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Top stories
1
Oppose the Earn IT Act
2229
2
Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
1130
3
Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
1055
4
Websites that look like desktop GUIs
981
5
LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
928
6
1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
885
7
DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
824
8
Abstract Wikipedia
798
9
YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
775
10
The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
754
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (July 2020)
422
2
What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
361
3
Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
297
4
What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?
297
5
After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?
253
6
Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?
235
7
What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
132
8
What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?
107
9
Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)
104
10
Best ways to retain qualified employees?
100
Top Show HN
1
USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
457
2
SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages
425
3
I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood
364
4
Coding Career Handbook
245
5
Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js
178
6
Continuous Machine Learning – CI/CD for Machine Learning Projects
171
7
Pygooglenews – Python library for advanced Google News data mining
165
8
Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names (Part II)
164
9
The Book of Minecraft Modding
150
10
Delightfully animated, bite-sized knowledge
110
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
291
2
MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars
288
3
US online grocery sales hit record $7.2B in June
207
4
Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automatic updates are critical
184
5
How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
151
6
Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India
151
7
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
134
8
Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App
100
9
Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors
100
10
ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US
91
News [?]
1
Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
561
2
Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
519
3
China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says
471
4
Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
428
5
Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater
366
6
A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts
362
7
California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste
358
8
Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
353
9
Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
349
10
Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users
349
Scientific publications [?]
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The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
754
2
Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes
328
3
GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding
112
4
Queues are Databases (1995)
96
5
Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019)
95
6
CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks
83
7
Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia
80
8
How the digital camera transformed our concept of history
31
9
Harvesting Hydrogen from Nanogardens
31
10
Differences of OT/CRDT: General Transformation Frameworks, Co-Editor Consistency
15
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch
176
2
RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native
176
3
New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud
102
4
Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11
91
5
Pylance: Fast, feature-rich language support for Python in VSCode
41
6
New Stripe Website
34
7
Launching Docs.github.com
32
8
Retrie: Haskell Refactoring Made Easy
28
9
Everything I Knew About Reading Was Wrong
18
10
Making the WAF 40% Faster
13
Tech blogs [?]
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Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
337
2
Intel Lakefield deep dive: the first x86 hybrid CPU
66
3
Microsoft’s new x86 DataCenter class machines running Windows (2018)
22
4
Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
21
5
Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14
18
6
Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
17
7
MSI CEO Charles Chiang Dies Suddenly at 56
7
8
Apple wants your iPhone to replace your passport and driver's license
3
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The New Earn IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech
3
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The New Earn IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS App2Container
67
2
Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available
7
3
Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta
5
4
AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications
4
5
2020 Apple Design Award Winners
4
6
Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta
3
7
AWS Porting Assistant for .NET
2
8
Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta
2
9
Teaching a robot to see and navigate with simulation
1
10
Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel
242
2
The Slack Social Network
204
3
When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)
194
4
The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation
155
5
A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)
139
6
Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)
114
7
Meditations on Moloch (2014)
110
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The Giant Ghibli Clock (2019)
101
9
Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
91
10
Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine
62
Science News [?]
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Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
179
2
The magnetic universe begins to come into view
111
3
Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
103
4
Quantum fluctuations have been shown to affect macroscopic objects
93
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Quantum Bayesianism Explained by Its Founder
77
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The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics
76
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National Science Foundation reveals details on foreign-influence investigations
69
8
The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray
66
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Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives
66
10
The tricky math of Covid-19 herd immunity
63
Social [?]
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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
928
2
YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
775
3
Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
394
4
Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]
392
5
Not a Wheelchair [video]
354
6
Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code
326
7
Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]
307
8
Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial
302
9
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
226
10
Caffenol: Developing Photos with Coffee and Vitamin C [video]
155
Github repos and gists [?]
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DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
824
2
I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
404
3
Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
385
4
Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
343
5
Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
309
6
Rich Tables in the Terminal
298
7
EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
204
8
Gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL
166
9
Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS
163
10
Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml
150
Wikipedia [?]
1
Göbekli Tepe
142
2
Isetta
72
3
Halt and Catch Fire
30
4
Foam Concrete
25
5
Henrietta Lacks
15
6
Ron Graham has left us
13
7
“Massive Cannibalism” During China’s Cultural Revolution
12
8
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
12
9
O-Ring Theory
10
10
Lost Inventions
7
Blogs [?]
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Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
376
2
Entr: Rerun your build when files change
202
3
Building Domain Driven Microservices
160
4
Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
142
5
I Got Rejected by Y Combinator So I’m building my own Incubator
65
6
How not to suck at eventual consistency
34
7
If Apple cares so much about privacy, why does it approve clipboard snoopers?
23
8
Go vs. C#: Compiler, Runtime, Type System, Modules
21
9
Uber Increased Employees' Income Tax Liability
20
10
I Simplified My Smartphone to Regain Control of My Life
19
Stackoverflow [?]
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Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string
104
2
Closures are poor man's objects and vice versa (2010)
2
3
(2009) What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?
2
4
How Raku optimizes type checking – Jonathan Worthington
1
5
Breaking Changes Across Microservices
1
Substack [?]
1
Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase
160
2
Don't bet on the most likely winner
149
3
The gap between learning code and producing usable software
146
4
Markets, Rent and WFH
98
5
From the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy
94
6
Founder-driven life sciences companies
60
7
In defense of hiring based on side projects
49
8
Flight of the Fire Ants
38
9
Fasting, Longevity and Metabolism
22
10
Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground
12