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Hacker News (Jun 2021)
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4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says
567 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021
565 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Brave, the false sensation of privacy
564 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
556 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing
553 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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America has a drinking problem
551 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++
544 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
542 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
540 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database
540 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband
539 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains
535 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
533 points • comment • jun 11, 2021
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Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
531 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Microsoft announces Windows 11
528 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
521 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Ripgrep 13.0
520 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)
515 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
514 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
512 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Stepping Back from Speaking
508 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status
508 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Why we should end the data economy
506 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
506 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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PNG files can be animated via network latency
500 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose
495 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python
494 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
493 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood
492 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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The 88x31 GIF Collection
491 points • comment • jun 14, 2021
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I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
489 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”
489 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
487 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers
487 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
484 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon
484 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
482 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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John Carmack on JPEG
481 points • comment • jun 04, 2021
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Cryptanalysis of GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 suggest intentional weakness
480 points • comment • jun 16, 2021
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The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable
479 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
476 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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In Praise of Open Source Textbooks
475 points • comment • jun 06, 2021
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Leaky Abstractions
473 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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The Document Culture of Amazon
472 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
472 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
471 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades
471 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Firefox Release 89.0
469 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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So you want to build a house more efficiently
466 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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The Elephant at WWDC
465 points • comment • jun 13, 2021
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Vivaldi 4.0
460 points • comment • jun 09, 2021
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AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC
456 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images
456 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions
455 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)
455 points • comment • jun 02, 2021
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USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
455 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed
446 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Password Managers
445 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins
445 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
444 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
444 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
443 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification
443 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
439 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
437 points • comment • jun 20, 2021
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Let's code a TCP/IP stack (2016)
437 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
437 points • comment • jun 10, 2021
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US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]
434 points • comment • jun 03, 2021
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TDD from the Factorio Team
433 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?
432 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
430 points • comment • jun 05, 2021
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Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network
430 points • comment • jun 21, 2021
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Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
430 points • comment • jun 15, 2021
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Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage
430 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app
427 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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The collapse of the IRON stable coin
426 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data
426 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents
425 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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The Most Dangerous Censorship
424 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen
422 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
421 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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OBS Studio 27.0
420 points • comment • jun 01, 2021
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How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
417 points • comment • jun 19, 2021
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Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
415 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law
414 points • comment • jun 18, 2021
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MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
414 points • comment • jun 29, 2021
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Rethinking Triplebyte
414 points • comment • jun 17, 2021
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Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
412 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
411 points • comment • jun 25, 2021
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Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11
410 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?
409 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
405 points • comment • jun 22, 2021
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Grafana 8.0
405 points • comment • jun 08, 2021
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UK regulator clamps down on Binance
405 points • comment • jun 28, 2021
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Win at Risk by using systems thinking
404 points • comment • jun 12, 2021
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Facebook keeps recommending political groups
403 points • comment • jun 24, 2021
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Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
403 points • comment • jun 26, 2021
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Unison Programming Language
402 points • comment • jun 27, 2021
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We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours
402 points • comment • jun 07, 2021
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Don't let social media think for you
401 points • comment • jun 08, 2021