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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Just Be Rich
1875
2
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
1595
3
Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
1209
4
Embrace the Grind
1167
5
Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
1017
6
Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
946
7
Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
920
8
Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
817
9
YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
801
10
How People Get Rich Now
779
Top Ask HN
1
How can a unhireable person get a job?
529
2
What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
347
3
I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?
165
4
How to Speak Confidently?
135
5
Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?
108
6
My startup has more annual subscribers than monthly. What to make of it?
106
7
Solo developer, what's your recipe to start working?
96
8
What's your absolute favorite tech stack, after having tried others?
52
9
What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting?
52
10
What other news sources do you use?
47
Top Show HN
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Lofi.cafe
1192
2
DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages
324
3
I made a 5-key keyboard
221
4
Encore – Go framework for building distributed systems
182
5
Personal Data Management Dashboard
176
6
Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt
158
7
RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network
143
8
Squirrelbyte – a SQLite-based JSON document server
118
9
Remove background from image using machine learning
109
10
An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog
108
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
592
2
The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband
319
3
Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
294
4
Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (2020)
287
5
Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
284
6
‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite
269
7
Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)
238
8
Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature
174
9
Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
139
10
The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware
137
News [?]
1
Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
658
2
Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
566
3
School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
458
4
US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
456
5
Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]
405
6
TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
375
7
Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations
341
8
Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months
310
9
Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
304
10
A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime
274
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight
143
2
Pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity retained at ambient
86
3
Morpheus Turns a CPU into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
60
4
Exercise elicits superior metabolic effects in the afternoon compared to morning [pdf]
55
5
Island gigantism and dwarfism the result of evolutionary island rule
32
6
Certifying Multimedia News Content for Fake News Defense
12
7
New, reversible CRISPR controls gene expression leaving underlying DNA unchanged
7
8
Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise
6
9
Children learned 'little or nothing' during school closures: study
6
10
Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
1209
2
Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
338
3
The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
209
4
Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
158
5
Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
139
6
New GitHub themes for VS Code
113
7
Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla
75
8
Signal Founder May Have Been More Than a Tech Adviser to MobileCoin
72
9
Establishing Twitter's Presence in Africa
61
10
Understanding quantum computing through drunken walks
61
Tech blogs [?]
1
Technologies I thought my son would never use
404
2
Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems
324
3
Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox
240
4
SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC 32-bit RISC-V Chip with 7.2 Gbps HBM3
192
5
Why You Should Own A Sewing Machine (2016)
28
6
Discord for iOS will block users from accessing all NSFW servers
24
7
Intel Videos Explain the Basics of Modern CPU Architectures Sans Marketing Fluff
24
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Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted
22
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Nvidia Arm-Powered Grace CPU Debuts, Claims 10x More Performance Than x86 Server
21
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Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks
14
FAANG+ [?]
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OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
706
2
AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
258
3
Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged
213
4
Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest
110
5
Apple and partners launch first-ever $200M Restore Fund
19
6
April 20th Apple Event
4
7
Apple Spring 2021 Event
3
8
AstraZeneca Runs 51B Tests in 1 Day on AWS
3
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale and save money
3
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Is Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL a Better Choice for Me?
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
277
2
Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
224
3
Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
163
4
The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
122
5
In Thailand, traditional cannabis cuisine is back on the menu
83
6
The Road from Rome
59
7
EU Parliament Wants Pirated Sports Streams Taken Down Within 30 Minutes
51
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Turkish police get their own attack helicopters
39
9
Tesla drastically increases price of Solar Roof
16
10
Today's F-35As Not Worth Including in High-End War Games
12
Science News [?]
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CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
444
2
The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
320
3
Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
228
4
Space junk removal is not going smoothly
218
5
How a carnivorous mushroom poisons its prey
153
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Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions
136
7
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So
115
8
Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
105
9
“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
103
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Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging
63
Social [?]
1
Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
817
2
YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
801
3
A top-grossing scam on the App Store
572
4
AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea
363
5
$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
312
6
The first 18 months of a startup
301
7
Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification
259
8
Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years
225
9
I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything
210
10
Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes
191
Github repos and gists [?]
1
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
1595
2
std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
559
3
Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
468
4
Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
426
5
Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
397
6
Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
378
7
MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project
343
8
PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
282
9
TTS: Text-to-Speech for All
282
10
Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network
231
Wikipedia [?]
1
Great Vowel Shift
259
2
Illegal Prime Numbers
218
3
Obsolete German Units of Measurement
84
4
X-Seed 4000
30
5
Yo (App)
18
6
IP over Avian Carriers
14
7
Ishango Bone
13
8
Zombie Zero
13
9
Principal–Agent Problem
12
10
Useful Idiots
10
Blogs [?]
1
How People Get Rich Now
779
2
Inside PayPal (2010)
178
3
Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what should we call them?
36
4
The App Store is broken because it wasn't designed to work
9
5
Plasmic, the visual page builder for Next.js
9
6
Notion is a Wordpress-scale opportunity, and a preview of the second Internet
9
7
The Next Chapter for USDS
8
8
The App Store is broken because it wasn't designed to work
8
9
Say yes to Deno? Let’s talk about Deno
8
10
I wrote a book about information
7
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?
2
2
GitHub Search API is inconsistent, or is it me?
1
3
Tyrone Slothrop (top 0.52% this year)
1
4
Difference: LZ77 vs. LZ4 vs. LZ4HC (compression algorithms)? (2015)
1
Substack [?]
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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
430
2
I refuse to stand by while my students are indoctrinated
194
3
The Gaslighting of Science
128
4
“It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.”
81
5
On Liberthielism
32
6
Prospectus On Próspera
32
7
Prettify the face of imperialism with the costumes of social justice
13
8
Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
8
9
The Insane Way I Order Chinese Food in 2021
7
10
Why does the Internet feel so boring?
7