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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
2019
2
Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
1714
3
Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
1461
4
Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
1364
5
AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
1314
6
IPFS Support in Brave
1170
7
Signal is having technical difficulties
907
8
Still alive
898
9
I no longer trust The Great Suspender
889
10
I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
851
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
Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?
199
4
Is frugality underrated in startups?
151
5
How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?
135
6
Is Signal Down?
88
7
AWS account expires in 2 weeks. Can't login, but they keep asking me to
59
8
Who has started a successful side business while having a full time job?
58
9
Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
54
10
How to Find a Mentor
44
Top Show HN
1
Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
962
2
I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
667
3
Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
447
4
Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502
409
5
A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week
215
6
Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
198
7
A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance
153
8
Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat
129
9
SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code
119
10
100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries
115
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The unsettling truth about the ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker
272
2
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
250
3
China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
198
4
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’
195
5
Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
127
6
After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test
116
7
Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone
114
8
Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged
113
9
macOS malware used run-only AppleScripts to avoid detection for five years
112
10
GitHub admits fault in firing of Jewish employee, head of HR resigns
92
News [?]
1
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
735
2
Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
420
3
Toxic positivity does more harm than good
397
4
Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
383
5
Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union
343
6
Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
332
7
Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
318
8
Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles
245
9
Have we already been visited by aliens?
240
10
Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
220
Scientific publications [?]
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Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI
213
2
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv
201
3
Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
127
4
Google breaks the trillion-parameter ceiling with the Switch Transformer
48
5
Identifying Authorship Style in Malicious Binaries: Techniques, Challenges
42
6
How China’s State-Sponsored Social Networks Control Misinformation–and Dissent
38
7
Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight
29
8
Fornax a Galaxy Investigated with AstroSat
16
9
First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
14
10
Critical Space Launch System engine test fails
9
Dev Blogs [?]
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Update on an Employee Matter
208
2
DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler
183
3
Fast Commits for Ext4
164
4
Uganda's internet Shutdown
152
5
Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?
152
6
Lua and Python (2020)
106
7
With the death of cash, privacy faces a deeply uncertain future
72
8
Fulfilling the Promise of CI/CD
71
9
Old Compilers and Old Bugs
71
10
Installing Debian on Modern Hardware
56
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
TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
264
4
Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
244
5
AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks
196
6
Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
92
7
Foxconn gets green light for $270M factory in Vietnam
91
8
Apple begins blocking M1 Mac users from side loading iOS applications
32
9
Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store far violent content and hate
23
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There's Still No Sign of Privacy Labels for Most Google iOS Apps
19
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
1314
2
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge and self-distillation
10
3
Free SciFi eBook, A young hacker who tries to save the world but fails miserably
3
4
Making retries safe with idempotent APIs
3
5
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 (Preview)
2
6
Deep dive into Solorigate second-stage: From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop
2
7
Deep dive into the Solorigate second-stage activation
2
8
Shot on iPhone 12: Portraits, cityscapes, the night sky, and more
2
9
Message archiving and analytics for Amazon SNS
2
10
Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Intel Problems
569
2
The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
201
3
For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness
148
4
Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
142
5
Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time
100
6
Pristine GM EV1 Preserved by University Caretaker
74
7
The Wisdom of Surrender: Samuel Beckett and Quietism
52
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William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020)
51
9
White House Accelerates Development of Mini Nuclear Reactors
45
10
Bram's Law (2003)
36
Science News [?]
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Why cancer cells waste so much energy
341
2
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018)
279
3
Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?
188
4
Why cats are crazy for catnip
187
5
When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcasting Father Coughlin
178
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What my retraction taught me
128
7
Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
125
8
Computer codes that transformed science
125
9
Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
123
10
Many scientists citing two scandalous Covid-19 papers ignore their retractions
116
Social [?]
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Linux Running on Apple M1
378
2
Signal Is Back
316
3
“Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
304
4
Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server
212
5
I wrote a Raytracer for DOS, 16 VGA colors (2011) [video]
146
6
Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as UTF-8
140
7
Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
139
8
Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018
136
9
NTFS Corruption on Win10
136
10
Virgin Orbit confirms that LauncherOne has reached orbit
108
Github repos and gists [?]
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Rust for Windows
785
2
Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys
778
3
GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
580
4
A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
344
5
Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
323
6
Google Images Restored
265
7
Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
246
8
Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow
223
9
Toolz: A functional standard library for Python
166
10
Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia
162
Wikipedia [?]
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United States military and prostitution in South Korea
76
2
Mikhail Devyatayev
75
3
Republic of Indian Stream
22
4
Freedom to Roam
17
5
Lycurgus Cup
16
6
Teasmade
15
7
Joe Biden inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States
15
8
IKEA Effect
13
9
Eternal September has now been going on for 10k days
12
10
44,100 Hz
11
Blogs [?]
1
Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
242
2
The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor
161
3
10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)
157
4
I Switched from TypeScript to ReScript
62
5
A brief insight into the complexities of creating a new capability at the BBC
28
6
Can Valve Save Linux Gaming in 2021?
18
7
GraalVM 21.0: Introducing a New Way to Run Java
10
8
Things I Learned from Analyzing 20k Late Night Jokes (2018)
9
9
A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon
9
10
Pat Gelsinger’s Return to Intel
9
Stackoverflow [?]
1
VS Code: Open files always in a new tab
1
2
Stackoverflow: Basic Bitwise Operators, what's the difference?
1
3
In some situations, Firefox ignores option selected=“selected”
1
4
Does redux evaluate all listeners to the store on any update to the store?
1
5
React: It's Just a Philosophy!
1
Substack [?]
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Still alive
898
2
Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
590
3
The Left-NIMBY Canon
237
4
Storming Reddit's Moat
151
5
Request for Startups
92
6
SlateStarCodex Is Back
67
7
The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
55
8
In 2021, Don't Learn a New Programming Language
51
9
The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization
27
10
A holistic vision of open source beyond 2021
25