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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

    136 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  2. Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

    135 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  3. The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house (2015) [video]

    135 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  4. Learn R Through Examples (2020)

    135 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  5. A man whose software ate the world

    134 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  6. Artist says Capcom stole her photos for Resident Evil, Devil May Cry

    134 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  7. The myth of the myth of the lone genius

    134 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  8. Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year

    134 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  9. Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf]

    134 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  10. Moving from Hey to Fastmail

    134 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  11. Amazon Ring’s neighborhood watch app is making police requests public

    134 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  12. Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)

    133 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  13. Show HN: Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor

    133 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  14. Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?

    133 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  15. Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?

    133 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  16. Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals

    133 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  17. DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses

    133 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  18. GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer

    132 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  19. William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)

    132 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  20. Engineers can disrupt climate change

    132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  21. Gramps – Free Genealogy Software

    132 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  22. I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know

    132 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  23. This Chemical Does Not Exist

    132 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  24. OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world

    132 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  25. Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (2003)

    132 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  26. ‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave

    132 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  27. W3.org Cert Expired

    131 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  28. How a Jenkins Job Broke our Jenkins UI

    131 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  29. Ask HN: What is your “sales stack”?

    131 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  30. Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse

    131 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  31. Lego Island Rebuilder

    131 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?

    131 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  33. Show HN: Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines

    131 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  34. History of ZFS Part 2: Exploding in Popularity

    131 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  35. Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution

    131 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  36. Disney Claims Trademark over Loki

    130 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  37. Obvious and possible software innovations

    130 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  38. Against Meme Activism

    130 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  39. FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

    130 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  40. Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)

    130 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  41. We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons

    130 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  42. Tank Man

    130 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  43. New Records Show the NYPD’s Favored Punishment: Less Vacation Time

    129 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  44. Silicon Valley thought India was its future, now things have changed

    129 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  45. Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL

    129 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  46. Bonzi Buddy

    129 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  47. Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies

    129 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  48. Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

    128 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  49. Notes on streaming large API responses

    128 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  50. Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book

    128 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  51. Physicists measure the gravitational force between the smallest masses yet

    128 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  52. The physics of financial networks

    128 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  53. Private Gmail and Docs alternatives: Proton, Skiff, and more

    127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  54. Show HN: Floptimal – Preflop ranges reimagined

    127 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  55. Where did my 256 GB go? Mobile storage Analysis [pdf]

    127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  56. Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB

    127 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  57. Senate approves $250B bill to boost tech research

    127 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  58. Wildland – open data management protocol

    127 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  59. ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM

    127 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  60. Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye exams and at-home eyecare

    127 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  61. Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

    127 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  62. What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency?

    126 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  63. Mars: NASA's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures

    126 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  64. Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems

    126 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  65. My EC2 Wishlist

    126 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  66. Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)

    126 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  67. Implementing strict three-point perspective

    126 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  68. Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python

    126 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  69. A sharp-eyed scientist became biology’s image detective

    126 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  70. US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media

    126 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  71. Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

    126 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  72. The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies

    126 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  73. Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts

    125 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  74. Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol

    125 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  75. The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak (2020)

    125 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  76. Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

    125 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  77. How to Start a Novel

    125 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  78. Why we don’t understand heavier-than-air flight

    125 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  79. Typed Programs Don't Leak Data

    125 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  80. When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That’s a Moray

    125 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  81. Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode

    125 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  82. Designing a better strcpy

    125 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  83. The state of the Linux kernel security (2020)

    124 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  84. Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (2018)

    124 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  85. A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

    124 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  86. Refinement Culture (2020)

    124 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  87. The Repeated Deaths of OOP (2015)

    124 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  88. Lego Ideas Typewriter

    124 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  89. Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside

    123 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  90. Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

    123 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  91. Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Is Thinning Faster Than Previously Thought

    123 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  92. Comic Mono – a legible monospace font

    123 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  93. The Risk of Cargo Liquefaction

    123 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  94. Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020)

    123 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  95. The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends

    123 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  96. Conway's Game of Life on FPGA

    122 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  97. Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondral ossification

    122 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  98. New Details Emerge on the “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters

    122 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  99. Secure Messaging, Anywhere

    122 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  100. A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers

    122 points • comment • jun 22, 2021