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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Framework Laptop

2563

2

My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

1723

3

Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water

1669

4

Total Cookie Protection

1527

5

Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

1185

6

Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

1113

7

Daft Punk Break Up

1108

8

Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

987

9

Free for Developers

967

10

DigitalOcean S-1

924

Top Ask HN

1

What entry-level telescope should I choose?

223

2

What websites do you visit every day?

156

3

How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?

149

4

What is a creative product you've discovered recently?

96

5

Can I trust brokers with my stocks?

52

6

How do you watch for health emergencies for elder family members?

40

7

Any startups solving for software engineering hiring?

37

8

Ex-Employer alleging me for hacking. What should I do?

36

9

Which smartwatch is the best in self-hacking/quantified self?

34

10

Truly successful applications based on decentralized networks?

33

Top Show HN

1

Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

1422

2

I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

632

3

Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

451

4

QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs

418

5

CalcuLaTeX, a pretty-printing calculator language

230

6

Ad Network for Sideprojects

218

7

Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing

151

8

Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics

140

9

Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3

123

10

Lowdefy – Build internal tools with YAML on an open-source framework

107

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

640

2

California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

413

3

New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

368

4

Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

236

5

I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

199

6

Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does

197

7

The road to electric is filled with tiny cars

171

8

I built ByteDance's censorship machine

153

9

Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough

126

10

Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

114

News [?]

1

The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

669

2

Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

618

3

WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

615

4

Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

500

5

Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules

403

6

Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

336

7

The unusual ways Western parents raise children

336

8

Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide

326

9

Margaret Mitchell fired from Google

302

10

Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing

259

Scientific publications [?]

1

Kindergarden Quantum Mechanics Graduates

65

2

Intermittent fasting for the prevention of cardiovascular disease

55

3

A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)

49

4

Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole

40

5

Mobile Computational Photography: A Tour

28

6

NASA showing video of Mars landing from rover

24

7

Research Study: What happens when software developers are (un)happy (PDF)

16

8

Tweaking Corn Kernels with Crispr

16

9

Nuclear Propulsion Could Help Get Humans to Mars Faster

11

10

The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans like here on Earth

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Total Cookie Protection

1527

2

Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

312

3

Best practices for REST API design (2020)

296

4

Open Source in the 5G Stack

127

5

Machine Learning for Computer Architecture

97

6

2020 Transparency Report

43

7

Choosing Java instead of C++ for low-latency systems

40

8

$100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

36

9

NumPy 1.20 has been released

26

10

BitcoinPaperWallet ‘Back Door’ Responsible for Millions in Missing Funds

22

Tech blogs [?]

1

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

280

2

Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth

198

3

Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

163

4

Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

112

5

WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Privacy Policy Changes

81

6

SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5

65

7

I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

50

8

Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring

34

9

Apple Surpassed Samsung as Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter

22

10

Twitter reveals 'Super Follow' paid service, new groups feature, more

17

FAANG+ [?]

1

Busting the Myth of Vendor Lock-In

4

2

Using Zero Trust Principles to Protect Against Sophisticated Attacks

4

3

Improving zlib-Cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks

3

4

How to Serve Coffee at Scale

3

5

Turning the page on Solorigate: the next chapter for the security community

3

6

Apple Celebrates Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day

2

7

Accelerating the Impact of AI

2

8

Amazon offers a live shopping experience

2

9

AWS: Perseverance lands on Mars, cloud-ready to explore

2

10

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Book Reviews

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

638

2

Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm

490

3

Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

225

4

Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

159

5

Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii

134

6

Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon Before Doomsday Planes

96

7

How Vulnerable Is the World?

51

8

Biocrusts Are an Entire World Beneath Our Feet

44

9

Valentina Tereshkova, Russian Pilot Cosmonaut (2010)

18

10

Bill Gates all but admits that he was shorting Tesla (TSLA)

17

Science News [?]

1

Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

260

2

A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias

139

3

Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers

112

4

Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS

108

5

Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

105

6

Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42k years ago, caused sudden climate change

104

7

Kea parrots perform domain-general statistical inference

83

8

Researchers explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation

74

9

Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity

74

10

The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means

71

Social [?]

1

Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

1185

2

Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

507

3

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

488

4

In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs

241

5

Photos from the Surface of Venus (1982)

139

6

Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position

105

7

Google’s Margaret Mitchell Has Been Fired

104

8

The US government is inviting inflation

75

9

The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time

75

10

Daft Punk – Epilogue

49

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools

476

2

Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

413

3

Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C

338

4

Mold: A Modern Linker

299

5

288

6

Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy

281

7

Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs

261

8

Mypyc: Compile type-annotated Python to C

234

9

175

10

ComputeSharp, Run C# on the GPU

173

Wikipedia [?]

1

132

2

51

3

Everything Bubble

28

4

Everything Bubble

19

5

13

6

Open Source Cola

11

7

E-Prime English

10

8

Deregulation of the Texas Electricity Market

6

9

GameStop Short Squeeze

5

10

Henley Passport Index

5

Blogs [?]

1

Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet

207

2

The Process Is Not the Product. The New Agile Anti-Manifesto

64

3

What LinkedIn Is Becoming

42

4

40

5

Mistakes to Avoid If You Work with Scala Futures

26

6

Surge Pricing, Artificial Intelligence, and Responsibility

24

7

I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)

24

8

Tangram Vision: Why We're Choosing Rust as a Startup

18

9

Smart Contracts Are Useless

18

10

The Next Evolution of Data Catalogs: Data Discovery Platforms

18

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

Commenting vs. Making

306

2

On Writing More

125

3

Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued

122

4

Finite State Machines

102

5

Who cares about the Ivy League?

55

6

TK Finance Dictionary: “SPAC”

55

7

Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Threatening First Amendment

51

8

A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay”

49

9

I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever

38

10

Chrome's proxy prefetch proposal: Privacy, Security and broader web implications

25