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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
2120
2
Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
1332
3
We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
1124
4
Security by obscurity is underrated
933
5
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
896
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Relativty – An open-source VR headset
817
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Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
773
8
Teacher's low-tech laptop hack to display handwritten notes for online class
702
9
How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
685
10
Remembering my father
676
Top Ask HN
1
What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
322
2
What is your favorite motto?
207
3
I'm a terrible developer, what now?
171
4
Should I quit the field of software development?
155
5
What is a better approach to interviewing?
150
6
How are online communities established?
126
7
Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers?
124
8
Where to meet non-technical cofounders?
106
9
Natural language processing to identify grammar in a text?
65
10
Does anyone else notice increased incompetence?
61
Top Show HN
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Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
403
2
Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query
238
3
Eiten – open-source tool for portfolio optimization
198
4
Jazz up your Python scripts with sound effects
162
5
Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web App
134
6
Lag – Know Before You Go
129
7
An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure
123
8
Search tweets for style, not content
119
9
Bit Serial CPU
98
10
O'Doyle Rules – a new rules engine for Clojure
97
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
624
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AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
512
3
Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video
343
4
Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds
268
5
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor
210
6
Exploring new forms of chess using artificial intelligence
151
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Why online voting is harder than online banking
138
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Nvidia reportedly to acquire ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $40B
134
9
How to escape from an erupting volcano
125
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Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gates deposition
123
News [?]
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Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
1332
2
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
773
3
How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
685
4
Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
474
5
A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation
430
6
Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
415
7
Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
403
8
Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic
396
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Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn
391
10
Traits of good remote leaders
355
Scientific publications [?]
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Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
353
2
New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories
91
3
Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving
88
4
Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5 C warming limit by 2024
61
5
Modelling explains why blues and greens are nature's brightest colors
50
6
GM can manage an EV's batteries wirelessly and remotely
49
7
Simple wave-optical superpositions as prime number sieves (2019)
34
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The World as a Neural Network
24
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Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes during the First Pandemic (541–750) (2019)
24
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Privatized prisons lead to more inmates, longer sentences, study finds
22
Dev Blogs [?]
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Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content
373
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Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase
336
3
Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
240
4
Promoted Add-ons Pilot
151
5
OpenPGP in Rust: The Sequoia Project
129
6
Due Diligence That Money Can’t Buy
79
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How we threat model
58
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Stripe Checkout
55
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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin
53
10
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014)
30
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
356
2
AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentations for October
158
3
Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing
26
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Apple will no longer terminate Epic’s usage of ‘Sign In with Apple’
14
5
Soldering Glass and Titanium with Ultrasonic Energy
6
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AMD Announces Keynote Dates for Zen 3 and RX 6000 “Big Navi”
5
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How to Emulate an Amiga 1200 on Your Linux PC or Raspberry Pi
5
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Yubico Launches 'YubiKey 5C NFC' with USB-C and NFC Support
5
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Browser Battle: Surfing with Speed
4
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Comparing AMD and Intel boot times
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Fitness+
253
2
New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
106
3
iPad Air 2020
69
4
Apple Event 2020
60
5
Apple Watch Series 6
36
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Apple One
14
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Apple Watch Series 6 delivers breakthrough wellness and fitness capabilities
14
8
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework
9
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Apple extends the Apple Watch experience to the entire family
6
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Apple One makes enjoying Apple subscription services easier than ever
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
430
2
Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
277
3
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island
144
4
Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood
97
5
Nikola Denies 'Fraud' Allegations, Threatens Legal Action Against Short-Sellers
92
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Origin Story
26
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Research: Knowledge Workers Are More Productive from Home
26
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Can America’s Premier Lightning Lab Revive Its Renegade Spirit?
20
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Why the Nazi Party Loved Decaf Coffee
18
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Fly with Me
17
Science News [?]
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Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet
473
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Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study
355
3
How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
300
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First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved
163
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Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
113
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When Math Gets Impossibly Hard
107
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First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate
99
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A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals
99
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A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018)
97
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Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective
86
Social [?]
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Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
632
2
Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
591
3
PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
403
4
Getting Fiber to My Town [video]
294
5
Moving 25TB data from one S3 bucket to another took 7 engineers and 2 full days
187
6
Dune Official Trailer
147
7
April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
101
8
You have turned Google Chrome into IE
97
9
Joe Rogan Experience #1536 – Edward Snowden [video]
76
10
Ted Nelson argues the importance of personal computing (1979) [video]
71
Github repos and gists [?]
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I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
612
2
Makani source code released
449
3
Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml
249
4
WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly
241
5
Data science interview questions with answers
239
6
Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP
231
7
.NET Memory Performance Analysis
224
8
Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
220
9
Fastmac – A macOS instance or Linux shell
214
10
Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
199
Wikipedia [?]
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Wikipedia is an MMORPG
214
2
Oblique Strategies
202
3
Bastion Fort
76
4
Coastline Paradox
63
5
Tell HN: Happy Programmers' Day to all devs in HN
51
6
Terry Fox
46
7
Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London
45
8
Oriental Carpets in Renaissance Painting
36
9
The Peter Principle
11
10
The Truman Show Delusion
10
Blogs [?]
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'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
536
2
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
179
3
Sattolo's Algorithm (2017)
100
4
Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types
85
5
C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
78
6
Remote First at Brex
53
7
Designing for Privacy – An Emerging Software Pattern
23
8
Announcing the release of seaborn 0.11
13
9
Why we built Align: the only extensible video chat platform
13
10
How much I made as a really good Engineer at Facebook
12
Stackoverflow [?]
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C++ – Why isn't a for-loop a compile-time expression?
1
Substack [?]
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Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century
106
2
Cracking the Who You Show Your Work Code
56
3
Why Jeff Bezos Is the Richest Politician in the World
20
4
Will Venture Fund Management Fees Go to Zero?
6
5
Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic
5
6
I'm working on a podcast about the history of Frank Herbert's Dune
5
7
What I didn’t understand was how much it would cost to live
4
8
The Surprising Reason Why California Banned Income Share Agreements
4
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Don't be scared, you're not the only one
4
10
Tape shows: ethically, CNN chief a little shaky
4