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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

2636

2

macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

2603

3

Your Computer Isn't Yours

1514

4

Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

1337

5

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back

1275

6

Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

1080

7

Servo’s new home

1025

8

What Gödel Discovered

1000

9

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode

950

10

Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)

924

Top Ask HN

1

Are you depressed?

408

2

Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?

199

3

Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?

101

4

What helps you improve your mood and keep your sanity?

77

5

What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?

75

6

Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?

56

7

Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

50

8

What underestimated technologies will dominate within 5 years?

48

9

How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

48

10

Best online courses for startup founders?

42

Top Show HN

1

Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

537

2

A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript

377

3

I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages

355

4

Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative

308

5

LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

233

6

A 1000 auto-generated hexagonal SVG logos

174

7

Twelve70 - Men's outfit generator and closet management

158

8

The Least Dangerous To-Do List

141

9

Switch Git Users CLI

140

10

Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager

123

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)

924

2

Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

664

3

Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

593

4

RIP Google Music

268

5

Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers

263

6

Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery

242

7

Judge dismisses Apple’s “theft” claims in Epic Games lawsuit

195

8

Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates

181

9

SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users are impressed

144

10

Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review

130

News [?]

1

Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show

780

2

Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

680

3

Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

671

4

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

498

5

Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019)

315

6

A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension

271

7

South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'

237

8

Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation

234

9

Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses

227

10

Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22

222

Scientific publications [?]

1

Texas astronomers revive idea for 'Ultimately Large Telescope' on the moon

195

2

Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research

64

3

Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning

59

4

Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel

41

5

Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design

37

6

An efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices

29

7

Cooling red-hot steel with warm rather than cold water improves steel quality

14

8

Heuristics and performance bounds for automated design

11

9

Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning (2018)

10

10

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

2636

2

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back

1275

3

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode

950

4

Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing

363

5

Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

171

6

Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready to Be Deemed Stable

161

7

Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future

113

8

AMD at a Tipping Point with Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators

98

9

Fleets: A new way to join the conversation

96

10

Sad DNS Explained

92

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

1080

2

2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

724

3

Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

337

4

Apple outages affecting Mac apps, Big Sur updates, iMessage, and more

217

5

Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS

209

6

macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models

189

7

Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs

81

8

Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce

43

9

Patent Office pushing for permanent rule changes before administration change

40

10

Apple's M1 SoC Shreds GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in New Graphics Benchmark

23

FAANG+ [?]

1

654

2

Transparency Report

199

3

AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool

169

4

Apple is experiencing an outage taking down Macs

74

5

The Microsoft Pluton Processor

36

6

Microsoft Pluton processor– The security chip designed for the future of Windows

24

7

Apple’s Cork campus celebrates 40 years of community and looks to the future

22

8

Microsoft Releases OpenCL and OpenGL Compatibility Pack for Windows 10

9

9

Amazon Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run Your Containers in the Cloud

9

10

Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer

6

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple's Shifting Differentiation

292

2

The biology of dads

236

3

Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results

231

4

Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

176

5

Disaster prepping is mainstream again

166

6

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?

161

7

Playing on Hard Mode

109

8

Pippi and the Moomins

106

9

Vulnerable yet vital: Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities

53

10

The History of the CD-ROM Magazine (2016)

50

Science News [?]

1

Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution

502

2

Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients

274

3

Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality

264

4

Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause

196

5

Building the Mathematical Library of the Future

146

6

What Is a Particle?

126

7

What’s expected of us (2005)

120

8

Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption

107

9

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

106

10

Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments After the Big Bang

71

Social [?]

1

macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

2603

2

Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

1337

3

Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

754

4

16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

368

5

iFixit tools in Apple's lab

284

6

SpaceX Crew-1 [video]

219

7

Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]

195

8

Why Italians don't drink a cappuccino after 11am [video]

149

9

Macs are freezing because of Apple Gatekeeper service

102

10

VLC and Qt – A History [video]

81

Github repos and gists [?]

1

“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

716

2

Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA

679

3

Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon

655

4

ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

627

5

Pimp My Microwave

529

6

Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

423

7

Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015

254

8

Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion

249

9

Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10

247

10

Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison

239

Wikipedia [?]

1

British Airways Flight 5390

169

2

The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

153

3

Earnshaw's Theorem

23

4

Radiatori – pasta shaped like a radiator to maximize heat exchange

14

5

14

6

10

7

9

8

Cult of the Dead Cow

7

9

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

7

10

1876 United States presidential election

6

Blogs [?]

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

158

2

Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019)

103

3

Big Banks are at the front and center of money laundering of over $2T

64

4

A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn

51

5

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

45

6

There are only three startup stages

41

7

Hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”

39

8

Drawing lots of faces with sketch-RNN

33

9

Firefox and how a website could steal all of your cookies (CVE-2020–15647)

26

10

Potential Organized Fraud in Tier-1 Systems Conferences

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Disabling Chrome Autofill

4

Substack [?]

1

Prediction Markets Beat Polls

162

2

DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage

129

3

Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim

76

4

Ongoing Death of Free Speech: ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book

68

5

Essay: How do you describe TikTok?

58

6

“Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”

50

7

Starting a food business in a pandemic

31

8

Bubbles and Megaprojects Parallelize Innovation

31

9

Samuel Johnson, opsimath

31

10

The next fleet of Breitbarts is already raking in ad dollars

30