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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. Humans Can Learn How to 'Echolocate' in 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows

    48 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  2. Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300%

    48 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  3. The Ascendant Steppe: A brisk tour of the early history of Central Asia

    48 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  4. A Chinese-Built Highway Drove Montenegro into Crippling Debt

    48 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  5. Saving books by keeping them expensive (2011)

    48 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  6. The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion

    48 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  7. Ask HN: What is your playbook for profitable SaaS without outside investment?

    48 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  8. Atomic image sets new record for highest resolution

    48 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  9. Using Argo to Train Predictive Models at FlightAware

    48 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  10. Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do?

    48 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  11. Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email

    47 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  12. How and why to become a PostgreSQL contributor

    47 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  13. US’ First Crypto Bank Reveals Date of Commencement

    47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  14. WhatsApp caves in: Won't limit features if you reject privacy changes

    47 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  15. Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

    47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  16. Mac OS Monterey Features Unavailable on Intel Macs

    47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  17. The secret afterlives of medieval widows

    47 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  18. MiSTer FPGA GBA Splitscreen Multiplayer

    47 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  19. The Lindy Way of Living

    47 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  20. The Making of the Kosher Phone (2014)

    47 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  21. Fixing a Bug in the Firmware of a “ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard”

    47 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  22. Lab Cultures: An Interview with an Anonymous Biologist (2019)

    47 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  23. Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet

    47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  24. Genetic study finds the brain is most similar to – testicles?

    47 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  25. Show HN: Learn a new language while you browse the web

    47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  26. Fossjobs: A free job board for Free and Open Source jobs

    47 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  27. Deep Scatterplots

    47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  28. Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages

    47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  29. Bitcoin Is Traceable, Pipeline Investigation Shows

    47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  30. Forzak: A website that curates high-quality educational content

    47 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  31. Audi will halt new gas and diesel cars by 2026 – Drive Tesla Canada

    47 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  32. Why does the world harbor so many different voltages, plugs, and sockets?

    47 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  33. Software Developer Shortage Is Coming – ACM

    47 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  34. Some funny engineering/programmer jokes

    47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  35. Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019)

    47 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  36. The Scotsman and his stories brought France much prosperity, for a time

    47 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  37. Millions of Americans could face eviction as housing protection expires in June

    47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  38. The Health Benefits of Coffee

    47 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  39. Manicure robot in San Francisco is now painting nails in 10 minutes for just $8

    47 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  40. BitClout collapses everything into money

    47 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  41. Pornhub is remastering century-old porn videos

    47 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  42. Strange Examples of Soviet Design (2011)

    46 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  43. Rainbow Color Map Still Considered Harmful (2007) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  44. What happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos (2019)

    46 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  45. Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home

    46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  46. Is Euler’s Identity Beautiful? and If So, How?

    46 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  47. Cost of a 51% Attack for Different Cryptocurrencies

    46 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  48. A compact quantum-computer that fits in 19-inch server racks

    46 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  49. San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on open-air drug use

    46 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  50. Berkeley Document Summarizer – learning-based, single-document summarization

    46 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  51. Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock

    46 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  52. Imp: A full-stack relational language built around incremental maintenance

    46 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  53. The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a 1000 years apart

    46 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  54. Removed by Reddit

    46 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  55. RFC 4180: Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files (2005)

    46 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  56. Robinhood and Didi to Kick Off a Hot IPO Summer

    46 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  57. Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg

    46 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  58. Burritos and Acrobat (2016)

    46 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Who want to be fired?

    46 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  60. Third member of FDA panel resigns over approval of Biogen Alzheimer's drug

    46 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  61. AndroidEnv: The Android Learning Environment

    46 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  62. When you already know the answer

    46 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  63. Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles

    46 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  64. The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, but it’s still fact-free

    45 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  65. VT220 Built-in Glyphs (2006)

    45 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  66. Rocket v0.5 Release Candidate

    45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  67. Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on Big Tech

    45 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  68. Mark Cuban-backed banking app Dave to go public in $4 bln SPAC merger

    45 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  69. Bye Bye Travis CI

    45 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  70. DitherPaint – Modern MacPaint for the Browser

    45 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  71. Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community

    45 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  72. As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales

    45 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  73. Fleeing Venezuela

    45 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  74. Sackler Family Empire Poised to Win Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits

    45 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  75. Stanford law student who made fun of the federalist able to graduate after all

    45 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  76. WWDC 2021: Apple Calls Open Season on IP Address Tracking and Targeting

    45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  77. Jackal 0.54.1 – Go XMPP Server

    45 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  78. FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips

    45 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  79. Midair plane refuels done by a drone for the first time

    45 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  80. Teaching Machines: the history of personalized learning

    45 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  81. Deepest Hand Dug Well in the World

    44 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  82. Pee bottles, constant monitoring and ignoring stop signs: Driving for Amazon

    44 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  83. Stay Away from Cloudflare (2017)

    44 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  84. Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?

    44 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  85. Terrifying Video Shows State Trooper Flipping Pregnant Woman’s Car

    44 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  86. Nobody has found a use case for blockchain

    44 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  87. Fusion and Magic

    44 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  88. Show HN: I made a generator of art – Suprematism

    44 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  89. The Reign of Introverts Is Here

    44 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  90. Sonatype Lift – a unified code analysis platform

    44 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  91. U.S. Antitrust Legislation Would Ban Apple from Pre-Installing Its Own Apps

    44 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  92. Why Is It OK to Be Mean to the Ugly?

    44 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  93. Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic

    44 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  94. Ask HN: What's the most rewarding investment you've made in your career?

    44 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  95. How Bitcoin Has Fueled Ransomware Attacks

    44 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  96. Challenging the Myth That Programming Careers End at 40

    44 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  97. C's Biggest Mistake

    44 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  98. Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (1969)

    44 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  99. Airbnb is spending millions of dollars to make nightmares go away

    44 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  100. Encrypted Chat An0m was a FBI honeypot Used to take down global criminal network

    44 points • comment • jun 08, 2021