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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
3
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
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EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
1530
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Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
6
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
1181
7
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
1180
8
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1070
9
GitHub Source Code Leak
1013
10
Alex Trebek has died
911
Top Ask HN
1
As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
479
2
Hey Drew, why is Dropbox becoming so bad?
119
3
Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues
58
4
How do you prevent code leak from current/former employees?
53
5
How do you regain motivation after achieving financial success?
49
6
Lost Economic Theories: Printing Inflation-Free Money?
38
7
Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
36
8
Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?
34
9
Is truth a basic human right?
32
10
Anyone making money with online courses?
31
Top Show HN
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Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
441
2
Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
218
3
Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app
161
4
My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
133
5
Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem
115
6
A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests
105
7
Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file
74
8
Ambra – Task Management Reinvented
41
9
Portabella – privacy friendly project management
41
10
SecureAppy – A modern vault for families
39
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
2
Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
639
3
Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
532
4
Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
492
5
Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
361
6
U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
347
7
Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets
328
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Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software
238
9
Portland, Maine passes referendum banning facial surveillance
221
10
Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X
215
News [?]
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Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
3
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
615
4
One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
488
5
San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
448
6
Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
417
7
Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches
386
8
Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years
310
9
750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
307
10
California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers
280
Scientific publications [?]
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Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)
176
2
The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System
160
3
A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
81
4
A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of silicon
80
5
Has the hidden matter of the universe been discovered?
68
6
BMI 30 increases risk of severe Covid and death
52
7
Algorithms for Causal Reasoning in Probability Trees
35
8
Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing
23
9
Training EfficientNets at Scale: 83% ImageNet Top-1 Accuracy in One Hour
10
10
Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues
8
Dev Blogs [?]
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.NET 5.0
791
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Deprecating scp
690
3
Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
374
4
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux
207
5
An Introduction to Pluto
179
6
Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king
117
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LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels
116
8
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux
108
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Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
86
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Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released
82
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
2
Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
751
3
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
457
4
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
434
5
RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
414
6
Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14
111
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HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Drives
94
8
Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)
73
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The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
68
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Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
62
FAANG+ [?]
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Introducing the next generation of Mac
642
2
Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
159
3
Apple M1
104
4
MacBook Pro 13-inch with M1
58
5
Apple Unleashes M1
27
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iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, and HomePod mini available to order Friday
15
7
The Next Generation of Mac
15
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AWS Kinesis now supports data retention period up to one year
12
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MongoDB 4.0 compatibility and Transactions in Amazon DocumentDB
7
10
Apple Event November 10, 2020
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
324
2
Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
287
3
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to the United States, Subject to Judicial Review
125
4
Hegel and the History of Human Nature
64
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Japan’s Onryō Spirits Inhabit a Purgatory of Revenge and Cosmic Rage
55
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Computer Crime: Pirates and Phone Phreaks (1983)
45
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Flying squirrels glow pink thanks to fluorescence
42
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The Two Party Swindle
35
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Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics, report says
16
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A climate plan that can pass
16
Science News [?]
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U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
392
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Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill
313
3
How to seriously read a scientific paper
289
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The Joys of Being a Stoic
239
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The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
228
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Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope
217
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Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
197
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Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
195
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The impact of school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment
141
10
Soluble ACE2 shows promise for treating severe Covid19
111
Social [?]
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Alex Trebek has died
911
2
Amazon Review Scam
579
3
I now have an Oculus paperweight
567
4
Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs
315
5
YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]
287
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OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail
277
7
Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell
212
8
Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store
159
9
What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?
133
10
Python Concurrency From the Ground Up (2015) [video]
101
Github repos and gists [?]
1
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1070
2
AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
595
3
Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s
412
4
Gron – Make JSON Greppable
366
5
WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
307
6
Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
284
7
Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust
255
8
Transmit Radio Signals via Ethernet
229
9
Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications
214
10
The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone
203
Wikipedia [?]
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Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle
77
2
Carrosses à Cinq Sols
35
3
Naming Law
28
4
F-Law
19
5
Thorium-Based Nuclear Power
15
6
Benford's Law: Fraud Detection
13
7
SS Edmund Fitzgerald (sank 45 years ago today)
10
8
Second-System Effect
7
9
Saturn's Hexagon
7
10
Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law
6
Blogs [?]
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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
175
2
Why Concurrency Is Hard
122
3
Advice for Improving Organizational Decision-Making from Hardware Startup CEO
58
4
Bitcoin at 12
21
5
Developers – What Handmade Hero is and Why you should watch it
19
6
Perovskite can boost solar panel's efficiency to 33%
14
7
How to Be a Freelancer When You’re Feeling Down and Depressed
14
8
Why That Big Customer You Are Chasing Will Kill Your Startup
12
9
The Art of Management: Tips to Become a Super Effective Manager
10
10
Big Companies vs. Startups
7
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stackoverflow: Difference Between DTO,VO,POJO,JavaBeans
2
2
What is the "goes to" operator in C++? (2009)
2
3
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers? (2011)
1
Substack [?]
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The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
106
2
The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
68
3
Of OnlyFans and Intimacy at Scale?
44
4
Big Tech Sees Like a State
33
5
Elections, Bitcoin and M2
30
6
Ride the Hardware Lottery
30
7
Feynman, Algorithmic Orchestration and Node Based Programming
28
8
Buffett's 5/25 Rule – How to increase focus and avoid burnout
25
9
Learning From Quibi
25
10
Sketch: From 1 to One Million users
19