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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636
2
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2603
3
Your Computer Isn't Yours
1514
4
Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
1337
5
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
1275
6
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
1080
7
Servo’s new home
1025
8
What Gödel Discovered
1000
9
Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
950
10
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
924

Top Ask HN

1
Are you depressed?
408
2
Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
199
3
Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
101
4
What helps you improve your mood and keep your sanity?
77
5
What is your best native song that is unknown due to language barrier?
75
6
Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?
56
7
Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?
50
8
What underestimated technologies will dominate within 5 years?
48
9
How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
48
10
Best online courses for startup founders?
42

Top Show HN

1
Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
537
2
A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
377
3
I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
355
4
Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
308
5
LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
233
6
A 1000 auto-generated hexagonal SVG logos
174
7
Twelve70 - Men's outfit generator and closet management
158
8
The Least Dangerous To-Do List
141
9
Switch Git Users CLI
140
10
Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager
123

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
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
924
2
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
664
3
Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
593
4
RIP Google Music
268
5
Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers
263
6
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
242
7
Judge dismisses Apple’s “theft” claims in Epic Games lawsuit
195
8
Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates
181
9
SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users are impressed
144
10
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
130

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
Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
780
2
Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
680
3
Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
671
4
Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
498
5
Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019)
315
6
A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
271
7
South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'
237
8
Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
234
9
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses
227
10
Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22
222

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
Texas astronomers revive idea for 'Ultimately Large Telescope' on the moon
195
2
Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research
64
3
Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning
59
4
Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel
41
5
Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design
37
6
An efficient way to create nanographene for power and display devices
29
7
Cooling red-hot steel with warm rather than cold water improves steel quality
14
8
Heuristics and performance bounds for automated design
11
9
Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning (2018)
10
10
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
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
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
2636
2
Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back
1275
3
Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
950
4
Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
363
5
Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13
171
6
Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready to Be Deemed Stable
161
7
Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
113
8
AMD at a Tipping Point with Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators
98
9
Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
96
10
Sad DNS Explained
92

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 Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
1080
2
2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
724
3
Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac
337
4
Apple outages affecting Mac apps, Big Sur updates, iMessage, and more
217
5
Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
209
6
macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models
189
7
Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs
81
8
Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce
43
9
Patent Office pushing for permanent rule changes before administration change
40
10
Apple's M1 SoC Shreds GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in New Graphics Benchmark
23

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
macOS Big Sur
654
2
Transparency Report
199
3
AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
169
4
Apple is experiencing an outage taking down Macs
74
5
The Microsoft Pluton Processor
36
6
Microsoft Pluton processor– The security chip designed for the future of Windows
24
7
Apple’s Cork campus celebrates 40 years of community and looks to the future
22
8
Microsoft Releases OpenCL and OpenGL Compatibility Pack for Windows 10
9
9
Amazon Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run Your Containers in the Cloud
9
10
Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer
6

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
Apple's Shifting Differentiation
292
2
The biology of dads
236
3
Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
231
4
Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
176
5
Disaster prepping is mainstream again
166
6
Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?
161
7
Playing on Hard Mode
109
8
Pippi and the Moomins
106
9
Vulnerable yet vital: Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities
53
10
The History of the CD-ROM Magazine (2016)
50

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
Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
502
2
Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients
274
3
Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality
264
4
Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
196
5
Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
146
6
What Is a Particle?
126
7
What’s expected of us (2005)
120
8
Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption
107
9
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science
106
10
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments After the Big Bang
71

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
2603
2
Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
1337
3
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
754
4
16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile
368
5
iFixit tools in Apple's lab
284
6
SpaceX Crew-1 [video]
219
7
Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]
195
8
Why Italians don't drink a cappuccino after 11am [video]
149
9
Macs are freezing because of Apple Gatekeeper service
102
10
VLC and Qt – A History [video]
81

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
716
2
Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
679
3
Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
655
4
ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
627
5
Pimp My Microwave
529
6
Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
423
7
Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015
254
8
Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion
249
9
Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10
247
10
Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison
239

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
British Airways Flight 5390
169
2
The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
153
3
Earnshaw's Theorem
23
4
Radiatori – pasta shaped like a radiator to maximize heat exchange
14
5
Bulbous Bow
14
6
Penrose Tiling
10
7
2 + 2 = 5
9
8
Cult of the Dead Cow
7
9
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
7
10
1876 United States presidential election
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
158
2
Files Are Fraught with Peril (2019)
103
3
Big Banks are at the front and center of money laundering of over $2T
64
4
A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn
51
5
How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
45
6
There are only three startup stages
41
7
Hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”
39
8
Drawing lots of faces with sketch-RNN
33
9
Firefox and how a website could steal all of your cookies (CVE-2020–15647)
26
10
Potential Organized Fraud in Tier-1 Systems Conferences
14

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Disabling Chrome Autofill
4

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Prediction Markets Beat Polls
162
2
DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
129
3
Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim
76
4
Ongoing Death of Free Speech: ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book
68
5
Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
58
6
“Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”
50
7
Starting a food business in a pandemic
31
8
Bubbles and Megaprojects Parallelize Innovation
31
9
Samuel Johnson, opsimath
31
10
The next fleet of Breitbarts is already raking in ad dollars
30