

3

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020

247

4

Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification

200

5

Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available

189

6

Hunting a Linux kernel bug

155

7

Google Pixel Buds

153

8

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview

142

9

Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

129

10

Io_uring and EBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux

62

Tech blogs [?]

1

WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

237

2

AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?

87

3

Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0

86

4

ARM Development for the Office: Unboxing an Ampere EMag Workstation

67

5

Lengthening Patent Terms by 10 Years Is the Wrong Response to Covid-19

48

6

AMD Posts Record First Quarter, Revenue Up 40% YoY, Zen 3 and RDNA 2 on Track

15

7

COBOL Isn’t the Issue: A Misinterpreted Crisis

9

8

TSMC Starts 2nm Process Development for Fast, Efficient Chips

8

9

Section 215 Expired. Now What?

7

10

Parkinson's discovery implicates “second brain” in the gut

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

239

2

Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)

186

3

161

4

AWS Chatbot – ChatOps for Slack and Chime

22

5

The New AWS Europe (Milan) Region

19

6

Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services

8

7

6

8

The New AWS Region in Italy

5

9

Amazon Forecast

5

10

Amazon AppFlow: Automates the data flows between AWS and SaaS applications

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Anti-Amazon Alliance

681

2

A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades

205

3

EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel

194

4

Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app

173

5

Airport Stuffed with Airliners

167

6

Benchmarking C++ Allocators

102

7

23

8

Google is cutting summer-intern pay by as much as 50% in countries like Canada

6

9

State of Vue.js (From Vue's Founder)

4

10

‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens

4

Science News [?]

1

The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy

196

2

Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations

168

3

Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)

102

4

Single-shot link discovery for terahertz wireless networks

45

5

Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Vietnam War?

39

6

Multifunctional Graphene Hair Dye (2018)

39

7

Extreme rainfall triggered the 2018 rift eruption at Kīlauea Volcano

35

8

'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says (2019)

29

9

How have lack of travel and increased social isolation affected mathematics?

28

10

Pseudoscience and Covid-19 – we’ve had enough already

25

Social [?]

1

Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

888

2

Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address

378

3

Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]

272

4

Do you charge your MacBook on the left or right side? Turns out right is better

107

5

The Birth of Calculus (1986) [video]

90

6

What about those funny shaped cars? [video]

73

7

WhatsApp just dropped a bunch of hacking group NSO's IPs in their latest filing

70

8

Pentagon officially releases UFO videos [video]

58

9

Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?

35

10

Stop making apps with surveillance-based components

26

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`

599

2

Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

390

3

Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files

290

4

HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs

237

5

Guitar – Git GUI Client

232

6

A primer on some C obfuscation tricks

223

7

Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust

143

8

Console for Mobile Browsers

141

9

Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of smaller repos

137

10

Astroquery: A package that contains tools to access online astronomical data

120

Wikipedia [?]

1

Lamest Edit Wars

441

2

List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

323

3

Nicomachean Ethics

282

4

218

5

Wi-Fi over Coax

185

6

Oil futures drunk-trading incident

120

7

Operation Popeye

69

8

Foucault pendulum

69

9

Great Debate (astronomy)

62

10

Volkswagen Currywurst

57

Blogs [?]

1

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

1011

2

Lambda Store: Serverless Redis

83

3

Proving that C++'s grammar is undecidable

76

4

Freelancer Contract Template (2018)

69

5

Insanity vs Intelligence: Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy Theory

31

6

The Bitcoin Halving, Explained

30

7

I just shut down my startup (2019)

27

8

Tips for building a reliable automation platform

20

9

Slaying Fake News

16

10

GoodBye Linux: The Next OS

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does rand() repeat numbers far more often on Linux than Mac?

3

2

Percentages in CSS vertical margin are calculated using the parent's width

3

3

To free or not to free memory (C)

2

4

How to Prevent NFC Tag Cloning

2

5

Python Threads don't propagate exceptions

1

6

How to make a great R reproducible example

1

7

Can we map inches on screen CSS accurately now?

1

Substack [?]

1

Career advice for people with bad luck

981

2

An audio app that has consumed my life

108

3

When Tailwinds Vanish

104

4

How Animal Crossing, Runescape, and Warhammer Taught Me About Business

10

5

6

6

Hey Arnold on Zoom, Gluts, and Scarcity

3

7

When Returns Go Poof: Modeling VC & Implications for Startup Employees

3

8

Is data the new oil? No

3

9

Deliver 10x value to your customers, today

3

10

Good Tech Companies Make Bad Bailout Targets

2