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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Del.icio.us
1649
2
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
1594
3
When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
1243
4
Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
1106
5
Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
1105
6
Laws of UX
1037
7
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
967
8
A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
785
9
In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
719
10
The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
683

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (August 2020)
592
2
I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
409
3
Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)
359
4
What’s your daily/weekly routine?
106
5
How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?
87
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)
78
7
Geopolitical forums similar to HN?
70
8
Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder
64
9
What was the best project management style you have been a part of?
50
10
What are the most interesting things in tech lately?
46

Top Show HN

1
I built an After Effects for dummies
868
2
WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
393
3
Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
371
4
Find HN threads about the page you're browsing
260
5
Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations
224
6
A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research
217
7
High performance X11 animated wallpapers
188
8
Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making
187
9
Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer
167
10
A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python
159

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
Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
483
2
Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
348
3
Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
312
4
Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk
268
5
IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
247
6
Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing
235
7
Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
224
8
Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads
222
9
Unauthorized Bread: Jailbreaking IoT toasters
212
10
Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store
199

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
Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
1106
2
NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975
576
3
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
524
4
Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
416
5
TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
336
6
Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
335
7
Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?
301
8
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
293
9
Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone
278
10
‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy
277

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
UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP
88
2
How real are real numbers? (2004)
81
3
Ultra-rare kaon decay could lead to evidence of new physics
53
4
iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable
48
5
New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19
47
6
New analysis method predicts disruptive solar flares
46
7
A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered 'Snowball Earths'
44
8
Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? (2013)
22
9
SpaceX fires up newest Starship prototype, eyes test flight soon – Space
7
10
Use This AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig
5

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
An update on our security incident
228
2
OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
200
3
Lockless Algorithms for Mere Mortals
173
4
Why Credit Card Fraud Is Still a Thing
160
5
New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation
157
6
Is your chip card secure? Much depends on where you bank
155
7
Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust
151
8
Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
115
9
ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
109
10
Cloudflare Network Interconnect
99

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 Reports Q2 2020 Earnings
309
2
A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law
106
3
New ‘Unpatchable’ Exploit Found in Apple’s Secure Enclave Chip
102
4
Emails Reveal Why Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller Blocked In-App Kindle Purchases
36
5
Microsoft to Stop Supporting Office 2016 for Mac in October
18
6
Pinephone Gets Thermal Imaging Backpack
9
7
University App Mandates Are the Wrong Call
7
8
Covid Tracing Apps: What Europe Has Done Right, and Wrong
5
9
Join your own private LORA mesh network
5
10
Third Circuit rules school can't discipline student for social media speech
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
27-inch iMac gets a major update
340
2
Apple reports Q3 results
185
3
Join the AWS Community Builders Program
13
4
Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond
7
5
PHP 7.4 up to 37% faster on ARM CPUs
4
6
Mental Models to Clarify the Goals of Digital Transformation, Part 1
3
7
iTunes Gift Cards Usable Towards Products Now
3
8
Phil Schiller Advances to Apple Fellow
3
9
Building well-architected serverless applications: Introduction
3
10
Imperative functional programming (1992) [pdf]
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
The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker
151
2
The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions
133
3
Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
66
4
IBM Building 025
65
5
UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing
58
6
Note to self – never give up on your dreams
49
7
Damn Cool Illusion
25
8
If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?
24
9
The Palatino FAQ (1998)
14
10
Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface
14

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
You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends
489
2
A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness
430
3
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
247
4
Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test
169
5
Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean
122
6
Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
89
7
Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs
61
8
Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
50
9
The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
46
10
In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs
37

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
1594
2
When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
1243
3
A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
785
4
US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
585
5
SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]
530
6
NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
405
7
Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
295
8
Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT
258
9
Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning
203
10
Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources
179

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
277
2
I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
243
3
Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000
186
4
A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering
161
5
IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux
152
6
Bootstrap Icons
133
7
OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation
128
8
Synfig Studio – FOSS industrial-strength 2D film-quality animation software
96
9
CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes
85
10
The semver trick (2019)
85

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Howland Will Forgery Trial
66
2
JP-7
59
3
History of software engineering
27
4
Yakhchāl
24
5
Navajo Language Grammar
9
6
Externality
9
7
Cleaning Station
7
8
Atlantic City Algorithm
7
9
Diatom
5
10
Prince Rupert's Drop
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
465
2
The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated
150
3
TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs
131
4
The Secret Origin of the Action RPG
124
5
The BEAM needs an APL-y language (2018)
27
6
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how
16
7
US Printed More Money in One Month Than in Two Centuries
14
8
Introudction to Ansible Playbooks
11
9
Ray Ray Tracing Raises Ray Tracing Rate
10
10
Opening up the 911 system using a Convolutional neural network
10

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What is a “cache-friendly” code?
3
2
Can you add new statements to Python's syntax?
1
3
Why is no one using make for Java?
1
4
AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with Amazon vs. AWS
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance
209
2
Crash and Burn: The Amiga ST Story
56
3
Beyond Bitswap
37
4
My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks
21
5
Unbundling Work from Employment
20
6
A GPT-3 Written Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks
9
7
The Left Is Now the Right
8
8
GPT-3 Blog post got to the top of Hacker News and 26k total visitors in 2 weeks
6
9
The Day Big Tech Stopped Being Untouchable
4
10
How Netflix is winning the world?
4