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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

2009

2

Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

1941

3

VideoLAN is 20 years old today

1337

4

Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

1171

5

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

1167

6

I Still Use RSS

1033

7

Getting better at Linux with mini-projects

1009

8

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

909

9

GitHub Should Start an App Store

814

10

Computer Graphics from Scratch

805

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2021)

461

2

Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

302

3

What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

228

4

Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?

226

5

What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?

194

6

Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)

110

7

Do you wake up with anxiety?

90

8

How is GME not a pump-and-dump?

61

9

Am I experiencing burn-out or just getting too old

58

10

Non-US Fired after bipolar depression shared with HR. Can they fire me?

55

Top Show HN

1

Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

547

2

Collection of deep learning implementations with side-by-side notes

251

3

YTT Tech – My curated database of instructional YouTube Videos

206

4

Archivy – Extensible Self Hosted Knowledge Base – v1 Release

184

5

Alsa_rnnoise – RNNoise-based noise removal plugin for ALSA

137

6

Espanso: detect a typed keyword and replace it while you're typing

127

7

Deploy ML Models on a Budget

117

8

Time tracking with plain text files

94

9

White-Label TikTok

93

10

Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum

89

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

1167

2

Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders

539

3

A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

371

4

Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught

320

5

New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag

306

6

20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown

283

7

Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App

244

8

Apple urged to root out rating scams as developer highlights enforcement failure

199

9

Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland

151

10

IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months

145

News [?]

1

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

909

2

Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

641

3

McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

508

4

u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania

486

5

Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

446

6

Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility

386

7

Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape

333

8

Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips

304

9

Parler CEO says he was fired by board

304

10

Military seizes control in Myanmar

302

Scientific publications [?]

1

Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

388

2

Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic

338

3

What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

202

4

C-for-Metal: High Performance SIMD Programming on Intel GPUs

126

5

A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow

123

6

Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper

95

7

Tf.data: A Machine Learning Data Processing Framework

14

8

A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)

13

9

Scientist recruits albatrosses to pinpoint illegal fishing boats

8

10

A new emulator of atomic nuclei can solve 20 years of calculus in 1 hour

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources

292

2

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

276

3

The Dunant subsea cable

262

4

Making our new homepage fast and performant

257

5

Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO

160

6

GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java

124

7

Donkey: A Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure

123

8

The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use

111

9

Fast Commits for Ext4

93

10

Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E

73

Tech blogs [?]

1

We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite

184

2

Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster

109

3

Apple asking developers to return DTK Mac mini, offers $200 credit

24

4

Apple requests return of Apple Silicon DTK, offers $200 credit

12

5

Tim Cook calls out Facebook's business model, says it leads to violence

11

6

EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign

7

7

Apple mixed-reality headset: Two 8K displays, $3k price tag

6

8

Apple to Invest $3.6B in Kia Motors for Apple Car Production

6

9

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Bus-Saturating Performance in Style

4

10

Root Access Sudo Bug Found to Affect macOS Big Sur

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]

135

2

Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

10

3

Introducing Microsoft Viva

6

4

Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function

5

5

AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 Is Now Generally Available

5

6

The New Future of Work

3

7

Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function

3

8

“Hometown,” shot on iPhone 12 Pro

3

9

Microsoft publicly releases a new state-of-the-art Vision Model

3

10

BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance (2008)

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

536

2

Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?

233

3

A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for the Dyatlov Incident

185

4

The Relentless Jeff Bezos

180

5

Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine

148

6

Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments

96

7

What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020)

90

8

Philosophical Landmines (2013)

83

9

On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines

82

10

Solar-Powered, Off-Grid Bike Can Bust Poachers Anywhere

79

Science News [?]

1

Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry

233

2

A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises

179

3

Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces

136

4

A cloak-and-dagger tale behind an anticipated result in particle physics

107

5

Covid-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?

103

6

Some Proteins Change Their Folds to Perform Different Jobs

93

7

Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants

91

8

The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem

79

9

How the Brain Responds to Beauty

75

10

The untold story of ‘circle of trust’ behind world’s first gene-edited babies

53

Social [?]

1

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

2009

2

Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

761

3

SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing

326

4

277

5

Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040

271

6

Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews

251

7

University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty

244

8

“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”

220

9

Bill Evans – The Creative Process and Self-Teaching (2007) [video]

189

10

The Reddit GME short squeeze game plan (143 days old)

166

Github repos and gists [?]

1

484

2

Native Mac APIs for Go

480

3

A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

395

4

I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

370

5

PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter

305

6

Rust-Analyzer Architecture

287

7

An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi

258

8

Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

255

9

"ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to Mac OS Big Sur

227

10

Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet

195

Wikipedia [?]

1

139

2

Brandolini's Law

132

3

Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

96

4

Bangui magnetic anomaly

82

5

Tartar Relation

45

6

List of Fallacies (Wikipedia)

28

7

12

8

11

9

8

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

122

2

HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

85

3

How libraries decide which books to keep (2014)

78

4

Metals with Scala 3

72

5

Pragmatic Programmers Entire Catalog on Medium

56

6

Playing with My Son (2014)

50

7

Facebook Is Gaslighting Users into Allowing Ad Tracking on iOS 14

47

8

Directory of Pragmatic Programmer Books on Medium

15

9

Sorry Java, Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) Is Now JavaScript

15

10

Software Development Culture Is Too Positive

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

15

2

Replacements for Switch Statement in Python?

10

3

Programmatically Lighten or Darken a hex color

2

4

How does dynamic object access work in V8?

1

5

How to implement optimistic locking from scratch?

1

6

Stackoverflow: Shanandoah Pointers and GC in Java

1

Substack [?]

1

Suck It, Wall Street

268

2

How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series

209

3

What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

198

4

Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)

134

5

Personal Memoirs of a Silicon Valley Tech Whore: Part 1

48

6

The Media and Silicon Valley Are at War

38

7

Forget 10x Developer – Become Full X Developer

36

8

Taiwan Is a Civilization

30

9

The Hermeneutical Imperative

30

10

Your Success Is Not a Story

20