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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

2292

2

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

1582

3

Google Maps Hacks

1410

4

Not everyone has an internal monologue

1225

5

The missing semester of CS education

1163

6

My Second Year as a Solo Developer

1066

7

Monoliths Are the Future

1065

8

Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

1057

9

Old CSS, New CSS

1018

10

WireGuard is now in Linus' tree

982

Top Ask HN

1

What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

930

2

How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?

422

3

Who is hiring? (February 2020)

349

4

What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?

255

5

How do you process payments?

245

6

How to explain job gaps on the resume?

222

7

Where do you find software development freelance work?

142

8

Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?

135

9

Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)

133

10

Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

88

Top Show HN

1

Regex Cheatsheet

499

2

I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

186

3

A self-hosted email engine

149

4

Hacker News Trends

137

5

Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service

130

6

Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities

125

7

VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot

119

8

111

9

Codeflow – Understand a codebase quicker with PowerPoint-like tutorials

101

10

A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C

98

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment

611

2

Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

493

3

Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers

367

4

Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality

349

5

Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

339

6

The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night

275

7

An update to 37-year-old MIDI

159

8

Asana files to go public via direct listing

159

9

AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a tax cut

138

10

The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

125

News [?]

1

Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment

621

2

WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency

495

3

U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada

401

4

Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker

384

5

China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

370

6

Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

369

7

Russia blocks ProtonMail

359

8

Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China

338

9

Sun's surface seen in new detail

336

10

Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company

312

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

400

2

Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language

184

3

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)

104

4

Sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other

93

5

Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

89

6

New quasi-particle discovered: Introducing the Pi-ton

77

7

A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain

71

8

How India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet

56

9

Scientists Find Record Warm Water in Antartica

38

10

Engineering a Repairable World

35

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A new hash algorithm for Git

465

2

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support

295

3

Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch

242

4

Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer

235

5

Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records

204

6

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization

108

7

Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of a Data Theft Scheme

91

8

Systemd-homed merged as a fundamental change to Linux home directories

61

9

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance on a $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

50

10

IBM Stops Work on Swift – Q&A with Chris Bailey

43

Tech blogs [?]

1

EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard

262

2

Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date

206

3

Off-Facebook Activity Is a Welcome but Incomplete Move

133

4

What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera

89

5

TSMC Boosts CapEx by $1B, Expects N5 Node to Be Major Success

73

6

U.K. Police Will Soon Be Able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge

57

7

Netflix cuts sockets by a factor of two with AMD Epyc

51

8

EFF and Other Groups to Pclob: Urge the Ban of Face Recognition

13

9

Google developing all-in-one messaging app for businesses

11

10

VMware's New Licensing Fees Are Going to Hurt 64-Core EPYC

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

582

2

New Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN

14

3

M-Space: The Maxeler Collaboration Workspace

1

4

Azure Revenue up 64% in 2019

1

5

Microsoft AI for Health

1

6

AWS EKS Announces a 50% Price Reduction

1

7

Career in AWS and Google Cloud Computing

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)

152

2

A Russian satellite appears to be shadowing an American spy satellite

92

3

Research UNIX: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 [pdf]

79

4

Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America

52

5

Facebook’s Platform Opportunity

38

6

Cougar Gold Cheese

37

7

The Promise System (1992)

33

8

YouTube Copyright Strike Took Down Livestream Before It Even Started

22

9

Seneca On the Shortness of Life (49 AD)

6

10

How Will You Measure Your Life? (2010)

5

Science News [?]

1

Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

367

2

Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

252

3

The mysteries of aerodynamic lift

228

4

Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence

223

5

Universal, reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (2017)

170

6

“Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in East Africa

169

7

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

132

8

The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is a trove of cunning inventions

102

9

Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem

92

10

A milestone in the hunt for metallic hydrogen

85

Social [?]

1

Off-Facebook activity

710

2

Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

694

3

I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf

422

4

State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization

275

5

Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle

208

6

Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]

191

7

Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

140

8

Iowa Caucus App Error

106

9

BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]

95

10

Google photos allowed the wrong users to download videos

66

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

2292

2

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

589

3

Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud

556

4

Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia

447

5

Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

417

6

Let's Destroy C

348

7

SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool

272

8

Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA

268

9

A guide to freelancing in Finland

230

10

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

229

Wikipedia [?]

1

Verlan: French slang that inverses words

178

2

A Mathematician’s Apology

130

3

Ishikawa diagram

104

4

92

5

91

6

69

7

Schöningen Spears

63

8

Bal Des Ardents

48

9

45

10

Lockheed Bribery Scandals

43

Blogs [?]

1

602

2

What Exactly is Docker?

152

3

Dynein: Building an Open-Source Distributed Delayed Job Queueing System

29

4

The 4 Startup games. Which one are you playing?

15

5

Spark deserves a better IDE

13

6

How Entrepreneurs Decide Which Meetings to Take and Which to Refuse

13

7

/E/OS and the Art of Remote Project Management

12

8

Noise v1.1.2: Fearless, decentralized P2P networking in Go

11

9

Unaccountable Amazon Chinese Retailers Threaten Consumer Safety and Business

11

10

Hi, I’m on the Shitty Media Men list, but maybe you already knew that

10

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

4

2

What is the maximum value for an int32?

2

3

Disabling Chrome Autofill

2

4

What Is Multisorted Algebra

2

5

What is the difference between a 'closure' and a 'lambda'?

1

6

Apollo React – `UseMutation` in ApolloClient Setup?

1

7

Auto-submit HTML form and insert to database using Ajax

1

Substack [?]

1

The Iowa Caucus, Pseudo-Events, and Hyperreality

48

2

Five Useful Coronavirus Charts

4

3

We're All Conspiracy Theorists Now

3

4

3

5

CVS Became a Health Care Tyrant

3

6

So your site has a big form: how to give it great UX without breaking the bank

3

7

Ideas Are Worthless

3

8

Counterfeit Food

3

9

Free Our Doctors, Engineers, Daycare Workers, Cheer Coaches, etc. from Fear

3

10

Interview: CG Artist at TikTok

3