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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
2363
2
Tony Hsieh has died
1598
3
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
1473
4
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
1398
5
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
1091
6
How to Think for Yourself
1090
7
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
1080
8
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
858
9
A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
790
10
Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
776

Top Ask HN

1
Top Coursera Courses?
486
2
What are the best advanced computer science courses online?
345
3
Who is hiring? (December 2020)
339
4
Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)
166
5
How do you work through large ideas?
145
6
How to learn writing blog posts?
100
7
I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?
71
8
Crashed founders, what was the point of failure?
70
9
Programming 101 online course recommendations?
58
10
Is it OK to not have a “thing”?
58

Top Show HN

1
I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
726
2
I made a Mahjong browser game
252
3
Dungeon Map Doodler – Free D&D map maker
126
4
1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click
125
5
Dicom Medical Image Library in Go
108
6
Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design
107
7
Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game
106
8
Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows
99
9
Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN
99
10
NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool
96

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
Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
519
2
Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
326
3
Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries
309
4
European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’
124
5
The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling
110
6
Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades
108
7
What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
105
8
SpinLaunch is building a centrifuge to launch satellites into orbit
95
9
Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware
70
10
How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse
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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‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
486
2
Diego Maradona has died
428
3
Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
377
4
1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland
366
5
The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’
359
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Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
286
7
Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
277
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Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
246
9
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
244
10
Diego Maradona has died
244

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
Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
776
2
Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows
203
3
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
188
4
TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents
154
5
Geometric Algebra (2012)
147
6
Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine
118
7
Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal
74
8
A hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early universe
56
9
Quantum nanodiamonds may help detect disease earlier
39
10
PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture
36

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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Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model
276
2
Mutt releases version 2.0
139
3
ASICs at the Edge
101
4
Greg Kroah-Hartman: Lessons for Developers from 20 Years of Linux Kernel Work
19
5
A Byzantine failure in the real world
16
6
Van Buren appeal arguments in light of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ambiguity
12
7
Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
11
8
A Byzantine failure in the real world
8
9
How Buffett Is Hedging Against the Endless Pandemic
7
10
On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
7

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
241
2
Amazon Sidewalk: Will You Be Co-Opted into a Private Neighbourhood Lora Network?
7
3
Hector Martin Announces Patreon Funding for Bringing Native Linux to M1 Macs
5
4
Kraftwerk Performed with Arduino
3
5
Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair
3
6
Starlink Teardown
3
7
How to Install Any iPhone or iPad App on an M1 Mac
2
8
Apple Adds First iMac Models with Retina 5K Display to Vintage Products List
2
9
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, a Smaller Bite of Ampere for $400
2
10
Gathering Eclipse Data via Ham Radio
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
1091
2
AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
629
3
Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
355
4
Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
288
5
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
208
6
AWS Proton
99
7
Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry
85
8
AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs
71
9
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D)
38
10
Buxton Collection: 35 years of input devices
22

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
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive
274
2
Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
253
3
Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
120
4
My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
112
5
The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (1981)
91
6
We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
78
7
Lessons from Dave Chappelle
74
8
Unicode (1889)
63
9
Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal
61
10
How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality
58

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
No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
450
2
Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells
279
3
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
269
4
Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake
240
5
Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone
188
6
The Covid Science Wars
104
7
A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014)
94
8
Spatial computing could be the next big thing
93
9
Why scientists are turning to Rust
91
10
Contemplating the End of Physics
79

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Ethereum 2.0 launches
629
2
Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
403
3
YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”
372
4
Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]
312
5
Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting
277
6
Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing
213
7
Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths [video]
175
8
Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google
130
9
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic
121
10
Remote control truck with remote control gun, self destructed after attack
118

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
414
2
Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
407
3
OpenZFS 2.0
364
4
Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor
343
5
K6: Like unit testing, for performance
318
6
DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
280
7
Java Verbal Expressions
275
8
Flappy Bird in 228 bytes
254
9
Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system
252
10
macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon
189

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
UVB-76
195
2
Holodomor
172
3
Al-Adudi Hospital
121
4
Red Star (novel)
49
5
Nipkow Disk
39
6
Indian Coffee House
16
7
Whipping Boy
11
8
How to Read a Book
8
9
I Am Prepared to Die
8
10
Bootleggers and Baptists
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How to Think for Yourself
1090
2
Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing
137
3
Using Serverless for unpredictable traffic to for TV fundraiser event
76
4
Shipping Progressive Web Apps everywhere
52
5
I tried out-training my diet for 18 months
27
6
Handling Time Zone in JavaScript (2019)
25
7
The path to learning SQL and mastering it to become a Data Engineer
21
8
I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer
20
9
My software was misused by Rudy Giuliani to claim election fraud
11
10
PlanGrid's migration from home-grown feature flags to LaunchDarkly
11

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Round down to two decimals using CSS
2
2
A fast method to round a double to a 32-bit int explained (2013)
2
3
Difference Between Logical and Arithmatic Right Shift
2
4
Is anyone attempting to reverse-engineer Parler?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
280
2
Hire people who give a shit
236
3
Tips for Founders Doing Sales (From a Founder)
196
4
A Worsening Culture War
182
5
Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team
177
6
CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars
115
7
McKinsey: Friendly Neighborhood Spreadsheet Sociopaths Are Back in Town
79
8
What changes when you work outside an office?
47
9
The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident
24
10
Programmer, developer, engineer? What do you call yourself and why?
19