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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

2856

2

The Day AppGet Died

1930

3

Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

1375

4

Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

1125

5

Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

1120

6

Tools for Better Thinking

1092

7

Zero-day in Sign in with Apple

1076

8

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

1061

9

AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

1011

10

A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

820

Top Ask HN

1

Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

2634

2

Best books under 200 pages for developers?

551

3

Who is hiring? (June 2020)

515

4

How does your company manage its encryption keys?

488

5

Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

452

6

I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?

229

7

I'm an incoming freshman to college for a CS major, what should I know?

187

8

Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

163

9

Can you discuss CS in your native language?

134

10

What is the cheapest way to make a website?

125

Top Show HN

1

Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

1087

2

RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

696

3

I made a simple PDF text editor

327

4

Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder

318

5

Print a WiFi Login Card

305

6

Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page

289

7

`fzf` * `Git` done right

251

8

I built a free forms service for static websites

163

9

Twingate – A modern solution for remote access

156

10

An API to store balances and transactions

151

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

707

2

Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion

478

3

Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

399

4

US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis

399

5

After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media

394

6

Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive

384

7

SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch

304

8

Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules

294

9

Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

282

10

$100M in bounties paid via HackerOne to ethical hackers

227

News [?]

1

DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

599

2

Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

588

3

Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear

581

4

Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies

500

5

People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee

462

6

A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)

378

7

A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression

354

8

Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online

323

9

San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn

319

10

Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet

280

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

2856

2

GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners

431

3

Featherweight Go

252

4

How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?

136

5

Vortex Lasers May Be a Boon for Data

85

6

NSTM: Real-Time Query-Driven News Overview Composition at Bloomberg

50

7

Researchers create active material out of microscopic spinning particles

37

8

Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells

27

9

A new theorem predicts stationary black holes must have at least one light ring

27

10

Accurate Vision-Based Manipulation Through Contact Reasoning

19

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

755

2

The PEPs of Python 3.9

250

3

The 5.7 kernel is out

210

4

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring

150

5

2020 Developer Survey Results

148

6

Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in

137

7

Winget Install Learning

40

8

Torvalds Blasts “Beyond Stupid” Flushing L1d on Context Switches

39

9

Some Sessions from the Python Language Summit

32

10

Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report

232

2

Extra salty sodium battery performs on par with lithium

180

3

Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm

150

4

Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro

135

5

Why solder smoke always finds your face

45

6

Nasa’s Long-delayed Return to Human Spaceflight

39

7

Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about Earn IT

29

8

If This Is Your Inspiration from Space, You’re Doing It Wrong

23

9

Dangers of Trump's Executive Order Explained

20

10

EFF: Don’t Mix Policing with Covid-19 Contact Tracing

17

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon.com was down

68

2

Amazon.com Is Down

43

3

Windows 10 – v20.04 released (May 2020)

3

4

Create install media for Windows 10 May 2020 Update

3

5

Training a Lite Bert on AWS

2

6

AWS Amplify for iOS and Android

2

7

CDK for Kubernetes

2

8

How to create SAML providers with AWS CloudFormation

2

9

Microsoft Edge Browser Available for Mac, Linux and Win10

2

10

Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers (2019) [pdf]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Dust in the Light

278

2

Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low-Altitude Show of Force

141

3

The Trolley Problem Problem

77

4

I'm selling my bootstrapped SaaS project. Currently doing $2500 MRR and growing

27

5

Publishers Sue the Internet Archive, Declare It a Pirate Site

19

6

Typographical Printing-Surfaces (1916)

6

7

Fixing a long-standing bug in satellite-based nuclear weapon detectors

6

8

China's Largest Base Has Replicas of Taiwan Presidential Building, Eiffel Tower

6

9

Can digital books ever replace printed books?

5

10

The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)

5

Science News [?]

1

Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

386

2

Why we have so many problems with our teeth

281

3

Alterations in glutamate and the experience of ego dissolution with psilocybin

167

4

Black hole paradoxes reveal a fundamental link between energy and order

163

5

The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.

87

6

A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as Covid-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks

87

7

People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features

86

8

Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real

36

9

Using genomics to help avoid a second coronavirus wave

18

10

U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF

15

Social [?]

1

Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

1375

2

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

1061

3

CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

543

4

YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

442

5

Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”

435

6

Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel

370

7

“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”

235

8

Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”

147

9

GitHub is experimenting with personal READMEs

132

10

Entire Google search result pages are now ads

125

Github repos and gists [?]

1

SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships

446

2

The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

443

3

Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64

436

4

Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces

373

5

The Police Data Accessibility Project

236

6

Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

233

7

Programming as Theory Building (1985)

193

8

Functional Programming in Python

145

9

Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt)

110

10

Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64

106

Wikipedia [?]

1

333

2

242

3

1989 California Medfly Attack

213

4

189

5

104

6

98

7

Posse Comitatus Act

57

8

Liquid Democracy

52

9

Utah Data Center

40

10

Interracial marriage in US became legal only in 1967

32

Blogs [?]

1

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

456

2

Behind tech layoffs lay cash flow-negative companies

300

3

A simple way to get more value from metrics

280

4

A simple way to get more value from tracing

110

5

Facebook applies dubious “false info” fact-check label to Patriot Act video

43

6

Scale as a Design Input, Not an Output

37

7

Dear Facebook Employees

35

8

Facebook’s New Remote Salary Policy Is “Barbaric”

34

9

Poems of my Father #3 – The First Snowfall

18

10

ISAs (income sharing agreements) can land you into deep shit

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do I change the background color of the HTML page? Install a library

17

Substack [?]

1

Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity

114

2

How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers

91

3

Cloud Security from First Principles

61

4

Planet of the Censoring Humans

34

5

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Startup Options (2019)

25

6

Planet of the Censoring Humans

6

7

Huawei Banned, So Let's Invade Taiwan to Take TSMC?

5

8

The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance

4

9

What is Zynn? And who is its parent company Kuaishou?

4

10

News of Pandemics: Then (1918) and Now (2020)

3