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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Tips for a Better Life

1271

2

Just Wanted to Say Thanks

1244

3

Do You Love Me? [video]

1218

4

How We Saved Dot Org

1187

5

Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

1024

6

How bad is your Spotify?

974

7

Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?

844

8

779

9

Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

769

10

Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor

725

Top Ask HN

1

Best Talks of 2020?

729

2

Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

689

3

What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

476

4

What Lived Up to the Hype?

424

5

What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

326

6

Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

260

7

How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?

98

8

What was a book that changed your life?

84

9

Is it realistic to make a good living as a sole software developer

58

10

Best books for dealing with workplace politics and dishonesty?

51

Top Show HN

1

Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world

405

2

Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

357

3

Mountain Peaks in WebGL

281

4

Simple-graph – a graph database in SQLite

237

5

LinkAce – Self-hosted, FOSS bookmark archive

227

6

Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product

178

7

CodeSwing – A CodePen-like interactive playground, built into VS Code

159

8

The Agora – an experimental social network

157

9

Four years of profitable side-projects

145

10

Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts

144

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

423

2

Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices

314

3

India’s booming dark data economy

199

4

Octopuses Like to Punch Fish

160

5

The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me

127

6

How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip

88

7

Telegram's getting ads

81

8

Scientists turn CO2 into jet fuel

61

9

The Steampunk Rover Concept That Could Help Explore Venus

59

10

Chat roulette is on the rise again, this time with AI

59

News [?]

1

What If You Could Do It All Over?

447

2

Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person

404

3

Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China

398

4

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

344

5

Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

338

6

Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research

303

7

Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

288

8

FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

243

9

UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal

239

10

An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It

221

Scientific publications [?]

1

Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone

203

2

Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation

144

3

A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy

66

4

Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20sec at 100M degrees

65

5

Build a Two-Way Pager with Lora

55

6

PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing

47

7

Free-space optical links for space communication networks

46

8

'Like finding life on Mars': the underground orchid in Australia

16

9

Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's Cryptographic Protocol

7

10

Earthlings and astronauts chat over ham radio

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers

438

2

New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD

160

3

PureOS: Freedom, Privacy, and Security

131

4

Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system

104

5

2020: The year in databases at Google Cloud

45

6

We Don't Know How to Compute (Video and Slides) (2011)

35

7

Panthers’ Russell Okung Becomes First NFL Player to Be Paid in Bitcoin

32

8

Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple

15

9

Organizational Update from OpenAI

13

10

Russia’s SolarWinds Attack – Schneier on Security

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

How We Saved Dot Org

1187

2

iPhone workers given choice of forced labor or being sent to detention centers

575

3

Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)

76

4

In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security with the “Earn IT” Act

24

5

The Slow-Motion Tragedy of Ola Bini's Trial – Electronic Frontier Foundation

17

6

US Department of Energy backs five advanced nuclear reactor concepts

16

7

Netscape Communicator 4 and SHA-1 are part of Brexit agreement

15

8

ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating

14

9

Raspberry Pi HPi95LX Project Is a Retro PDA Masterpiece

11

10

Some Facebook employees don't believe its attacks on Apple are justified

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple iCloud account and sign in outage affecting some users for over 24 hours

161

2

MS Launches Any-Source Data Discovery Tool

3

3

Unadversarial examples: Designing objects for robust vision

2

4

Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball [pdf]

2

5

Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate

2

6

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards

267

2

An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM

219

3

The Future of RTS

189

4

Video taken by pilots of what could be the elusive Los Angeles jet pack guy

142

5

Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males

119

6

Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme from Prison

102

7

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism

65

8

The Food Stylist Who Creates Hollywood's Unreal Dishes and Drinks

60

9

Sci-Hub and Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After High Court Complaint

48

10

Vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza

40

Science News [?]

1

Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping

239

2

Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’

124

3

Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019)

116

4

Britain’s electricity since 2010: fossil fuel use nearly halves

104

5

A Brief History of Jamaican Jerk

66

6

A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to the Food Industry, Study

58

7

Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

49

8

Officials seize 27k artifacts looted by a single French treasure hunter

46

9

The other side of sea level change

40

10

An unusual meteorite may hold the building blocks of life

39

Social [?]

1

Do You Love Me? [video]

1218

2

Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor

725

3

Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

413

4

I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates

386

5

The Fight for WorldBox

326

6

YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

284

7

Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression

141

8

Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts

110

9

UK-EU trade deal refers to Netscape Communicator 4 as “modern email software”

107

10

What comes after Git?

70

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Just Wanted to Say Thanks

1244

2

C Template Library

266

3

Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1

260

4

Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

226

5

Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life

199

6

Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

187

7

TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement

168

8

Wisp: A light Lisp written in C++

140

9

Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir

128

10

A Tiny Lispy Transpiler

110

Wikipedia [?]

1

I am lonely will anyone speak to me

284

2

18XX Train Games

101

3

One red paperclip

93

4

56

5

46

6

Mary Kenneth Keller

32

7

Leary–Lettvin Debate

29

8

26

9

Weather Underground Organization

13

10

Dunning–Kruger Effect

10

Blogs [?]

1

NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy

336

2

Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)

278

3

Against Essential and Accidental Complexity

246

4

No Country for Old Developers

64

5

The Definitive Guide to Dopamine Fasting 2.0

49

6

The Market Curve

10

7

The OODA Loop: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity

9

8

How we built our equal-pay system

8

9

Abusing my computer science knowledge to cheat at Catan

8

10

Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow: Database Design using UML Class diagram

2

Substack [?]

1

Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating

628

2

APIs All the Way Down

160

3

Chinese Demography

80

4

Nobody says hi in San Francisco

47

5

Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest technology companies

38

6

Bitcoin is a collectors items

35

7

Twitter, the Politburo

31

8

Extract or Die – San Francisco Techxodus

30

9

2020, the Year of Everything Fake

27

10

The rise of intangibles and the demise of accounting

24