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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

1512

2

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

1454

3

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

1008

4

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

761

5

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel

707

6

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

702

7

ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

681

8

Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

650

9

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

645

10

Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

643

Top Ask HN

1

What are good resources to learn system design?

246

2

What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?

121

3

What are some good methods to prove current time?

110

4

Best HVAC system for a new house?

91

5

What are some evergreen HN threads worth revisiting?

77

6

Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?

57

7

How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?

39

8

What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software?

39

9

Is D3 still king for JavaScript visualisation?

39

10

Is there a HN type forum for engineering managers?

37

Top Show HN

1

I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

1392

2

Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

419

3

I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR

357

4

SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning

240

5

CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more

240

6

Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust

146

7

Live map of “good morning/night” tweets

138

8

Self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and Google Analytics

137

9

Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile

112

10

GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics

108

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

681

2

Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

643

3

2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

614

4

Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently

525

5

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

421

6

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

284

7

The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant

262

8

A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)

257

9

AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology

185

10

1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection

181

News [?]

1

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

1008

2

Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

650

3

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

645

4

Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up

535

5

Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B

533

6

Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust

461

7

San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

414

8

Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

406

9

Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee

399

10

An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose

385

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)

256

2

A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

210

3

Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey

118

4

Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound

107

5

The Problem of Legacy IT Systems

88

6

Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required

79

7

A DIY Audio Induction Loop for the Hard of Hearing

54

8

AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics

47

9

Graphene microbubbles make perfect lenses

39

10

Electronic Blood Vessels to the Rescue

23

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel

707

2

The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

575

3

366

4

Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition

254

5

AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters

247

6

Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election

234

7

Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

140

8

5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer over ‘Apolitical’ Stance

119

9

Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work

94

10

ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]

81

Tech blogs [?]

1

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries

199

2

Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better

157

3

AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU

154

4

iPhone 12 does not come with power charger or earbuds in the box

49

5

Epic Denied Preliminary Injunction for Fortnite, but Apple Can't Block Unreal

37

6

A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design

32

7

Ex-App Store head says Apple Arcade violates Apple's own policies

32

8

App Store gives Apple ‘monopoly power’ over iOS apps, US House antitrust (cont)

12

9

The Selective Prosecution of Julian Assange

5

10

US House antitrust report: App Store gives Apple ‘monopoly power’ over iOS apps

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

485

2

301

3

86

4

iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max

30

5

AWS Lambda Extensions – In Preview

9

6

Apple introduces iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max with 5G

8

7

AWS Lambda Extensions – In Preview

4

8

Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2

4

9

MagSafe for iPhone

4

10

Apple introduces HomePod mini: A powerful smart speaker with sound

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit

393

2

There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts

239

3

Disney and Integrators versus Aggregators

119

4

Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years

93

5

Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit

63

6

The Rise and Rise of Creativity

60

7

Why Read Boethius Today?

57

8

41

9

New 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found hiding in plain sight

37

10

Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust

37

Science News [?]

1

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

353

2

Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears

205

3

How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work

200

4

Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics

141

5

Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19

84

6

Fossil footprints: the longest known prehistoric journey

65

7

Mysterious ‘super-archaic’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors

55

8

In Memoriam: John D. Barrow

54

9

Taking a new look at ancient books

40

10

It Pays to Be a Space Case

33

Social [?]

1

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

761

2

Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

526

3

PS5 Teardown [video]

490

4

“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”

483

5

AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out

430

6

When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

426

7

EULA Found on a Package of Fruit

296

8

Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second

199

9

In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month

187

10

4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]

173

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

287

2

Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

274

3

Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet

200

4

GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused

181

5

Last Resort Font

179

6

A List of Post-Mortems

174

7

Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db

147

8

Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers

108

9

SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API

106

10

Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash

86

Wikipedia [?]

1

Project Cybersyn

212

2

170

3

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

49

4

Compassion Fatigue

18

5

List of Helicopter Prison Escapes

10

6

South Atlantic Anomaly

10

7

9

8

6

9

6

10

The eight-legged essay, said to have caused China's subsequent stagnation

6

Blogs [?]

1

When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

311

2

You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

202

3

Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals

167

4

Terraform at Scale

83

5

Why Nerds Are Unpopular (2003)

62

6

React is Dead, Long live Reactive Rails

52

7

Platform Liquidity: Why Economic Incentives Matter

32

8

Building the Last Hedge Fund – Introducing Numerai Signals

20

9

Papers with Code Partners with ArXiv

18

10

A Closer Look at Software Canisters, an Evolution of Smart Contracts

17

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow Under Maintenance

3

2

Oracle vs. Google: list of the Java API's

2

3

Is Eigen slow at multiplying small matrices?

1

Substack [?]

1

How to Interview Engineers

156

2

The shadow investment wars of Alibaba and Tencent

89

3

“Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition

81

4

Against Xkcd 1357

64

5

How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs

31

6

After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?

18

7

Nvidia’s Return Dominates Tesla

15

8

Two-sided messages: they sound stupid. And they work

12

9

Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A poverty fix?

11

10

Why you have your best ideas in the shower

7