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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why Lichess will always be free

1524

2

Dan Kaminsky has died

1414

3

1265

4

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

1252

5

My Current HTML Boilerplate

1194

6

Google have declared Droidscript is malware

1176

7

Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

1049

8

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)

915

9

Changes at Basecamp

883

10

Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19

831

Top Ask HN

1

How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

307

2

What diagrams do you use in software development?

241

3

How do you organize your knowledge?

136

4

How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding

107

5

What are some good resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?

101

6

How to Contact YouTube?

96

7

Who doesn’t want to go back to the office?

91

8

Please Dark Mode for HN

89

9

How many projects do you work on at a time?

67

10

I am building a bugtracker. What would you like to see?

66

Top Show HN

1

I made a simulator for personal finance

479

2

Verilog2factorio

313

3

MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

220

4

Minimal 3D creative coding tool – control 8×8×8 dots with JavaScript

206

5

hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

160

6

Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors

150

7

Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup

103

8

Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

101

9

93

10

Simple way to access various statistics in Git repository

74

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos

684

2

Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

578

3

Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law

389

4

Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid

224

5

Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

224

6

Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal

204

7

Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises

178

8

NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon

164

9

Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations

161

10

Linux Foundation’s demands to the University of Minnesota

137

News [?]

1

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

1252

2

Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

578

3

Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

521

4

Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

519

5

Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home

514

6

U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees

442

7

Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system

402

8

Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage

363

9

DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected

355

10

Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll

338

Scientific publications [?]

1

Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels

138

2

Why AI is harder than we think

110

3

Sugar-sweetened beverage intake and serum testosterone levels in adult males (2018)

77

4

Bruce Schneier wants you to make software better

68

5

MIT study finds indoor mask wearing much more effective than social distancing

63

6

Scientists re-evaluating relative brain size and mammalian intelligence

61

7

Scientists make further step towards understanding dark energy

56

8

Hack an Analog TV into a Geek TV

40

9

The effects of solar flares on Earth's magnetosphere

39

10

Is 6 feet far enough?

19

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke

659

2

GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

555

3

An Update on the UMN Affair

461

4

How Facebook encodes videos

301

5

A brief history of Rust at Facebook

234

6

Pitching your early stage startup

185

7

Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns

127

8

Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

105

9

Growing the Bytecode Alliance

39

10

Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

Arm Announces Neoverse V1, N2 Platforms and CPUs, CMN-700 Mesh

216

2

AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings

158

3

Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab

152

4

Apple to Ban Apps That Reward Users for Enabling App Tracking

94

5

Resurrecting the Optigan Disc Format (2011)

30

6

Cellebrite Physical Analyzer no longer fully available for iPhones

20

7

AMD Smashes Records Again, Data Center Revenue Up 286%, Consumer Up 46%

18

8

Canada’s Regulation of Sexual Content Ignores Technical and Historical Realities

9

9

Apple sued over iPhone warranty issues and water resistance claims

6

10

Intel's Eight-Core H45 Tiger Lake CPUs Are Just Weeks Away from Launch

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

334

2

Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years

269

3

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

188

4

Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft’s next default font

37

5

Microsoft Cloud Fuels Third Quarter Results

18

6

Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font

17

7

Amazon Nimble Studio – Build a Creative Studio in the Cloud

14

8

Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years

13

9

Amazon AWS Snowmobile

9

10

Amazon Deep Racer Goes Open Source – Now Runs ROS 2

6

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

134

2

Tiberius, Imperial Detective

69

3

Lindows Click-N-Run (2002)

49

4

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)

16

5

Spotify’s Surprise

11

6

Steelcase Pyramid

11

7

Blaming individuals for obesity may be altogether wrong (2015)

10

8

HN Meta: A YC founder's comment was edited to remove their username

6

9

Tesla’s next Full Self-Driving Beta update ‘will blow your mind’

4

10

Talkers and Doers

4

Science News [?]

1

Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

726

2

New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different

356

3

Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts

226

4

Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

194

5

A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain

179

6

Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests

161

7

The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

145

8

The Art of Mathematics in Chalk

120

9

Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity

83

10

Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure

83

Social [?]

1

Dan Kaminsky has died

1414

2

1265

3

Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

392

4

TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

289

5

Wasm3 compiles itself (using LLVM/Clang compiled to WASM)

178

6

The culture war is killing us [video]

162

7

How the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records

148

8

Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]

139

9

The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]

128

10

Riot extorts League of Legends legacy version fan project?

101

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Lego Microscope

414

2

Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser

300

3

Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets

280

4

3D Game Shaders for Beginners

269

5

A curated list of Music DSP and audio programming resources

211

6

AI Dungeon public disclosure vulnerability report

198

7

Minio Changes License to AGPL

172

8

Mal – Make a Lisp

170

9

FFmpeg Cheat Sheet

170

10

A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron

155

Wikipedia [?]

1

126

2

Semantic Satiation

119

3

98

4

Álvaro de Campos

90

5

Sir Douglas Nicholls

55

6

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31

40

7

Boirault Machine

40

8

Social Facilitation

38

9

35

10

19

Blogs [?]

1

Changes at Basecamp

883

2

DHH: Let It All Out

98

3

Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work

37

4

Our Journey Towards Cloud Efficiency

22

5

Apple Is an Accomplice to Fraud

17

6

GDPR Has Ruined the Web

10

7

Python Is a Bad Programming Language

10

8

Mosaics of Positions

7

9

Sexual Harassment in Scala Community

7

10

The continual evolution of Airtable’s codebase: Migrating 1mil LoC to TypeScript

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why do browsers not keep status 302 pages in back-button history?

39

2

Is there a way to divide two base9 Ints in Golang?

1

3

Why would the height increase with a smaller font size?

1

4

Recursive function in Python 3 uses old val of a var (Local vs. Global Variable)

1

5

Windows 10 broke printf function

1

6

How does bitwise operation work on booleans?

1

Substack [?]

1

The Heroic Congressional Fight to Save the Rich

49

2

The Wright brothers: The O.G. startup founders?

36

3

Revolut – From 0 To 50.000 Customers in 3 Months

16

4

The long and short of novel lengths

12

5

Stop Saying “Job Creator”

10

6

Maximizing Deep Concentration While Coding

10

7

Nootropics Survey 2020 Results

9

8

Basecamp Is the Ultimate Example of Startup Management Hubris and Delusion

7

9

Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming?

7

10

Someone Has to Run the Fabs

6