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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

    3922 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  2. GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer

    2859 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  3. A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

    2664 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  4. An Unbelievable Demo

    2332 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  5. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

    2324 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  6. There are no results for tank man

    2085 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  7. John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

    2034 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  8. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

    1778 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  9. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

    1730 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  10. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

    1371 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  11. WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

    1250 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  12. Fastly Outage

    1245 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  13. iOS 15 Humane

    1233 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  14. How to Work Hard

    1201 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  15. Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

    1200 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  16. A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

    1193 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  17. Reddit’s disrespectful design

    1182 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  18. The 'Fuck You' Pattern

    1137 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  19. G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

    1047 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  20. Stripe Identity

    1042 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  21. Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

    1005 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  22. LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

    1002 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  23. GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

    991 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  24. IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax

    979 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  25. A New Future for Icanhazip

    968 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  26. Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

    941 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  27. Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

    933 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  28. Stripe Tax

    931 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  29. Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

    927 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  30. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    926 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  31. I spent 5 years writing my own operating system

    926 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  32. I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

    894 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  33. Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

    888 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  34. Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

    867 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  35. Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

    852 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  36. Brave Search beta

    834 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  37. Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

    828 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  38. ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

    819 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  39. Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

    813 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  40. Sorry everybody, I failed with you

    810 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  41. Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?

    807 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  42. U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

    800 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  43. Google turned me into a serial killer

    796 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  44. “Great resignation” wave coming for companies

    794 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  45. SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

    793 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  46. Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

    783 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  47. An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

    774 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  48. Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

    763 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  49. Don't Feed the Thought Leaders

    755 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  50. Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit

    754 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  51. GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

    746 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  52. Git undo: We can do better

    729 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  53. Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday

    724 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  54. Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth

    722 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  55. A Project of One’s Own

    720 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  56. Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

    710 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  57. 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

    709 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  58. Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results

    697 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  59. Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

    694 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  60. The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)

    692 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  61. United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

    690 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  62. Terraform 1.0

    682 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  63. Bosch opens German chip plant

    677 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  64. Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

    676 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  65. Always Be Quitting

    661 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  66. Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application

    660 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  67. Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

    658 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  68. What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

    655 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  69. Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

    650 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  70. If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

    649 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  71. Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

    645 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  72. Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist

    644 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  73. Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups

    637 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  74. A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years

    634 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  75. New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill

    634 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  76. Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations

    632 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  77. Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements

    629 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  78. The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer

    628 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  79. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

    628 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  80. El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

    617 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  81. Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

    617 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  82. A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

    608 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  83. Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

    606 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  84. Internet in a Box

    605 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  85. Nvidia Canvas

    597 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  86. CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases

    596 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  87. Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure

    593 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  88. Start Your Own ISP

    593 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  89. The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

    592 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  90. Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

    592 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  91. Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

    588 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  92. Fluid Paint

    584 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  93. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

    583 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  94. As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

    583 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  95. I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern

    582 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  96. We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001%

    582 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  97. YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

    582 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  98. New GitHub Issues Beta

    580 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  99. Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat

    576 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  100. YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative

    569 points • comment • jun 26, 2021