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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I Am Deleting the Blog

2450

2

Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

1869

3

I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

1469

4

1363

5

Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

1220

6

Teach Yourself Computer Science

1169

7

You download the app and it doesn’t work

1044

8

Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

865

9

Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying

845

10

Written communication is remote work super power

831

Top Ask HN

1

What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

472

2

Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

413

3

How are you holding up?

303

4

Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps

297

5

How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?

243

6

What did you make during lockdown?

217

7

What’s a big trend we should all be following?

155

8

How to develop a growth mindset?

150

9

How do you divide time between engaging with users and development?

145

10

Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?

104

Top Show HN

1

PJDL an open alternative to 1-wire with a range of 2000m

337

2

IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix

280

3

Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live

271

4

I am trying to start a webring for geeks

235

5

Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent

206

6

Browservice – Browse the modern web on historical browsers

193

7

Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk

180

8

Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go

145

9

144

10

Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises

144

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

1869

2

Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

391

3

Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

369

4

Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode

337

5

NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech

324

6

Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming

308

7

Segway ends production of its original scooter

304

8

CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider

287

9

Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative

186

10

The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion

176

News [?]

1

Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

543

2

Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads

477

3

Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do

453

4

Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

409

5

Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

409

6

The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age

360

7

Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

325

8

Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

310

9

Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

304

10

Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA

297

Scientific publications [?]

1

Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'

143

2

Zombie Satellites Return from the Graveyard

79

3

Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy? It's likely, NASA scientists find

77

4

Cuckoo++ – High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications (2017)

75

5

Making Blurry Faces Photorealistic Goes Only So Far

70

6

Embed AI into Projects with Nvidia’s Jetson Nano

67

7

Metformin inhibits mitochondrial adaptations to aerobic exercise training

47

8

Renting a home is clearly better than buying in much of US

34

9

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

32

10

The Great Ventilator Rush

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1363

2

Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

738

3

GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

622

4

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

501

5

What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

408

6

A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi

385

7

276

8

Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You

223

9

Why is there a “V” in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?

222

10

About the Rosetta Translation Environment

221

Tech blogs [?]

1

iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps

293

2

Strike a Solder Joint Behind Enemy Lines

216

3

Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

170

4

Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system

84

5

Fujitsu’s Fugaku and A64FX Take Arm to the Top with 415 PetaFLOPs

66

6

Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share a Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech

58

7

Intel to use nanowire/nanoribbon transistors in volume ‘in five years’

52

8

Phil Schiller: Apple Will Not Change Decision on 'Hey' Email App

31

9

First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

30

10

iOS 14 Notifies Users When an App or Widget Reads Your Clipboard

26

FAANG+ [?]

1

478

2

macOS Big Sur Preview

277

3

A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels (1995) [pdf]

76

4

macOS Big Sur Preview

66

5

Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon

22

6

Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

6

7

Amazon Builders: Automating safe, hands-off deployments

6

8

4

9

Apple reimagines the iPhone experience with iOS 14

4

10

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The End of OS X

376

2

The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)

160

3

My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence

126

4

Bees Can Sense the Electric Fields of Flowers (2013)

99

5

Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice Cream Truck Jingle?

64

6

Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export

59

7

An Agoraphobic Traveler Wanders the Earth

41

8

Ancient yet Cosmopolitan

29

9

Is Apple Rent Seeking with the App Store? (2018)

20

10

You don't have to be stupid to work here but it helps

17

Science News [?]

1

536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)

531

2

Nanoplastics accumulate in land-plant tissues: study

230

3

Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings

177

4

CERN makes push to build €21B super-collider

121

5

Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal

106

6

What ‘less lethal’ weapons do

93

7

Scientists’ warning on affluence

91

8

The Power of Crossed Brain Wires: Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous

49

9

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)

45

10

From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre

22

Social [?]

1

“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)

476

2

Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021

474

3

Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”

420

4

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation (1986) [video]

256

5

Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and bad for innovation

235

6

Apple WWDC Keynote

218

7

macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer present on the file system

187

8

My story with App Review

175

9

Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro

172

10

Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”

170

Github repos and gists [?]

1

BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory

510

2

Practical Python Programming

373

3

Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia

304

4

Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI

281

5

Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go

229

6

Booting embedded Linux in 0.37 seconds on an ARMv7-A CPU at 528 MHz

187

7

Specific ways to write better Python (2017)

154

8

GoPlus – The Go+ language for data science

143

9

DikuMUD 3 Is Released

102

10

Expose – A fully open-source ngrok alternative written in PHP

98

Wikipedia [?]

1

317

2

152

3

124

4

Berlin Gold Hat

87

5

85

6

Wills of Tadeusz Kościuszko

53

7

Brabant Killers

14

8

A Canticle for Leibowitz

12

9

Malthusian Catastrophe

10

10

MikroSim – A Processor Simulation Software

7

Blogs [?]

1

A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot

397

2

What happens when you update your DNS

255

3

Rust concurrency: the archetype of a message-passing bug

187

4

Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary?

169

5

Memory in JavaScript – Beyond Leaks (2019)

67

6

After 3 Years of Work, Chrome Killed My Extension and Won’t Tell Me Why

46

7

My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine (2018)

36

8

Understand Lucene to Understand ElasticSearch

25

9

I checked over 1T mnemonics in 30 hours to win a Bitcoin

22

10

How to watch job listings from indeed.com using Scraper.AI

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Does Python forbid two similarly looking Unicode identifiers?

2

2

Stackoverflow Adds Reactions

2

3

What are reactions and how do I use them?

1

4

What are reactions and how do I use them?

1

5

Deoptimizing a program for the pipeline in Intel Sandybridge CPUs

1

6

Is it possible to extend an individual object in Smalltalk

1

Substack [?]

1

Returning the “killed” RSS of Reuters from the dead

96

2

The Silicon Oligarchy

76

3

My dream dating app has been banned by Apple

71

4

Synthetic Biology

60

5

Narrative Collapse

41

6

How Doordash got their first 1000 customers

30

7

Release and sell your code without managing a website, servers, users, payments

30

8

16

9

13

10

13