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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. I Am Deleting the Blog

    2375 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  2. The End of the Redis Adventure

    2273 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  3. Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

    1990 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  4. Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

    1865 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  5. iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

    1842 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  6. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

    1457 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  7. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

    1451 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  8. Mozilla VPN

    1357 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  9. Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

    1196 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  10. Teach Yourself Computer Science

    1154 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  11. MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations

    1100 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  12. Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

    1094 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  13. Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

    1082 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  14. Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement

    1076 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  15. A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

    1071 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  16. Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple

    1066 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  17. Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request

    1043 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  18. When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

    1030 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  19. New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie

    949 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  20. You download the app and it doesn’t work

    941 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  21. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

    924 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  22. An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT

    901 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  23. Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

    899 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  24. Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

    898 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  25. Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

    863 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  26. Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

    847 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  27. Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying

    842 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  28. Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

    838 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  29. Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

    836 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  30. Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?

    832 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  31. Written communication is remote work super power

    819 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  32. Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead

    814 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  33. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

    810 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  34. Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site

    809 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  35. You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain

    786 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  36. Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations

    780 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  37. The Return of the 90s Web

    771 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  38. Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

    763 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  39. Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

    763 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  40. Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3

    760 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  41. Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

    760 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  42. P2P Matrix

    759 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  43. My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works

    759 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  44. NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers

    747 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  45. Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

    732 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  46. ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press

    731 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  47. Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

    725 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  48. SimRefinery Recovered

    719 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  49. University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs

    715 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  50. Biohacking Lite

    714 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  51. Woodworking for Engineers

    711 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  52. SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

    710 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  53. Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

    706 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  54. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

    700 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  55. Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub

    691 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  56. Reflections on Being a Female Founder

    690 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  57. Cloudflare TV

    688 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  58. Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa

    687 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  59. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

    686 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  60. Most tech content is bullshit

    676 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  61. After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

    671 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  62. The Next Step for Generics

    670 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  63. Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)

    660 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  64. For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

    659 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  65. Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit

    658 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  66. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

    657 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  67. De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

    646 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  68. Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people

    645 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  69. Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

    645 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  70. After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

    644 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  71. The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

    642 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  72. GitHub isn't fun anymore

    642 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  73. Bootstrap 5 alpha

    638 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  74. Create diagrams with code using Graphviz

    635 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  75. Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

    633 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  76. Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

    633 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  77. George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

    624 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  78. A History of Clojure [pdf]

    618 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  79. GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

    614 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  80. How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?

    613 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  81. Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign

    610 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  82. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

    609 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  83. Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

    602 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  84. A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition

    602 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  85. Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code

    594 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  86. Blur Tools for Signal

    593 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  87. Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert

    589 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  88. Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed

    587 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  89. DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

    585 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  90. Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

    585 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  91. EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers

    582 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  92. Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids

    578 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  93. Software Engineering Within SpaceX

    576 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  94. Wireless Is a Trap

    575 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  95. In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed

    568 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  96. This Website Will Self Destruct

    568 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  97. Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear

    565 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  98. SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

    559 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  99. GitHub Classroom

    557 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  100. FFmpeg 4.3

    553 points • comment • jun 16, 2020