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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
1375
2
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
1012
3
“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
810
4
Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
759
5
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
748
6
We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
732
7
DuckDuckGo Traffic
727
8
City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
668
9
Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
662
10
Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
661
Top Ask HN
1
What interesting problems are you working on?
442
2
What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
376
3
I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?
305
4
What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?
237
5
What change in your programming technique has been most transformative?
236
6
What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
168
7
How do you currently solve authentication?
114
8
Do you curate links/bookmarks?
83
9
Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?
77
10
Ultrawide monitors, what's your experience been like?
58
Top Show HN
1
I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
560
2
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
438
3
I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers
345
4
Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together
279
5
Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI
250
6
Postgresqlco.nf: PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans
223
7
Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site
206
8
R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket
205
9
Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
153
10
HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News
106
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
759
2
Google backtracks on search results design
605
3
What happened to Mint?
494
4
Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
445
5
How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
409
6
Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs
346
7
Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent
342
8
Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English
284
9
Layoffs hit Quora
282
10
YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD
152
News [?]
1
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
1375
2
Terry Jones has died
650
3
U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
548
4
23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline
389
5
U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
313
6
I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
271
7
U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban
252
8
Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years
238
9
What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
235
10
Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029
223
Scientific publications [?]
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Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention
151
2
The strange properties of the infinite power tower
150
3
Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
137
4
Machine Unlearning
86
5
Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome
43
6
Pcgrl: Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning
36
7
Up to 2B times acceleration of scientific simulations with deep neural search
30
8
A new twist on quantum communication in fiber
28
9
Athlete’s Heart (2003)
26
10
Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force
17
Dev Blogs [?]
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Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
443
2
Banning facial recognition is missing the point
361
3
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
256
4
Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
214
5
The Dark Side of Expertise
203
6
Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager
195
7
Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
177
8
Linux 5.5 to Offer Mainline Support for SGI's Octane MIPS Workstations
112
9
Improving communities through documentation (2019)
47
10
Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload
43
Tech blogs [?]
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
595
2
Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
246
3
In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
97
4
Robotic gripper uses acoustic levitation for contact-free manipulation
63
5
EFF Statement on Glenn Greenwald Charges – Electronic Frontier Foundation
21
6
The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception
7
7
Intel Joins Chips Alliance, Contributes Advanced Interface Bus
6
8
Don’t Write Copyright Law in Secret
6
9
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
5
10
Why EFF Stands Against the Prosecution of Glenn Greenwald
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
286
2
Announcing RDS/Aurora Snapshot Export to S3
70
3
Amazon Reduces EKS Cluster Price by 50% to $0.10/H
3
4
People are still sending their condolences for the passing of Steve Jobs
3
5
AWS container security survey 2019 results
3
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Inductive Programming Meets the Real World
3
7
Build Systems à La Carte [pdf]
2
8
Thoughts on Flash (2010)
1
9
Sandworm: New Era of Cyberwar & Hunt for Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (2019)
1
10
Concise Go
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market
267
2
The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents'
68
3
A plant that seems to remember (2015)
54
4
The Tragic iPad
48
5
Lake Salagou was designed to drown the village of Celles, but never did
36
6
The Meaning of Margaret Mead
17
7
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ more common in tap water than thought
12
8
How did science come to speak only English
10
9
Sure Looks Like the Facelifted 2021 Mercedes-Benz E-Class
9
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One-of-Nine 2015 Lamborghini Veneno Roadster Could Sell for $6M at Auction
8
Science News [?]
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What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?
188
2
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)
146
3
How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
138
4
Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers
136
5
Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown
106
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To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies
101
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Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus
84
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
77
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Chinese lab studying world's most dangerous pathogens located in Wuhan
70
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Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America
56
Social [?]
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“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
810
2
My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
457
3
Ted versus The Media Lab [video]
278
4
How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video]
170
5
Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]
142
6
Logitech limits number of additions and deletions of Harmony Hub devices
132
7
Hacking a job search with fifty dollars of free LinkedIn credit
95
8
My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 – I can’t get it removed
61
9
Chrome Is the New IE
53
10
Nassim Taleb: How to React to Pandemics (Coronavirus)
47
Github repos and gists [?]
1
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
748
2
Microsoft Application Inspector
419
3
A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
286
4
Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border
167
5
Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014)
164
6
SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
162
7
PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas
159
8
LInQer – C# Integrated Queries ported to Javascript
147
9
Restack: Full-Stack ReasonML
141
10
Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot
135
Wikipedia [?]
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Pantone 448 C
442
2
Hachikō
172
3
Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
163
4
Hoag's Object
130
5
Picardy Third
119
6
Belyayev's Fox Experiment
109
7
Pilecki's Report
104
8
En svensk tiger
99
9
Optacon
92
10
List of Epidemics
78
Blogs [?]
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Normalization of Deviance (2015)
180
2
The Yang Gang and Its Bots
110
3
Economic Inequality (2016)
52
4
I went back working on 24-inch 1080p screen from a 32-inch 4k screen
38
5
Google suspended our app, threatened to delete our Google accounts
35
6
My guiding principles after 20 years of programming
32
7
For the love of God, please tell me what your company does
28
8
Create GIFs Using Python
19
9
Blog: Gradient descent in spiking neural networks for low-power inference
19
10
The Space Problem of Time Travel
15
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is x86 ugly? Why is it considered inferior when compared to others?
4
2
How to convert a date in Excel to ISO 8601 format
2
3
Difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\)
2
Substack [?]
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The Car Bundle
37
2
Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week? – Big Matt Stoller
26
3
Apple Is an Internet Company
24
4
Summary of Jeff Bezos' 1998 letter to shareholders – customer-focused
8
5
Intro to Systems Thinking in Context of Sustainability and Civilization Design
3
6
Over 1.5M in MRR, with only 0.34% market share
3
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The Reverse Management Phenomenon
3
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Spotify: The Ambient Media Company
3
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Reducing Inequality Involves Tradeoffs
3
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“Distributed-first” is the new “mobile-first” in the search for unicorns
3