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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
1232
2
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
1115
3
“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
980
4
More bosses give four-day workweek a try
934
5
Explorabl.es
894
6
Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
853
7
How to Write Usefully
821
8
Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
766
9
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
760
10
Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
732

Top Ask HN

1
I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?
249
2
How do I learn JavaScript?
223
3
What's your latest failed side project and why?
196
4
What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
161
5
How do you do home surveillance?
140
6
I feel like I should be working all the time and its killing me
82
7
How to get good at designing big and complex applications?
76
8
How do I develop aggressiveness?
64
9
How do you handle toxic coworkers?
47
10
Share your profitable side project?
39

Top Show HN

1
Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
614
2
Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
386
3
Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
191
4
Build a JS-only interactive product walk-through for your landing page
184
5
MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards
179
6
Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading
107
7
Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
99
8
A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
91
9
Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code
88
10
WeKeep – A spreadsheets-first accounting software
87

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
Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
549
2
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
477
3
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
420
4
Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
301
5
Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data
278
6
Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain
202
7
The BBC’s attempt to build a Netflix-style service was snuffed by regulation
167
8
Revolut raises $500M at a $5.5B valuation
152
9
The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot
140
10
Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
138

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
More bosses give four-day workweek a try
934
2
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
532
3
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
495
4
Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe
323
5
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
316
6
Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
301
7
Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources
279
8
Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
234
9
Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B
234
10
Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight
228

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
Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking
263
2
Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM
112
3
Of Modes and Men (2005)
62
4
The Compact Merkle Multiproof
57
5
A Systematic Impact Study for Fuzzer-Found Compiler Bugs (2019)
39
6
The super-fast world of droplet dynamics
29
7
Segregated interactions in urban and online spaces
27
8
Prompt elasto-gravity signals and their potential use in modern seismology
26
9
There could be meteors hitting the atmosphere close to the speed of light
13
10
Watching TV helps birds make better food choices
12

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
Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
648
2
Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
520
3
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
384
4
Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
356
5
Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
346
6
T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
338
7
Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
235
8
Servers for an Accelerated Future
203
9
MusicKit JS
197
10
Guessing smart phone PINs by monitoring the accelerometer
177

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
760
2
Raspberry Pi releases new PCB version with USB-C power fix
75
3
Firefox to stop ISPs from tracking the websites you visit, from today
47
4
Apple moving to ARM for Mac in 2021: Analyst
34
5
Apple to launch ARM Mac without Intel CPU in 2021, says Kuo
22
6
Apple may allow Spotify to set as Default Music App
15
7
Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under Gatekeepers' Fortresses
8
8
When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses
6
9
Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under Gatekeepers' Fortresses
5
10
Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy–But Ignores Larger Concerns
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Challenges with distributed systems
188
2
Mac Pro Technology Overview [pdf]
18
3
Theory of People: Understanding Behaviors, Business, Feelings, and the Mind
11
4
Azure Sphere Goes GA
5
5
Microsoft Azure Sphere (IoT service) now generally available
4
6
Pro Display XDR Technology Overview [pdf]
3
7
Echo Loop
3
8
Windows Continuum
2
9
Five ways your academic research skills transfer to industry
2
10
Savings Plan Update: Save Up to 17% on Your Lambda Workloads
2

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
How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)
239
2
What Coronavirus Does to the Body
166
3
How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (2018)
148
4
Tesla Autopilot tricked into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with modified sign
71
5
A trashed Italian manuscript got sewn into a sweet silk purse
21
6
Our world is a system, in which physical and social technologies co-evolve
6
7
How to Value a Company by Analyzing Its Customers
5
8
Coinbase Coronavirus Planning
5
9
Natural gas is a much ‘dirtier’ energy source than we thought
4
10
Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill
4

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
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
1115
2
Scientist decries ‘chaotic’ conditions on cruise ship after viral outbreak
114
3
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
71
4
Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires
65
5
Artificial intelligence yields a powerful new antibiotic
58
6
‘Radical change’ needed after latest neutron star collision
58
7
There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us
56
8
Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts
52
9
Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots
43
10
A musician plays the violin during brain surgery
23

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
602
2
It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
254
3
Vue.js Documentary [video]
233
4
Twitter Thread: Experience at Lambda School for UX
145
5
Lightbeam: A Highly-Optimising Streaming WebAssembly Compiler (2019) [video]
99
6
“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”
97
7
An Amazon Scam: The Mofut Key Lock Box [video]
94
8
Recovering Fossil Data on IBM 8” Floppies [video]
72
9
Japan doesn't test staff for covid19 cause they cannot work if infected
69
10
To create a new category, name a new game
61

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
389
2
Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
357
3
QEMU for iOS
335
4
GitHub Discussions Beta
249
5
Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
242
6
PCILeech
230
7
Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'
213
8
Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules
201
9
Bastion – Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime
201
10
Sled: Embedded Database Written in Rust
198

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Bert Sutherland Has Died
680
2
Monobloc chair
381
3
Maryam Mirzakhani
299
4
Year Without a Summer
295
5
Fork Bomb
140
6
Uranium Glass
97
7
Last and First Men
92
8
Languages of the Ottoman Empire
87
9
Gray Goo
64
10
Lithophone
54

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How to Write Usefully
821
2
Suspicious Discontinuities
644
3
What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (2017)
140
4
Dispatch – Open-source release of Netflix's crisis management framework
128
5
Production-Oriented Development
115
6
Why smart hardworking people don't become successful (2018)
79
7
A Windows feature which can result in bypassing User Group Policy
75
8
Strings in WebAssembly
70
9
Security Researcher exposes abysmal cybersecurity of SlickWraps
19
10
Windows Icons Redesign
16

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
The Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ
2
2
What is the actual x86 instruction decode overhead?
2
3
How and when to align to cache line size (2011)
1
4
Kludge World: Test whether a glob has any matches in bash
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
How important are 'economies of scale'?
171
2
The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
107
3
Transitioning to a sustainable economy is fiscally conservative. Why can't we?
21
4
The Risks of Distributing Risk
14
5
How An AT&T Lawyer Helped Monopolize Cheerleading and Induce Drug Shortages
4
6
List of API Testing Tools
3
7
Donate Money, Not Time
3
8
Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash
3
9
Becoming technical – A guide to building products without an eng background
3
10
The Race to the Top
2