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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
1094
2
New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
952
3
Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old
937
4
Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
778
5
NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers
762
6
ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press
758
7
SimRefinery Recovered
723
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SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange
715
9
Most tech content is bullshit
709
10
Cloudflare TV
696
Top Ask HN
1
Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
442
2
How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
437
3
Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
385
4
Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?
271
5
How bad should the code be in a startup?
192
6
How do you organise your files and folders?
181
7
Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?
180
8
Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?
165
9
Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
163
10
When is it time to give up on a side project SaaS?
135
Top Show HN
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Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
390
2
Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
278
3
C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding
261
4
Stock Performance of US Senators
246
5
TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar
245
6
Top, but for Nginx
219
7
Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq
208
8
Puree – Password-based Uniform-Random-Equivalent Encryption
190
9
Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux
176
10
interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels
171
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
472
2
IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
422
3
How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
390
4
DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
390
5
If you see the cops, start recording
275
6
Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees
250
7
Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
224
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Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired
223
9
Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap
214
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Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus
194
News [?]
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America is giving up on the pandemic?
514
2
U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business
502
3
Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
443
4
Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
416
5
Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
383
6
A photo is crashing some Android phones
377
7
We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression
343
8
The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
336
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Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
330
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Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
325
Scientific publications [?]
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People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds
218
2
Unsupervised translation of programming languages
166
3
Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
134
4
Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth
95
5
Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture
92
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Chance of finding young Earth-like planets higher than previously thought
91
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Formalizing Text Editors in Coq
85
8
On a caravan, with one of the Sahara's last European explorers
79
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Atom-Thin Switches Could Route 5G and 6G Radio Signals
79
10
Pioneers of web cryptography on the future of authentication
72
Dev Blogs [?]
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Cloudflare TV
696
2
How we use HashiCorp Nomad
318
3
Why the developers who use Rust love it so much
135
4
UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
132
5
An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
115
6
Free user space for non-graphics drivers
103
7
Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2B
97
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How to receive a million packets per second (2015)
96
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Understandability in software
47
10
WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results
35
Tech blogs [?]
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Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
358
2
You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police
96
3
Apple releases open source 'Password Manager Resources' project for developers
87
4
Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf()
27
5
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Body Camera
26
6
Apple Watch Fall Detection credited with saving unresponsive Arizona man
22
7
AMD Pulls Driver Support for Intel's Kaby Lake-G Processors
15
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Lattice Drops EULA Clause Forbidding FPGA Bitstream Reverse Engineering
15
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Black phosphorus could spur the next wave of tiny transistors (2015)
14
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Being Good at Scale Shouldn't Be a Defense Against Antitrust Claims
11
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon EC2 C5a Instances Powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Now Available
52
2
Speaking Up on Racism
25
3
Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
4
4
Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a Instances Featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC CPUs
3
5
Today Was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers [pdf]
3
6
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering – Richard Hamming
2
7
Amazon Chime – Video Conferencing and Online Meetings – Amazon Web Services
1
8
The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory”Was This Microsoft Disinformation? [pdf]
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year
138
2
Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code
115
3
S&P 500 CEO Pay by Pay Ratio
67
4
From chaos to free will
61
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The Problem with Saying “Don’t Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions” (2017)
48
6
Zip Codes Are Not Polygons (2001)
28
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How the ‘Sunset Route’ Railroad Helped Diversify California
28
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In Praise of Aphorisms
22
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Fyifv: A Microsoft Urban Legend (2001)
20
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YC's list of organizations helping to improve racial justice
12
Science News [?]
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A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
325
2
I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)
300
3
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier
233
4
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018)
208
5
Why Sleep Deprivation Kills
163
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In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers
153
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Nicolas Bourbaki: The greatest mathematician who never was (2019)
122
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How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs (2015)
86
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Effect of bean origin and temperature on grinding roasted coffee (2016)
71
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Math Invariants Helped Lisa Piccirillo Solve Conway Knot Problem
67
Social [?]
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Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
1094
2
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
534
3
WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
384
4
Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
291
5
We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything
147
6
How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]
144
7
Lattice FPGA adds 'no reversing' clause for SDK built on reversed bitstreams
94
8
Zuckerberg: I just shared the following note with our employees
83
9
Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software [video]
83
10
Video of hundreds of police attacks on peaceful protestors
78
Github repos and gists [?]
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
673
2
macOS in QEMU in Docker
490
3
OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
395
4
C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
377
5
VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
369
6
Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
325
7
A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests
288
8
Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
270
9
Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
242
10
Personal Wiki for Vim
204
Wikipedia [?]
1
Police Riot
112
2
Toki Pona
89
3
The Illiac IV Computer
56
4
86-DOS
38
5
Whistler (Radio)
25
6
Ted Kaczynski
24
7
Fred Hampton
20
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Brandolini's Law
15
9
Paradox of Tolerance
14
10
Terahertz Gap
14
Blogs [?]
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Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences
492
2
Old Code Gets Younger Every Year
240
3
Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
69
4
My experiment with clear and direct communication
37
5
John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System
37
6
Practicing empathy can teach us the value of diversity and inclusion in tech
26
7
Dart can now produce self-contained, native executables for macOS, Win and Linux
22
8
Randomized Trial on Gender in Overwatch
19
9
Useful Git commands for everyday use
15
10
How AWS CDK facilitates the development process of AWS Cloud Stacks
13
Stackoverflow [?]
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How do I achieve the theoretical maximum of 4 FLOPs per cycle?
2
2
An answer to stackoverflow asking “Why no love for SQL?”
2
3
Could anything with a Z80 processor run Gameboy games?
2
4
Why are the first four bytes of the Java class file format CAFEBABE
1
5
Why are file extensions case-sensitive on the web but not on localhost?
1
Substack [?]
1
What the Hell Is a Deno?
166
2
Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?
104
3
In Defense of Bad Ideas
101
4
5G is perfectly fine
72
5
A Guide to Unbundling Reddit
55
6
How Gorillaz could dominate a post-Covid world
37
7
Incumbents, Not Startups, Are Regulatory Arbitrageurs
16
8
Corporate Power, Protests and the Breakdown of a Social Contract
11
9
Tencent's Influence in Gaming
6
10
Learning Sales as a Technical Founder
6