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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Bye, Amazon
3816
2
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
1527
3
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
1464
4
Medium-hard SQL interview questions
1230
5
Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
791
6
SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
770
7
Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
762
8
Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
727
9
New 13-inch MacBook Pro
726
10
Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
701
Top Ask HN
1
How do you manage self-study?
666
2
Who is hiring? (May 2020)
549
3
I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?
320
4
Why can't I send faxes from my phone?
218
5
Learning the business-side of things as a developer?
211
6
Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk
196
7
Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)
191
8
How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?
159
9
Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?
143
10
No formal software education – is there hope for me?
143
Top Show HN
1
Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
785
2
Caddy 2
778
3
SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
550
4
RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction
502
5
Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
406
6
Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform
364
7
Python lib for rich text, markdown, tables, etc. in the terminal
362
8
Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design
317
9
Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler
267
10
Quantum JavaScript
210
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
791
2
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
652
3
FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters
414
4
Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts
396
5
The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
348
6
Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
223
7
New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources
212
8
Judge Orders FCC To Hand Over IP Addresses Linked To Net Neutrality Comments
210
9
Valve drops VR support for macOS
193
10
The World Is Still Producing More Oil Than It Needs
178
News [?]
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Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
701
2
Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
606
3
Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use
526
4
Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
484
5
U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession
468
6
Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
405
7
Companies consider abandoning open office layouts to prevent disease spread
359
8
Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
358
9
Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe
352
10
Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
295
Scientific publications [?]
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Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
321
2
Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem
288
3
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
100
4
Future of the human climate niche
96
5
Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, explains the NTSC color graphics trick
89
6
The Meaning of Null in Databases and Programming Languages (2016)
61
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'Artificial leaf' concept inspires research into solar-powered fuel production
60
8
Moxie, a Social Robot That Helps Kids with Social-Emotional Learning
50
9
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome
32
10
Retrofitting Parallelism onto OCaml
30
Dev Blogs [?]
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Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
604
2
Jukebox
470
3
A look at modern PHP
442
4
Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
437
5
Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
224
6
Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone
182
7
Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps
167
8
Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables
135
9
Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks
121
10
Deleting data distributed throughout a microservice architecture
115
Tech blogs [?]
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Best CPUs for Workstations
163
2
Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them
38
3
Valve Drops Mac Support for SteamVR Less Than Three Years After WWDC 2017
27
4
“Inventor Rights Act” Is an Attack on True Invention
26
5
The Vaccine Factory Inside You: RNA Vaccine Basics
9
6
Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Review: Interchangeable Lenses, Powerful Sensor
6
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Apple and Google’s Covid-19 Exposure Notification API: Questions and Answers
5
8
Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz
5
9
Apple and Google’s Covid-19 Exposure Notification API: Questions and Answers
4
10
Government emergency measures give AAPL cheap credit for stock buybacks
4
FAANG+ [?]
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New 13-inch MacBook Pro
726
2
Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22
182
3
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
109
4
Microsoft Beats Earnings; Revenue up 15%
63
5
Updated 13in MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double storage, faster performance
62
6
Apple Mac Pro Wheels Kit
38
7
AWS AppSync offline reference architecture – powered by the Amplify DataStore
11
8
Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12
7
9
AWS CLI v2 Is Now Generally Available
6
10
Amazon Kindle Source Code
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]
138
2
Keeping bees means thinking about landscape as a system
113
3
Research on the benefits of “weak ties” – connecting with casual acquaintances
76
4
A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language (2002)
55
5
Ornament and Crime (1908) [pdf]
15
6
Elon Musk gets his –$700M Tesla payday despite self sabotage
9
7
Second and third order consequences of coronavirus
9
8
How to Decide What Skill to Work on Next (2016)
6
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Privacy issues discovered in the BLE implementation of the COVIDSafe Android app
5
10
Elon Musk wipes out billions in Tesla’s value (TSLA) in strange series of tweets
4
Science News [?]
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Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
401
2
What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2
205
3
Bats in Portuguese Libraries (2018)
107
4
Omega-3: Intervention for childhood behavioral problems? (2015)
95
5
Common Sense Comes to Computers
53
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NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’
43
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Trump is undermining environmental protections under the cover of coronavirus
34
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Nanopore sequencing, Shasta toolkit enable de novo assembly of 11 human genomes
32
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A human monoclonal antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection
26
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Guided by Plant Voices
24
Social [?]
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I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
480
2
Selfie 2 Waifu
270
3
CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history
223
4
Windows 10 has “python” command that redirects to the Windows Store
158
5
Cliqz is shutting down
106
6
Applied Category Theory (2019) [video]
91
7
Lighting controlled by a OralB Bluetooth toothbrush
77
8
Rebuilding James Bond's Apple IIc – A Software Forgery [video]
70
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Right-to-left-language-induced GUI bugs
69
10
Xiaomi web browser sends your browsing history to Alibaba even in Incognito mode
43
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
1527
2
Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life
565
3
Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
519
4
Manager's Playbook: Heuristics for effective management
369
5
Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust
352
6
Cut and paste your surroundings using AR
336
7
Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
242
8
Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative metaprogramming
214
9
RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger, written in rust
176
10
MsQuic – QUIC Implementation from Microsoft
153
Wikipedia [?]
1
Säkkijärven polkka
172
2
Retrofuturism
171
3
Solar Storm of 1859
148
4
OFFSystem
127
5
Joy (Programming Language)
98
6
Dining Cryptographers Problem
89
7
Behavioral Immune System
67
8
Spy Dust (Nitrophenyl Pentadienal)
61
9
Lake Agassiz
53
10
Iloveyou
51
Blogs [?]
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I’ve Consed Every Pair
559
2
I could do that in a weekend (2016)
338
3
Why strace doesn't work in Docker
329
4
Why Restaurants Are So Fucked
264
5
Notion encourages busy-work
217
6
Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies
169
7
A Statistical Analysis of Coughing Patterns on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’
111
8
Using the NFC Chip of the Passport to Do Proof-of-Work
96
9
Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password and more
93
10
Our Firebase and Google Cloud project was suspended over suspicious activity
64
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
268
2
Is Java “pass-by-reference” or “pass-by-value”?
2
3
Why does rand() repeat numbers far more often on Linux than Mac?
2
4
Prompt for Confirmation in Makefile
1
5
Impossible to avoid the detection of “whether DevTools console is open”
1
Substack [?]
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The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis
127
2
No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
74
3
Too Many 12mos
58
4
Why We're All Baking Bread During the Pandemic
7
5
A Dutch bike company came up with a simple idea to reduce shipping damage
5
6
The Federal Reserve Bails Out Boeing, Gives a $3B Subsidy to Carnival
4
7
Make Your First Profit with Newsletters
4
8
Complete Guide about GitOps
4
9
Self-improvement shouldn't be done alone
3
10
The Makeup of a Dollar
3