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Top stories
1
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1722
2
Most-favorited Hacker News posts
1266
3
BitTorrent v2
1226
4
Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
843
5
David Graeber has died
749
6
Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
710
7
Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
703
8
Winamp Skin Museum
694
9
Attention is your scarcest resource
673
10
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
627
Top Ask HN
1
What is your favorite method of sending large files?
319
2
Suggestions for books about API design?
297
3
We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?
224
4
What does performance management look like at your company?
212
5
What did you do to improve your company?
181
6
What Happened to Larry Page?
161
7
As a developer what are your aha moments?
124
8
Working part-time in tech?
122
9
Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives
116
10
How can I prevent myself from being doxxed?
112
Top Show HN
1
Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
780
2
Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
310
3
Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow
278
4
My GitHub Readme Is Interactive
237
5
ORM for TypeScript with no query-builder, supporting full SQL queries
220
6
AI color palette generator for Tailwindcss
209
7
Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas API for Node.js
187
8
A proactive way of securing your Linux server
143
9
Revived my personal website to join the nostalgia
115
10
Automated Health Dashboard
110
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
627
2
Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
608
3
Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
203
4
Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns
169
5
Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?
135
6
NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion
104
7
3D Realms announces Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen II
103
8
Lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment
96
9
Students figured out their tests were graded by AI and the easy way to cheat
65
10
Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney quits with scathing letter
56
News [?]
1
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1722
2
David Graeber has died
749
3
SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
583
4
Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok
515
5
At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
483
6
Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk
479
7
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
409
8
India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
376
9
Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks
281
10
'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland
264
Scientific publications [?]
1
'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
190
2
Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
104
3
The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees
90
4
Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols
79
5
Microchips That Shook the World (2009)
59
6
Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly (2009)
57
7
Unexpected electric current that could stabilize fusion reactions discovered
51
8
Japan on Track to Introduce Flying Taxi Services in 2023
48
9
Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow
45
10
Java Cryptography Uses in the Wild
43
Dev Blogs [?]
1
How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
318
2
The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
314
3
Why is OOP still so widely spread?
212
4
To design and develop an interactive globe
192
5
New things in Android 11
163
6
The Memory Area Network at the Heart of IBM’s Power10
89
7
Software supply chain security
83
8
Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection
81
9
GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up to 3.3x
69
10
Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio
64
Tech blogs [?]
1
Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor
302
2
9th Circuit Rules Apple Owes Retail Workers for Time Spent Security Screening
219
3
Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake
207
4
Pass the Payment Choice Act
74
5
A Free Software OS for the ReMarkable E-Paper Tablet
58
6
Linux Fu: Moving /Usr
8
7
Russia could force Apple to reduce App Store commission to 20%
7
8
AMD Zen 3, Ryzen 4000 Release Date, Specifications, Performance, All We Know
5
9
Micron Reveals GDDR6X Details: The Future of Memory, or a Proprietary DRAM?
5
10
Apple Delays Anti-Ad Tracking Features in iOS 14
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award
110
2
Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore
24
3
Expressive Pixels
22
4
What's Wrong with Computational Notebooks? [pdf]
5
5
Apple Event on September 15
5
6
Creating Kubernetes Auto Scaling Groups for Multiple Availability Zones
3
7
Apple: 18 Emmy Nominations
3
8
Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems
2
9
OneDrive Personal Vault
2
10
iOS 14 Preview – All New Features
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life
323
2
The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s
310
3
Tesla can detect aftermarket hacks designed to defeat EV performance paywalls
154
4
The Oldest Cookbook in Korean
143
5
Scene bust triggered historic drop in ‘pirate’ releases
111
6
Gertrude Elion's “antiviral odyssey”
43
7
A History of Punctuation
33
8
Cloudflare Shared Details of Hundreds of Customers in Response to DMCA Subpoenas
18
9
The start of life on Earth is an event horizon we struggle to see beyond
6
10
Tesla to unveil core structural design change for how cars are made
5
Science News [?]
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The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
552
2
Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution
266
3
Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
217
4
Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society
193
5
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
190
6
With a simple piece of paper, engineers create self-powered, wireless keyboard
137
7
Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change
128
8
One in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence – study
126
9
Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, experiment suggests
126
10
Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span in mice
124
Social [?]
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Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
442
2
Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
363
3
C++20 has been approved
253
4
FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona
246
5
iPhone audio detectable with AM radio
187
6
Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python is unauthorized
170
7
Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live
170
8
Growing a Language (1998) [video]
166
9
Redditor explains why commercial property sits vacant instead of reducing rent
146
10
Carmack on not being a power editor user
142
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Data Broker Opt-Out List
381
2
On finally learning to program at the age of 40
302
3
Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?
290
4
Using Vim for C++ Development
222
5
Geometric Algebra for Python
185
6
A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe
173
7
Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter
163
8
AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
159
9
Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux
157
10
Graviton Database: ZFS for key-value stores
86
Wikipedia [?]
1
Bardcore
454
2
Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
119
3
Chanakya
118
4
Impossible Colors
80
5
Kintsugi
50
6
Ocoee massacre
16
7
Banana Production in Iceland
16
8
Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse
13
9
David Graeber has passed away
11
10
Air Plants
8
Blogs [?]
1
GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms
96
2
Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3
95
3
Why we calculate a definite integral on the front-end
34
4
Why Your First House Is A Liability
30
5
Collaborative Circuit Design & Simulation in the Browser
29
6
Is Firebase really as it appears to be?
14
7
The Missing Introduction to React
12
8
I review code for a living and these are my most common review comments
11
9
How to Spot Toxic Software Jobs from Their Descriptions
11
10
SCL and Cambridge Analytica – Active and Related Companies in 2020
10
Stackoverflow [?]
1
THIS IS SDPARTA ! Easter Egg in Firefox WebRTC Implementation
11
2
Why does everyone love polymorphism over switch case
9
3
Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?
9
4
When did people first start thinking 'C is portable assembler'?
3
5
Effectively final vs. final – Different behavior
2
Substack [?]
1
Interview with Paul Graham
159
2
Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin
68
3
Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue
65
4
Fast Typing: Keyboard Layouts
46
5
Why it’s better to be the anti-status quo
30
6
USB keys will end you and how to protect yourself
17
7
Rolling Funds
16
8
Fundamentals of Digital Security
14
9
Creator Mansions, Shitposts and Chief Meme Officers
9
10
Facebook is directly responsible for violence globally and in American society
9