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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

    321 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  2. Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted

    320 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  3. Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

    320 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  4. It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel

    320 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  5. Language learning with Netflix

    319 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  6. Globally Distributed Postgres

    318 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  7. Bash PS1 Generator

    317 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  8. Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

    317 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  9. Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

    317 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  10. Apple-Developer Relations

    317 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  11. Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web

    317 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  12. We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories

    316 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  13. Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps

    315 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  14. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

    315 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  15. No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation

    314 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  16. Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype

    313 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  17. Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network

    313 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  18. Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

    313 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  19. Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule

    312 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  20. Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

    311 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  21. Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs

    311 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  22. Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead

    310 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  23. How to handle secrets on the command line

    309 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  24. Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests

    308 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  25. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

    308 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  26. The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application

    307 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  27. Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]

    306 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  28. 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

    305 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  29. TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit

    305 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  30. Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers

    304 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  31. Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350

    304 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  32. Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server

    303 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  33. Towing a Tesla at 70 MPH replenishes battery at fast charger rates

    303 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  34. How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

    302 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  35. Cool URIs don't change (1998)

    302 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  36. California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

    301 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  37. MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data

    300 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  38. Aaron Swartz, Vindicated

    300 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  39. Go: Fuzzing Is Beta Ready

    298 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  40. CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

    298 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  41. The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9

    297 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  42. NixOS 21.05

    297 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  43. Move fast, but understand the problem first

    296 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  44. AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

    296 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  45. Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US

    295 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  46. Rhizome – A pedagogical example of a JIT for Ruby, implemented in Ruby

    294 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  47. Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs

    293 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  48. The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)

    293 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  49. Binance banned from doing business in UK

    292 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  50. Virtual deck of cards using just a browser

    292 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  51. LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor

    292 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  52. A new ProtoBuf generator for Go

    291 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  53. Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know

    291 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  54. 'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%

    291 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  55. Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction

    290 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  56. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)

    289 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  57. Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

    287 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  58. ‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas

    286 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  59. Avoiding Complexity with Systemd

    286 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  60. King County, WA bans facial recognition software

    286 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  61. Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads

    286 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  62. Tetris in ClojureScript

    286 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  63. Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible

    285 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  64. Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

    285 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  65. FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]

    283 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  66. PyWhat: Identify Anything

    283 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  67. Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm

    283 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  68. Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

    283 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  69. Crazy Clock

    281 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  70. Privacy Analysis of FLoC

    281 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  71. G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy

    281 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  72. Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship

    280 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  73. Intl

    280 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  74. “It's a truck full of traffic lights”

    279 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  75. Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained

    279 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  76. One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

    279 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  77. Software is eating the car

    279 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  78. Programmer's Resignation from 1985

    277 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  79. Why wood has gotten so dang expensive

    276 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  80. Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

    276 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  81. The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)

    276 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  82. The economics of dollar stores

    275 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  83. Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen

    275 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  84. “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

    275 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  85. Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records

    274 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  86. A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis

    274 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  87. Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game

    274 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  88. Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers

    274 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  89. 1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play

    273 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  90. Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave

    273 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  91. Io_uring is not an event system

    273 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  92. One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack

    273 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  93. Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

    272 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  94. How to think clearly

    272 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  95. J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer

    272 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  96. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC startups. AMA

    271 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  97. Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling

    271 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  98. Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals

    270 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  99. How did Replit respond to this blog post?

    270 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  100. Architecture of the Playstation

    270 points • comment • jun 21, 2021