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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1878

2

Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

1858

3

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

1704

4

Mozilla Lifeboat

1518

5

1283

6

I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]

985

7

Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

827

8

Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

820

9

808

10

Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

721

Top Ask HN

1

Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?

345

2

How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

327

3

How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

307

4

Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

229

5

Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

212

6

How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?

158

7

Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

137

8

Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?

135

9

Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?

134

10

Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks

102

Top Show HN

1

Photo Realistic QR-Codes

482

2

I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

312

3

I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync

289

4

Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases

261

5

259

6

Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

255

7

Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem

219

8

Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool

181

9

Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool

155

10

dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily

134

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

1704

2

Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps

461

3

Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

439

4

Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google

370

5

Air pollution is worse than we thought

323

6

Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year

218

7

Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games

177

8

GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

173

9

Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge for App Store ban

168

10

Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

160

News [?]

1

Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

719

2

Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

558

3

Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

478

4

Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

398

5

Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal

365

6

Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931

353

7

Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden

325

8

Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

314

9

Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious

304

10

China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership

290

Scientific publications [?]

1

Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light

290

2

The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

168

3

Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases

150

4

Humanly Traversable Wormholes

149

5

Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (2018)

97

6

Cellular Automata as Convolutional Neural Networks

87

7

Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit

84

8

Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it

81

9

Fossilised 429-million-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision

75

10

Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

70

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

436

2

207

3

Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4

108

4

Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules

89

5

Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels

80

6

Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding

74

7

Medical debt collection firm R1 RCM hit in ransomware attack

69

8

A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps

45

9

Linux 5.9 Brings Safeguard Following Nvidia's Recent “GPL Condom” Incident

35

10

How to Start Using Microservices

31

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed

118

2

Kapton: Miracle Material with a Tragic History

112

3

Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive

50

4

Micron Confirms RTX 3090, Will Have over 1 TB/S GDDR6X Bandwidth

20

5

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving ByteDance 90 Days to Sell US TikTok Business

19

6

Facebook is now merging instagram and messenger chats into one service

19

7

Fortnite Introduces Direct Payment Option on iOS Despite AppStore Guidelines

18

8

Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs – Up to 60 Cores per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021

9

9

95% of Chinese Users Would Rather Give Up Their iPhones Than Lose WeChat

9

10

Apple terminating Epic’s developer account over Fortnite App Store protest

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple announces Apple Music radio

69

2

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket

11

3

The New Surface Duo

9

4

Amazon Braket – Go Hands-On with Quantum Computing

7

5

AWS Announces WorldForge in AWS RoboMaker

6

6

AWS Load Balancers Are Adding Desync Mitigation Mode

4

7

Amazon Braket – Go Hands-On with Quantum Computing

4

8

Using Swift Combine with AWS Amplify

4

9

AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2

3

10

AWS Glue 2.0: 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple, Epic, and the App Store

508

2

A Database of Historical Cookbooks

272

3

Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt enemies they can't see

117

4

Found: A Miniature Incan Llama at the Bottom of Lake Titicaca

88

5

Musk: Tesla Full Self-Driving is going to have 'quantum leap' with new rewrite

25

6

Adobe Sued for Sending ‘Bogus’ DMCA Notices to Take Down Genuine Software

4

7

Is Climate Change an Existential Risk?

4

8

High-quality piracy boosts box office revenues in opening week, research finds

4

9

Catastrophe drives evolution but life resides in the pauses

3

10

Remote Managers Are Having Trust Issues

3

Science News [?]

1

Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety

340

2

Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health

277

3

Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish

261

4

Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores

254

5

No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US

254

6

Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

245

7

Global wave discovery ends 220-year search

179

8

Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths

177

9

The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water

160

10

Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood

156

Social [?]

1

Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th

699

2

Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

595

3

Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut

476

4

"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla

428

5

Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

325

6

Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team

314

7

Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk

305

8

Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams

230

9

An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon

181

10

Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended

127

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

721

2

What's the future of Servo?

578

3

A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode

455

4

Karpathy's MinGPT

374

5

A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32

352

6

Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git

259

7

Simple SQL in Python

233

8

Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor

200

9

In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

188

10

Google's differential privacy library

167

Wikipedia [?]

1

Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

35

2

Mozilla made $436M from search deals in 2018

32

3

List of games that Buddha would not play

24

4

19

5

Atari Transputer Workstation

9

6

7

7

Russian Web Brigades

6

8

The Dancing Plague of 1518

6

9

6

10

Chomsky Hierarchy

6

Blogs [?]

1

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You

662

2

Modeling a Wealth Tax

645

3

Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development

168

4

Virtual Machines for Multi-Tenancy in Varnish

63

5

I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

61

6

Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs

43

7

The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity

38

8

I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur

34

9

Stop Panicking about the Post Office

19

10

The Rise of Chick-Fil-A

17

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

Ghost.org deleted my website

421

2

The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

245

3

Users as people and the participatory economy

48

4

Capitalism Cancels the Passions

33

5

Why does Google wants to be your bank?

20

6

Innovators are shaping Africa’s ‘informal economy’

19

7

Tencent: The Outsider

11

8

Stop calling everything a “flywheel.” You're making a fool of yourself

10

9

What Makes Jio Different?

8

10

What Makes Jio Different?

6