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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

No Cookie for You

2941

2

Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

1245

3

Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

1086

4

Hotwire: HTML over the Wire

1073

5

Firefox Was Always Enough

1000

6

States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

860

7

Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

833

8

All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

826

9

Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.

825

10

Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

783

Top Ask HN

1

Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer

399

2

I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

222

3

Where does one search development advice these days?

89

4

Do you miss being excited about programming/tech?

79

5

Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?

77

6

Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?

76

7

What are your best purchases in 2020?

66

8

Employees who exersised stock options: how did it go?

63

9

Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses?

63

10

Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

50

Top Show HN

1

267

2

Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server

241

3

Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

239

4

Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations

222

5

Make comic book layouts in the browser

192

6

Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter

185

7

I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing

169

8

StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

138

9

Galène Videoconferencing Server

132

10

Create a QR code with text in the code pattern

126

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

458

2

Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own

295

3

Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech

258

4

Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation

239

5

Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads

218

6

MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube

191

7

Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO

180

8

The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor

174

9

Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again

134

10

2020 had some significant silver linings

106

News [?]

1

Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

1245

2

All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

826

3

Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned

783

4

Being kind to others is good for your health

690

5

Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

615

6

Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources

524

7

SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative

521

8

Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills

463

9

FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test

347

10

Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes

323

Scientific publications [?]

1

Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

294

2

Causality Is Graphically Simple

90

3

The opioid effects of gluten exorphins: asymptomatic celiac disease (2015)

66

4

Augmented Reality and the Surveillance Society

49

5

China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight

43

6

Plants can be larks or night owls just like us

35

7

Scientists and philosopher team up, propose a new way to categorize minerals

32

8

Things We've Learned from NASA's Mars InSight

31

9

N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored with Electricity

21

10

The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean

11

Dev Blogs [?]

1

No Cookie for You

2941

2

Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years

309

3

Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites

265

4

A new release for GNU Octave

208

5

Commits are shapshots, not diffs

136

6

Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas

134

7

Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations

112

8

Changes to Code Search Indexing

82

9

Probabilistic Flakiness: How do you test your tests?

54

10

Windows Subsystem for Linux performance is close to bare-metal Linux

53

Tech blogs [?]

1

Evidence of “modified gravity” in 150 galaxies bolsters dark matter alternative

348

2

LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract

278

3

The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster

274

4

Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles

270

5

Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers

134

6

Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses

83

7

KFC's KFConsole Is Real: Secret Ingredient Is Intel Silicon

29

8

Facebook planning to run ad saying Apple to 'stop the internet from being free'

24

9

Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads over ad-tracking

22

10

Facebook’s Campaign Against Apple Is Against Users and Small Businesses

17

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Location Service

280

2

Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack

253

3

Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf]

153

4

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale

5

5

Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC

4

6

AWS EKS Anywhare (2021)

3

7

EC2 Image Builder now supports container images

3

8

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill

2

9

AWS Trainium – High performance machine learning training chip

2

10

AWS Inferentia – High performance machine learning inference chip

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

552

2

Playing chess is a life lesson in concentration

229

3

Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life

205

4

Emails show Navy's 'UFO' patents went through significant internal review

155

5

Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?

52

6

Plato in Sicily

51

7

Are We on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?

32

8

Stratechery Year in Review

22

9

Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption

18

10

US Passes Spending Bill with Case Act and Felony Streaming Proposal

6

Science News [?]

1

The universe is expanding faster than expected

327

2

Claude Shannon Invented the Future

259

3

Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition

193

4

Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez

188

5

Nature invented play long before it invented us

171

6

A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation

139

7

Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light

119

8

Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport

116

9

Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome

106

10

Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab

105

Social [?]

1

FFmpeg is 20 years old today

462

2

Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

326

3

Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in 2013

279

4

John Carmack: Career Advice

274

5

Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1

224

6

I've walked away from software development

182

7

Super Nintendo World theme park

55

8

Cyberpunk 2077 removed from PS Store and refunded

54

9

How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2020 (with a million subscribers)

49

10

Facebook account banned after posting about breaking neck while playing VR

48

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

833

2

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

476

3

A computer science study plan to become a software engineer

374

4

Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks

338

5

247

6

GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

223

7

Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python

212

8

Zstandard v1.4.7

211

9

Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10

186

10

Rust 2021 Roadmap

178

Wikipedia [?]

1

112

2

2020 United States Postal Service Crisis

29

3

Wikipedia: Don't Be High-Maintenance

29

4

Today: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

16

5

Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

12

6

Chicken Hypnotism

11

7

9

8

8

9

The Salad Oil Scandal of 1963

5

10

Aluminium Oxynitride

5

Blogs [?]

1

Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)

129

2

Apple’s 8GB M1 Silicon Isn’t Magic, but It Is Magical

27

3

Why Java Is Dying

24

4

Not Apple, Google and Facebook Are Killing the Free Internet

23

5

Means of Descent (2016)

14

6

Picking a Kubernetes Orchestrator: Airflow, Argo, and Prefect

14

7

Facebook Criticising Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Changes Is a Hypocrisy

10

8

It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP

10

9

Open source ML compiler delivers 30% faster BERT on Apple M1 than CoreML

9

10

It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How does crypto library in Go compare to OpenSSL? – Stack Overflow

3

2

What is the “N+1 selects problem” in ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)?

2

3

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

1

4

There are 9 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML

1

5

Double to string conversion different for .NET Framework and .NET Core

1

6

How to compress and uncompress files w batch file w o using external tool?

1

Substack [?]

1

Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

671

2

The Internet Is for Porn

266

3

Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy

168

4

Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail

107

5

Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems

100

6

How neutering dogs became the norm

97

7

Why Content Is King

94

8

Substack Reader: An RSS feed reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions

78

9

Instagram Is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Biden Crime Record Criticism

18

10

LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

17