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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Wacom tablets track every app you open
1594
2
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
1545
3
What's SAP?
1221
4
Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
1047
5
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
962
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Reasons not to become famous
850
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“We already store data. In a database. It works well”
847
8
Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
814
9
Python dicts are now ordered
734
10
Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
727
Top Ask HN
1
What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
852
2
Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
766
3
What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
621
4
What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
492
5
How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
360
6
How did you fix your narcissism?
358
7
What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
298
8
What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
288
9
What’s the most important modern simple invention?
253
10
What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
208
Top Show HN
1
My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]
272
2
Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats
214
3
Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs
195
4
My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang
176
5
Building an open-source language-learning platform
159
6
Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius
151
7
Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM
131
8
Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs
118
9
Discover the World of Mathematics
108
10
Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
46
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy
377
2
Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions
351
3
SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1M
221
4
Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate
211
5
A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?
168
6
How the JPL works to secure its missions from adversaries
163
7
The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric
136
8
HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2002)
135
9
Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers
134
10
Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different
124
News [?]
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
962
2
Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
683
3
Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
362
4
The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church
312
5
Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything
266
6
Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max
253
7
U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks
219
8
Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests
215
9
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
212
10
France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones
193
Scientific publications [?]
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A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
112
2
The laser and microphone atop Mars 2020, NASA's next rover
76
3
January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service
74
4
New research on how mosquitoes find humans to bite
74
5
Artificial atoms create stable qubits for quantum computing
71
6
The optimal way of folding a bond notebook page into a bookmark
46
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Astronomers discover unusual monster galaxy in the early universe
39
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Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations (2018)
30
9
Bicycle Attacks: Quantifying the Damage of Widespread Password Length Leakage
30
10
A possible explanation for the mysterious ice circles in Lake Baikal
24
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
714
2
Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
406
3
macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated
337
4
The Rapid Growth of Io_uring
213
5
Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance
172
6
An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs
145
7
Say Goodbye to CoreOS
127
8
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance
106
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When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
99
10
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
74
Tech blogs [?]
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64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
135
2
A modern take on the “paperclip computer”
94
3
DHS skirting Supreme Court order by using purchased location data
21
4
Wacom blogs post explains its phone home behavior
10
5
Samsung Announces the Galaxy S20, S20 and S20 Ultra
10
6
Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
7
7
Apple officially acquired NeXT 23 years ago, changing everything
7
8
Chinese x86 Chips Hitting the Market
6
9
New References to AMD Processors Discovered in macOS 10.15.4 Beta
5
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Appeals Court Win for FOSS Advocate Speaking Out on Licensing Restrictions
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
367
2
Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
218
3
Interview with Simon Peyton Jones (2018)
71
4
Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world
34
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AnEnd-to-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infra
3
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Apple Arcade takes over home page
2
7
Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security Features on Amazon Elasticsearch
2
8
Zero and DeepSpeed: New System Optimizations
2
9
Zero and DeepSpeed enable training models with over 100B parameters
2
10
Amazon Elastic Container Service Has Added Support for Canary Deployments
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
127
2
Antarctica is teeming with microbes
62
3
Collecting stamps from countries that don’t exist
46
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Artificial Mountains
40
5
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
34
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Hand-optimized interpreter loop in LuaJIT2 (2011)
22
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The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee (2016)
13
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Edge Computing Reading List
11
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The United States Doesn't Have an Automatic “Dead Hand” Trigger for Its ICBMs
7
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All of New York City’s municipal vehicles will be fully electric by 2040
7
Science News [?]
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination
501
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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
387
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Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
239
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Board Games of the Ancient World
209
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Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds
173
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Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes
165
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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
136
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Free Illustrations of the Natural World
123
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Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)
100
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Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again
76
Social [?]
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“We already store data. In a database. It works well”
847
2
I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
502
3
“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
316
4
Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]
200
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Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive
148
6
Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software
147
7
Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video]
130
8
McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France
118
9
Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed
103
10
WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
97
Github repos and gists [?]
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Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
543
2
Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
282
3
ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C
266
4
Blender GIS
240
5
Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash
238
6
Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
209
7
Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter
175
8
Inori/GPCS4: A Playstation 4 emulator just begin
159
9
Alpine.js: A minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup
148
10
Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication
145
Wikipedia [?]
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Mondragon Corporation
442
2
Li Wenliang
350
3
Frankenstein Veto
177
4
Flashsort
141
5
Stepping Feet Illusion
128
6
Eiffel programming language
109
7
Pitch Drop Experiment
97
8
Rongorongo
80
9
The Emu War
80
10
A Dog of Flanders
71
Blogs [?]
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95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
444
2
Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
296
3
How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)
148
4
Richard P. Feynman on the Distinction Between Past and Future
100
5
The comfortable life is killing us
89
6
Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin: The Testamentum Porcelli
42
7
Seniority in Software Engineering
37
8
Looking for founders for three startup ideas
32
9
Guy Kawasaki's “10-20-30” Rule for Public Speaking
21
10
Entrepreneurship is a spectrum so why did we forget to support its social side?
20
Stackoverflow [?]
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There are 9 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML
3
2
What Are the Benefits of Apache Beam over Spark/Flink for Batch Processing?
3
3
Python: Should I implement __ne__() operator based on __eq__?
2
4
C++ compile time counters, revisited
1
5
x86 Tag Wiki on Stack Overflow
1
6
What Is a “Thread” (Really)?
1
7
Help with HTaccess file redirecting domains
1
Substack [?]
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Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
491
2
What does happiness at work mean?
148
3
Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
112
4
Rich people can't build social networks
30
5
Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
7
6
How Clay Christensen’s failure helped me process my own
5
7
One Bad Apple
4
8
Profits over People: How Fantastical Lost Loyal Users on Product Hunt
4
9
Slack vs. Microsoft Teams Is a Repeat of Snapchat vs. Instagram
3
10
Supernodes Are a Social Medium Anti-Pattern
2