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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

2254

2

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

1986

3

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

1793

4

GitHub is fully available in Iran

1727

5

A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

1643

6

My Experience at Apple

1602

7

A half-hour to learn Rust

1444

8

TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

1400

9

No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees

1329

10

California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement

1317

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (January 2021)

407

2

What does mastery look like in software engineering?

365

3

Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

319

4

Please share your experience teaching your kids to program

295

5

How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?

250

6

Who's looking for a co-founder?

224

7

Is HN slow today?

156

8

Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?

150

9

Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)

138

10

What was your favorite comment in 2020?

125

Top Show HN

1

I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

938

2

I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

753

3

Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

452

4

I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.

343

5

Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type

279

6

I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL

266

7

OpenScan – open-source document scanner app

200

8

Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser

187

9

I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine

181

10

Pluto – macOS system monitor app

158

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

Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

633

4

Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

287

5

SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks

257

6

Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them

192

7

Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room

163

8

In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

145

9

Nissan code leaked after bitbucket repo set-up with defaults admin/admin

145

10

Backdoor account discovered in more than 100k Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways

143

News [?]

1

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

1986

2

US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies

554

3

Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]

478

4

Julian Assange extradition to US blocked by UK court

419

5

Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

369

6

DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

305

7

Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup

281

8

US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients

277

9

When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?

277

10

Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple

265

Scientific publications [?]

1

How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance

368

2

An Uncommon Cold

158

3

Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage

133

4

Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality

108

5

The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist

96

6

Jamming Attacks and Anti-Jamming Strategies in Wireless Networks

67

7

From microops to abstract resources: constructing simpler CPU performance models

37

8

Astronomers agree: Universe is nearly 14B years old

11

9

Scientists Have Created a New State of Matter: 'Liquid Glass'

10

10

Third of rivers in US found to be changing from blue to green and yellow

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

GitHub is fully available in Iran

1727

2

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

1266

3

Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

389

4

A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown

285

5

A new release for GNU Octave

198

6

Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?

197

7

Encrypted Client Hello: The Future of ESNI in Firefox

153

8

LibreSSL Languishes on Linux

149

9

Clip: Connecting Text and Images

119

10

How to convert existing web extensions for Safari

81

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal

236

2

EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance

194

3

Google hasn’t updated its iOS apps in weeks to avoid providing privacy details

49

4

WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to Be Shared with Facebook

46

5

Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent

25

6

Ex-Intel and AMD Chip Guru Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent

13

7

Apple accused of trying to water down anti forced labor bill

9

8

App privacy labels show stark contrasts among messaging apps

8

9

DIY 8-bit computer knows all the tricks

4

10

WhatsApp will share your data with Facebook whether you like it or not

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark

29

2

Apple services entertain, inform, and connect the world in unprecedented year

5

3

Monica Lozano joins Apple’s board of directors

4

4

Rethinking Eventual Consistency [pdf]

4

5

Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack [pdf]

2

6

Performance impact of idle PostgreSQL connections

2

7

Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark

2

8

Intimations: Six Essays

1

9

Apple takes podcasting mainstream (2005)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

275

2

Crossing 2000 Miles of Siberia to Reach One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth

247

3

Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit

212

4

Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)

203

5

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

122

6

Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold

119

7

Microsoft Office 97 clipart converted to SVG

88

8

A Porsche Taycan Just Beat Tesla for the Fastest EV Cannonball Run Record

76

9

NHTSA Tesla Repair Bulletins Are Embarrassing and Serious

72

10

Pirate Site Search Traffic Tanked Following Google Updates

19

Science News [?]

1

How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis

195

2

Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor

164

3

New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations

148

4

A Brief History of Peanut Butter

56

5

Users reporting moisture inside Apple's $550 headphones

38

6

Scientists Believe US Embassy and CIA Officers Hit with High-Power Microwaves

37

7

Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images

35

8

Whales Are Finally Returning to Our Planet's Polar Regions After 40 Years

30

9

Researchers isolate single artificial atoms in silicon

21

10

Is 70 the New 60?

16

Social [?]

1

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

1793

2

Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

953

3

The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours

678

4

GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

604

5

Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

539

6

Pixar's Render Farm

382

7

Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

378

8

A physical breach is a nightmare scenario for Capitol IT

316

9

Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years

237

10

Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors

230

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

946

2

WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

614

3

Horrifying PDF Experiments

493

4

The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious

389

5

Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly

327

6

Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020

306

7

Zig in 30 Minutes

279

8

Learn Go in five minutes

203

9

Dockerfile Best Practices

196

10

OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

192

Wikipedia [?]

1

137

2

Politician's Syllogism

82

3

Societal Collapse

73

4

Focal point (game theory)

65

5

IBM and the Holocaust

55

6

Long-time nuclear waste warning messages

23

7

Universal Decimal Classification

22

8

18

9

13

10

Littlest Skyscraper

10

Blogs [?]

1

342

2

We repurposed NPM to publish and distribute Go binaries for our internal CLI

62

3

RISC-V Vector Instructions vs. ARM and x86 SIMD

45

4

Amazon needs a Competitor and WalMart ain't it

19

5

Tech compensation is biased toward the long-term. Fine if you have a long term

16

6

Pulumi vs. Terraform – Hypergrowth in the Valley

15

7

Lesser-Known Linux Commands You Should Try

9

8

.NET Has a Third-Party Software Problem

6

9

Apple Subverted Expectations in 2020

6

10

How to Sell SLOs to Engineering Directors

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

429

2

Difference Between Clock_realtime and Clock_monotonic?

2

3

C# DotNet forces update check

2

Substack [?]

1

Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps

260

2

What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

206

3

50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon

152

4

Things I Didn't Learn in 2020

150

5

Startup Studios

120

6

The 100 Year Computer

108

7

Lisp in Seven Parts: Crafting Interpreters in Erlang

23

8

Data Science 2020 – Highlights

20

9

The Censored: Mark Crispin Miller

12

10

McLuhan on the Disorders of Our Collective Consciousness

9