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Hacker News (Jun 2021)

  1. Saudi Operatives Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S.

    237 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  2. Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2020)

    237 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  3. Goodbye C++, Hello C

    237 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  4. Group Video Calls

    237 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  5. Alpha-Gal Syndrome

    237 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  6. Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut

    237 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  7. OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control

    237 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  8. NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised

    237 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  9. When pop history bombs: a response to Malcolm Gladwell

    236 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  10. Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research

    236 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  11. Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval

    236 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  12. Yann LeCun Deep Learning Course 2021

    236 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  13. Burnout Is Real

    235 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  14. MS Paint IDE

    235 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  15. Hospitals are selling troves of medical data

    235 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  16. Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised password

    235 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  17. Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform

    235 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  18. SSH quoting

    234 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  19. Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)

    234 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  20. Ask HN: How to learn how to sell?

    233 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  21. Don't create for an imaginary group of people

    233 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  22. International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising

    233 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  23. The Schindler of Japan, Chihune Sugihara

    233 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  24. Zero-Knowledge Proofs

    233 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  25. Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)

    233 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  26. An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout

    233 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  27. Linux with “memory folios”: a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel

    232 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  28. Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn’t use them

    232 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  29. Show HN: I discovered a trading algorithm that returns ~24.85% annually

    232 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  30. Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation

    231 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  31. Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office

    231 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  32. How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?

    230 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  33. DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI

    230 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  34. Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server

    230 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  35. World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis

    229 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  36. Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance

    229 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  37. China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover

    229 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  38. Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA

    229 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  39. Note Taking in 2021

    229 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  40. Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs

    228 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  41. Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.8B to supercharge EV battery output

    228 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  42. Amazon changes TOS to let customers sue, after facing 75K+ arbitration demands

    228 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  43. You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free

    227 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  44. What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

    227 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  45. CaribouLite: Turn any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR

    227 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  46. Social virtual spaces with Elixir at Mozilla

    226 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  47. World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day

    226 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  48. Biochemical Pathway Maps

    226 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  49. How Indian Zoroastrians helped shape modern Iran

    226 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  50. The Book of Secret Knowledge

    226 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  51. Introducing Windows 11

    226 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  52. “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

    225 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  53. Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript

    225 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  54. Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it

    225 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  55. Why I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists

    224 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  56. Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?

    223 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  57. Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)

    223 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  58. How many flies are in my apartment?

    223 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  59. CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler

    222 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  60. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)

    222 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  61. Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock

    222 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  62. The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)

    222 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  63. USA Today resists FBI subpoena seeking IP addresses of readers of a story

    221 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  64. RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)

    221 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  65. The Development of Erlang (1997)

    221 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  66. Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers

    220 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  67. NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative

    220 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  68. One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades

    220 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  69. DuckDuckGo’s quest to prove online privacy is possible

    219 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  70. Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users

    219 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  71. Stripe Reader

    218 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  72. Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)

    218 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  73. The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit

    218 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  74. DenoDB

    218 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  75. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity

    216 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  76. Kinda a Big Announcement

    216 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  77. Notepad++ v8 release

    215 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  78. How to get yourself to do things (2015)

    215 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  79. You Don’t Need Permission

    215 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  80. Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

    214 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  81. Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep

    214 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  82. HN “Why Not Simply”

    214 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  83. Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

    214 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  84. Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues

    214 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  85. The modern web on a slow connection (2017)

    214 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  86. What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

    213 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  87. Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf]

    213 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  88. Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies

    213 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  89. ASCIIFlow Diagram Tool

    212 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  90. The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea

    211 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  91. Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage

    211 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  92. Regularization is all you need: simple neural nets can excel on tabular data

    211 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  93. Pop_OS 21.04

    210 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  94. Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?

    210 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  95. Policies that make the poor less poor

    210 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  96. PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available

    209 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  97. Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers

    209 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  98. Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly

    209 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  99. House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stronger online economy”

    208 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  100. The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past

    208 points • comment • jun 25, 2021