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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
2706
2
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
2254
3
Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
2019
4
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
2009
5
U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
1986
6
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
1961
7
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
1793
8
GitHub is fully available in Iran
1727
9
Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
1714
10
A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
1643
Top Ask HN
1
Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
740
2
Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
702
3
What are you working on?
529
4
Show me your half baked project
420
5
Who is hiring? (January 2021)
407
6
How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
392
7
What does mastery look like in software engineering?
365
8
Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?
336
9
Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
319
10
Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
295
Top Show HN
1
Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
962
2
I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
938
3
I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
753
4
I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
667
5
Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
528
6
Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
452
7
Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
447
8
Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502
409
9
I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.
343
10
A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)
297
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
2254
2
A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize
1643
3
CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
1167
4
Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
1056
5
Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
633
6
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
618
7
Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
539
8
Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
489
9
Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
425
10
The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
326
News [?]
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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
1986
2
GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
1078
3
Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
1058
4
Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
909
5
Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
774
6
Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
735
7
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
735
8
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
733
9
Wikipedia is 20
733
10
Stripe bans Trump campaign
673
Scientific publications [?]
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Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
388
2
How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance
368
3
Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic
338
4
New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency
322
5
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
275
6
Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI
213
7
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv
201
8
An Uncommon Cold
158
9
Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]
157
10
Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
157
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
1961
2
GitHub is fully available in Iran
1727
3
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
1569
4
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
1266
5
Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
389
6
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
314
7
A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown
285
8
Making our new homepage fast and performant
257
9
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
240
10
New campaign targeting security researchers
235
Tech blogs [?]
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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
747
2
New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst
499
3
5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona
288
4
TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
264
5
Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
244
6
Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal
236
7
EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts
229
8
Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico
217
9
AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks
196
10
EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance
194
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
1314
2
A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]
135
3
Helping to secure internet routing
116
4
Apple First Quarter Results
81
5
Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects
61
6
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
29
7
Time to Walk: An inspiring audio walking experience comes to Apple Fitness+
17
8
Lambda: The Microsoft Excel worksheet function
17
9
Lambda: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
13
10
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge and self-distillation
10
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
911
2
Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
615
3
Intel Problems
569
4
Dungeon Magazine
315
5
Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust
296
6
New Defaults
275
7
Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth
247
8
Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
233
9
India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties
220
10
Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit
212
Science News [?]
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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
551
2
Why cancer cells waste so much energy
341
3
Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
290
4
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018)
279
5
Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite
244
6
Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
233
7
Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
220
8
We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril
220
9
Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
220
10
Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever
217
Social [?]
1
Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
2706
2
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
2009
3
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
1793
4
We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
982
5
Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
953
6
Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
804
7
The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
678
8
Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'
645
9
GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
604
10
Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
539
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
946
2
Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
796
3
Rust for Windows
785
4
Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
778
5
Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
723
6
Open-source, not open-contribution
661
7
Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
618
8
WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history
614
9
GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
580
10
Horrifying PDF Experiments
493
Wikipedia [?]
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Otokichi
262
2
English as She Is Spoke
247
3
Göbekli Tepe
139
4
Eagle Cash
137
5
Brandolini's Law
132
6
Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability
99
7
Politician's Syllogism
82
8
United States military and prostitution in South Korea
76
9
Mikhail Devyatayev
75
10
Societal Collapse
73
Blogs [?]
1
Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
381
2
Wasmer 1.0
342
3
Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
242
4
React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
206
5
The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor
161
6
10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)
157
7
How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
151
8
I Switched from TypeScript to ReScript
62
9
We repurposed NPM to publish and distribute Go binaries for our internal CLI
62
10
Filesystem Error Handling (2017)
54
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later
429
2
Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?
15
3
What are the actual differences between Scheme and Common Lisp?
5
4
Unexpected result when subtracting in a loop (Java)
3
5
JPG vs. JPEG Image Formats
2
6
Why is this program valid?
2
7
Difference Between Clock_realtime and Clock_monotonic?
2
8
C# DotNet forces update check
2
9
Programmatically Lighten or Darken a hex color
2
10
React: It's Just a Philosophy!
1
Substack [?]
1
How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
1060
2
Still alive
898
3
Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
590
4
Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
484
5
WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
344
6
We need a new media system
305
7
Suck It, Wall Street
268
8
Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps
260
9
No one knows how much the government can borrow
248
10
The Left-NIMBY Canon
237