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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1649

2

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

1594

3

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

1243

4

Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

1106

5

Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

1105

6

1037

7

Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

967

8

A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]

785

9

In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

719

10

The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

683

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2020)

592

2

I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

409

3

Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

359

4

What’s your daily/weekly routine?

106

5

How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?

87

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)

78

7

Geopolitical forums similar to HN?

70

8

Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder

64

9

What was the best project management style you have been a part of?

50

10

What are the most interesting things in tech lately?

46

Top Show HN

1

I built an After Effects for dummies

868

2

WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

393

3

Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook

371

4

Find HN threads about the page you're browsing

260

5

Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations

224

6

A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

217

7

High performance X11 animated wallpapers

188

8

Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making

187

9

Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer

167

10

A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python

159

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed

483

2

Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

348

3

Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

312

4

Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

268

5

IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

247

6

Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

235

7

Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies

224

8

Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads

222

9

Unauthorized Bread: Jailbreaking IoT toasters

212

10

Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store

199

News [?]

1

Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

1106

2

NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975

576

3

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

524

4

Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action

416

5

TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

336

6

Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

335

7

Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?

301

8

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

293

9

Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

278

10

‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy

277

Scientific publications [?]

1

UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP

88

2

How real are real numbers? (2004)

81

3

Ultra-rare kaon decay could lead to evidence of new physics

53

4

iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable

48

5

New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19

47

6

New analysis method predicts disruptive solar flares

46

7

A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered 'Snowball Earths'

44

8

Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? (2013)

22

9

SpaceX fires up newest Starship prototype, eyes test flight soon – Space

7

10

Use This AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An update on our security incident

228

2

OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM

200

3

Lockless Algorithms for Mere Mortals

173

4

Why Credit Card Fraud Is Still a Thing

160

5

New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation

157

6

Is your chip card secure? Much depends on where you bank

155

7

Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust

151

8

Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers

115

9

ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

109

10

Cloudflare Network Interconnect

99

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

309

2

A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law

106

3

New ‘Unpatchable’ Exploit Found in Apple’s Secure Enclave Chip

102

4

Emails Reveal Why Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller Blocked In-App Kindle Purchases

36

5

Microsoft to Stop Supporting Office 2016 for Mac in October

18

6

Pinephone Gets Thermal Imaging Backpack

9

7

University App Mandates Are the Wrong Call

7

8

Covid Tracing Apps: What Europe Has Done Right, and Wrong

5

9

Join your own private LORA mesh network

5

10

Third Circuit rules school can't discipline student for social media speech

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

27-inch iMac gets a major update

340

2

Apple reports Q3 results

185

3

Join the AWS Community Builders Program

13

4

Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond

7

5

PHP 7.4 up to 37% faster on ARM CPUs

4

6

Mental Models to Clarify the Goals of Digital Transformation, Part 1

3

7

iTunes Gift Cards Usable Towards Products Now

3

8

Phil Schiller Advances to Apple Fellow

3

9

Building well-architected serverless applications: Introduction

3

10

Imperative functional programming (1992) [pdf]

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker

151

2

The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions

133

3

Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree

66

4

IBM Building 025

65

5

UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing

58

6

Note to self – never give up on your dreams

49

7

Damn Cool Illusion

25

8

If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?

24

9

The Palatino FAQ (1998)

14

10

Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface

14

Science News [?]

1

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

489

2

A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness

430

3

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

247

4

Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test

169

5

Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean

122

6

Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity

89

7

Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs

61

8

Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With

50

9

The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

46

10

In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs

37

Social [?]

1

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

1594

2

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

1243

3

A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]

785

4

US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

585

5

SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

530

6

NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]

405

7

Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle

295

8

Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT

258

9

Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning

203

10

Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

179

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

277

2

I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes

243

3

Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000

186

4

A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering

161

5

IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

152

6

Bootstrap Icons

133

7

OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation

128

8

Synfig Studio – FOSS industrial-strength 2D film-quality animation software

96

9

CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes

85

10

The semver trick (2019)

85

Wikipedia [?]

1

Howland Will Forgery Trial

66

2

59

3

History of software engineering

27

4

24

5

Navajo Language Grammar

9

6

9

7

Cleaning Station

7

8

Atlantic City Algorithm

7

9

5

10

Prince Rupert's Drop

5

Blogs [?]

1

Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

465

2

The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated

150

3

TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs

131

4

The Secret Origin of the Action RPG

124

5

The BEAM needs an APL-y language (2018)

27

6

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how

16

7

US Printed More Money in One Month Than in Two Centuries

14

8

Introudction to Ansible Playbooks

11

9

Ray Ray Tracing Raises Ray Tracing Rate

10

10

Opening up the 911 system using a Convolutional neural network

10

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is a “cache-friendly” code?

3

2

Can you add new statements to Python's syntax?

1

3

Why is no one using make for Java?

1

4

AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with Amazon vs. AWS

1

Substack [?]

1

To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance

209

2

Crash and Burn: The Amiga ST Story

56

3

37

4

My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

21

5

Unbundling Work from Employment

20

6

A GPT-3 Written Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

9

7

The Left Is Now the Right

8

8

GPT-3 Blog post got to the top of Hacker News and 26k total visitors in 2 weeks

6

9

The Day Big Tech Stopped Being Untouchable

4

10

How Netflix is winning the world?

4