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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
2594
2
My Resignation from the Intercept
1441
3
I Violated a Code of Conduct
1214
4
Google users locked out after 15 years' use
1087
5
New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
922
6
Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
889
7
South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
813
8
Google's new logos are bad
776
9
A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
743
10
Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA
674
Top Ask HN
1
Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
556
2
Who is hiring? (November 2020)
348
3
Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?
327
4
How do custom software dev firms make money?
219
5
How to effectively get feedback from users?
151
6
Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)
127
7
Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell
105
8
What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?
93
9
Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?
62
10
Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?
61
Top Show HN
1
What would mechanical programming look like?
719
2
Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
298
3
Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
210
4
Kord – Python tool for displaying guitar chords/scales on your terminal
173
5
Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer
145
6
You had a productive day, until now
133
7
Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
123
8
A Python container for dataclasses with multi-indexing and vector opps
122
9
Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings/banners
77
10
Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web
74
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google's new logos are bad
776
2
A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
743
3
A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack
624
4
From McDonald's to Google
603
5
Why do printers still suck?
484
6
I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
376
7
Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud
329
8
Jailbreaking Used Teslas
300
9
Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
265
10
2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way
247
News [?]
1
Google users locked out after 15 years' use
1087
2
South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
813
3
Sean Connery has died
633
4
Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
529
5
The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
478
6
Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
453
7
Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
403
8
Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election
373
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Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers
264
10
The cheap pen that changed writing forever
263
Scientific publications [?]
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An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way
198
2
Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning
125
3
Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities
118
4
When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store
116
5
Weird A.I. Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics
100
6
An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
99
7
Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots
81
8
Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality
78
9
Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
65
10
Learning coupled differential equations subject to non-conservative forces
52
Dev Blogs [?]
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FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
475
2
Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
427
3
Stripe Climate
384
4
What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)
150
5
Packaging Kubernetes for Debian
112
6
Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams
91
7
The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX
81
8
Scary Outage Stories from CTOs
74
9
Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
67
10
What’s Motivating the Matrix Engine Movement in HPC?
32
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
462
2
Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-MPH speed record
121
3
Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware
102
4
iFixit finds iPhone 12 camera repair impossible without proprietary Apple tool
43
5
The Last Smash and Grab at the Federal Communications Commission
15
6
Tell Us How You Want to Modify and Repair the Devices in Your Life
8
7
Writing Android Apps in C, No Java Required
7
8
Zuckerberg: Apple's ad-tracking block will impair Covid-19 economic recovery
6
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Apple announces special event for November 10: 'One more thing'
5
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Apple Announces November 10 Event, Apple Silicon Macs Expected to Debut
5
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS pre-announces public container image registry
224
2
Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
185
3
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
124
4
Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities
34
5
Microsoft earnings: Revenue up 12% YoY. Net Income up 30% YoY
19
6
AWS Nitro Enclaves
12
7
Amazon EC2 P4d Instances
7
8
AWS GPU-Equipped EC2 P4 (Nvidia A100)
6
9
EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts
5
10
Mind Management, Not Time Management
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
337
2
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
321
3
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites
271
4
Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough
223
5
How to count every language in India (2018)
100
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What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
82
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Is the Internet Different?
80
8
Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms
49
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Sender of False DMCA Takedown Notices Ordered to Pay $370K in Damages
26
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Why That Autonomous Race Car Crashed Straight into a Wall
18
Science News [?]
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Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
432
2
Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
269
3
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs
228
4
The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End
174
5
The misuse of colour in science communication
155
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Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile
136
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Millions of animals missing from scientific studies
129
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UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (2017)
107
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
107
10
The self-driving car is a red herring
105
Social [?]
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“Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
637
2
Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
515
3
eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”
457
4
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007) [video]
297
5
Public static final int EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR = 1;
228
6
Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald
107
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Bitchute Has Been Deplatformed
100
8
Instagram servers download any link sent in Direct Messages even if it's 2.6 GB
73
9
BCON20 – Blender Conference: Together Apart [video]
73
10
SEC raised the limit on Regulation Crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M
71
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
416
2
An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V
350
3
Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code
332
4
Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
283
5
Pygame 2.0
269
6
Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
241
7
Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
213
8
My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ethernet frame 0x8300
189
9
DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS
187
10
Mitmproxy 5.3
168
Wikipedia [?]
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Tobler's First Law of Geography
63
2
Sexagesimal
31
3
2020 Nice Stabbing
19
4
Illegal Number
18
5
Bathtub Curve
9
6
Compulsory Voting
6
7
Haussmann's Renovation of Paris
6
8
Big Lie
4
9
Forecasting
4
10
Lp0 on fire: An Unix error message
4
Blogs [?]
1
Moving BBC Online to the Cloud
109
2
Goodbye, Native Apps
101
3
Understand a little about TCP (2015)
65
4
I Got 99 Problems and a Distributed Database Ain’t One
22
5
Kotlin Multiplatform at Netflix
19
6
We didn't choose Stripe to handle EU subscriptions
16
7
There’s no such thing as clean energy
14
8
I Deleted a Database in Production And I had no backup
14
9
Visual Guide to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
12
10
The Duct Tape Holding the Internet Together (2017)
10
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (2011)
108
2
Stackoverflow: Lesser Known but Useful Datastructures
64
3
Is CSS Turing Complete?
1
4
Lisp - What is the difference between quote and list?
1
Substack [?]
1
My Resignation from the Intercept
1441
2
It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth
159
3
Product-market fit for a B2B company
138
4
SRE Teams: Hash
122
5
As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
113
6
AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen
78
7
The problem with the tech hearings
75
8
Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review
63
9
Hyper-regional chippy traditions of Britain and Ireland
55
10
Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept
54