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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Tell HN: Thank You Dang

2363

2

Tony Hsieh has died

1598

3

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

1473

4

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

1398

5

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

1091

6

How to Think for Yourself

1090

7

I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

1080

8

Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

858

9

A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

790

10

Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

776

Top Ask HN

1

Top Coursera Courses?

486

2

What are the best advanced computer science courses online?

345

3

Who is hiring? (December 2020)

339

4

Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

166

5

How do you work through large ideas?

145

6

How to learn writing blog posts?

100

7

I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?

71

8

Crashed founders, what was the point of failure?

70

9

Programming 101 online course recommendations?

58

10

Is it OK to not have a “thing”?

58

Top Show HN

1

I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

726

2

I made a Mahjong browser game

252

3

Dungeon Map Doodler – Free D&D map maker

126

4

1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click

125

5

Dicom Medical Image Library in Go

108

6

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design

107

7

Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game

106

8

Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows

99

9

Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN

99

10

NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool

96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

519

2

Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10

326

3

Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

309

4

European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’

124

5

The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling

110

6

Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades

108

7

What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?

105

8

SpinLaunch is building a centrifuge to launch satellites into orbit

95

9

Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware

70

10

How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse

67

News [?]

1

‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

486

2

Diego Maradona has died

428

3

Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack

377

4

1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland

366

5

The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’

359

6

Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

286

7

Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

277

8

Your brain runs your body using something like a budget

246

9

AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

244

10

Diego Maradona has died

244

Scientific publications [?]

1

Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

776

2

Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows

203

3

A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

188

4

TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

154

5

Geometric Algebra (2012)

147

6

Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine

118

7

Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal

74

8

A hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early universe

56

9

Quantum nanodiamonds may help detect disease earlier

39

10

PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture

36

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model

276

2

Mutt releases version 2.0

139

3

ASICs at the Edge

101

4

Greg Kroah-Hartman: Lessons for Developers from 20 Years of Linux Kernel Work

19

5

A Byzantine failure in the real world

16

6

Van Buren appeal arguments in light of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ambiguity

12

7

Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years

11

8

A Byzantine failure in the real world

8

9

How Buffett Is Hedging Against the Endless Pandemic

7

10

On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized

241

2

Amazon Sidewalk: Will You Be Co-Opted into a Private Neighbourhood Lora Network?

7

3

Hector Martin Announces Patreon Funding for Bringing Native Linux to M1 Macs

5

4

Kraftwerk Performed with Arduino

3

5

Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair

3

6

Starlink Teardown

3

7

How to Install Any iPhone or iPad App on an M1 Mac

2

8

Apple Adds First iMac Models with Retina 5K Display to Vintage Products List

2

9

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, a Smaller Bite of Ampere for $400

2

10

Gathering Eclipse Data via Ham Radio

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

1091

2

AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

629

3

Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

355

4

Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer

288

5

New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support

208

6

99

7

Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry

85

8

AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs

71

9

Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D)

38

10

Buxton Collection: 35 years of input devices

22

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

274

2

Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects

253

3

Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America

120

4

My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe

112

5

The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (1981)

91

6

We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed

78

7

Lessons from Dave Chappelle

74

8

63

9

Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

61

10

How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality

58

Science News [?]

1

No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19

450

2

Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells

279

3

Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

269

4

Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake

240

5

Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone

188

6

The Covid Science Wars

104

7

A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014)

94

8

Spatial computing could be the next big thing

93

9

Why scientists are turning to Rust

91

10

Contemplating the End of Physics

79

Social [?]

1

Ethereum 2.0 launches

629

2

Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

403

3

YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

372

4

Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]

312

5

Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting

277

6

Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing

213

7

Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths [video]

175

8

Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google

130

9

Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic

121

10

Remote control truck with remote control gun, self destructed after attack

118

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

414

2

Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

407

3

364

4

Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

343

5

K6: Like unit testing, for performance

318

6

DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

280

7

Java Verbal Expressions

275

8

Flappy Bird in 228 bytes

254

9

Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system

252

10

macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon

189

Wikipedia [?]

1

195

2

172

3

Al-Adudi Hospital

121

4

Red Star (novel)

49

5

39

6

Indian Coffee House

16

7

11

8

How to Read a Book

8

9

I Am Prepared to Die

8

10

Bootleggers and Baptists

7

Blogs [?]

1

How to Think for Yourself

1090

2

Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing

137

3

Using Serverless for unpredictable traffic to for TV fundraiser event

76

4

Shipping Progressive Web Apps everywhere

52

5

I tried out-training my diet for 18 months

27

6

Handling Time Zone in JavaScript (2019)

25

7

The path to learning SQL and mastering it to become a Data Engineer

21

8

I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer

20

9

My software was misused by Rudy Giuliani to claim election fraud

11

10

PlanGrid's migration from home-grown feature flags to LaunchDarkly

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Round down to two decimals using CSS

2

2

A fast method to round a double to a 32-bit int explained (2013)

2

3

Difference Between Logical and Arithmatic Right Shift

2

4

Is anyone attempting to reverse-engineer Parler?

1

Substack [?]

1

The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical

280

2

Hire people who give a shit

236

3

Tips for Founders Doing Sales (From a Founder)

196

4

A Worsening Culture War

182

5

Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team

177

6

CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars

115

7

McKinsey: Friendly Neighborhood Spreadsheet Sociopaths Are Back in Town

79

8

What changes when you work outside an office?

47

9

The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident

24

10

Programmer, developer, engineer? What do you call yourself and why?

19