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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Social Cooling (2017)
2692
2
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
2299
3
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
2120
4
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
1738
5
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1722
6
Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
1624
7
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
1588
8
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
1572
9
Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
1332
10
I no longer build software
1287

Top Ask HN

1
How to learn sales?
865
2
Who is hiring? (September 2020)
368
3
Your Favourite HN Comment?
341
4
What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?
322
5
What is your favorite method of sending large files?
319
6
Suggestions for books about API design?
297
7
Teaching kids how to think?
264
8
What are good life skills for people to learn?
254
9
What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?
247
10
We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?
224

Top Show HN

1
Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
780
2
A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
426
3
Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
403
4
Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set
333
5
Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
310
6
ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python
309
7
Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow
278
8
DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
241
9
Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query
238
10
My GitHub Readme Is Interactive
237

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
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
741
2
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
627
3
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
624
4
Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
608
5
Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
518
6
AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
512
7
YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
423
8
Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
415
9
Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
381
10
Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video
343

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
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
1738
2
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
1722
3
Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
1332
4
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
773
5
David Graeber has died
749
6
How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
685
7
Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
622
8
SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
583
9
The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
581
10
How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
565

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
Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
353
2
Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone
232
3
'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
190
4
Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
156
5
US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20
122
6
Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
104
7
A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving
100
8
Tracking Mixed Bitcoins
98
9
New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories
91
10
The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees
90

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
Say goodbye to hold music
682
2
GitHub CLI 1.0
633
3
Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content
373
4
GitHub Container Registry
345
5
Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase
336
6
How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
318
7
New Features in the Fish Shell
316
8
The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account
314
9
Tables: Tracking work for teams
312
10
Toward a “modern” Emacs
286

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
356
2
Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts
302
3
Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor
302
4
9th Circuit Rules Apple Owes Retail Workers for Time Spent Security Screening
219
5
Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake
207
6
Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists
187
7
AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentations for October
158
8
New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional
129
9
TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
92
10
Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available
84

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
347
2
iOS 14 is available today
335
3
Luna – Cloud gaming service
267
4
Several Apple Services Down
257
5
Apple Fitness+
253
6
Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award
110
7
New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
106
8
Amazon Timestream is generally available
91
9
Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams
76
10
iPad Air 2020
69

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
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
900
2
Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
528
3
91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
430
4
Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life
323
5
The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s
310
6
Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch
281
7
Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
277
8
Giant Pacific Octopus
221
9
X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (2011)
213
10
Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record
190

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
$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss
633
2
The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19
552
3
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet
473
4
Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study
355
5
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
311
6
How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
300
7
Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution
266
8
Array Programming with NumPy
257
9
Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?
218
10
Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
217

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
This electrical transmission tower has a problem
1588
2
They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
987
3
Someone has stolen my Instagram account
976
4
Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
632
5
Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
591
6
Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test
442
7
PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
403
8
Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
363
9
Getting Fiber to My Town [video]
294
10
WSL Getting GUI Support
283

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
I no longer build software
1287
2
Vue.js 3
768
3
Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
672
4
uMatrix has been archived
631
5
I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
612
6
Htop 3.0
604
7
Makani source code released
449
8
FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
405
9
rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
398
10
OBS Studio 26.0
382

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Bardcore
454
2
Wikipedia is an MMORPG
214
3
Oblique Strategies
202
4
Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods
119
5
Chanakya
118
6
New England's Dark Day
107
7
Impossible Colors
80
8
Alu (Runic)
78
9
Bastion Fort
76
10
Coastline Paradox
63

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
536
2
Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
440
3
I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
214
4
A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
179
5
Fuck You Startup World (2016)
129
6
Sattolo's Algorithm (2017)
100
7
GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms
96
8
Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3
95
9
Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types
85
10
C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
78

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)
65
2
THIS IS SDPARTA ! Easter Egg in Firefox WebRTC Implementation
11
3
Why Is “Expires” 1981?
9
4
Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?
9
5
Why does everyone love polymorphism over switch case
9
6
Why does 127.001 route to 127.0.0.1 and 127.011 route to 127.0.0.9?
5
7
Stopped Contributing
3
8
When did people first start thinking 'C is portable assembler'?
3
9
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
3
10
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? – Stack Overflow
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
How to Get Promoted
788
2
Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial
301
3
How to take meeting notes
229
4
You're enlightened – now what?
213
5
Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial
201
6
Build Personal Moats
173
7
Interview with Paul Graham
159
8
The K-shaped recovery
159
9
On Old Age
131
10
Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century
106