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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Gears
2760
2
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
1564
3
Larry Tesler Has Died
1346
4
1-on-1 meeting questions
1030
5
The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
1027
6
Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
1002
7
Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
919
8
Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
910
9
Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
831
10
I Learned French in 12 Months
748
Top Ask HN
1
What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
496
2
A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
442
3
What are some examples of good database schema designs?
437
4
How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
420
5
What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
408
6
Best paid courses you've taken?
195
7
What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?
122
8
Schedule of a solo founder?
113
9
Do You Miss IRC?
101
10
Can we stop linking to paywalls?
89
Top Show HN
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A stream of AI-generated art
277
2
Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
247
3
A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
232
4
I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
213
5
Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more
143
6
Broxy – An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go
106
7
FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS
106
8
IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
97
9
Nodebook – Multi-Lang Web REPL on Docker
82
10
Critic.sh – Simple testing framework for Bash
79
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Larry Tesler Has Died
1346
2
Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
910
3
No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
687
4
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
631
5
Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
372
6
Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
355
7
SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM
346
8
Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN
329
9
The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
311
10
US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks
261
News [?]
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Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
536
2
Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
511
3
Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
464
4
Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)
402
5
California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
329
6
The outsize influence of middle-school friends
269
7
Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID
248
8
SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
187
9
Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails
176
10
Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
174
Scientific publications [?]
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A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
346
2
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
214
3
Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
110
4
ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
104
5
New math makes scientists more certain about quantum uncertainties
94
6
Soy protein exerts minor effects on reproductive hormones in young men (2005)
49
7
Engineering Faster Sorters for Small Sets of Items
38
8
Aviation industry tries to go green
35
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Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
32
10
New process for preserving lumber could offer advantages over pressure treating
23
Dev Blogs [?]
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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
831
2
GitHub CLI is now in beta
669
3
New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
343
4
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
257
5
Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
180
6
Multi-account containers add-on sync feature
143
7
Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X
108
8
AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing
89
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Keeping secrets in memfd areas
71
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Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
37
Tech blogs [?]
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64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
187
2
California Auditor's Damning Report About Automated License Plate Readers
17
3
Macs Outpaced PCS in Number of Malware Threats Detected per Endpoint in 2019
7
4
Latest Windows 10 Update doing unexpected things to user profiles and data
4
5
Mobile World Congress 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus
3
6
‘Lockdown’ open source firewall app leaps from iOS to Mac
2
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Finally Apple Joins Fido Alliance
2
8
Google Working to Remove Minix-Based Me from Intel Platforms
2
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Broadcom Announces BCM4389 Wi-Fi 6E Client Chipset
1
10
New References to AMD Processors Discovered in macOS 10.15.4 Beta
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Investor update on quarterly guidance
66
2
Xlookup, the successor to Vlookup in Excel
4
3
Advanced Deep Learning with Python
4
4
Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS Amazon EBS Volumes
3
5
Java Coding Problems
3
6
Microsoft Scheduler and Dawn of Intelligent PDAs with Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya
2
7
Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility
2
8
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
2
9
Xlookup formula now generally available
1
10
Mars Colonies: Plans for Settling the Red Planet
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
400
2
Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google
270
3
Why has progress stalled? (2014)
109
4
First, Do No Harm
105
5
Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom
105
6
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983)
93
7
A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python
91
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DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger
90
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Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (1994)
75
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US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA
44
Science News [?]
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A Map of Mathematics
414
2
Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
214
3
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)
117
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
116
5
Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?
87
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From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations
85
7
Powerful Radio Signal from Deep Space
77
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Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
74
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The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2016)
51
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Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles
49
Social [?]
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Brown: color is weird [video]
498
2
Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
417
3
"This community is available in the app"
399
4
Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
380
5
Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]
310
6
Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]
309
7
Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage
188
8
An SSH server that knows who you are
152
9
Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]
134
10
SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
108
Github repos and gists [?]
1
1-on-1 meeting questions
1030
2
Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
687
3
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
436
4
Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
429
5
Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
359
6
ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go
355
7
Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
312
8
Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
289
9
The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard
282
10
A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages
267
Wikipedia [?]
1
Hallucinogenic Fish
148
2
Benford's Law
145
3
Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia
128
4
Crypto AG
101
5
Finite Element Method
75
6
Wallace Tree
61
7
Barbara Newhall Follett
60
8
Tsundoku
58
9
Kessler Syndrome
57
10
Erdős–Bacon number
48
Blogs [?]
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Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
224
2
ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
185
3
Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end
140
4
Questions to ask before adopting microservices
135
5
Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018)
75
6
How HTTPS works – Explained in layman terms
73
7
Your balance is $0.30000000004
68
8
Alan Turing in America
57
9
Stop Lying About Our Sons
39
10
Blockstack created fake users to unlock investments
25
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How to check if a variable is a string in JavaScript
3
Substack [?]
1
Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
403
2
Part I: The Next Great Online Community
9
3
What happens when you attack DeFi?
4
4
Everything you wanted to know about carbon sequestration
3
5
Demistifying My Writing Process
3
6
A Tale of Money – How universal basic income will change our society
3
7
A Loveletter to the Atari Lynx
3
8
Why are tech people freaking out about coronavirus?
3
9
Why did it take until the 1970s to invent Dungeons & Dragons?
3
10
Can Twitter Save Science?
2