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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Gears
2760
2
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
2292
3
Wacom tablets track every app you open
1594
4
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
1582
5
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
1564
6
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
1545
7
Google Maps Hacks
1410
8
Larry Tesler Has Died
1346
9
Freeman Dyson Has Died
1238
10
Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
1232

Top Ask HN

1
What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
930
2
What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
852
3
Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
766
4
What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
621
5
What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
496
6
What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
492
7
A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
442
8
What are some examples of good database schema designs?
437
9
How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
420
10
What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
408

Top Show HN

1
Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
614
2
Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects
528
3
Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
386
4
A stream of AI-generated art
277
5
My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]
272
6
Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
247
7
Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable
234
8
A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
232
9
Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats
214
10
Goodreads Data Pipeline
213

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
Larry Tesler Has Died
1346
2
Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
910
3
No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
687
4
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
631
5
Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
549
6
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
477
7
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
420
8
Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
378
9
Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy
377
10
Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
372

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
Freeman Dyson Has Died
1238
2
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
962
3
More bosses give four-day workweek a try
934
4
Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
683
5
Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
621
6
Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
603
7
The boss who put everyone on 70K
537
8
Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
536
9
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
532
10
Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
511

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
Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
400
2
A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
346
3
Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking
263
4
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
214
5
MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law
211
6
Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language
184
7
Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment
119
8
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
115
9
A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
112
10
Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM
112

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
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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
831
2
Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
714
3
GitHub CLI is now in beta
669
4
Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
648
5
Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
520
6
A new hash algorithm for Git
465
7
Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
406
8
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
384
9
Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
356
10
Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
346

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
760
2
AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs
373
3
64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
187
4
64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
135
5
A modern take on the “paperclip computer”
94
6
What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera
89
7
Raspberry Pi releases new PCB version with USB-C power fix
75
8
AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update
67
9
Netflix cuts sockets by a factor of two with AMD Epyc
51
10
Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana Processors
47

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
367
2
Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
218
3
Challenges with distributed systems
188
4
Interview with Simon Peyton Jones (2018)
71
5
Investor update on quarterly guidance
66
6
Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world
34
7
Mac Pro Technology Overview [pdf]
18
8
New Desktop Client for AWS Client VPN
14
9
Theory of People: Understanding Behaviors, Business, Feelings, and the Mind
11
10
Azure Sphere Goes GA
5

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
Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
400
2
Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google
270
3
How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)
239
4
What Coronavirus Does to the Body
166
5
You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)
152
6
How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (2018)
148
7
“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
127
8
Why has progress stalled? (2014)
109
9
Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom
105
10
First, Do No Harm
105

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
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
1115
2
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
501
3
A Map of Mathematics
414
4
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
387
5
Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research
252
6
Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
239
7
The mysteries of aerodynamic lift
228
8
Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence
223
9
Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
214
10
Board Games of the Ancient World
209

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
“We already store data. In a database. It works well”
847
2
Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
694
3
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
602
4
I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
502
5
Brown: color is weird [video]
498
6
I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
422
7
Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
417
8
"This community is available in the app"
399
9
Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
380
10
Cursed Adapters
375

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
2292
2
1-on-1 meeting questions
1030
3
Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
687
4
Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
543
5
Draft of the Fast.ai Book
509
6
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
436
7
Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
429
8
Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries
417
9
Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
389
10
Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
370

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Bert Sutherland Has Died
680
2
Mondragon Corporation
442
3
Monobloc chair
381
4
Li Wenliang
350
5
Maryam Mirzakhani
299
6
Year Without a Summer
295
7
Verlan: French slang that inverses words
178
8
Frankenstein Veto
177
9
Hallucinogenic Fish
148
10
Benford's Law
145

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How to Write Usefully
821
2
Suspicious Discontinuities
644
3
95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
444
4
Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
296
5
64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
258
6
Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
224
7
ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
185
8
How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina (2019)
154
9
What Exactly is Docker?
152
10
How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)
148

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
There are 9 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML
3
2
What Are the Benefits of Apache Beam over Spark/Flink for Batch Processing?
3
3
How to check if a variable is a string in JavaScript
3
4
What Is Multisorted Algebra
2
5
Python: Should I implement __ne__() operator based on __eq__?
2
6
The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ
2
7
What is the actual x86 instruction decode overhead?
2
8
Apollo React – `UseMutation` in ApolloClient Setup?
1
9
Auto-submit HTML form and insert to database using Ajax
1
10
C++ compile time counters, revisited
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
491
2
Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
403
3
How important are 'economies of scale'?
171
4
What does happiness at work mean?
148
5
Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
112
6
The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
107
7
The Iowa Caucus, Pseudo-Events, and Hyperreality
48
8
Rich people can't build social networks
30
9
Easy as A, B, Chromebook
26
10
Transitioning to a sustainable economy is fiscally conservative. Why can't we?
21