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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
It’s Time to Build
1820
2
Shirt Without Stripes
1676
3
New iPhone SE
1539
4
What Happened to Lee
1298
5
Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
1210
6
Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
1134
7
The Decline of Usability
996
8
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
988
9
98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
838
10
Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
748

Top Ask HN

1
I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
3270
2
How do I overcome mental laziness?
618
3
Who Is Firing?
604
4
Why did you leave the tech industry?
472
5
What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?
299
6
Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
292
7
How is your PPP loan application coming along?
254
8
How to get good at social media?
146
9
As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?
124
10
Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem?
114

Top Show HN

1
A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
971
2
I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
519
3
Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
332
4
ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
327
5
Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
246
6
A programmable tooltip on Mac OS
242
7
Gentle is a social app where you give and get kindness
236
8
I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls
232
9
FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?
178
10
Monte Carlo ray tracer in Rust
168

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
What Happened to Lee
1298
2
Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
350
3
Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)
198
4
LabCorp’s at-home Covid-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA
186
5
Unicorn layoffs keep piling up
167
6
Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations
153
7
Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight
153
8
Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with malicious packages
151
9
Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code
145
10
Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour
139

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
Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
721
2
Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
632
3
Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
592
4
I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)
413
5
U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
400
6
Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
382
7
Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
373
8
Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)
268
9
Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study
261
10
Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession
254

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
Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
282
2
Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket
167
3
Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems
97
4
Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet
71
5
Researchers uncover the art of printing extremely hard steels flawlessly
66
6
How Reliable Are University Rankings?
65
7
Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics (2019)
61
8
VLT sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein right
60
9
Greenland ice loss caused about 40 percent of total sea level rise in 2019
58
10
Mainframes Are Having a Moment
57

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
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
988
2
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability
439
3
Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
392
4
GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
312
5
Cloudflare Workers now supports COBOL
276
6
Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020
32
7
Sapienz: Intelligent automated software testing at scale (2018)
30
8
Better Stack Fixing for Firefox
25
9
API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them
23
10
How to Unbreak LTTng
18

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS
322
2
Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too
230
3
The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina
163
4
AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99
134
5
XCode May Come to iPhone and iPad in iOS 14
31
6
Leaker Claims Mobile Version of Xcode Coming to iPad
8
7
Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realizes the SFF Dream
7
8
AMD's Updated Ryzen 3 1200 with 12nm Zen+ Architecture Hits Retailers
7
9
DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
6
10
Metabolic compound could rewind fertility clock for women
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
New iPhone SE
1539
2
Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]
57
3
AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch
46
4
Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies
18
5
Blue Screen: Teenage hacker tries to save the world but accidentally destroys it
6
6
Apple Services now available in more countries around the world
5
7
TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework
4
8
The AWS CDK public roadmap
4
9
Apple Mac Pro Wheels Kit
4
10
Wolfram: A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics
4

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
Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)
271
2
How Tech Can Build
199
3
An Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit
94
4
The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams
94
5
Billboard / Hollywood Reporter lays off entire IT staff due to Covid19
26
6
Do Covid-19 death rates by age suggest a path to staying open in a second wave?
25
7
Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon
10
8
The Scholar's Vocation
9
9
Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands to Keep Six-Foot Distance Between Factory Workers
7
10
Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating
5

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
For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
669
2
Possible dinosaur DNA has been found
240
3
People may know the best decision and not make it: study
201
4
Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains
171
5
How does the coronavirus kill?
164
6
Buildings have their own microbiomes
103
7
Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved
92
8
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review
87
9
Gravitational waves reveal collision of heavy and light black holes
66
10
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
64

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
SQL is a better API language than GraphQL – Convince me otherwise
348
2
Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day
315
3
Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? [video]
286
4
A Taste of GPU Compute [video]
280
5
Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events
280
6
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]
245
7
The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]
214
8
Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers
196
9
Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign
168
10
How to Run Wordpress on AWS
134

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Shirt Without Stripes
1676
2
Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
645
3
Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
604
4
I've been writing TILs for 5 years
558
5
OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover
494
6
Phoenix LiveDashboard
419
7
Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32
397
8
OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
290
9
EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times
208
10
Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction
193

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Don't Mess with Texas
218
2
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
202
3
Crimson Contagion
175
4
Dueling Scar
104
5
Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
82
6
Granfalloon technique
54
7
Phone Cloning
35
8
Solarpunk
25
9
Mise en abyme
8
10
Ting Hai Effect
8

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Baymard Institute: An evidence-based trove of UX best practices
273
2
The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)
238
3
A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t
141
4
Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)
110
5
Diving into Silicon for the First Time
61
6
Fuck You Android Framework (2018)
58
7
Google is kind of bad now? (Rather than finding answers it ranks SEO spam)
32
8
Life Without Children
19
9
Paketo Buildpacks: Modular Buildpacks in Go
19
10
Node.js version 14 available now
14

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
23
2
Why is “asdf”.replace(/.*/g, “x”) == “xx”?
1
3
Should all sites use SSL by default? The top answer is no
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
A theory of Zoom fatigue
232
2
Bangkok Smoking Kid
197
3
Assuming Responsibility for Time
39
4
It's Going to Get Worse
24
5
Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?
11
6
A Congress Without Lobbyists and the Coming End of Federal Reserve Independence
10
7
GitHub Free and what it means for developer tooling companies
9
8
Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?
4
9
It’s Going to Get Worse
3
10
Assuming Responsibility for Time: Progress, Prediction, Promise
3