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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
2031
2
AWS services explained in one line each
1668
3
Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
1543
4
Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
1294
5
Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
1227
6
Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
1178
7
Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
1030
8
EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
993
9
X
896
10
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
827
Top Ask HN
1
What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
1006
2
Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
410
3
Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
386
4
If you could work remote where would you live?
355
5
Who regrets choosing Elixir?
328
6
What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
314
7
Looking for side project ideas
310
8
How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?
269
9
Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?
229
10
Do you still use MongoDB?
195
Top Show HN
1
Bear – Minimal blogging platform
685
2
A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
574
3
LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
515
4
A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management
456
5
Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
420
6
r/hnblogs, Blogging is not Dead
306
7
PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres
269
8
Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support
265
9
Multi-room audio with Snapcast and Raspberry Pi
215
10
A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in love with CGI
209
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
669
2
Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display
253
3
The economics of cheaper batteries
225
4
Automattic invests in Matrix
203
5
eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs
165
6
India’s contact tracing app is going open source
146
7
NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program
138
8
AMD Ryzen 9 3900x price drop could take the wind out of Intel comet lake sales
125
9
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
110
10
SpaceX’s first crewed spacecraft launch cleared to proceed for May 27 target
99
News [?]
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Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
1227
2
Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
723
3
Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
596
4
Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
571
5
Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift
353
6
On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted
266
7
A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly
244
8
Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line
234
9
University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT
229
10
The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
218
Scientific publications [?]
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Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD
181
2
Classic Calculator Was Reverse Engineered from the Bare Metal
168
3
Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks
121
4
Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning
115
5
How to Run Algorithmic Information Theory on a Computer (1995)
73
6
BaseSAFE: Baseband SAnitized Fuzzing Through Emulation
41
7
A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks
36
8
Editing plant chromosomes using molecular scissors
34
9
6ft Is Not Always Enough: How Saliva Droplets Spread Through the Air
27
10
Evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back 19K years
24
Dev Blogs [?]
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Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
791
2
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
546
3
Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
531
4
Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver
303
5
Welcome to C# 9.0
246
6
Linux 5.8 Set to Optionally Flush the L1d Cache on Context Switch
164
7
Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
150
8
Good coders borrow, great coders steal
146
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The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018)
134
10
Open-Sourcing Bit: Exploring Large-Scale Pre-Training for Computer Vision
83
Tech blogs [?]
1
FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge
395
2
The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review
83
3
Avantek's Arm Workstation: Ampere EMAG 8180 32-Core Arm64 Review
73
4
Contact tracing app vetted by Apple found to share data with Foursquare/Google
29
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Apple releases iOS 13.5 to the public with Exposure Notification API, Face ID
18
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Samsung Announces New 50MP Dual-Pixel and Quad-Bayer Isocell Sensor
16
7
Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures
9
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Why are Design Patents getting a boost in DC?
9
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International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance to Fight Covid-19
7
10
State of the game: The key players in the emerging eVTOL air taxi market
6
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
174
2
Open-sourcing new Covid-19 threat intelligence
6
3
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers [pdf]
5
4
What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers? [pdf]
4
5
Butler Lampson: Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (Revised) [pdf]
2
6
Cryptflow: Secure TensorFlow Inference [pdf]
2
7
AWS DeepRacer League F1 ProAm Event
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains
515
2
GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
512
3
Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint
452
4
110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)
244
5
Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability
172
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How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11?
133
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The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism
129
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Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less
99
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Risk Assessment and Prioritization for Startups
76
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Amphibious Warship USS Portland Shot Down a Drone with Its New High-Power Laser
40
Science News [?]
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Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
309
2
Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
275
3
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms
174
4
Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes
140
5
They redesigned PubMed
129
6
Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project
119
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Bionic eye boosted by hemispherical retina
70
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Why immunity passports are a bad idea
61
9
Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners
48
10
A cold, rotating disk galaxy 1.5B years after the Big Bang
33
Social [?]
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EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
993
2
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
827
3
I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
649
4
A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”
594
5
Shopify Goes Digital by Default
324
6
Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]
283
7
The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp
221
8
YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division
157
9
The Most Dangerous Dams (2019) [video]
74
10
Howell Torpedo 1896 [video]
72
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Product Marketing for Engineers
688
2
Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
428
3
The Big List of Naughty Strings
409
4
Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS
358
5
Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI
315
6
Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API
303
7
Unofficial APIs
297
8
DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics
290
9
Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
266
10
Real time image animation in opencv using first order model
255
Wikipedia [?]
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Two capacitor paradox
438
2
Intelligent disobedience
212
3
Pelorus Jack
187
4
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
170
5
Duff's device
145
6
Founder's Syndrome
70
7
McLibel Case
69
8
Skid Row
54
9
Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates
53
10
List of Common Misconceptions
52
Blogs [?]
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Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets
513
2
Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal
210
3
What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS
173
4
The mystery of 'hacked' Houseparty users may have been solved
171
5
In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning
144
6
The Day AppGet Died
62
7
Microsoft loves Linux – a little too much?
47
8
How I learned to draw realistic portraits in 30 days
44
9
GCC vs. Clang/LLVM: An In-Depth Comparison of C/C++ Compilers
28
10
Gravitational Waves: The Silent Disaster
20
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does HTML think Chuck Norris is a color?
3
2
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
2
3
How to store Unix timestamps with MySQL
2
4
How to kill a child process after a given timeout in Bash?
1
5
Using a semaphore inside a nested Java 8 parallel stream action may DEADLOCK. Is
1
6
Architecturing Airflow DAG that needs contextual throttling
1
Substack [?]
1
Software will eat software in a remote-first world
619
2
How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
266
3
Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated
217
4
Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation
170
5
How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide
166
6
Immutable Databases
114
7
Ex-Grubhub exec calls delivery apps “payday lenders for restaurants and drivers”
50
8
Fashion industry suffers
19
9
The Coming Death of Independent Podcasting
9
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The Coming Death of Independent Podcasting
8