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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Goodbye, Clean Code

1678

2

Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

1448

3

How to Exit Vim

1111

4

VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now

870

5

SMS is not 2FA-secure

867

6

iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry

781

7

Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

722

8

Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

714

9

BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

672

10

Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

646

Top Ask HN

1

What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

698

2

What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

444

3

Are there any openly available software architecture documents?

407

4

Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

287

5

What tools do you use for data munging and merging?

114

6

How many of you are rolling your own auth?

88

7

How do you make your warm-up time shorter

49

8

What book changed your life in 2019?

44

9

Anyone feel Stack Overflow is becoming less helpful and more snarky?

43

10

How do you manage your personal budget?

35

Top Show HN

1

I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers

695

2

Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

533

3

Write a private diary using good old email

515

4

The best technology podcast episodes

340

5

Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools

220

6

Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

185

7

Gter – A terminal for GUI apps

185

8

Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer

184

9

Parsr – A toolchain to transform documents into usable structured text

182

10

HuggingFace – Fast tokenization library for deep-learning NLP pipelines

168

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make

377

2

A billion medical images are exposed online

350

3

Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’

281

4

Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it

234

5

Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day

233

6

Ring fired employees for watching customer videos

216

7

Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack

215

8

AMD’s third shoe drops at CES 2020: 7nm Zen 2 mobile CPUs

207

9

Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’

189

10

Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?

164

News [?]

1

Visa Buys Plaid

538

2

Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

480

3

Medications that change who we are

419

4

Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time

401

5

Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters

380

6

Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

345

7

For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests

299

8

U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says

278

9

Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

249

10

Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says

238

Scientific publications [?]

1

Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

153

2

Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold

147

3

Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

141

4

First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster

54

5

Life's clockwork: Scientist shows how molecular engines keep us ticking

49

6

Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters

41

7

Shark and ray vision comes into focus

29

8

A scalable pipeline for designing xenobots (reconfigurable organisms)

28

9

Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps

17

10

NASA Animates World Path of Smoke and Aerosols from Australian Fires

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations

348

2

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

230

3

How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018)

229

4

The Status of HTTP/3

159

5

Highlights from Git 2.25

103

6

Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond

96

7

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

93

8

Introducing Increment subscriptions

89

9

Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution

72

10

Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping

56

Tech blogs [?]

1

iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry

781

2

BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

672

3

Raspberry Pi 4 and the State of Video Game Emulation

21

4

Apple's rack-mountable Mac Pro is now available for purchase for $6499

10

5

EFF Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Dangerous Rulings About API Copyright/Fair Use

9

6

Possible spyware on all Samsung phones

5

7

Hi-Fi Audio on the C64 – 48Khz, Yo

5

8

Q&A with AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su

4

9

Longer lifespan linked to green tea consumption in Chinese study

3

10

macOS beta hints at future 'Pro Mode' to boost performance on portable Macs

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances

97

2

Exponential Backoff and Jitter

4

3

Rack Mount Mac Pro Available

4

4

Support for Windows 7 is nearing the end

3

5

The productive software engineer [audio]

3

6

Amazon RDS Proxy

3

7

Rack mount Mac Pro now available

3

8

Apple rings in new era of Services following landmark year

2

9

Amazon has stopped selling the AWS IoT 1-Click button

2

10

Free Kindle Book on Python: “Data Science in Production”

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City

312

2

191

3

Visa, Plaid, networks, and jobs

178

4

Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more like a gas car'

109

5

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

98

6

Startup Discount Finder: Simple list of SaaS discounts for startups

38

7

Grave of Walter White

38

8

Making Art with Agar Plates

33

9

Teen Vogue’s Yanked Facebook Sponsored Content on Election Integrity

21

10

Notes on Arthur Whitney’s B Compiler

20

Science News [?]

1

Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images

418

2

FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law

289

3

Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

266

4

An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions

230

5

Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism

209

6

Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013)

188

7

Florida joins U.S. government in probing foreign ties of researchers

151

8

A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality

149

9

African grey parrots spontaneously 'lend a wing'

141

10

To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air

125

Social [?]

1

How I make $400/month with my technical eBook

302

2

AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue

287

3

Did you ever need to run a piece of C# code on Windows 3.11?

261

4

Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"

251

5

Things that I think will be important in the next decade

225

6

iPod Product Timeline

113

7

John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives

79

8

The boring findings from scraping the top 100 e-commerce stores using Shopify

66

9

Sitting on gas lift chairs can generate an EMI spike which blanks your monitor

35

10

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’ve terminated this account

33

Github repos and gists [?]

1

How to Exit Vim

1111

2

Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor

294

3

The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

288

4

Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC

188

5

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)

188

6

Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C

186

7

CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python's CSV Module

154

8

Simple Tiny Compiler in C

143

9

FFmpeg libav tutorial – from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more

142

10

Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python

139

Wikipedia [?]

1

254

2

120

3

Stack-Oriented Programming

103

4

92

5

Deep Borehole Disposal

86

6

Battle of Alesia

77

7

Iran Air Flight 655 (Wikipedia)

57

8

Trivers–Willard Hypothesis

45

9

25

10

24

Blogs [?]

1

321

2

Let's Reverse Engineer Discord

313

3

How is computer programming different today than 20 years ago?

45

4

Building LightOS with React Native

45

5

Ramanujan’s First Letter to G.H.Hardy

34

6

The joys of maintaining your own server

30

7

Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant

28

8

Outcome Over Output: Also Impact and Effort

21

9

Observing Your API Traffic with Tyk, Elasticsearch and Kibana

19

10

I quit my job at the age of 36 to be happy

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing

5

2

What are the mathematical/computational principles behind this game?

2

3

Angular – RouterModule.forRoot vs. RouterModule.forChild

1

4

What Is GPU-Driven Rendering?

1

5

How to escape * multiply symbol in bash after compiling kotlin program to Java?

1

Substack [?]

1

Facebook's PR feels broken

352

2

Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale

65

3

Trends for Social Networks, Messengers, and Digital Media

61

4

Why Boredom Is an Entrepreneur's Superpower

35

5

What Is the Point of Economics?

3

6

Console #16: Fake Like Factories and Surviving the Surveillance Apocalypse

2

7

The backstories behind successful technologies

2

8

Console #16: Fake Like Factories and Surviving the Surveillance Apocalypse

2

9

Console #16: Fake Like Factories and Surviving the Surveillance Apocalypse

2

10

Protocol Labs: Building the Infrastructure for Decentralized Internet

2