321

Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

308

A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web

243

Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

224

The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?

194

Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking

173

The Silence Is Deafening

156

2+1=4, by quinoa

149

Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

149

Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight

144

“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)

122

Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present

120

The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments

117

The Walkman, Forty Years On

99

Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

91

It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning

87

A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune

82

GPT-3 Creative Fiction

81

Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing

74

A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy

72

Debubble

69

Extracting video and audio from used police body cam

68

Photo Requests from Solitary

65

Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants

64

Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1

64

Things You Should Never Do (2000)

64

Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review

62

Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?

61

In Defense of Hiring Based on Side Projects

59

American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior

55

Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors

52

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

50

Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf]

50

Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system

47

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps

43

Sphere Eversion

41

Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'

40

Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

39

Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?

38

The Classic Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster (2006)

38

QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era

37

Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999)

34

A practical case on why we need the humanities

33

There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)

32

The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)

31

Gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL

29

Neighborhoods with Limited Access to Streets

29

Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge

28

Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform

27

Cronk: Long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years

26

Queues are Databases (1995)

26

Ask HN: How do you deal with social isolation while working from home?

23

Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections

22

TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data

21

Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

21

Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp

19

Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine

18

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief

18

Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]

17

Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding

17

Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas

16

Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave'

16

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]

16

CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks

15

Relativity behind mercury's liquidity (2013)

14

Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006

14

Beware the Google Password Manager

13

Why the next Olympics should include Fortnite

13

Private Jet with US tourists rejected at Italy’s borders

13

Court Rules Facebook Widgets Can Be Considered Wiretaps

11

Ask HN: HN Invaded by Mass Media?

11

LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation

11

Joseph Von Fraunhofer – The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics (2014)

11

Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging [pdf]

10

The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neandertals

10

Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style

9

Moon's Mark Down (2016)

9

Tellina: Translate natural language into bash commands (built with TensorFlow)

9

The danger of surrogate metrics (2007)

9

Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism

9

The Millennium Falcon (2016)

8

Tench: When data is messy

7

YouTube Takes Down Chess Podcast for Being Harmful or Dangerous

6

The Thought Emporium

5

Henry Ford study found hydroxychloroquine helps lower Covid-19 death rate

5

Show HN: WebAssembly System Interface for Deno has been merged into Deno

5

History of Egghead Software Stores

5

Children’s game accounts hacked to support Donald Trump

5

Implementing Ishido, a game from the 90s, using the Racket graphical facilities

4

From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of the spacesuit in photos

4

Neural supersampling for real-time rendering

3

Who Did What in Every Agatha Christie Murder Novel

3

TikTok's Boogaloo Extremism Problem

3

PEP8: Requiring English Is White Supremacy

2

Scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more

2

How to Replace Keybase in 3 Easy Steps

2

Vue 3: mid 2020 status update

2

Tesla becomes manufacturing partner for biotech firm working on C-19 vaccine

1

A Theory of History and Society: Technology, Constraints and Measurement (TCM)

1

Username/username is a special repository that adds README.md to your profile

1

CSHL to remove James Watson's name from graduate school