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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Grant Imahara Has Died
1963
2
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1489
3
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
1285
4
Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1106
5
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
1099
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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
1034
7
You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
964
8
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
880
9
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
858
10
How to Understand Things
816

Top Ask HN

1
My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
657
2
What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
537
3
Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
283
4
How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
151
5
Anyone from Apple here? It's impossible to enroll the dev program
97
6
Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?
80
7
Best resources to learn about stock trading and investing?
71
8
What do you want to see in a resume / GitHub profile?
65
9
Are YouTube ads getting worse?
64
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What is your favorite low-end setup you've ever done?
61

Top Show HN

1
Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
575
2
Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature
402
3
Runnaroo – A new search engine
380
4
Is It Worth the Cost?
319
5
Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity
216
6
Sed to C translator written in sed
160
7
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book
154
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Screenr – Automated Workflow for Your Email
118
9
Notado – Content-First Bookmarking
96
10
ip2unix – Turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets
94

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
Google to Invest $10B in India
422
2
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs
392
3
Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
287
4
Nvidia is now worth more than Intel
273
5
Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
223
6
Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired
198
7
Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365
136
8
Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration
104
9
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
77
10
How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)
67

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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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
1489
2
U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas
498
3
Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
379
4
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
354
5
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
293
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The stock market and economy have parted ways
282
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Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say
268
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Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open
268
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Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
257
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One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud
227

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
Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
524
2
Neural programmer better than Quicksort
282
3
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion thru social networks (2014)
166
4
The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio
150
5
Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students
103
6
Comet streaking past Earth, providing spectacular show
86
7
Behind the dead-water phenomenon
75
8
Giant clams manipulate light to assist their symbiotic partner
48
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Special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better
42
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Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions
42

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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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
1106
2
LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
412
3
Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in
390
4
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
251
5
Confidential VMs
181
6
Bringing the print statement back
148
7
Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
147
8
Linus Torvalds on AVX512
140
9
“LibreOffice is at serious risk”
126
10
Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way
106

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker
148
2
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
133
3
Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?
124
4
EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
119
5
Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel
117
6
EFF Database of Police Agencies and Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
21
7
EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
17
8
The Complexities of Apple's Butterfly Approach to ISAs
7
9
Making Smalltalk on a Raspberry Pi
5
10
New EU Regulation Gives App Store Developers More Protection and Transparency
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Intel in Macs (2007)
222
2
AWS Copilot
153
3
Apple expands iPhone repair services to hundreds of new locations across the US
16
4
AWS Copilot
6
5
MSFT launches new beta app to help devs working AI
4
6
AWS Well-Architected Framework – Updated White Papers, Tools, and Best Practices
4
7
PLA: Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
3
8
Microsoft Research: Studies in Pandemic Preparedness
2
9
Apple allocates more than $400M to combat California housing crisis
2
10
The future of work–the good, the challenging and the unknown
2

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
The TikTok War
353
2
The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)
344
3
An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
240
4
The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire
159
5
Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021
112
6
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV
109
7
Group brainstorming is a waste of time (2015)
96
8
Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower
95
9
Vienna, City of Paradox
82
10
A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater
66

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
MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
365
2
Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time
233
3
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
181
4
Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19
152
5
Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
125
6
Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income
114
7
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
109
8
The illusion of control, and how to give it up
79
9
Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
74
10
Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector
69

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
546
2
PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN
482
3
July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy
420
4
Writing a software book and making over $100k
250
5
The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video]
137
6
The growing short case on Facebook and Google
119
7
John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)
101
8
Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces
87
9
What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video]
61
10
Digital Audio on VHS – The Technics SV-P100 [video]
59

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
596
2
Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone
450
3
EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
419
4
Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb
320
5
PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
305
6
Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries
268
7
MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
259
8
Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format
215
9
Ariane RISC-V CPU – An open source CPU capable of booting Linux
210
10
Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
204

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Nsibidi
55
2
Zamburak
52
3
Marine glass sponge that builds silica skeletons
26
4
The Shock Doctrine
13
5
Chewbacca defense
13
6
Unschooling
12
7
Gaslighting
9
8
Maeslantkering
8
9
Whipple Shield
6
10
List of Languages by Time of Extinction
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
248
2
The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
207
3
Cars and hygiene killed the middle-class hat
95
4
Charlie Chaplin Was Almost Assassinated in Japan to Start a War
64
5
MTG Hivemind: Artificial Intelligence Designing Magic the Gathering Cards
63
6
Scanimage: Scan from the Command Line
42
7
Software 2.0 (2017)
38
8
I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
30
9
AI Dungeon now uses the largest GPT-3 model offered by OpenAI
24
10
American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
23

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How to Create GUID / UUID in JavaScript?
2
2
Ledger Investing (YC W17) Is Hiring UI/UX Designers (Full-Time and Remote)
1
3
How to compare char* to string literal in C? [closed]
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Why are toys such a bad business?
180
2
A $500M call option on home gyms
150
3
The international student bait-and-switch
144
4
If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
118
5
The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
77
6
Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school
74
7
A Land of Monopolists: From Portable Toilets to Mixed Martial Arts
74
8
African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to help them
55
9
The unbundling of Harvard has begun
47
10
“Runway Programming Languages” and Fast Fashion
38