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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

1256

2

Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

1252

3

Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

1041

4

My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

1040

5

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

816

6

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

787

7

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

777

8

Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak

741

9

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

716

10

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs

714

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (October 2020)

426

2

Teaching kids how to think?

264

3

How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

193

4

Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

175

5

How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?

171

6

What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?

147

7

Essential skill needed to be a programmer?

144

8

What RSS Reader do you use?

137

9

What is your trick to do deep work or study?

115

10

What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?

104

Top Show HN

1

I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

1589

2

Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

405

3

Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

351

4

I made a computer vision addon for Blender

268

5

Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book

204

6

Ruby One-Liners Cookbook

191

7

Collaboratively Edit Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io

142

8

I built a simple web app for streaming videos

127

9

Gurlic – Free and Open Communities

108

10

Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF

108

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

777

2

Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS

415

3

YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop

242

4

Police are requesting data from smart speakers

230

5

Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires

222

6

Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers

186

7

Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone

176

8

Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data

164

9

Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

158

10

Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves

106

News [?]

1

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

1256

2

Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

1041

3

Eddie Van Halen has died

612

4

Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says

393

5

U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker

391

6

Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

319

7

Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

286

8

Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find

253

9

Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years

240

10

How To Be An Anti-Casteist

226

Scientific publications [?]

1

Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)

324

2

Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron

260

3

Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity

235

4

Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat

153

5

Astronomers reveal first direct image of Beta Pictoris C

128

6

Tracking Mixed Bitcoins

98

7

Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19

91

8

Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores

77

9

Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

42

10

'I'll sleep when I'm dead': The sleep-deprived masculinity stereotype

26

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Say goodbye to hold music

682

2

Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available

298

3

Google pub/sub released an ordering feature

214

4

C++ the Good Parts (2014)

156

5

Face retouching settings should be off by default

149

6

The internet needs our love

134

7

Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM

128

8

40th Anniversary of the Ethernet

93

9

Let's Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell

79

10

Google Workspace

58

Tech blogs [?]

1

DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

271

2

M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols

138

3

Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads

78

4

Earn IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives

75

5

Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model

54

6

Exploring the abandoned birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64 [video]

53

7

Rock Pi X: An x86 Computer in Raspberry Pi Form Factor

38

8

The EU's Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption

37

9

Tearing into a $1.3M Oscilloscope

30

10

Nvidia announces $59 Jetson Nano 2GB model

21

FAANG+ [?]

1

Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

299

2

Several Apple Services Down

257

3

Amazon Timestream is generally available

91

4

Archai: Design neural networks with state-of-the-art neural architecture search

7

5

S3 Update – 3 New Security and Access Control Features

4

6

Scalable GraphQL APIs on AWS with CDK,TypeScript,AppSync,DynamoDB,Lambda

4

7

Using AWS Lambda as a Consumer for Amazon Kinesis

4

8

Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing

3

9

Archai: Design neural networks with state-of-the-art neural architecture search

3

10

Workload isolation using shuffle-sharding

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

265

2

The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)

246

3

Tesla dissolves its PR department

165

4

The Deep Anthropocene

124

5

Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)

101

6

Why Breathing Is So Effective at Reducing Stress

45

7

Tesla acquires German battery assembly line maker supplying BMW and Mercedes

41

8

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

34

9

Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

30

10

Tesla is literally the only automaker growing in Germany this year

27

Science News [?]

1

We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make

496

2

US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations

313

3

For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)

248

4

Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

231

5

Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement

181

6

Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic

168

7

Humans are more closely related than we commonly think

157

8

Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

156

9

When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018)

147

10

When we lose weight, where does it go?

144

Social [?]

1

My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

1040

2

My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

536

3

Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

414

4

Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]

339

5

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video]

323

6

Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”

169

7

Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home

109

8

Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday

96

9

I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”

90

10

Demo: iPhone as trackpad on macOS

89

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

278

2

Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In

262

3

Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom

257

4

GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account

247

5

Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf]

215

6

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)

197

7

Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions

194

8

3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

184

9

Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI

150

10

Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

Alcoa 50k ton forging press

57

2

39

3

27

4

21

5

14

6

13

7

Kearny Fallout Meter

12

8

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

7

9

Man of the Hole

6

10

Association of German National Jews

4

Blogs [?]

1

Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

287

2

Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer

284

3

Monolith -> Services: A Sketchy Approach

59

4

Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it’s going for it

49

5

We Need to Talk

19

6

Springer Released 65 Free Machine Learning, CS, Data Science, Web Dev Books

19

7

PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space (Basically) for Free

17

8

Inflation Isn’t just 2% for a Small Brewery

15

9

Can You Build a CPU?

14

10

Principles used in Wall Street trading algorithms

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

77

2

JavaScript setTimeout and changes to system time cause problems (2011)

2

3

Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

1

Substack [?]

1

Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

235

2

Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media

150

3

131

4

Parallel Tracks

109

5

A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending

92

6

What's it like to negotiate with ransomware gangs?

69

7

How to Type 3x Faster

55

8

Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators

47

9

All politics is bad, says Coinbase

13

10

Money in orbit: a high-level overview of modern money

12