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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Africa declared free of wild polio
1387
2
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
1257
3
Can't you just right click?
1169
4
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
884
5
Being OK with not being extraordinary
830
6
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
824
7
Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book
799
8
Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
745
9
Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
738
10
How to Write in Plain English
724
Top Ask HN
1
Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
1403
2
How to do cross platform GUI?
207
3
There are 5 S-1 posts on the front page, what explains the rush?
134
4
How to Become a Music Buff?
97
5
What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
92
6
What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?
76
7
How do I “make the switch” towards becoming a director or VP
45
8
Why do many sites now put username+password entry on different pages?
45
9
Do You Despise Marketing?
42
10
Why Reddit's New Website Is So Slow?
40
Top Show HN
1
Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks
231
2
My notes on Working with Go
185
3
Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go
175
4
Will It CORS? – an automatic CORS explainer
152
5
ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML
145
6
Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS
143
7
Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window
135
8
Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
119
9
A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
101
10
HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes
99
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
518
2
Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
424
3
Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
409
4
Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019
288
5
GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
253
6
The dual PhD problem of today’s startups
230
7
A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers
226
8
California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators
222
9
University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang
173
10
Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings
162
News [?]
1
Africa declared free of wild polio
1387
2
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
884
3
Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
824
4
Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
552
5
Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
508
6
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
399
7
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
359
8
My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
324
9
Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
318
10
The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
318
Scientific publications [?]
1
Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
217
2
Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun
196
3
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study
139
4
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
101
5
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is more than the company’s response to SpaceX
95
6
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network
73
7
Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States
60
8
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)
51
9
Three Ways to Hack a Printed Circuit Board
43
10
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
22
Dev Blogs [?]
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The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
360
2
Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet
155
3
Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
132
4
TypeScript 4.0
128
5
A more detailed, colorful map
81
6
New and improved Workers Docs
53
7
GKE’s new dataplane uses the eBPF-based Cilium project
50
8
Titan in Depth: Security in Plaintext
42
9
Tackling open challenges in offline reinforcement learning
38
10
Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core to Be Faster Than an Arm Cortex-A73
36
Tech blogs [?]
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Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
272
2
‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
198
3
Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
193
4
Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada
187
5
“Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner
124
6
Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42 TFLOPs of FP32 Performance
94
7
Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data
53
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Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter
48
9
Nvidia datacentre revenues surpasses gaming for first time
41
10
Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs
39
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
225
2
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
189
3
Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
100
4
EBS Storage Improvements
73
5
Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services
24
6
AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview)
5
7
New EBS Volume Type (Io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB
5
8
Taking Transport Layer Security to the Next Level with TLS 1.3
4
9
Zynga Case Study
2
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Scheduling AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency for recurring peak usage
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students
299
2
Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot
262
3
Emotional resilience and burnout in leadership
207
4
YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme
191
5
How to Leave Work at Work
182
6
The French Army Is Building Renaissance-Style Fortresses in Africa
139
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Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay
136
8
The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live
109
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How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017)
99
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Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base
96
Science News [?]
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The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
324
2
Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
305
3
Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
227
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard connections show how money can distort research
225
5
‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria
205
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The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make
151
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The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library
140
8
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
127
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The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
125
10
Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (2018)
124
Social [?]
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WordPressiOS Locked by App Store
438
2
The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia
437
3
Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
238
4
Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots
192
5
Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]
127
6
How to delete all your files
121
7
Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
116
8
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
95
9
On the problems with automated contact tracing
69
10
Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood
68
Github repos and gists [?]
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Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
415
2
macOS Security and Privacy Guide
323
3
Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
252
4
RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible
214
5
AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings
174
6
Code for The Economist's election model for 2020
166
7
Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS
150
8
Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite
149
9
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
111
10
RustConf 2020 Links
108
Wikipedia [?]
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Ubuntu Philosophy
95
2
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
54
3
Mancala
45
4
Backbone Cabal
37
5
Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
34
6
Iron law of wages
26
7
Culture-Bound Syndrome
11
8
Spaceship Earth
11
9
Non-Apology Apology
8
10
Brain-to-Body Mass Ratio
6
Blogs [?]
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Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
230
2
What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
170
3
Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
161
4
Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs
158
5
Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear
151
6
The Absurd (Lack of) Support for Android Developers
18
7
Set Up a Pi-Hole Ad Blocking VPN Server on Google Cloud’s Always Free Usage Tier
13
8
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: California’s AB 3262 “Consumer Protection” bill
10
9
Understanding PurpleAir vs. AirNow.gov Measurements of Wood Smoke Pollution
10
10
The YouTube Music Disaster. Another Google Failure
9
Stackoverflow [?]
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An intense story told by a StackOverflow comment
2
Substack [?]
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MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue
152
2
Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable
117
3
Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
111
4
Network Coding in P2P Networks
86
5
Mental Model: Second Order Thinking
71
6
What it means to be a developer is changing
46
7
A Seed Stage Mental Framework to Limit Failure as a Startup Founder
41
8
When the Internet Stopped in Belarus
26
9
Builders who will thrive in the new world
25
10
How Josh Kaufman Does Research
16