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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
2003
2
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
1104
3
A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
1074
4
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
1069
5
Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
906
6
Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
878
7
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
869
8
Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
822
9
You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
821
10
Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
804
Top Ask HN
1
My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
855
2
A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
668
3
Career and life advice for a 30yo
220
4
What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?
189
5
Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?
172
6
What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
169
7
Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?
167
8
Why do you use Rust, when D is available?
147
9
Tips for students before starting their first job
132
10
Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?
127
Top Show HN
1
Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
550
2
My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
528
3
Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
457
4
Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources
251
5
Briefing – Anonymous, secure, open source WebRTC group video chat
203
6
100% offline Shamir's Secret Sharing GUI
180
7
Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes
151
8
Collection of animated algorithms and data structures
139
9
Math to Code – Interactive NumPy tutorial for engineers
137
10
Audino – Open-Source Audio and Speech Annotation Tool
123
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
474
2
Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
341
3
T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
329
4
Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
326
5
EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices
288
6
Venmo and Paypal Are Stalling Urgent Efforts to Bail People Out of Jail
165
7
Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons
158
8
GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references
144
9
Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More
131
10
Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates come with nasty printer bugs
87
News [?]
1
Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event
2003
2
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
1069
3
For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
677
4
After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
677
5
Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert
613
6
New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat
519
7
California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers (2019)
431
8
First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean
396
9
U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections
345
10
Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague
344
Scientific publications [?]
1
Looking Back at Postgres
290
2
Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds
211
3
Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
155
4
Gated Linear Networks
150
5
12 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'
145
6
An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]
126
7
Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (2003)
113
8
Complex landscapes helped land animals evolve higher intelligence: study
65
9
As many as 6B Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
44
10
Spherical Solar Cells Soak Up Scattered Sunlight
44
Dev Blogs [?]
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Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming
523
2
Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
435
3
Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we’ve removed
179
4
Apple WWDC20
115
5
Venezuela is a testing ground for digital dollarization, Zelle doesn’t like it
105
6
Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism
100
7
TornadoVM: Accelerating Java with GPUs and FPGAs
65
8
Android 11 beta is available now
49
9
Extracting Structured Data from Templatic Documents
45
10
Rethinking bpfilter and user-mode helpers
25
Tech blogs [?]
1
Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately
417
2
Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions
347
3
Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications
223
4
Hacker Dosed with LSD While Restoring Historical Synth (2019)
166
5
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming
125
6
AMD to Launch New Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs: Zen 2 with More MHz
104
7
Apple's shift to ARM Mac from Intel at WWDC will define a decade of computing
14
8
Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately
13
9
Steris Legally Threatens iFixit for Hosting Ventilator Service Manuals
11
10
Collapse OS, an OS for When the Unthinkable Happens
9
FAANG+ [?]
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A shared file system for lambda functions
173
2
AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
167
3
Serverless LAMP stack
69
4
Introducing Money in Excel, an easier way to manage your finances
50
5
Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lecture Series on Video
23
6
Apple reveals lineup for its biggest-ever Worldwide Developers Conference
20
7
AWS Lambda Now Supports Amazon Elastic File System
20
8
Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now GA
9
9
Misconfigured Kubeflow workloads are a security risk
7
10
MacBook Pro 16-Inch
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
657
2
Apple, ARM, and Intel
456
3
Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says
375
4
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick
154
5
Popular Pirate Sites Slowly “Disappear” from Google’s Top Search Results
105
6
Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]
96
7
The utilitarian pleasures of playing board games by yourself
61
8
U.S. Army Vintage Racer Concept Suggests Hypersonic Entry For Loitering UAS
49
9
How to Write Email with Military Precision
35
10
Never-Ending Niches
35
Science News [?]
1
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
1104
2
Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
324
3
Three people with inherited diseases successfully treated with CRISPR
182
4
A ‘Useless’ Perspective That Transformed Mathematics
165
5
Scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties
126
6
A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything
107
7
New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel
93
8
Seismic waves reveal giant structures deep beneath Earth's surface
85
9
Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
72
10
How dice changed over 2k years to be more fair (2018)
69
Social [?]
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You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
821
2
Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa
710
3
Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
429
4
Apple rejects Hey for second time, threatens removal from App Store
384
5
Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life
173
6
A File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal (2019) [video]
171
7
GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
169
8
“Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?
127
9
Which cyclist hill descent position is superior? (2017)
101
10
The GUI should be a lot better [video]
91
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel
241
2
Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
203
3
Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB
195
4
Xrdp: An open source RDP server
194
5
Math-as-Code (2015)
161
6
Forth implemented in Rust trait system
157
7
RusTLS Formal Audit [pdf]
156
8
Minimizing Rust Binary Size
149
9
Hot-swapping Python 3 code
120
10
Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app
112
Wikipedia [?]
1
Transmeta Crusoe
126
2
Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase
96
3
The Theory of American Decline
32
4
China's 996 working hour system
31
5
Thought-Terminating Cliche
18
6
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
17
7
Energy Slave
11
8
Recursive Islands and Lakes
10
9
Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
8
10
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
8
Blogs [?]
1
Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots
531
2
Questions to help people decide what to learn
140
3
Developers are your users too – a defence of 'View Source'
68
4
Hiring and the Market for Lemons (2016)
52
5
Real Wealth Is Owning Your Time: Why I Walked Away from Half a Million
51
6
How we scrape 300k prices per day from Google Flights
47
7
A Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement
44
8
Creating a full-text search engine in Apache Pinot
43
9
Dart: Sound Null Safety
33
10
React Native's re-architecture in 2020
30
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why required and optional is removed in Protocol Buffers 3
2
2
Why is the standard [PHP] session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)?
1
3
Is functional GUI programming possible? [closed]
1
Substack [?]
1
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
489
2
I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC
204
3
Apple is building an operating system for health
198
4
I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p
116
5
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
87
6
Why everyone hates the mainstream media
26
7
Analysis – Why Google is now a better competitor to Slack, WhatsApp and Zoom?
17
8
Is It Time to Talk About Post-Capitalism in America?
9
9
Why I'm Buying Spotify
4
10
Antonio Gramsci: The Forgotten Socialist
4