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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
2
Zoom Acquires Keybase
1879
3
GitHub Codespaces
1769
4
We Chat, They Watch
1417
5
We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
1224
6
No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
1108
7
Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
1044
8
A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
835
9
Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
824
10
Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
774

Top Ask HN

1
Name one idea that changed your life
1084
2
Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
961
3
Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
779
4
Keybase Alternatives?
726
5
What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
566
6
I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?
373
7
How to stop anxiety from too many choices?
287
8
Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
257
9
Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
241
10
What are the other websites you visit daily?
133

Top Show HN

1
Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
732
2
Make Your PDF Look Scanned
607
3
Lite – A small, fast text editor
607
4
Interface for all digital aspects of my life
478
5
Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client
343
6
Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell
285
7
Axiom – No-code Browser Automation
270
8
Writing for Software Developers
267
9
FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB
243
10
Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management
236

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
No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
1108
2
Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
500
3
The most prized degree in India became the most worthless
395
4
Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
392
5
Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack
294
6
The iPad's new cursor and keyboard
148
7
Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
136
8
Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere
130
9
Microsoft launches Surface Book 3 with new Nvidia GPU options
98
10
Microsoft Surface Go 2 review
98

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
Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
2953
2
Florian Schneider has died
542
3
Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
513
4
The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
397
5
Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
345
6
U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients
344
7
Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto
325
8
Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety
313
9
Little Richard has died
295
10
Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months
273

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
SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype fires rocket engine for first time
150
2
Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer
111
3
The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages
94
4
Touching the asteroid Ryugu revealed secrets of its surface and changing orbit
64
5
Can electric cars on the highway emulate plane-to-plane refueling?
47
6
Insignificant Choice Polynomial Time
39
7
The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is lower than the classical
34
8
The impact of water vapor on afternoon rainfall
28
9
Scientists demonstrate quantum radar prototype
23
10
Carbon emissions on the moon put theory of moon birth in doubt
21

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
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
655
2
Making Emacs Popular Again
544
3
What the heck happened with .org?
255
4
Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
245
5
Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power (2013)
127
6
The C++ preprocessor doesn’t understand anything about C++, including templates
30
7
Updating our approach to misleading information
18
8
A report providing trends and insights into developer activity on GitHub
18
9
Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf
14
10
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
14

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile
286
2
The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it
220
3
The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
133
4
Prototype of a rotating detonation engine, previously thought impossible
121
5
Intel Initiates EOL for the VCA2: Three Xeons on a PCIe Card
32
6
Linux Desktop Environment Face-Off: Which GUI Is Best
16
7
Amazon Makes Graviton2 AWS Instances Available
7
8
Apple Goes on Cloud Computing Hiring Spree
4
9
Apple renews effort to induce authors to publish with Apple Books
4
10
World's fastest camera captures 70T frames per second
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
268
2
AWS EC2 General Price Cut
137
3
New – M6g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
74
4
$699 Apple Pro Wheels
39
5
Study: Microsoft Saw Bugs Decrease 60-90% From TDD With 15-35% Time Cost (2008)
7
6
Setting the Record Straight on Jedi
6
7
Amazon Kindle uses your password as your 'submit to kindle' email
6
8
EC2 Price Reduction – EC2 Instance Saving Plans and Standard Reserved Instances
4
9
Amazon Kendra Is Now Generally Available
3
10
Apple Wheels
3

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
X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment
202
2
Dithering and Open versus Free
65
3
Elliot Virtual Mall
63
4
Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science
51
5
Poka-Yoke is Not a Joke (2010)
41
6
MPA and Amazon Ask GitHub to Suspend Kodi Add-On Developer’s Account
18
7
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Source Code) by Silas Warner
12
8
Tesla will move California to Texas/Nevada due to local coronavirus response
10
9
I Hate Frameworks (2005)
5
10
Things Developers Might Want to Learn
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
Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
304
2
An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles
250
3
Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models
208
4
'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects
196
5
Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business
165
6
The links between mental disorders
142
7
New math proves that a special kind of space-time is unstable
130
8
Perovskite Neural Trees
122
9
Physicists Criticize Stephen Wolfram’s ‘Theory of Everything’
113
10
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body
110

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
571
2
Iridescent Tempered Chocolate
331
3
The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter
320
4
My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video]
251
5
Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero
165
6
“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”
149
7
The Power of Prolog [video]
131
8
Playing Games on a 60s Computer [video]
110
9
Response to Tim Bray's Departure
95
10
Samsung Critical Security Vulnerability: 0-click RCE in All Modern Phones
54

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Codespaces
1769
2
Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
824
3
Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models
719
4
Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
643
5
GitHub Codescanning
390
6
Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C
389
7
NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps
342
8
StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data
217
9
Zork source code, 1977
207
10
GitHub Insights
205

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Onfim
322
2
Norsk Data
301
3
Secessio plebis
258
4
Simulacra and Simulation
135
5
Holocene Extinction
119
6
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
92
7
Breaking a Monopoly
54
8
Gish Gallop
33
9
Satellite Babies
33
10
Bowie Bonds
20

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
AWS services to avoid
399
2
Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)
135
3
We are not mostly empty space
98
4
Sidewalk Labs no longer pursuing the Toronto Quayside project
97
5
Metaphors in Man Pages
94
6
Rust concurrency: the single-writer principle
90
7
TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science
81
8
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
68
9
Never Send Your CV via Gmail
62
10
Many ways where GCP excels over AWS
57

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?
269
2
How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
5
3
What is a “callback” in C and how are they implemented?
2
4
Is there a smooth path to migrate from Xtext to Racket?
2
5
Do developers use vim to write code (Java) on a Windows OS?
1
6
How can I get an alignment for two different tokenizations?(e.g. BERT vs. spaCy)
1
7
Rust: Why vector of numric types can have mut borrorw and ref in one expression
1
8
What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Stop trying to make hard work easy
142
2
Stop trying to make hard work easy
28
3
“Calling future tech leaders”: Neo opens applications
18
4
How to Hire a Founding Engineer
6
5
Stop Overcomplicating Shit: A reminder to myself in a world full of advice
4
6
Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy
4
7
You don't have to be original to innovate
4
8
Pandemics, Power, and Freedom
4
9
Cryo and Westwood's 16-bit Dune games
3
10
Second-Order Product Thinking
3