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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Grant Imahara Has Died
1963
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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1489
3
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
1285
4
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1106
5
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
1099
6
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
1034
7
You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
964
8
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
880
9
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
858
10
How to Understand Things
816
Top Ask HN
1
My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
657
2
What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
537
3
Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
283
4
How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
151
5
Anyone from Apple here? It's impossible to enroll the dev program
97
6
Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?
80
7
Best resources to learn about stock trading and investing?
71
8
What do you want to see in a resume / GitHub profile?
65
9
Are YouTube ads getting worse?
64
10
What is your favorite low-end setup you've ever done?
61
Top Show HN
1
Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
575
2
Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature
402
3
Runnaroo – A new search engine
380
4
Is It Worth the Cost?
319
5
Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity
216
6
Sed to C translator written in sed
160
7
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book
154
8
Screenr – Automated Workflow for Your Email
118
9
Notado – Content-First Bookmarking
96
10
ip2unix – Turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets
94
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google to Invest $10B in India
422
2
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
392
3
Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
287
4
Nvidia is now worth more than Intel
273
5
Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
223
6
Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired
198
7
Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365
136
8
Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration
104
9
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
77
10
How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)
67
News [?]
1
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1489
2
U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas
498
3
Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
379
4
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
354
5
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
293
6
The stock market and economy have parted ways
282
7
Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say
268
8
Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open
268
9
Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
257
10
One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud
227
Scientific publications [?]
1
Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
524
2
Neural programmer better than Quicksort
282
3
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion thru social networks (2014)
166
4
The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio
150
5
Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students
103
6
Comet streaking past Earth, providing spectacular show
86
7
Behind the dead-water phenomenon
75
8
Giant clams manipulate light to assist their symbiotic partner
48
9
Special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better
42
10
Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions
42
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1106
2
LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
412
3
Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in
390
4
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
251
5
Confidential VMs
181
6
Bringing the print statement back
148
7
Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
147
8
Linus Torvalds on AVX512
140
9
“LibreOffice is at serious risk”
126
10
Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way
106
Tech blogs [?]
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xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker
148
2
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
133
3
Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?
124
4
EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
119
5
Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel
117
6
EFF Database of Police Agencies and Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
21
7
EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
17
8
The Complexities of Apple's Butterfly Approach to ISAs
7
9
Making Smalltalk on a Raspberry Pi
5
10
New EU Regulation Gives App Store Developers More Protection and Transparency
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Intel in Macs (2007)
222
2
AWS Copilot
153
3
Apple expands iPhone repair services to hundreds of new locations across the US
16
4
AWS Copilot
6
5
MSFT launches new beta app to help devs working AI
4
6
AWS Well-Architected Framework – Updated White Papers, Tools, and Best Practices
4
7
PLA: Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
3
8
Microsoft Research: Studies in Pandemic Preparedness
2
9
Apple allocates more than $400M to combat California housing crisis
2
10
The future of work–the good, the challenging and the unknown
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The TikTok War
353
2
The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)
344
3
An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
240
4
The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire
159
5
Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021
112
6
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV
109
7
Group brainstorming is a waste of time (2015)
96
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Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower
95
9
Vienna, City of Paradox
82
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A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater
66
Science News [?]
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MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
365
2
Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time
233
3
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
181
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Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19
152
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Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
125
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Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income
114
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Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
109
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The illusion of control, and how to give it up
79
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Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
74
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Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector
69
Social [?]
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Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
546
2
PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN
482
3
July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy
420
4
Writing a software book and making over $100k
250
5
The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video]
137
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The growing short case on Facebook and Google
119
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John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)
101
8
Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces
87
9
What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video]
61
10
Digital Audio on VHS – The Technics SV-P100 [video]
59
Github repos and gists [?]
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App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
596
2
Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone
450
3
EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
419
4
Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb
320
5
PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
305
6
Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries
268
7
MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
259
8
Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format
215
9
Ariane RISC-V CPU – An open source CPU capable of booting Linux
210
10
Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
204
Wikipedia [?]
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Nsibidi
55
2
Zamburak
52
3
Marine glass sponge that builds silica skeletons
26
4
The Shock Doctrine
13
5
Chewbacca defense
13
6
Unschooling
12
7
Gaslighting
9
8
Maeslantkering
8
9
Whipple Shield
6
10
List of Languages by Time of Extinction
6
Blogs [?]
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Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
248
2
The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
207
3
Cars and hygiene killed the middle-class hat
95
4
Charlie Chaplin Was Almost Assassinated in Japan to Start a War
64
5
MTG Hivemind: Artificial Intelligence Designing Magic the Gathering Cards
63
6
Scanimage: Scan from the Command Line
42
7
Software 2.0 (2017)
38
8
I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
30
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AI Dungeon now uses the largest GPT-3 model offered by OpenAI
24
10
American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
23
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to Create GUID / UUID in JavaScript?
2
2
Ledger Investing (YC W17) Is Hiring UI/UX Designers (Full-Time and Remote)
1
3
How to compare char* to string literal in C? [closed]
1
Substack [?]
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Why are toys such a bad business?
180
2
A $500M call option on home gyms
150
3
The international student bait-and-switch
144
4
If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
118
5
The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
77
6
Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school
74
7
A Land of Monopolists: From Portable Toilets to Mixed Martial Arts
74
8
African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to help them
55
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The unbundling of Harvard has begun
47
10
“Runway Programming Languages” and Fast Fashion
38