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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Freeman Dyson Has Died

1238

2

SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

1216

3

Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

1160

4

974

5

A half-hour to learn Rust

927

6

Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

854

7

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

834

8

Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

829

9

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN

741

10

What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

733

Top Ask HN

1

Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

547

2

Who is hiring? (March 2020)

400

3

How to find work while homeless?

323

4

How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

297

5

How to Take Good Notes?

294

6

How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?

183

7

Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

129

8

STEM toy for a 3 years old?

117

9

Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?

114

10

How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?

101

Top Show HN

1

Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

528

2

Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable

234

3

Goodreads Data Pipeline

213

4

A collection of support replies to make your support stand out

198

5

InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

185

6

A front-end visual development tool for React applications

178

7

Opensource.builders, open-source alternatives to commercial software

161

8

Ecosim – A cellular ecosystem simulator toy for Linux written in C

150

9

IMAP API – Self-hosted access to IMAP over REST

125

10

Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans

116

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

1216

2

Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

854

3

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN

741

4

Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

548

5

Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL

378

6

Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

298

7

The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM

284

8

Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans

258

9

Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling

255

10

iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature

245

News [?]

1

Freeman Dyson Has Died

1238

2

Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

603

3

The boss who put everyone on 70K

537

4

UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

421

5

Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

421

6

A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it

412

7

CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says

386

8

Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

379

9

Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

364

10

The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago

330

Scientific publications [?]

1

MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law

211

2

Protein discovered inside a meteorite

188

3

Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment

119

4

Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)

115

5

Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

115

6

Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics

104

7

Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning

75

8

The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?

9

9

Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter

8

10

The Mathematics of Bitcoin [pdf]

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

401

2

Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration

328

3

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

291

4

Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers

284

5

Things about the new Firefox browser for Android

255

6

When Bloom filters don't bloom

227

7

Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers

218

8

Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”

210

9

An End to High Memory?

150

10

IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history

128

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs

373

2

AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update

67

3

Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana Processors

47

4

Ampere unveils Ampere Altra, an 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor

11

5

Reform or Expire

8

6

The Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 Review: The Ice Lake Cometh

6

7

AMD Ryzen 4000 APU Flexes 4.4 GHz Boost in Laptop Listing Ahead of Release

4

8

Parking Meters That Were a Bit Too Smart for Their Own Good

4

9

Astra Readies Secretive Silicon Valley Rocket for Test Launch Today

3

10

Orange Pi 4B Review at Tom's Hardware

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Whistleblower: My Journey to SV and Fight for Justice at Uber: Susan Fowler

5

2

Optimizing application performance with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

4

3

Microsoft Research Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest

4

4

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

4

5

A Dart Runtime for AWS Lambda

3

6

GDC 2020 Update

3

7

This is the best book I've ever read about unit testing

2

8

Amazon smart ring: Echo Loop

2

9

Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline

2

10

Amazon Transcribe can now automatically redact personally identifiable data

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (1996)

97

2

Sun's JavaFX Mobile smartphone, the Neo 1973 (2007)

62

3

Perennial philosophy

60

4

Tesla's Roadrunner project: new battery production at $100 per kWh

39

5

My Mistress Melancholy: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

28

6

How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

6

7

Calculus Resources On-Line

4

8

Online Course Planning Checklist: Plan, Build, and Launch [Google Doc]

3

9

Rosetta Smalltalk: Prototype Language Reference Manual (1980)

3

10

How to Make Bread from Flesh-Eating Bacteria

3

Science News [?]

1

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)

267

2

How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)

184

3

Babies are pre-wired to perceive the world

127

4

New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat

98

5

Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro

91

6

Relating natural language aptitude to differences in learning programming

81

7

Comparative genetic analysis of 2019-nCoV receptor ACE2 in different populations

77

8

The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu

69

9

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

67

10

Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics

65

Social [?]

1

Cursed Adapters

375

2

My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn

337

3

John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]

275

4

How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation [video]

265

5

Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days

214

6

Recovering telemetry data from Venera-13 and 14

173

7

Manuals and guides for startups

142

8

My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio

120

9

George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a Scam and Silicon Valley Needs to Die

78

10

The Wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost $550

64

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Draft of the Fast.ai Book

509

2

Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

370

3

Postgres Explain Visualizer

309

4

FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

287

5

Learn Awk by Example (2019)

250

6

Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)

233

7

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Asynchronous Programming

181

8

172

9

Algorithms from Bishop's ML book implemented in Python

107

10

CAF: C++ Actor Framework

104

Wikipedia [?]

1

237

2

141

3

United States National Radio Quiet Zone

132

4

Capability Immaturity Model

124

5

120

6

Freeman Dyson Has Died

91

7

Herfindahl Index

43

8

Green–Tao theorem

41

9

Hydraulic Telegraph

38

10

35

Blogs [?]

1

64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks

258

2

The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

248

3

How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina (2019)

154

4

ExpressJS vs. Actix-Web: performance and running cost comparison

66

5

Migrate to Python 3 Now, There's Little Time Left

35

6

Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster

22

7

Why the World Needs CSS Developers

17

8

The Hard Problem of Privacy

10

9

Predict with Sklearn 20x Faster

8

10

Tips on how startup can win the “learning war” for talent

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is it normal that I see others’ Redis data on shared hosting?

144

Substack [?]

1

Easy as A, B, Chromebook

26

2

The Three Questions: Culture Biosciences

14

3

How Notion Grew Without Much Marketing?

4

4

Are Job Interviews a Farce?

4

5

Kickstarter's Union, Activism, and Tech Class Conflict

3

6

Four critical charts to watch as the coronavirus spreads globally

3

7

Over 335 million people own cryptocurrency. Who are they? Why do they buy it?

3

8

The risk of distributing risk Lambda School and Bowie Bonds

2

9

The Driverless Readiness Score

2

10

VCs should play bridge: founder-investor startup signaling

2