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Top stories
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Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
1801
2
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
1663
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Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
1232
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“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
1168
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What I Worked On
986
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Statement on New York Times Article
866
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Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
825
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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
789
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Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
755
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“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
737
Top Ask HN
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Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
740
2
What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
544
3
Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?
334
4
Why aren't you coding?
221
5
Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?
95
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Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
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Is “contact us for pricing” a dark pattern?
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What is your advice to someone who is starting out in software industry?
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Boss ignoring me – what next?
47
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How to self-learn graphics programming?
47
Top Show HN
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Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
473
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ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
465
3
Ray.so – Create images of your code
384
4
Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources
368
5
Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)
317
6
Search inside YouTube videos using natural language queries
264
7
Split Keyboards Gallery
249
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M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
205
9
3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python
157
10
Peer-to-Peer data transfer tool based on libp2p
129
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
1232
2
Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming
283
3
An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
275
4
Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them
211
5
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’
180
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Microsoft’s big win in quantum computing was an ‘error’ after all
161
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Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes
155
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Parler is back online after a month of downtime
151
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Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
140
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House Republicans propose nationwide ban on municipal broadband networks
128
News [?]
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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
789
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Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
656
3
Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
569
4
US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
502
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SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president
471
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Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine
469
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Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
424
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Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]
402
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Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
399
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'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
359
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week
300
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DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
291
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How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars
234
4
The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]
143
5
Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling
69
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Hubble Takes Portrait of Nebula
44
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Haplotype linked with lower incidence of severe Covid inherited from Neandertals
32
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NASA Rover Lands on Mars
31
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Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19
31
10
High Speed Hashing for Integers and Strings (2015)
28
Dev Blogs [?]
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Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
275
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Malware in open-source web extensions
235
3
How .NET container images are maintained
141
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Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning
60
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How useful should copy_file_range be?
48
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.NET 6 Preview 1
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Malware in open-source web extensions
26
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Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
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Rearranging the Visual World
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Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
9
Tech blogs [?]
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New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests
172
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Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes
139
3
Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Review: A Vehicle for Threadripper Pro
68
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Apple Says Kernel Extensions Won't Be Supported on Future Apple Silicon Macs
41
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Intel mocks Apple in new campaign highlighting things users can’t do on a M1 Mac
33
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Forth: The Hacker's Language (2017)
23
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Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability
12
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Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
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North Dakota Senate Rejects App Store Bill Apple Said Would “Destroy the iPhone”
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Samsung's New HBM2 Memory Thinks for Itself: 1.2 Tflops of Embeded Compute Power
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FAANG+ [?]
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Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
3
2
Lambda: The Excel Worksheet Function
3
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How to capture stunning floral photos with iPhone 12 Pro models
2
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Node.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda
2
5
A practical guide to building a pentest program having homefield advantage
2
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AWS Superwerker
2
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Apple Launches Inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Black Founders and Developers
2
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Designer-Centered Reinforcement Learning
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Amazon.com: Day 1 Editions – Build It: Amazon Devices and Accessories
1
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Amazon GameLift hits the ground running in the new year with new feature updates
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order
201
2
Clubhouse’s Inevitability
167
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Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport
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Flexible working shows 55% high performers compared to 36% for 40 hours/week
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78rpm Records Digitized
128
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How Early Megacities Emerged from the Jungles of Cambodia
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1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for Almost a Century
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The Object-Oriented Amiga Exec (1991)
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Russia's Secretive Space Cannon, the Only Gun Ever Fired in Space
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Elon Musk asked Biden administration to implement a carbon tax
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Science News [?]
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'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
502
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Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)
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U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'
156
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Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams
150
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Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent
86
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Digging Deeper Into Holocaust History
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Ketogenic diets inhibit mitochondrial genesis, induce cardiac fibrosis in rats
53
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Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it
47
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Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
47
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Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum world (2018)
45
Social [?]
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Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
1663
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“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
1168
3
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed
474
4
YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]
380
5
Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
226
6
Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet
179
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3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
157
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A fake company to play around with spammers and you can use it too
110
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Can’t Get You Out of My Head [video]
108
10
Notion is experiencing a DNS issue
91
Github repos and gists [?]
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Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
502
2
GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
433
3
Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
400
4
Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
396
5
Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
347
6
Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool
335
7
How They SRE
275
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Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)
272
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Sourcetrail: Free and open-source interactive source explorer
224
10
Media files extracted from North Korea's Red Star OS
200
Wikipedia [?]
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Zooko's Triangle
153
2
Banned in Boston
100
3
Plant Blindness
61
4
List of Leaf Vegetables
38
5
Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
21
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Death Recorded
9
7
Simplex
8
8
Precision Time Protocol
7
9
Notar – No Tail Rotor Helicopter
4
10
Proof of Stake
4
Blogs [?]
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What I Worked On
986
2
Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
205
3
Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016)
94
4
How We ”Email” Hardware to Space (2014)
18
5
Census: The Rise of Operational Analytics
16
6
An Almost Proven Way to Successfully Pass a Golang Job Interview
13
7
Remote Heart Rate Detection Using Webcam and 50 Lines of Code
7
8
Speeding up Python code with Nim
7
9
Appwrite 0.7 – An Open Source Firebase Alternative
7
10
Antagonistic Learning
7
Stackoverflow [?]
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What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017)
108
2
What is the case against F#? (2009)
59
3
Replacing 32- with 64-bit loop counter introduces crazy performance deviations
5
4
Rest Versioning: URL Path vs. HTTP Header
2
5
How do I split the date and time into two elements? (2016)
2
Substack [?]
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Statement on New York Times Article
866
2
“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
369
3
Short fat engineers are undervalued
369
4
1977: Zork
280
5
Fictional Cryptocurrencies
213
6
Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process
117
7
When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?
109
8
Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism
109
9
Why Databricks Is Winning
85
10
Slate Star Clusterfuck
66