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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

    269 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  2. An unwanted update to your Google Account

    269 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  3. Goodbye Freenode

    269 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  4. 21st Century Baker's Tent

    268 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  5. If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999

    268 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  6. Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco

    268 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  7. Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange

    267 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  8. x86 Bare Metal Examples: Minimal operating systems, learn x86 system programming

    266 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  9. Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy

    266 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  10. Surprising Shared Word Etymologies

    266 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  11. Pocketlang

    266 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  12. ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon

    266 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  13. The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

    265 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  14. New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete

    265 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  15. Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes

    265 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  16. Want a killer product? Become more opinionated

    264 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  17. Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life

    264 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  18. Oregon has legalized human composting

    263 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  19. Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles

    263 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  20. An Elixir adoption success story

    263 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  21. ST3000DM001

    263 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  22. How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating

    263 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  23. What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages

    262 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  24. After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'

    261 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  25. Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)

    260 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  26. Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes

    259 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  27. Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'

    259 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  28. “Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

    259 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  29. DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

    259 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  30. ProPublica's tax story

    258 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  31. Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (2007)

    257 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  32. Next.js 11

    257 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  33. Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B

    256 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  34. Micro APIs for Everyday Use

    255 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  35. Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal

    255 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  36. Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (2018)

    254 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  37. The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life

    254 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  38. Verkle Trees

    254 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  39. Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects

    254 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  40. Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar

    253 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  41. I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything (2013)

    253 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  42. Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)

    253 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  43. Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind

    253 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  44. Git for Computer Scientists (2010)

    253 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  45. Shorting Bitcoin

    252 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  46. GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

    252 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  47. Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

    252 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  48. Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'

    250 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  49. The Next Backblaze Storage Pod

    250 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  50. An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors

    250 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  51. Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

    249 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  52. HOWTO: Be more productive (2005)

    249 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  53. In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance

    249 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?

    249 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  55. IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari

    248 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  56. Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing

    248 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  57. Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats

    248 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  58. Apple Daily to shut in days unless government agrees to plea to unfreeze assets

    247 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

    247 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  60. Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

    246 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  61. Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps

    246 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  62. Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices

    245 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  63. Dolphin Emulator - Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021

    245 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  64. When it comes to Git history, less is more

    245 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  65. Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

    245 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  66. Show HN: 3dasd – open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner

    245 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  67. Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo

    245 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  68. Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President

    245 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  69. Google Workspace for everyone

    244 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  70. Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

    244 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  71. Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface

    244 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  72. Why Prefetch Is Broken

    244 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  73. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

    244 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  74. Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL (2020)

    244 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  75. If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

    243 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  76. A curated list of books on Software Architecture

    243 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  77. Apology

    243 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  78. Supreme Court says over 200 patent judges were improperly appointed

    243 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  79. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

    243 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  80. “Tank Man”

    243 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  81. Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

    243 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  82. Zero to Production in Rust

    243 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  83. Duolingo S-1 IPO

    243 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  84. If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple”

    243 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  85. Emacs Love Tale by sdp

    243 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  86. Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply

    242 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  87. Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

    242 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  88. Apple M1 support for TensorFlow 2.5 pluggable device API

    242 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  89. Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine

    241 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  90. Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place

    241 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  91. Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

    240 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  92. The NSA Instruction (2019)

    240 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  93. Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature

    240 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  94. NVMe is not a hard disk

    239 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  95. Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger

    239 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  96. All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congressional insider trading

    239 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  97. Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython

    238 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  98. Reality Winner, NSA contractor in leak case, out of prison

    238 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  99. A walk in nature is better than microdosing

    237 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  100. NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised

    237 points • comment • jun 29, 2021