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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

2299

2

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

1738

3

This electrical transmission tower has a problem

1588

4

Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

1572

5

I no longer build software

1287

6

On the Use of a Life

1275

7

Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

1185

8

Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

1093

9

1021

10

The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

874

Top Ask HN

1

Your Favourite HN Comment?

341

2

What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?

247

3

Favourite blogs?

171

4

Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?

111

5

So I Hired a Homeless Guy

91

6

What are your instruments for investment?

77

7

How to Learn Rust

65

8

Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?

57

9

Are works created in Lego copyrightable?

56

10

Where do you draw the line between a co-founder and early employee?

53

Top Show HN

1

ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

309

2

Control Chromecasts from Linux

222

3

Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning

186

4

Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

154

5

Compile Ruby to C

153

6

How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI

111

7

Play Battleships on PostgreSQL

96

8

I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API

70

9

ExGAN-Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples

54

10

Fossnode – Free Matrix server for free and open source projects

52

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

741

2

DuckDuckGo is growing fast

314

3

Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

244

4

Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible

233

5

A patient died after ransomware attackers hit a German hospital

168

6

Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads

167

7

Nikola’s founder steps down from board as company faces fraud allegations

155

8

Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week

134

9

The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautiful photos

128

10

How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

125

News [?]

1

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

1738

2

The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents

581

3

China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

444

4

Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

377

5

New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released

360

6

Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes

359

7

Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

337

8

The benefits of note-taking by hand

328

9

Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer

307

10

Scientists say a mind-bending rhythm in the brain can act like ketamine

305

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving

100

2

The Tech Behind the Mind-Reading Pangolin Dress

72

3

The Cost of Software-Based Memory Management Without Virtual Memory

68

4

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024

18

5

Quantum Factorization of 143 (2011)

15

6

Aerosol Susceptibility of Influenza Virus to UV-C Light

12

7

Covid-19 virus uses heparan sulfate to get inside cells

9

8

The Hardware Lottery

7

9

Discovery of a New Mass Extinction

7

10

NVAE: A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

633

2

Tables: Tracking work for teams

312

3

Pricing Low-Touch SaaS

218

4

Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

216

5

The future of .NET Standard

134

6

Jitsi’s Emil Ivov on scaling up during a pandemic

97

7

Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures

96

8

Microsoft Has a Large Presence at This Year's X.org Conference

95

9

Lua in the Kernel?

93

10

OpenPOWER Summit 2020

45

Tech blogs [?]

1

Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts

302

2

Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists

187

3

TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000

92

4

EFF Joins Coalition Urging Senators to Reject the Earn IT Act

36

5

Apple Releases Safari 14 for Mac Ahead of macOS Big Sur Launch

11

6

Examining How a PG&E Transmission Line Claimed 85 Lives in the 2018 Camp Fire

9

7

Raspberry Pi-Sized Iconikal Rockchip SBC Only $8 on Amazon

5

8

GitHub’s Move Away from Passwords: A Sign of Things to Come?

5

9

Apple Announces 5nm A14 SoC – Meagre Upgrades, or Just Less Power Hungry?

5

10

Arm Announces Neoverse V1 and N2 Infrastructure CPUs: +50% IPC, SVE Server Cores

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 14 is available today

335

2

Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

76

3

Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI

7

4

The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook

5

5

Apple brings online store to India September 23

4

6

Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool

4

7

Singapore and Apple partner on national health initiative using Apple Watch

3

8

Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression

3

9

Software Industry Antipatterns

2

10

Democratizing Medical Imaging AI

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch

281

2

Giant Pacific Octopus

221

3

X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (2011)

213

4

Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record

190

5

161

6

‘Copyright Troll’ Loses Legal Battle and Must Pay $172k

125

7

Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch

82

8

Piratebay.org Now Being Used to Crowdsource “The Torrent Man” Film

75

9

From NASA to Amtrak, These Are All the Government Agencies with Tactical Teams

72

10

The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’ (2019)

71

Science News [?]

1

Array Programming with NumPy

257

2

Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?

218

3

OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (2013)

98

4

Which monads Haskell developers use: An exploratory study

86

5

Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light

75

6

British Museum makes lost Hokusai drawings available online

72

7

At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold

70

8

Mayflower 400: the science of sailing across the ocean in 1620

67

9

Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

62

10

How Renormalization Saved Particle Physics

53

Social [?]

1

This electrical transmission tower has a problem

1588

2

Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assange extradition hearing

271

3

AWS IAM is having issues again

221

4

SteelSeries include adware in driver automatically installed by Windows Update

121

5

Bitwarden leaks passwords to other subdomains

107

6

Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam

104

7

John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]

89

8

$65k/month website running on one index.php file

72

9

Out running this morning and a lady runs past me

71

10

Tutanota aknowledge being under attack

68

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I no longer build software

1287

2

768

3

Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB

672

4

uMatrix has been archived

631

5

FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler

405

6

rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

398

7

DOS Subsystem for Linux

328

8

Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

289

9

Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library

226

10

We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers

220

Wikipedia [?]

1

New England's Dark Day

107

2

78

3

Black Tom Explosion

60

4

Beatrice the Sixteenth

55

5

Shortt–Synchronome free pendulum clock

38

6

Direct Fusion Drive

21

7

Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation

17

8

Williams Syndrome

9

9

One-Electron Universe

6

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

Fuck You Startup World (2016)

129

2

An Arsonist Destroyed an Ancient Wonder of the World for Modern Reasons

46

3

A Technical Overview of the Internet Computer

36

4

Stephen Wolfram's History of Not Playing Well with Others

27

5

Formerly incarcerated software engineers built a no-police alternative to 911

26

6

Getting to Inbox Zero without declaring Bankruptcy

19

7

Dating Apps Destroyed Dating

18

8

Anti-intellectualism has been commoditized and sold

11

9

5 Pitfalls of NoSQL Databases

9

10

The Most Common Vulnerabilities on Cybersecurity

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why Is “Expires” 1981?

9

2

Latest Chrome disables Notifications consent popup

2

3

How to remove all Electron bloatware on exit?

1

4

JavaScript – Disable ``Console.clear()``

1

Substack [?]

1

Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial

301

2

How to take meeting notes

229

3

Build Personal Moats

173

4

In Defence of Half-Arsing

79

5

The Anthropologist in an Economist World

79

6

Go-to-Market Strategy for Engineers

49

7

On Browser Tabs

21

8

How we could design Kanye's “Y Combinator for Music”

11

9

Startup Nation: The Country That Invented Itself

10

10

My Semiconductor Conspiracy Theories

5