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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Google outage – resolved
2316
2
Cameras and Lenses
2132
3
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
1752
4
YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
1183
5
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
869
6
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
827
7
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
773
8
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
752
9
Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
748
10
A former Uber engineer's disaster story
710

Top Ask HN

1
Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
406
2
Successful one-person online businesses?
298
3
How many hours per day do you work?
236
4
Losing all interest in programming, what now?
221
5
What's are your personal automations?
104
6
How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?
84
7
Is anyone working on a less painful intubation tube?
81
8
What are your best tips or resources when it comes to marketing?
79
9
I'm quitting my job, will create a game – any advice?
79
10
How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel?
68

Top Show HN

1
After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
647
2
After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
442
3
Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
424
4
Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old
375
5
Instantly search 2M recipes
349
6
An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
344
7
Write-Only Interface for Twitter
219
8
Slices – puzzle game
219
9
Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation
189
10
Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads
180

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
Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
752
2
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
630
3
SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
408
4
Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
364
5
Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants
270
6
Adobe has released the last Flash update ever
203
7
CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”
165
8
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700
141
9
Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS
96
10
Major browsers are getting hit in widespread malware attacks
85

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
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
773
2
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
657
3
EU countries team up for semiconductor push
633
4
Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds
535
5
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
405
6
Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
390
7
EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
381
8
U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors
349
9
John le Carré has died
344
10
Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon
343

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
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
111
2
Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003)
48
3
A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
15
4
Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi [pdf]
6
5
Casual work 'is more about permanent insecurity than flexibility'
5
6
Darwin was right about why insects lose the ability to fly
4
7
Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults
4
8
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (2020 Version)
3
9
Emergent Quantumness in Neural Networks
3
10
Unexpected insights into early dinosaur's brain, eating habits and agility
3

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
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
632
2
Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
266
3
App privacy labels now live on the App Store
245
4
SwiftUI tutorials rewritten completely
243
5
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
239
6
Can developer productivity be measured?
113
7
Cloud Run adds min instances feature for latency-sensitive apps
90
8
The Semantic Future of the Web
88
9
Our Year in Review: How We’ve Made Firefox Faster in 2020
82
10
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie
65

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial
281
2
Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
138
3
Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
73
4
A Xilinx ZYNQ Linux FPGA Board for Under $20
52
5
YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online
48
6
iPhone 6s falls out of a plane and survives, with all the action recorded
47
7
Hacker’s Discovery Changes Understanding of the Antikythera Mechanism
31
8
Ecosia now a default search engine option on iOS, iPadOS, macOS
17
9
Raid on Florida Covid Whistleblower Shows Risks of Over-Reliance on IP Addresses
14
10
Apple to ban X-Mode tracking, developers given two weeks to comply
13

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS CloudShell
443
2
AWS Fault Injection Simulator
229
3
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
204
4
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
168
5
Cardio fitness notifications are available today on Apple Watch
90
6
Apple Fitness+
46
7
AWS CloudShell
7
8
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
6
9
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design [pdf]
5
10
AWS IoT EduKit
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
Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
239
2
Am I Disabled?
211
3
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (2015)
201
4
Ramstein air base in Germany experiences potential incoming missile scare
146
5
Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks
126
6
New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
123
7
Encryption Lava Lamps (2017)
107
8
Managing an underperformer who thinks they’re doing great
102
9
When Squirrels Were One of America’s Most Popular Pets (2017)
59
10
Empire of Fantasy
31

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
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
365
2
After centuries, a seemingly simple math problem gets an exact solution
305
3
U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant
215
4
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
154
5
Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers
150
6
Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System
134
7
What Did the Past Smell Like?
127
8
Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2
69
9
Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors
62
10
Lie Detection by Strategy Manipulation
38

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
A former Uber engineer's disaster story
710
2
Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
602
3
Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test
439
4
Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
438
5
1MW Molten-Salt Test Reactor by Copenhagen Atomic for €88k [video]
234
6
Applying TLA+ in cloud systems [video]
89
7
The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video]
87
8
The Secret History of Windows Task Manager from Retired Microsoft Engineer
73
9
Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
68
10
Andrew Yang Leads in NYC Mayoral Race
68

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
657
2
If-then-else had to be invented
414
3
ImHex – A Hex Editor
314
4
“This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”
307
5
PlotJuggler 3: fast and intuitive time series visualization
259
6
Mundane: Rust cryptography library that is difficult to misuse
217
7
Common Expression Language
208
8
Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur
195
9
Imgdiff: Faster than the fastest pixel-by-pixel image difference tool
181
10
OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environments
155

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Olbers' Paradox
162
2
Circulation of Elites
75
3
.kkrieger
32
4
Origins of the “OK” Word
17
5
Parasocial interaction – Psychological relationship experienced by audience
6
6
The Church of Satan doesn't believe in Satan
5
7
Heat Death Paradox
5
8
Hopi Time Controversy
3
9
List of Emerging Technologies
3
10
Friendship paradox: Most people have fewer friends than their friends
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Earnestness
438
2
I Built a Smart Thermostat
73
3
M1 Mac Mini Scores Higher Than My RTX 2080Ti in TensorFlow Speed Test
37
4
Farmer Given 3-Day Facebook Ban over Literal Sheep
20
5
Noom’s Engineering Team Prepares for the Holidays
20
6
Real-time analytics: Reasons on why Pinot over Druid & others at Confluera
19
7
BPF and Go: Modern forms of introspection in Linux
17
8
An analysis of 89M Git commits: developer growth in crypto is accelerating
14
9
A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon
13
10
Vimeo Engineering: It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP
12

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Help hospital IT guy vaccinate his coworkers
2
2
Silently install powershell modules from MSI file
1
3
Kafka cluster can freeze during a deployment
1
4
Hexagonal Grids, how do you find which hexagon a point is in? (2011)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
531
2
Pandemic Villains: Robinhood
141
3
George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
57
4
Exasperated Exuberance
45
5
US Covid relief bill smaller than either parties pre-election promises
32
6
Unrepentant Baguette Merchant
27
7
Unicorn Traits – Early Signs of a Bilion Dollar Company
26
8
The Case for a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump
25
9
The Internet Is for Porn
18
10
“How Could a Reasonable Person Ever Inject Heroin?”
16