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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Switch from Chrome to Firefox
3287
2
I Sell Onions on the Internet
3015
3
Announcing unlimited free private repos
2867
4
Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
2776
5
My Business Card Runs Linux
2595
6
Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
2525
7
Raspberry Pi 4
2504
8
Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
9
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
2444
10
Julian Assange arrested in London
2369

Top Ask HN

1
What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
2009
2
What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
1741
3
Successful one-person online businesses?
1474
4
What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
1460
5
What's a promising area to work on?
1331
6
What is your money-making side project outside programming?
1134
7
Are you put off building something because it already exists?
1046
8
How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
985
9
Who Wants to Be Fired?
942
10
What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
927

Top Show HN

1
A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
2690
2
Bel
1288
3
Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
1214
4
I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
1079
5
Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
880
6
See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
863
7
Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
839
8
Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
775
9
HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
773
10
Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
744

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
1454
2
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
1368
3
Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
1358
4
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1324
5
Ebola Is Now Curable
1232
6
Apple Sign In
1145
7
Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
1091
8
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
1083
9
Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
1077
10
Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
1014

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Julian Assange arrested in London
2369
2
California bans private prisons
1952
3
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
1663
4
U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
1425
5
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
1325
6
France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
1255
7
Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
1179
8
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1158
9
John C. Bogle Has Died
1084
10
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
1066

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
743
2
Software Engineering at Google (2017)
685
3
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
626
4
The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
548
5
Starship Prototype Unveiled
543
6
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
528
7
The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)
472
8
For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
433
9
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
419
10
Hacking the Brain
389

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
2031
2
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
1675
3
Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
1292
4
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1252
5
Warp – Mobile VPN
1211
6
Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1204
7
“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”
1179
8
Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1119
9
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1116
10
Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
1068

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1534
2
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
1240
3
Adblocking: How about Nah?
918
4
Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
802
5
Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
708
6
What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
668
7
5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
668
8
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
657
9
Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
639
10
Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
530

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
16-inch MacBook Pro
1840
2
Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
1075
3
Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
946
4
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
927
5
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
759
6
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
740
7
Addressing Spotify’s Claims
733
8
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
674
9
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
604
10
Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
586

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
797
2
French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
696
3
YouTube was launched as a dating site
680
4
The Google Squeeze
665
5
The China Cultural Clash
660
6
Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
612
7
Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
606
8
Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
589
9
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
549
10
Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
546

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
752
2
A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
695
3
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
671
4
Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
652
5
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
616
6
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
600
7
A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)
589
8
A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
580
9
Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
565
10
New pill can deliver insulin
564

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Twitter to ban political advertising
2447
2
Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
2164
3
Joe Armstrong has died
1928
4
Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
1793
5
John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
1574
6
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
1549
7
94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
1430
8
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
1385
9
YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
1355
10
"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
1343

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Sponsors
2082
2
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
1757
3
Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
1460
4
Questions to ask a company during a job interview
1388
5
CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
1340
6
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1303
7
US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
1198
8
GitHub Package Registry
1181
9
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
1091
10
DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
1067

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hy
850
2
Zero Rupee Note
771
3
Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
620
4
The Thing
596
5
Ha-ha wall
592
6
Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
528
7
Berlin Key
446
8
Vital Wikipedia Articles
436
9
Galactic Algorithm
382
10
The Toyota Way
368

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
2444
2
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
2101
3
Having Kids
1992
4
Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
1937
5
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
1400
6
The Lesson to Unlearn
1333
7
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1230
8
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
1164
9
SQL queries don't start with SELECT
905
10
Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study
751

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?
376
2
GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI
229
3
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)
212
4
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
83
5
Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?
79
6
Why should I always enable compiler warnings?
69
7
Why is strlen so complex in C?
63
8
Google.com Ranks Slow Using New Google PSI Speed Rank
48
9
Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux? (2009)
38
10
Stackoverflow is down
33

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
1158
2
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
781
3
How VCs Make Money
412
4
Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
395
5
Is everything an MLM
352
6
The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
349
7
Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
336
8
The Coming Boeing Bailout?
330
9
It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
277
10
The Slow Death of Hollywood
246