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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
1961
2
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
1505
3
Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
1245
4
Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
1149
5
How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
1060
6
Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
1058
7
Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair
1014
8
Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago
945
9
Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
926
10
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
892

Top Ask HN

1
What are you working on?
529
2
Show me your half baked project
420
3
How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
392
4
Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?
336
5
What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
277
6
How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?
264
7
Which companies work like Gumroad?
205
8
How do we build the new remote education system
144
9
What are the expectations of a principal engineer in your company?
104
10
Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship?
78

Top Show HN

1
Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API
272
2
Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
248
3
Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
221
4
Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
185
5
A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte
141
6
JavaScript Program Synthesis
139
7
DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books
124
8
Thumbnail.ai – Just paste a blog post link and get a thumbnail
121
9
Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
116
10
Symmetrical Drawing Tool for Doodling
115

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
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
618
2
Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
489
3
Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
425
4
The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
326
5
Feds asks Tesla to recall vehicles over failing touchscreen displays
198
6
Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted
181
7
Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit
121
8
Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, the platform told them to
109
9
No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation
88
10
Amazon is cutting off Parler's servers
86

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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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
1058
2
Wikipedia is 20
733
3
Stripe bans Trump campaign
673
4
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants
661
5
Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
657
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Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
572
7
Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
561
8
Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)
549
9
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
485
10
Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
484

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
New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency
322
2
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
275
3
Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
157
4
Runtime improvement for Minimum Cut algorithm first time in 25 years (2019)
153
5
The Earth has been spinning faster lately
146
6
AnyDB: An Architecture-Less DBMS for Any Workload
76
7
This Year, Autonomous Trucks Will Take to the Road with No One on Board
75
8
Will Alphabet’s Unionization Effort Spread to Other Big Tech Companies?
66
9
Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0
64
10
CES 2021: What Is Mini-LED TV?
21

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
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
1961
2
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
314
3
SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others
196
4
Debian discusses vendoring again
195
5
Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images
195
6
Doing Symbolic Math with SymPy
131
7
We need more than deplatforming
109
8
Google Completes Fitbit Acquisition
90
9
Old Compilers and Old Bugs
81
10
Some Unlikely 2021 Predictions
79

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts
229
2
Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
183
3
Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift
163
4
The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
85
5
Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1
67
6
Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack
35
7
YouTube and TikTok Put Human Rights in Jeopardy in Turkey
32
8
EFF's Response to Social Media Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts
23
9
Airpods V1 (2007)
21
10
MGM up for sale for $5B after 'preliminary talks' with Apple failed
14

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Helping to secure internet routing
116
2
Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects
61
3
A fork() in the road – HotOS '19 [pdf]
9
4
Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
4
5
Batteries – Maximising Performance
2
6
Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? (2016) [pdf]
2
7
Dash Smart Shelf: Auto-replenishment scale
1
8
Businessmen vs. Aliens (2018)
1
9
Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? (2016) [pdf]
1
10
Just launched SNS data archiving and analytics via Kinesis Firehose subscription
1

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
Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
615
2
Dungeon Magazine
315
3
India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties
220
4
Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles
189
5
They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines
151
6
Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
142
7
Why Plainclothes Police Had Striped Reflective Tape on Their Glocks
67
8
The IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive (2010)
20
9
Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist
18
10
Huygens, senior and junior
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
Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
551
2
Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite
244
3
Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
220
4
State-backed manipulation rampant on social media
162
5
Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters
142
6
Who Invented the Alphabet?
82
7
Dire wolves were not wolves, new genetic clues reveal
79
8
Is the Schrödinger Equation True?
66
9
Autopsies Reveal the Terrible Damage Covid-19 Can Inflict on the Human Brain
49
10
Frank Wilczek - A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos
28

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
804
2
Facebook buying ads for Messenger to be top result when you search for 'Signal'
645
3
When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
499
4
WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys
491
5
iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
455
6
Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets
354
7
Tether price manipulation
306
8
Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar
260
9
Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
251
10
Signal AMA on Reddit
248

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
796
2
Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scratch in Rust
379
3
GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust
312
4
Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration
291
5
FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain
275
6
A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
219
7
Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Server
194
8
Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub
168
9
Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider
137
10
RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey
119

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
English as She Is Spoke
247
2
Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability
99
3
Bélády's Anomaly
66
4
Fan Death
30
5
Lenin Was a Mushroom
28
6
First They Came
18
7
Xenobot
15
8
Computer Says No
14
9
1983 United States Senate Bombing
14
10
Atari SIO – The direct ancestor to USB
9

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Filesystem Error Handling (2017)
54
2
How 7 iOS apps can take 500mb less space
35
3
The Role-Profiles Pattern Across Infrastructure as Code
11
4
Facebook’s Latest Ploy Against Apple: My Way or the Highway
6
5
Parler Is Down, but Google and Apple’s Ban Might Help
6
6
A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon
5
7
Get your work recognized: write a brag document
5
8
What They Don’t Tell You About Setting Up a WireGuard VPN
5
9
End-to-End Voice Recognition with Python
5
10
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Desktop Linux's Adoption Problem
4

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
1060
2
Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
484
3
We need a new media system
305
4
A Week with Plan 9
226
5
75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
173
6
How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely
147
7
Big Tech is the new deep state
58
8
Zoom and the American Family
41
9
Graph Algorithms for Data Science
40
10
Is Culture Stuck?
38