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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
1683
2
Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
1461
3
Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
1141
4
30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
1038
5
“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
1010
6
I want a computer that I own
994
7
Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
814
8
Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
796
9
NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
772
10
Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
752
Top Ask HN
1
Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
416
2
Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?
270
3
Do you create music? let's hear it
263
4
What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
219
5
How do I learn drawing?
216
6
Can you switch to a programming career despite nearing 40?
104
7
What's the coolest YouTube channel you've found in the past month?
61
8
Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?
48
9
Petzold's CODE: books that teach in the same way but not about computers
46
10
Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?
46
Top Show HN
1
Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
624
2
I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
354
3
Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad
221
4
Diahook – Webhooks as a Service
217
5
Buy My Side Project
190
6
Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
153
7
Make Your Photo 16x9
146
8
C is for Camera, a 35mm film camera represented in Python objects
103
9
Mito – Write Python/Pandas faster by editing a spreadsheet, in Jupyter
101
10
PrograMaker – Visual Programming Platform
85
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
360
2
I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now
359
3
Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
349
4
Someone is hacking the hackers
295
5
Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
175
6
Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
140
7
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
128
8
Tesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy
122
9
SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes
118
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SpaceX reveals the grand extent of its starport plans in South Texas
106
News [?]
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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
616
2
Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes
514
3
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
457
4
Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable
432
5
A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
399
6
UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
375
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T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out
373
8
Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding
340
9
Hockey goalies are too big now
322
10
Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
267
Scientific publications [?]
1
Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect
188
2
Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
95
3
Neural networks for geophysicists and seismic data interpretation (2019)
50
4
AI Teaches Itself Diplomacy
47
5
Microscopic Wormholes Possible in Theory
43
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Deep-learning enables real-time 3D holograms on a smartphone
36
7
Comet Catalina Suggests Comets Delivered Carbon to Rocky Planets
29
8
Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43 km
25
9
Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
17
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Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
11
Dev Blogs [?]
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30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
1038
2
Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
312
3
A warning about 5.12-rc1
217
4
A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
215
5
Best practices can slow your application down
195
6
No, RSA Is Not Broken
125
7
A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack
96
8
Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe
95
9
About the March 8 and 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack
87
10
Accelerating Neural Networks on Mobile and Web with Sparse Inference
74
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
169
2
Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
158
3
Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
151
4
AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces
103
5
Next Raspberry Pi CPU Will Have Machine Learning Built In
29
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Apple sues former employee Simon Lancaster over device leaks to media
27
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Apple will switch to randomized serial numbers in early 2021
25
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Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common
24
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Developer became ineligible for reduced App Store fees after mistake
15
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California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship (2016)
15
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple TV+ announces programming partnership with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
65
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Hafnium Hacking Exchange Servers
5
3
New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
5
4
Apple Women’s Health Study releases preliminary data to help destigmatize menst
4
5
Tardis: Affordable time-travel debugging in managed runtimes
4
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Caching data and configuration settings with AWS Lambda extensions
3
7
Apple will invest over 1b € in Germany and plans Silicon Design Center in Munich
3
8
Prime Video's learning experience adopting Kotlin from Java
3
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Using API Destinations with Amazon EventBridge
2
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Apple Mac Pro Feet Kit
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
335
2
The Roblox Microverse
173
3
YouTuber Builds Working 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine and Tests It in His Attic
171
4
Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be Level 2
161
5
Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable?
115
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Qurt: The ancient road snack of Central Asian nomads
110
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Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012)
79
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Drivers new to level 2 driving assistance had lower awareness of on-road events
76
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The HK19 manual – A crowdsourced protest guide
49
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How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a macabre surgical arms race
48
Science News [?]
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New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
552
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Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
341
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NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
313
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Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets
311
5
Ultra-weak gravitational field detected
298
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What does any of this have to do with physics? (2016)
278
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Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after Fukushima
208
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Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking
154
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The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
148
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Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study
125
Social [?]
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“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
1010
2
Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
590
3
We created a fake language to root out resume liars
562
4
My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card
455
5
ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available
381
6
Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name
236
7
Cloudflare, OKTA Hacked
165
8
A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason
126
9
Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
121
10
Music Software and Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius (2018) [video]
107
Github repos and gists [?]
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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
752
2
Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)
376
3
PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support
313
4
Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO
293
5
Esbuild 0.9
254
6
`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)
239
7
Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows
237
8
Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust
196
9
Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)
193
10
Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic
175
Wikipedia [?]
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Burned House Horizon
331
2
Kalman Filter
252
3
TLA+
230
4
ISO Standard for Preparing Tea
175
5
Great Man-Made River
128
6
Delphi Method
109
7
European Super Grid
77
8
Spirograph
63
9
Kóryos
59
10
List of video games considered the best
38
Blogs [?]
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Write Simply
484
2
Donate Unrestricted
289
3
Google suffers from a digital petro curse
271
4
WorkOS raises $15M to build “Stripe for enterprise-ready features”
84
5
Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower (2015)
31
6
Deadlines and sprints are bad for you (2019)
16
7
Google Engineering Director: This is how fast the world will change in ten years
14
8
Donate Unrestricted
10
9
What Coke Contains
9
10
Contrasting Kafka with Akka
7
Stackoverflow [?]
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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)
127
2
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
26
3
Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
2
4
In which language is the C# compiler written?
1
Substack [?]
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When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
327
2
The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
210
3
Interview with Patrick Collison
186
4
Book Review: Fussell on Class
136
5
Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers
126
6
1980: MUD
113
7
What the Mouse Knows
66
8
The world will only get weirder
53
9
How do you fund that game prototype?
51
10
The Digital Transformation of Cars Is Just Beginning
45