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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. 4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says

    567 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  2. Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

    565 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  3. Brave, the false sensation of privacy

    564 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  4. Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees

    556 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  5. Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing

    553 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  6. America has a drinking problem

    551 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  7. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

    544 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  8. HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

    542 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  9. HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript

    540 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  10. A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database

    540 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  11. Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

    539 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  12. The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains

    535 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  13. Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox

    533 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  14. Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

    531 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  15. Microsoft announces Windows 11

    528 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  16. How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)

    521 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  17. Ripgrep 13.0

    520 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  18. A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)

    515 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  19. PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter

    514 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  20. Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible

    512 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  21. Stepping Back from Speaking

    508 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  22. Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status

    508 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  23. Why we should end the data economy

    506 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  24. Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

    506 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  25. PNG files can be animated via network latency

    500 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  26. Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose

    495 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  27. Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python

    494 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  28. Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

    493 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  29. Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood

    492 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  30. The 88x31 GIF Collection

    491 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  31. I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

    489 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  32. “Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”

    489 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  33. Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

    487 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  34. Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers

    487 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  35. Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

    484 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  36. SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon

    484 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  37. State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

    482 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  38. John Carmack on JPEG

    481 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  39. Cryptanalysis of GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 suggest intentional weakness

    480 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  40. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

    479 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  41. Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study

    476 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  42. In Praise of Open Source Textbooks

    475 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  43. Leaky Abstractions

    473 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  44. The Document Culture of Amazon

    472 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  45. North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering

    472 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  46. How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

    471 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  47. The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades

    471 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  48. Firefox Release 89.0

    469 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  49. So you want to build a house more efficiently

    466 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  50. The Elephant at WWDC

    465 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  51. Vivaldi 4.0

    460 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  52. AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

    456 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  53. Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images

    456 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  54. Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions

    455 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  55. When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)

    455 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  56. USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

    455 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  57. New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

    446 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  58. Password Managers

    445 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  59. Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

    445 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  60. Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess

    444 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  61. Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin

    444 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  62. Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

    443 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  63. Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification

    443 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  64. Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

    439 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  65. What every programmer should know about SSDs

    437 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  66. Let's code a TCP/IP stack (2016)

    437 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  67. Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines

    437 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  68. US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]

    434 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  69. TDD from the Factorio Team

    433 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  70. How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

    432 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  71. El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

    430 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  72. Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

    430 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  73. Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

    430 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  74. Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage

    430 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  75. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

    427 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  76. The collapse of the IRON stable coin

    426 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  77. StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data

    426 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  78. Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents

    425 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  79. The Most Dangerous Censorship

    424 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  80. SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen

    422 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  81. Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status

    421 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  82. OBS Studio 27.0

    420 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  83. How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It

    417 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  84. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

    415 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  85. HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law

    414 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  86. MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U

    414 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  87. Rethinking Triplebyte

    414 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  88. Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook

    412 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  89. Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

    411 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  90. Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11

    410 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  91. Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?

    409 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  92. Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M

    405 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  93. Grafana 8.0

    405 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  94. UK regulator clamps down on Binance

    405 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  95. Win at Risk by using systems thinking

    404 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  96. Facebook keeps recommending political groups

    403 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  97. Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?

    403 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  98. Unison Programming Language

    402 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  99. We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours

    402 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  100. Don't let social media think for you

    401 points • comment • jun 08, 2021