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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1307
2
AirPods Max
996
3
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard
969
4
With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
938
5
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
933
6
Stripe Treasury
918
7
A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
893
8
Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
892
9
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
864
10
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
809
Top Ask HN
1
What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
705
2
Learning about philosophy
257
3
Recommend books that give you insight into other professions
154
4
What was your best passive income in 2020?
149
5
Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?
109
6
I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?
107
7
Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?
89
8
Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?
83
9
How do you balance reading books vs. articles
61
10
What Linux Desktop Environment do you use on tablets?
60
Top Show HN
1
This website is valid JSON
604
2
Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform
510
3
End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude
168
4
Make slides with text, markdown, YAML, JSON or JavaScript, your call
135
5
A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages
128
6
NN-512 – Generate standalone C code for neural nets
111
7
I Wrote a Book on Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks
105
8
DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains
86
9
CoScreen 1.0 – radically different pair/team programming
80
10
Exophysics – WebGL2 particle simulator
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
933
2
Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
542
3
Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
347
4
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
334
5
How to Escape a Sinking Ship
303
6
SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
288
7
Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves
269
8
TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs
217
9
AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust
207
10
Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again)
179
News [?]
1
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
809
2
Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
551
3
S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
449
4
Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
383
5
Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance
352
6
A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old
341
7
The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
297
8
Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-End PCs
272
9
U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
264
10
Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
261
Scientific publications [?]
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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
406
2
Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]
116
3
Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany
115
4
Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network
99
5
Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries
98
6
The first DNA 'tricorder' in your pocket
43
7
Germany cut fossil fuels as much as did the U.S., but at far greater expense
29
8
Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia
27
9
Mathematical Game Theory
16
10
Chang'e 5 lifts off from the Moon with 2 Kilogrammes of lunar samples
12
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe Treasury
918
2
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
541
3
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
407
4
The future of 32-bit Linux
156
5
Let’s Encrypt moving to new CA root
152
6
CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream
56
7
ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After 10 Years Selling Linux Hardware
43
8
App Store Small Business Program
33
9
Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
32
10
App Store Small Business Program Developer
28
Tech blogs [?]
1
Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G and Cortex-X1 on 5nm
73
2
Section 230 is Good, Actually
66
3
Printable, flexible battery offers 10 times the density of lithium-ion
55
4
Video of ARM Windows virtualization on M1 Macs: 2x faster than Surface Pro X
41
5
Urban Explorers Reveal a Treasure Trove of Soviet Computing Power
17
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Intel to Outsource 'Atom and Xeon Based SoCs' to TSMC
15
7
“Adafruit Making Machine Learning USB Stick for Raspberry Pi”
6
8
iPhone 12 unexpectedly dropping LTE and 5G service for some users
6
9
Adversarial Interoperability – Electronic Frontier Foundation (2019)
6
10
The Dark Side of Solar Power
5
FAANG+ [?]
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AirPods Max
996
2
S3 Strong Consistency
699
3
AWS: Run Microsoft SQL Server apps on PostgreSQL with little to no code changes
41
4
ESP8266 dev board with 16MB flash, IR, Relay
9
5
Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
7
6
Software Assertions and Code Quality (2006)
6
7
A Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference
5
8
Amazon QuickSight Q Answers Natural-Language Questions About Business Data
4
9
Apple Fitness+: The future of fitness launches December 14
4
10
Amazon ECS Anywhere
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
755
2
About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
526
3
Stripe: Platform of Platforms
153
4
Winamp Skins Collection
133
5
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
127
6
State of Common Lisp Survey 2020
117
7
The body as mediator: The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
57
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Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences
42
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Court Suspends ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer from Practicing Law
28
10
Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease (2018)
24
Science News [?]
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Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock
310
2
Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test
133
3
Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link
123
4
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
116
5
Vitamin D metabolites and the gut microbiome in older men
88
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Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]
83
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A flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872 by infecting horses
83
8
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
77
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Mysterious black spot in polar explorer's diary offers gruesome clue to his fate
52
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Occupational Depression Inventory: A new tool for clinicians and epidemiologists
27
Social [?]
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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
647
2
Chuck Yeager has died
636
3
My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants
493
4
Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
237
5
Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack
158
6
Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint
150
7
Android is a truly terrible software development platform
81
8
Oculus admits they will NOT help with Oculus Paperweight
62
9
What was Aragorn's tax policy? [video]
59
10
Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
53
Github repos and gists [?]
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Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
1307
2
Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
717
3
GitHub Releases Dark Mode
700
4
CSS in GitHub Readmes
544
5
Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support
457
6
A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots
449
7
Analog TV Station on ESP8266
365
8
Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license
301
9
School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
253
10
Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust
248
Wikipedia [?]
1
Cashew of Pirangi
177
2
Siteswap
110
3
Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch
107
4
WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position
73
5
Kaktovik Iñupiaq Numerals
26
6
Trump–Tsai Call
18
7
TSLAQ
12
8
Xenu, Leader of the Galactic Federation
11
9
Cookstrip
8
10
The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge
7
Blogs [?]
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Billionaires Build
520
2
Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
454
3
Why nullable types?
126
4
Why a land-value tax is inevitable
104
5
How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook
76
6
Teach Debugging (2014)
64
7
How we processed €5M in donations in 2 hours using Cloudflare and Stripe
59
8
My million dollar domain hobby
54
9
Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
36
10
Stop-saying-PHP-is-dead
35
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Difference Arithmatic Shift and Logical Shift
3
2
Difference Between Microsoft Bond and Google ProtoBuf
2
3
Debugging what this LISP virus is doing (2009)
2
4
Android Studio Slow? Tweak these settings
1
5
Is it feasible to use the Vertical Pod Autoscaler with Airflow on a task level?
1
Substack [?]
1
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
613
2
Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship
321
3
Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual
189
4
If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
178
5
What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study
173
6
Why do most top performers have the highest count of commits and pull requests?
159
7
An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
140
8
How the CCP Does Job Promotions
124
9
Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful
120
10
Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off
93