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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
1125
2
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
841
3
Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
737
4
Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
698
5
ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
669
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
654
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Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
653
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Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
650
9
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
638
10
Nubank acquires Cognitect
618
Top Ask HN
1
Is all of FAANG like this?
738
2
Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?
333
3
What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?
280
4
Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
186
5
Resources to start learning about quantum computing?
185
6
Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?
113
7
Cloudflare incorrectly banned me – can anyone help?
64
8
I hate coding, but it's all that's on my resume. What do I do?
63
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Is it possible to get PhD without completing bachelors
62
10
Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location?
48
Top Show HN
1
TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
756
2
Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
462
3
MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
390
4
A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location
303
5
React Guitar – A guitar component for React
242
6
React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
220
7
Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects
200
8
UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
176
9
UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components
145
10
I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
140
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
841
2
Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
593
3
Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps
324
4
Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations
268
5
One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
264
6
Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
226
7
Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
226
8
The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
218
9
11M households could be evicted over the next four months
208
10
Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed
207
News [?]
1
Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
1125
2
Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
698
3
ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
669
4
Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
597
5
Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays
559
6
One hour of slow breathing changed my life
550
7
Google to keep employees home until summer 2021
413
8
Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities
386
9
More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
382
10
The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online
344
Scientific publications [?]
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How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
278
2
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
195
3
A new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects
75
4
Solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks (2019)
46
5
Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display on human skin
44
6
Novel 'on-off' switch discovered in plant defenses
37
7
“Strange metals,” a new state of matter
14
8
Ancient African skull sheds light on American crocodile origins
10
9
Quantum physicists crack mystery of 'strange metals,' a new state of matter
7
10
An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
737
2
Apple Security Research Device Program
330
3
Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
275
4
OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
267
5
Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
250
6
Highlights from Git 2.28
201
7
LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
198
8
macOS 11 Virtualization Framework to Run Linux in a VM
172
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New Features in Gnuplot 5.4
154
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Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
133
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023
210
2
Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the camera on iOS 14
202
3
All Your Passwords Are Belong to FPGA
76
4
MP3 Is 25 Years Old
29
5
SFPD Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
11
6
San Francisco Police Accessed Private Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
10
7
Trump Appointee’s Removal of Open Technology Fund Leadership Is Unlawful
10
8
Intel 7nm Delayed by 6 Months, Considering Using Third-Party Fabs
6
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Intel Reorganizes in Wake of 7nm Woes; Chief Engineering Officer to Depart
5
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Rock Pi 4 Model C: NVMe and EMMC in a Raspberry Pi Layout
4
FAANG+ [?]
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How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
64
2
Giving away my kindle eBook, a YA SciFi novel about AI – Blue Screen
27
3
Microsoft Earnings Release FY20 Q4
5
4
Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage
5
5
Apple's New Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable (2 m) – $129.00
5
6
The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available
4
7
Apple sells a $129.00 Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable (2 m)
3
8
The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987) [pdf]
3
9
Microsoft: Earnings Release FY20 Q4
2
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Apple donates its proceeds from John Lewis documentary to museums that honor his
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
611
2
Are we in an AI Overhang?
261
3
Noprocrast (2010)
155
4
Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub
147
5
19th-century female husbands
67
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Tesla Model Y Road Trip Review: a no-compromise electric SUV
33
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‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Wants to Restart Pirate Honeypot from Prison
13
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Vint Cerf's "Quantum Internet" Comments
8
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Jam Is Obsolete
7
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Politics Is the Mind-Killer (2007)
7
Science News [?]
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Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
650
2
Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
266
3
Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea
157
4
Machu Picchu was purposely built on intersecting fault lines: research (2019)
130
5
A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice
126
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Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
106
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The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania
101
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Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem
96
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‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
95
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams
94
Social [?]
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Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective
488
2
Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund
387
3
Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites
249
4
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]
186
5
Luigi Model found in Mario 64 source code
150
6
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
125
7
Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video]
119
8
Mozilla sending political ads via Firefox push notification
99
9
Garmin Outage Persists After 24 Hours Downtime
96
10
Acorn Archimedes – A Technical Introduction (1987) [video]
70
Github repos and gists [?]
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Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
588
2
1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
556
3
GitHub Public Roadmap
483
4
Hiring Without Whiteboards
481
5
Rust explained using easy English
335
6
Basics of Haskell – Code and exercises
268
7
Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
248
8
OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64
244
9
Semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages
202
10
Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
153
Wikipedia [?]
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Ludic Fallacy
119
2
Mao Kun Map
44
3
List of important publications in computer science
30
4
Brainbow
16
5
Cephalization
14
6
Deadliest Animals to Humans
11
7
Penrose Graphical Notation
6
8
Haitz's Law
6
9
Blue Banana
5
10
The Glass Bead Game
4
Blogs [?]
1
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
638
2
Who gets invited to the party?
418
3
We’re treating self-improvement like a software upgrade
101
4
The Death of the Photo Studio
66
5
Quit Twitter (2019)
47
6
Quora Bans Me for Saying the Earth Isn’t Flat
38
7
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
26
8
Equity for All?
22
9
Quora Banned Me for Saying the Earth Isn't Flat
20
10
Equity for all? My experience as Carta’s lone woman executive
19
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Rust – How do I create a global, mutable singleton? (2015)
53
Substack [?]
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How to validate your startup idea quickly
175
2
Imperial Wars Always Come Home
127
3
Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley
94
4
Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
84
5
The Digitized Culture Wars
41
6
Why Most Founders Don’t Take Good Advice
39
7
Founder-Investor Fit
36
8
Open Letter to Paul Graham
25
9
Building personal moats and killer features
22
10
Psycho bosses are bad for business
18