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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1602
2
Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
1194
3
20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
1062
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Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
1043
5
Frances Allen has died
892
6
Single Page Applications using Rust
886
7
How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
804
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I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
792
9
Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
789
10
Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
771
Top Ask HN
1
What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
326
2
What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
314
3
What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
212
4
Films that made you see the world differently?
196
5
How does your organisation train programmers?
123
6
Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?
60
7
How do you practice social soft skills in real life?
41
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Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?
41
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Should a Startup in the messy middle change TOS on every turn?
31
10
Black bar added to top of page?
31
Top Show HN
1
Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
442
2
EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service
228
3
Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML
215
4
Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
192
5
Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX
164
6
Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
129
7
Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
98
8
Kvak.io – Online Notepad
90
9
A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app
88
10
MyDeskTour – Show off your desk setup
68
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
769
2
Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
621
3
Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
612
4
Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
351
5
Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
344
6
Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
321
7
The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut
264
8
Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft
247
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Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
242
10
Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money
239
News [?]
1
Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
1194
2
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
734
3
Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
637
4
Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
567
5
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
445
6
Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
417
7
Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
397
8
Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
388
9
CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
335
10
How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
329
Scientific publications [?]
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Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
168
2
5G Just Got Weird
167
3
Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
106
4
Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000)
96
5
Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside room-temperature metals
71
6
Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (2013)
53
7
An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia
52
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DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan
50
9
Hardware Accelerator for Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Neural Networks
48
10
Steve Crocker on the History of RFCs
43
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
1602
2
Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
789
3
Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
236
4
How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
217
5
Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
199
6
Emulating Windows system calls in Linux
180
7
How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
125
8
A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
105
9
New TypeScript Website
94
10
On-Device Supermarket Product Recognition
83
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
274
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Spacetime wave packets: New class of laser defies laws of light physics
121
3
Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
117
4
20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
65
5
Apple News+ in iOS 14 opens articles in Apple News, intercepting website traffic
43
6
Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company For Using a Pear Logo
23
7
Automated mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer’s apps
20
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Tim Cook's Style of Leadership
20
9
20GB Intel Data Leak
11
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Automated mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer’s apps
6
FAANG+ [?]
1
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
126
2
iMac 2020
7
3
How to become a Redis maintainer one contribution at a time
5
4
AWS Wavelength Zones Are Now Open in Boston and San Francisco
4
5
Direct Lambda Resolvers: AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs Without VTL
4
6
The new 27-inch iMac has 1080p camera and studio-quality three-mic array
2
7
AWS AppSync Releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
2
8
Activated credit cards where mailed to people who didn’t ask for them (1993)
2
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Understanding database options for your serverless web applications
1
10
Creating low-latency, high-volume APIs with Provisioned Concurrency
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes
128
2
Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design
110
3
Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens
95
4
Pioneers of Soviet Computing (2010)
49
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The Challenges and Delights of Photographing the Night Sky
46
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The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
33
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Tesla’s made-in-China cars lead market in quality while US-mad cars score lowest
11
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SMS bot with Google Sheets and Twilio (no coding)
4
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Non-Politically Correct Slate Star Codex blog Posts Erased from Internet Archive
4
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‘Boomerang’ earthquake detected under The Atlantic Ocean
3
Science News [?]
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Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
211
2
Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
136
3
Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study
132
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Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
108
5
Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs
87
6
A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World
76
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Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
62
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Windows 10 turns thumbs down on CCleaner
24
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How should society judge a defendant with a brain tumor? (2017)
20
10
You Could Download Video Games from the Radio in the 1980s
16
Social [?]
1
20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
1062
2
Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
1043
3
I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
792
4
IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach
241
5
Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
184
6
The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
168
7
HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers?
71
8
92,857 BTC (1,092,603,630 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
62
9
Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook?
52
10
Mesosphere (open-source Nintendo Switch kernel) now boots most commercial games
37
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
503
2
Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
410
3
Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
385
4
The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
356
5
OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
342
6
Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go
217
7
GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
208
8
InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents
189
9
Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS
167
10
Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics
167
Wikipedia [?]
1
Arcosanti
230
2
Blissymbols
81
3
The Third Wave (experiment)
50
4
Paradox of Tolerance
25
5
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuak
19
6
Dené–Yeniseian Languages
17
7
Cultural Revolution
15
8
Morrison Shelter
12
9
Sony Vaio UX Micro PC (2006)
4
10
Hobby Tunneling
4
Blogs [?]
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Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
326
2
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
171
3
How malicious Tor relays are exploiting users in 2020
148
4
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)
147
5
On Using Twitter
81
6
An Iterative Approach to Notes
71
7
Jabra: We know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops. Sorry, no refunds
56
8
Dagster: The Data Orchestrator
23
9
Jobs to Be Done Framework Is More Useful Than Personas
22
10
Tools You Should Know as a Cybersecurity Engineer
19
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is an example of the Liskov Substitution Principle?
7
2
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
3
3
How to access physical addresses from user space in Linux?
1
4
How to redundently remove elements from an array
1
5
StackOverflow Announces Articles
1
6
How to create a full-text search index
1
7
Why is “1000000B in range(1000000B+1)” so fast in Python 3?
1
8
Browsers Don't care about file extensions
1
Substack [?]
1
Oatly: The New Coke?
456
2
Is Hacker News Bullshit?
253
3
UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists
137
4
An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
133
5
A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking
69
6
Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
60
7
A User Guide To Working With You
53
8
Cornell Notes: Take Effective Notes
47
9
Warren Buffett: America's Folksiest Predator
19
10
Economic Considerations to Optimize Your Remote Work Perk
7