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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
2706
2
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
1569
3
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
1434
4
Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
1177
5
Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
1164
6
GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
1078
7
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
1064
8
Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
1056
9
We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
982
10
IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed
949
Top Ask HN
1
Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?
125
2
Why aren't micropayments a thing?
109
3
What is your low stress, high paid job?
90
4
Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?
77
5
What the heck is happening with GameStop?
71
6
What Are the Alternatives to Robinhood?
70
7
What companies are you excited about?
63
8
How do you find a business idea and motivation to leave the 9-5 grind
43
9
Is there anywhere to get help with employment contracts?
38
10
Which book do you want to read next?
34
Top Show HN
1
Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
528
2
A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)
297
3
Low-power Kindle-based dashboard
284
4
Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
282
5
I made an alarm clock
271
6
Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid
250
7
Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
234
8
128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs
205
9
Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
202
10
My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second
198
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
1056
2
Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
260
3
The people the suburbs were built for are gone
241
4
Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
225
5
Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement
205
6
Security professionals often warn against Telegram
119
7
Robinhood’s Customers Are Hedge Funds Like Citadel, Its Users Are the Product
117
8
How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop
111
9
Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data
107
10
Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
93
News [?]
1
GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
1078
2
Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
774
3
Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
735
4
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
733
5
Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
541
6
Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
517
7
Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
407
8
SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world
355
9
U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
340
10
Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
314
Scientific publications [?]
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Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]
157
2
Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year
126
3
If memristors act like neurons, put them in neural networks
83
4
Six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
51
5
FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests
43
6
Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
41
7
On nights before a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep less, study shows
22
8
Timing matters when correcting fake news
20
9
SparseDNN: Fast Sparse Deep Learning Inference on CPUs (Stanford)
15
10
NASA Lends Moon Rock for Oval Office Display
10
Dev Blogs [?]
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
1569
2
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
240
3
New campaign targeting security researchers
235
4
Java 1.0 Turns 25
230
5
Twitter acquires Revue
227
6
A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
226
7
Access Control for GitHub Pages
184
8
Improving how we deploy GitHub
175
9
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)
123
10
Twitter improves API usage for researchers
117
Tech blogs [?]
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5nm in the USA: TSMC's Board Approves $3.5B Fab in Arizona
288
2
Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico
217
3
AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
148
4
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
143
5
MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
55
6
World-first home hydrogen battery stores 3x the energy of a Powerwall 2
39
7
AMD Threadripper Pro Retail Pricing Listed: $6k for 64 Cores, $3k for 32 Cores
31
8
Low Cost Metal 3D Printing by Electrochemistry
30
9
What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds with package maintainers
29
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End Two Federal Programs That Fund Police Surveillance Tech
29
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple First Quarter Results
81
2
Time to Walk: An inspiring audio walking experience comes to Apple Fitness+
17
3
Lambda: The Microsoft Excel worksheet function
17
4
Lambda: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
13
5
Dan Riccio begins a new chapter at Apple
10
6
LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
7
7
Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results
6
8
A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]
6
9
New Future of Work: Microsoft Report on the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices [pdf]
6
10
Microsoft Edge uses homomorphic encryption to check for compromised passwords
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
911
2
Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust
296
3
Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina
116
4
Publishing Is Back to the Future
78
5
Exploring the nature of genius
64
6
Navy “UFO Patent” Documents Talk of “Spacetime Modification Weapon”
59
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The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (1905)
54
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JavaSoft ships Java 1.0 (1996)
26
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President Biden will make entire 645k vehicle federal fleet electric
23
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Failed Car Shows Why Tesla Shouldn’t Reinvent the Steering Wheel
12
Science News [?]
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Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
290
2
Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
220
3
We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril
220
4
Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever
217
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Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
199
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Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required
94
7
Highest resolution photos ever taken of snowflakes
89
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Why we should leave old oil rigs in the sea, and why we don’t
79
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Topology 101: How Mathematicians Study Holes
76
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Topology 101: The Hole Truth
75
Social [?]
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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
2706
2
We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
982
3
Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf
450
4
Larry King has died
413
5
Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare
243
6
AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to block purchasers of GME
219
7
Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?
212
8
Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters
210
9
Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC
183
10
Citadel allegedly reloaded Shorts on GME before Robinhood put restrictions
165
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
723
2
Open-source, not open-contribution
661
3
Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
618
4
Nq – A simple Unix job queue system
419
5
Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access
386
6
PfSense Is Closed Source
259
7
All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
255
8
Split keyboards and how to build them
253
9
PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)
235
10
OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing
232
Wikipedia [?]
1
Otokichi
262
2
Sealioning
31
3
The Schmidt insect sting pain index
15
4
Market Manipulation
9
5
Veblen Goods
7
6
Mersenne Twister
6
7
Streisand Effect
5
8
Happy Privacy Day
5
9
List of Semiconductor Materials
5
10
Polya's Problem Solving Techniques – Four basic principles of problem solving
5
Blogs [?]
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Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
381
2
React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
206
3
How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
151
4
Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias
44
5
We Already Experienced an Era of Fake News 100 Years Ago – and Solved It
19
6
Saying Goodbye to Loon
18
7
Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)
16
8
A Cache Stampede Caused One of Facebook’s Biggest Outages
11
9
RealTalk, generate life-like speech using only text inputs
7
10
I Almost Got Fired for Choosing React in Our Enterprise App
7
Stackoverflow [?]
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What are the actual differences between Scheme and Common Lisp?
5
2
Unexpected result when subtracting in a loop (Java)
3
3
Why is this program valid?
2
4
JPG vs. JPEG Image Formats
2
5
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)
1
6
Python – What are “soft keywords”?
1
Substack [?]
1
WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
344
2
No one knows how much the government can borrow
248
3
The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
231
4
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content
206
5
Escaping the Roadmap Trap
120
6
How Homogeneous Is Japan?
105
7
Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
104
8
“The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
54
9
The Internet Country
34
10
What happens to money created by debt in the US?
22