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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
2595
2
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
1782
3
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
1079
4
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
1074
5
Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
1025
6
Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
989
7
Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
972
8
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
945
9
Cloudflare was down
926
10
Things I wish I’d known about CSS
878
Top Ask HN
1
What is the best enterprise software you use every day?
197
2
Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
128
3
How to take notes?
101
4
Which book helped you understand the world?
59
5
What's your favorite HN post?
59
6
CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?
56
7
How did you get website traffic?
55
8
Dynamic memory/CPU provisioning for VMs?
51
9
How do you market your blog/articles
50
10
How to nab and block a creepy user?
47
Top Show HN
1
3D Book Image CSS Generator
638
2
Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking
280
3
A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS
248
4
Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library
238
5
UUIDs that are Shakespearean, grammatically correct sentences
154
6
Cookie Recipe Generator
137
7
YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
134
8
Dendron – a roam like open source markdown note taking app
127
9
Reactive Resume, a free and open source resume builder
121
10
Translate Any Text to Emojis
117
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
560
2
Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
547
3
Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
236
4
Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
216
5
Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic
172
6
SpaceX successfully catches both fairing for the first time
168
7
Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
135
8
EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you
133
9
Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k
131
10
A man trying to automate Thailand’s hospitals
88
News [?]
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The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
642
2
Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
521
3
The global fertility rate is falling
485
4
Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
474
5
Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
415
6
Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
397
7
How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life
388
8
Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire
366
9
TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
363
10
LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide
359
Scientific publications [?]
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Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away
373
2
Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer
282
3
What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed
158
4
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
132
5
Volcanoes on Venus are still active
121
6
Reactive Probabilistic Programming
110
7
Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer
92
8
Understanding quaternions and the Dirac belt trick (2010)
59
9
Enduring Mental Health: Prevalence and Prediction
58
10
Scientists uncover first atomic structure of Epstein-Bar virus nucleocapsid
55
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
2595
2
Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
746
3
An update on our security incident
547
4
Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
522
5
A new and improved Twitter API
208
6
The GitHub Availability Report
180
7
On the Twitter Hack
174
8
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
159
9
Stripe Is Holding 25% of Our Funds, Indefinitely
156
10
What's New in Lua 5.4
138
Tech blogs [?]
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DDR5 Memory Specification Released
213
2
AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them
140
3
The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines
120
4
NES Emulator on Arduino
57
5
Proteus becomes the world's first manufactured non-cuttable material
47
6
Safe, fast-charging lithium battery handles five times the current
29
7
EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy
16
8
Apple to remove, replace non-inclusive language in code base
15
9
Apple accused of censoring pro-democracy app in Hong Kong
9
10
EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy
8
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030
166
2
Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites
166
3
New Microsoft Edge
35
4
Container Networking Security Issue (CVE-2020-8558)
31
5
Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter
29
6
Haribo Gummi Bears Amazon Reviews
7
7
Apple is carbon neutral. And by 2030, all of our products will be too
4
8
Amazon Dash Cart: cashierless checkout
4
9
Apple teams up with HBCUs to bring coding and creativity opportunities to
3
10
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
India, Jio, and the Four Internets
420
2
The Passport Payment (2000)
209
3
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
188
4
Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
155
5
India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere
136
6
FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone swarm mystery
117
7
One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (2016)
108
8
Nostalgia Reimagined
34
9
Mountain Beavers and Control of Mountain Beaver Damage (2005)
27
10
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Russia Report
17
Science News [?]
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Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
196
2
First manufactured non-cuttable material
135
3
How the heart influences what we perceive and fear
117
4
Study of over 1m people finds association between lifespan and blood iron levels
109
5
Inside the Coronavirus
106
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The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (2017)
102
7
Tackling the misinformation epidemic with “In Event of Moon Disaster”
82
8
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
79
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The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic
74
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SARS-CoV-2-specific immunity in Covid-19 and SARS cases, and uninfected controls
72
Social [?]
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I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
560
2
The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
543
3
OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
503
4
Mars images rendered in 4K [video]
350
5
Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far
242
6
Claude Shannon Documentatry, “Bit Player”, Released Today
150
7
Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]
133
8
Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]
128
9
Drone footage of Reddit's major investor rounding up people for religious belief
127
10
The Trick
83
Github repos and gists [?]
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NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go
390
2
Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
342
3
ProcMon for Linux
232
4
Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
203
5
Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster
171
6
Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine
136
7
Vue v3.0.0-RC.1
128
8
Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app
125
9
WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
120
10
Fast Vue SSR with Rust and QuickJS
95
Wikipedia [?]
1
Low-Background Steel
359
2
MagiCan
181
3
Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect
141
4
Lincos language
80
5
Excess-3
37
6
The Brussels Effect
37
7
Tunnels and Trolls
21
8
Nicolas Bourbaki: The Greatest Mathematician That Never Existed
19
9
Belling the Cat
19
10
Battle of Athens (1946)
11
Blogs [?]
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When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
1074
2
Orthodox Privilege
610
3
New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
353
4
Designing a New Old Home: Part 1
304
5
The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
181
6
Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)
161
7
Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell
127
8
The Guns of Bitcoin (2017)
52
9
Post-Commit Reviews
46
10
Viaweb FAQ (2004)
42
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What Is The arrow Operator in C++? (2009)
2
Substack [?]
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Building a Developer Cult
282
2
Robinhood and How to Lose Money
255
3
Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking
198
4
Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the Internet Echo Chamber
74
5
Big Tech’s Years-Long Manipulation of American Op-Ed Pages
39
6
Legal Support for Substack Writers
33
7
“They would have said faster horses” – An example of asking wrong questions
32
8
Why are we anchored often?
21
9
The Left Is Now the Right
18
10
Boldness and Creativity Trumps Intelligence
10