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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Every Google result now looks like an ad

3592

2

Thank HN: You helped me get a new job

2425

3

Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

2272

4

Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

1636

5

A Sad Day for Rust

1243

6

Mozilla lays off 70

929

7

Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

834

8

833

9

DigitalOcean is laying off staff

816

10

Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month

800

Top Ask HN

1

What are the best unknown books you have read?

613

2

Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?

372

3

How do you manage your bookmarks?

279

4

Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

258

5

What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?

224

6

Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?

198

7

Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?

187

8

I don't want to be a worker any more I want to be a professional

132

9

Why does anyone still use Medium?

87

10

My Suspicion Regarding “M247 Ltd”

78

Top Show HN

1

Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

520

2

ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

505

3

OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

459

4

A set of standard document templates

433

5

Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable

429

6

1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Computer

230

7

Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React

222

8

Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter

217

9

Train a language model to talk like you

209

10

Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machines

203

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mozilla lays off 70

929

2

DigitalOcean is laying off staff

816

3

Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service

414

4

Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used

377

5

Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)

362

6

Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

287

7

AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates

223

8

How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online

152

9

To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

109

10

Hyundai and Kia back Arrival, a British startup making electric delivery vans

93

News [?]

1

Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

2272

2

Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

834

3

Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'

625

4

EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces

591

5

Christopher Tolkien has died

514

6

Back pain is a problem which is badly treated

467

7

How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

418

8

Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images

369

9

Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

345

10

First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.

315

Scientific publications [?]

1

Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)

210

2

No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites

92

3

Aspects of Categorical Recursion Theory

85

4

Study finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in 'strange metal'

49

5

Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Supernova?

27

6

Study traces evolution of acoustic communication

21

7

IBM Reveals “Staggering” New Battery Tech, Withholds Technical Details

17

8

Earth's Magnetic North Pole Continues Drifting, Crosses Prime Meridian (2019)

12

9

11

10

Engineers Are Pushing Machine Learning to the World’s Humblest Microprocessors

10

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What is Rust and why is it so popular?

296

2

Reformer, the Efficient Transformer

158

3

A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

138

4

Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

137

5

Google offers certificate to help IT career growth

95

6

Stack Overflow is forming a moderator council

78

7

X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference to Find More Welcoming Location

60

8

Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release

56

9

Mitigation for Intel GPU Vulnerability Obliterates Gen7 iGPU Performance

38

10

The Dark Side of Expertise

19

Tech blogs [?]

1

New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces

167

2

EFF Asks SCOTUS to Stop Broad Interpretations of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

28

3

Lockheed Martin to develop ground-launched hypersonic missile

27

4

Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data

15

5

EFF Statement on Glenn Greenwald Charges

13

6

FBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone 11 Pro

8

7

Vulkan 1.2 Specification Release: Refining Efficiency and Development Simplicity

4

8

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Will Blow Up Soon, and That's OK

4

9

ICANN Needs to Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG

3

10

Bit Twiddling Tricks Will Make Your Coworkers Hate You

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Sumerian: create and run browser-based 3D, AR, and VR applications

34

2

Amazon EKS Price Reduction

13

3

Support for Windows 7 has ended

10

4

Design Notes for Alto Operating System (1973) [pdf]

5

5

How to Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

4

6

Consistent OIDC authentication across multiple EKS clusters

1

7

Microsoft Application Inspector

1

8

At-risk youth get a fresh look and a fresh start

1

9

Apple’s critically acclaimed anthology series “Little America” now streaming

1

10

Search and Earn with Microsoft Rewards

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

486

2

An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)

484

3

Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction

453

4

I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models

168

5

Where Do New Ideas Come From?

64

6

The Planet Is Burning

15

7

When employees are open with each other, but not management

14

8

When Goodharting Is Optimal

11

9

Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems

11

10

All We Owe to Animals

9

Science News [?]

1

BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next

627

2

A watershed moment for protein structure prediction

272

3

SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

244

4

Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons

153

5

Internet use reduces study skills in university students

121

6

A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops

105

7

'Universal memory' research passes new milestone

102

8

Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete

79

9

Summer Sea Ice Could End This Decade: The Voyage to the End of Ice

77

10

FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful

63

Social [?]

1

Every Google result now looks like an ad

3592

2

Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink

289

3

ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs

240

4

The light is off. War is over

225

5

“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”

172

6

What Unix Cost Us [video]

152

7

Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019

116

8

We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say

51

9

The 2038 problem is already affecting some systems

48

10

1900 NYC colorized by latest and unreleased DeOldify model

47

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Reverse engineering course

656

2

How I write back ends

521

3

A small DIY air purifier

339

4

Actix project postmortem

338

5

HTTP static server one-liners

286

6

DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

264

7

A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties

244

8

Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018)

210

9

Netgear Signed TLS Cert Private Key Disclosure

198

10

CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT

188

Wikipedia [?]

1

Boltzmann Brain

238

2

NOBUS (Nobody but Us)

184

3

168

4

Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment

103

5

81

6

Chaitin's Constant

81

7

78

8

Synchronization gear

54

9

54

10

List of Prolific Writers

54

Blogs [?]

1

An alternative argument for why women leave STEM

629

2

How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

396

3

Incarcerated and Facebook

194

4

Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices

137

5

A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change

135

6

ANSI Common Lisp (1995)

129

7

The Roots of Lisp (2001)

124

8

Grammars for Programming Languages (2018)

88

9

One Week of Bugs (2014)

32

10

Muslims Are Being “Slaughtered on Demand” for Their Organs in China

24

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How is std:is_function implemented?

2

2

Firefox isn't accept 204 for CORS

2

3

Alternatives to Scanf in C Language

2

4

How does one make a Zip bomb?

2

5

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

1

6

Why is using the rails default_scope often recommend against?

1

Substack [?]

1

Dark Horse Discord

194

2

How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX

18

3

Big Social Strikes Back

5

4

Goodbye, Oracle

4

5

The Cheerleading Monopoly Varsity Brands

3

6

Breakout Startups Pro #5- Repl.it

3

7

Systems thinking helps product design

3

8

This Isn't a Democracy, It's a Cheerocracy: Varsity Brands Cheerleading Monopoly

3

9

The Future of Industrial Meat Production

2

10

When you write a web server but you get served

2