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Top stories
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Deno 1.0
2081
2
Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
1915
3
Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
1783
4
A first look at Unreal Engine 5
1734
5
Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
1525
6
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
1393
7
Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
1239
8
New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
1237
9
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
1186
10
92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
1077
Top Ask HN
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What's your quarantine side project?
1336
2
Dark mode for HN please?
780
3
Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
578
4
Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
524
5
Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
409
6
How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?
324
7
What is your learning strategy?
234
8
Production Lisp in 2020?
222
9
What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms
217
10
What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?
209
Top Show HN
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SHA-256 Animation
1053
2
This Word Does Not Exist
956
3
Trade stocks from the command line with no commission
551
4
A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis
350
5
XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
297
6
Virtual Reality DOS
206
7
A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2
174
8
Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them
161
9
New UI pattern for file manager type apps
124
10
Hacker News Dark Mode
119
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
566
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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
414
3
Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments
386
4
US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home
377
5
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
369
6
New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible
175
7
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much
157
8
Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
144
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Tesla’s readying a ‘million mile’ battery that could greatly lower cost of EVs
89
10
Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits
78
News [?]
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New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
1237
2
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
1063
3
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
957
4
Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
492
5
Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go
376
6
Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
331
7
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Loses $17.7B on WeWork, Uber
320
8
Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints
319
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Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq
305
10
TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
300
Scientific publications [?]
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New species of fungus identified via Twitter
246
2
Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (1973)
133
3
Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic
93
4
Sony Builds AI into a CMOS Image Sensor
81
5
Graph2Plan: Learning Floorplan Generation from Layout Graphs
55
6
Lost and Found: Stopping Bluetooth Finders from Leaking Private Information
54
7
Black holes and neutron stars merge unseen in dense star clusters
32
8
Common origin of Fermi bubbles and galactic center X-ray outflows shown
17
9
An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries
16
10
Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions
10
Dev Blogs [?]
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A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
771
2
DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
706
3
US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
676
4
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
471
5
Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
429
6
Windows Package Manager Preview
293
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Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum
276
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The State of the AWK
213
9
Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
180
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Announcing TypeScript 3.9
175
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
307
2
FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data
137
3
ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm
128
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Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
120
5
The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole Dual EPYC Solution
65
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'Apple Glass' Rumored to Start at $499, Support Prescription Lenses, and More
36
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ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
19
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Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital
17
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Edison Mail Sync Bug Allowing Access to Other Users' Email Accounts
16
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AMD Ryzen-Powered Raspberry Pi Rival Uses Radeon Vega Graphics
15
FAANG+ [?]
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CDK for Kubernetes
13
2
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design
7
3
Zero-2 and DeepSpeed: Shattering Barriers of Deep Learning Speed and Scale
6
4
Research Collection: Tools and Data to Advance the State of the Art
6
5
Microsoft Windows Terminal
6
6
Apple added a 'Supplier Responsibility' page
4
7
Apple Stores to Open
4
8
Multi-tenant data isolation with PostgreSQL Row Level Security
4
9
iRobot Uses AWS RoboMaker to Speed Testing, Deliver More-Effective Robots
3
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AWS DeepRacer – Fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car for developers
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Are There Laws of History?
118
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Chips and Geopolitics
106
3
Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)
100
4
A photo archive hidden inside a limestone mine
82
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Tesla superfandom becomes toxic, negative for electric revolution [op-ed]
66
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Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy
27
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Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing (1980)
24
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The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
19
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Ex-Tesla engineer tries to reinvent the home electrical panel for 21st century
5
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Tesla's next factory is going to be in Austin, and it's going to happen quickly
4
Science News [?]
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
479
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Electrons May Well Be Conscious
232
3
Studies show Alzheimer’s occurs more often in people exposed to polluted air
160
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Blind people ‘read’ letters that are traced on their brains with electricity
129
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Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
84
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Ancient DNA reveals staying power of early people of the Andes
49
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Mathematician Measures the Repulsive Force Within Polynomials
43
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The UK’s public health response to Covid-19
35
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Archaeologists Discover Teenage Mummy Buried with Trove of Ornate Jewelry
31
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Why do some Covid patients infect many others, but most don’t spread it at all?
23
Social [?]
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92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
1077
2
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
659
3
The Miracle Sudoku [video]
596
4
If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
239
5
Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients
225
6
A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video]
162
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A unusual keyboard key switch
132
8
17yo guy built 14.7“ f/2.89 Newtonian reflector telescope
131
9
Examples of Incorrect Abstractions in Other Languages
115
10
CERN publishes instructions for building your own particle detector
106
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Termux and Android 10
412
2
uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview
330
3
Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs
245
4
Learn Go: Hand-crafted Go exercises and examples
222
5
An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains
205
6
Bosque Programming Language
199
7
Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
194
8
Reason React 0.8
186
9
Introduce ZSTD compression to ZFS
164
10
Iosevka, Version 3.0.0
158
Wikipedia [?]
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Whale fall
491
2
Port knocking
254
3
Georgism
210
4
Bhūribhirbhāribhirbhīrābhūbhārairabhirebhire
210
5
Timeline of the Far Future
168
6
Quadratic Voting
124
7
Chekhov's Gun
93
8
Toilet Paper Orientation
67
9
Utility monster
59
10
Censorship by Google
59
Blogs [?]
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The Death of Couchsurfing?
353
2
Review of New Apple and Google Contact Tracing Protocol
91
3
Impostor Syndrome in Programming
55
4
If You Want to Be a Senior Developer, Stop Focusing on Syntax
22
5
Twitter Looks the Other Way as Trump’s Tweets Amplified by Artificial Network
21
6
How I nipped burnout in the bud with diet, exercise, sleep
18
7
I Completely Sold Off All My Investments This Week
14
8
I wrote my first Medium article on Getting Started with Deno.js
12
9
Succinctness Is Power
11
10
Why Busy Is the New Stupid, and What We Can Do About It
11
Stackoverflow [?]
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Immutability in JavaScript: A Contrarian View
4
2
What is logic behind “Broadcast” or “Room” based Websocket for chat room?
2
3
Weird Stackoverflow URL? (Fuckshit)
2
4
Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?
1
5
Android PopupWindow Question
1
6
Difference between exit() and sys.exit() in Python
1
Substack [?]
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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
1393
2
Refugees That Never Left Home
4
3
Automate repetitive tasks with custom Git commands
4
4
Code-Wise, Cloud-Foolish
3
5
The Ownership Crisis
3
6
The Future of Remote Work Is Not That Remote
3
7
Zero-Interest-Rate Policy Explains the World
3
8
The Pragmatic CS vision for software engineers to stay relevant
3
9
Regardless Power, Regardless Freedom
3
10
Is This the Death of Social Dining?
3