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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
3
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
4
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
1530
5
Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
6
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
1181
7
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
1180
8
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1070
9
GitHub Source Code Leak
1013
10
Alex Trebek has died
911

Top Ask HN

1
As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
479
2
Hey Drew, why is Dropbox becoming so bad?
119
3
Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues
58
4
How do you prevent code leak from current/former employees?
53
5
How do you regain motivation after achieving financial success?
49
6
Lost Economic Theories: Printing Inflation-Free Money?
38
7
Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?
36
8
Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?
34
9
Is truth a basic human right?
32
10
Anyone making money with online courses?
31

Top Show HN

1
Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
441
2
Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
218
3
Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app
161
4
My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
133
5
Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem
115
6
A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests
105
7
Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file
74
8
Ambra – Task Management Reinvented
41
9
Portabella – privacy friendly project management
41
10
SecureAppy – A modern vault for families
39

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
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
1616
2
Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
639
3
Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
532
4
Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data
492
5
Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
361
6
U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
347
7
Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets
328
8
Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software
238
9
Portland, Maine passes referendum banning facial surveillance
221
10
Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X
215

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
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
3089
2
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
1887
3
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
615
4
One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
488
5
San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
448
6
Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
417
7
Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches
386
8
Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years
310
9
750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
307
10
California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers
280

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
Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)
176
2
The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System
160
3
A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works
81
4
A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of silicon
80
5
Has the hidden matter of the universe been discovered?
68
6
BMI 30 increases risk of severe Covid and death
52
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Algorithms for Causal Reasoning in Probability Trees
35
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Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing
23
9
Training EfficientNets at Scale: 83% ImageNet Top-1 Accuracy in One Hour
10
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Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues
8

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
.NET 5.0
791
2
Deprecating scp
690
3
Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
374
4
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux
207
5
An Introduction to Pluto
179
6
Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king
117
7
LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels
116
8
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux
108
9
Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
86
10
Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released
82

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 unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
1365
2
Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
751
3
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
457
4
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review
434
5
RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
414
6
Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14
111
7
HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Drives
94
8
Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)
73
9
The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
68
10
Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
62

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Introducing the next generation of Mac
642
2
Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
159
3
Apple M1
104
4
MacBook Pro 13-inch with M1
58
5
Apple Unleashes M1
27
6
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, and HomePod mini available to order Friday
15
7
The Next Generation of Mac
15
8
AWS Kinesis now supports data retention period up to one year
12
9
MongoDB 4.0 compatibility and Transactions in Amazon DocumentDB
7
10
Apple Event November 10, 2020
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
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
324
2
Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
287
3
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to the United States, Subject to Judicial Review
125
4
Hegel and the History of Human Nature
64
5
Japan’s Onryō Spirits Inhabit a Purgatory of Revenge and Cosmic Rage
55
6
Computer Crime: Pirates and Phone Phreaks (1983)
45
7
Flying squirrels glow pink thanks to fluorescence
42
8
The Two Party Swindle
35
9
Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics, report says
16
10
A climate plan that can pass
16

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
U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
392
2
Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill
313
3
How to seriously read a scientific paper
289
4
The Joys of Being a Stoic
239
5
The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
228
6
Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope
217
7
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
197
8
Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
195
9
The impact of school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment
141
10
Soluble ACE2 shows promise for treating severe Covid­19
111

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Alex Trebek has died
911
2
Amazon Review Scam
579
3
I now have an Oculus paperweight
567
4
Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs
315
5
YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]
287
6
OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail
277
7
Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell
212
8
Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store
159
9
What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?
133
10
Python Concurrency From the Ground Up (2015) [video]
101

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
1070
2
AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
595
3
Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s
412
4
Gron – Make JSON Greppable
366
5
WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
307
6
Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
284
7
Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust
255
8
Transmit Radio Signals via Ethernet
229
9
Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications
214
10
The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone
203

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle
77
2
Carrosses à Cinq Sols
35
3
Naming Law
28
4
F-Law
19
5
Thorium-Based Nuclear Power
15
6
Benford's Law: Fraud Detection
13
7
SS Edmund Fitzgerald (sank 45 years ago today)
10
8
Second-System Effect
7
9
Saturn's Hexagon
7
10
Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
175
2
Why Concurrency Is Hard
122
3
Advice for Improving Organizational Decision-Making from Hardware Startup CEO
58
4
Bitcoin at 12
21
5
Developers – What Handmade Hero is and Why you should watch it
19
6
Perovskite can boost solar panel's efficiency to 33%
14
7
How to Be a Freelancer When You’re Feeling Down and Depressed
14
8
Why That Big Customer You Are Chasing Will Kill Your Startup
12
9
The Art of Management: Tips to Become a Super Effective Manager
10
10
Big Companies vs. Startups
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Stackoverflow: Difference Between DTO,VO,POJO,JavaBeans
2
2
What is the "goes to" operator in C++? (2009)
2
3
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers? (2011)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
106
2
The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
68
3
Of OnlyFans and Intimacy at Scale?
44
4
Big Tech Sees Like a State
33
5
Elections, Bitcoin and M2
30
6
Ride the Hardware Lottery
30
7
Feynman, Algorithmic Orchestration and Node Based Programming
28
8
Buffett's 5/25 Rule – How to increase focus and avoid burnout
25
9
Learning From Quibi
25
10
Sketch: From 1 to One Million users
19