hackerNews

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80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again (venturebeat.com)

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Google and Massachusetts have installed an app without consent or notification (play.google.com)

685 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062200 372 comments

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Brave, the false sensation of privacy (ebin.city)

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3

State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10? (ntdotdev.wordpress.com)

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9

TDD from the Factorio Team (factorio.com)

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1

StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data (github.com)

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2

SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen (github.com)

420 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062103 53 comments

7

GAN Theft Auto (www.youtube.com)

378 points first seen 2021061921 last seen 2021062400 94 comments

3

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit (arstechnica.com)

314 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062100 486 comments

11

Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps (www.bbc.com)

310 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062006 210 comments

2

Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server (maddy.email)

301 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062106 113 comments

2

CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (zenodo.org)

297 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062106 73 comments

8

Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting (www.vice.com)

259 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021062009 225 comments

10

Verkle Trees (vitalik.ca)

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3

'Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply' (peewee.com)

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2

Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (large.stanford.edu)

239 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021062006 190 comments

6

The Inventor of the Black Box (Flight Data Recorder) Was Told to Drop the Idea (spectrum.ieee.org)

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2

Mars Helicopter Employs Advanced Control Techniques to Survive In-Flight Anomaly (control.com)

207 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021062018 95 comments

13

AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share (www.cpubenchmark.net)

199 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061921 143 comments

55

I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it (www.theatlantic.com)

191 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021061915 152 comments

39

Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair? (item?id=27540941)

190 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021061921 334 comments

5

Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin (www.lifespan.io)

189 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062006 164 comments

4

Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server (github.com)

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27

Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video] (www.youtube.com)

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24

Reddit forces me to use their app to view posted content and comments (twitter.com)

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19

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (1978) (dl.acm.org)

166 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062009 117 comments

9

Minimum Viable Self (kneelingbus.substack.com)

162 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062012 71 comments

33

.NET 6 Preview 5 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

161 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061921 220 comments

10

Launch HN: Hedgehog (YC S21) – Cryptocurrency Portfolio Manager (item?id=27550255)

155 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021062115 135 comments

42

Amazon’s Staggering HR Failures (amazonchronicles.substack.com)

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46

There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11 (old.reddit.com)

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12

Advancing AI theory with first-principles understanding of deep neural networks (ai.facebook.com)

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46

Disney Claims Trademark over Loki (twitter.com)

130 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061909 129 comments

10

Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure (www.memorysafety.org)

123 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061918 88 comments

11

Stride Game Engine (stride3d.net)

117 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021061915 128 comments

20

TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020 (www.bbc.com)

114 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021061921 195 comments

18

BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes (genome.ch.bbc.co.uk)

107 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062006 62 comments

17

In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (2015) (www.pbs.org)

102 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062012 51 comments

13

Woodsat: A Space Agency Will Launch a Tiny, Wooden Satellite (www.npr.org)

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8

Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature (www.salon.com)

98 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062015 28 comments

17

Adafruit interviews Siemens SupplyFrame, the future of Hackaday, Tindie and more (blog.adafruit.com)

93 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062006 30 comments

41

Rust Is Not a Company (blog.m-ou.se)

92 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061909 71 comments

22

Saying Goodbye to Android 2.3 Gingerbread (shatteredpixel.com)

92 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062003 23 comments

9

The UX of video game tutorials (uxdesign.cc)

90 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021062000 39 comments

13

Antikernel: A Decentralized Secure Operating System Architecture (2016) [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)

83 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061921 31 comments

23

The Global Chessboard (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

79 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062003 19 comments

35

How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the war on drugs (www.npr.org)

76 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061909 73 comments

10

Where Are Pixels? – A Deep Learning Perspective (ppwwyyxx.com)

73 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062009 4 comments

26

What does First Normal Form mean? (www.cargocultcode.com)

71 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061918 84 comments

14

Etymological Wordnet (etym.org)

69 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061921 28 comments

21

America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government (www.nytimes.com)

67 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062006 27 comments

32

Shocked to find smart thermostats raised remotely by “Smart Savers Texas” progrm (www.ksdk.com)

65 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062000 85 comments

41

Can *YOU* blow a PC speaker using only a Linux kernel driver? (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

63 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061915 38 comments

34

AllRGB (allrgb.com)

63 points first seen 2021061921 last seen 2021062021 2 comments

18

Widescreen Gaming in the 90s (www.mistys-internet.website)

60 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021062000 24 comments

35

A Juror’s Guide to Going Rogue (blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)

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22

Sorted Integer Compression (ayende.com)

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34

Urine test can detect brain tumors with 100% accuracy (www.yahoo.com)

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24

Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data (arxiv.org)

58 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062003 3 comments

17

Vespucci – OpenStreetMap Editor for Android (vespucci.io)

56 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062000 5 comments

14

Janet Malcolm has died (www.nytimes.com)

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Excess deaths and SARS-CoV2 vaccinations in Scotland (drowningindatadotblog.wordpress.com)

54 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021061918 38 comments

11

A Provenance-aware Memory Object Model for C [pdf] (www.open-std.org)

54 points first seen 2021061921 last seen 2021062015 39 comments

18

The mind of a murderer: the power and limits of forensic psychiatry (www.theguardian.com)

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Scientists Are Teaching Drones to Hunt Down Human Screams (www.washingtonpost.com)

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21

AugLy – A data augmentations library that supports audio, image, text and video (github.com)

50 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021062021 2 comments

27

Show HN: Higher Order Sketch-Based Graph Anomaly Detection (github.com)

49 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021062200 0 comments

15

From Show HN to Series A in One Year: Reflections from Our Founder (rudderstack.com)

47 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061915 15 comments

35

Ask HN: What does an ML Engineer do? (item?id=27555013)

47 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062000 37 comments

21

A compact quantum-computer that fits in 19-inch server racks (journals.aps.org)

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0

Removed by Reddit (old.reddit.com)

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44

Jackal 0.54.1 – Go XMPP Server (github.com)

45 points first seen 2021061903 last seen 2021061909 17 comments

41

Fixing a Bug in the Firmware of a “ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard” (hohlerde.org)

43 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021062000 6 comments

37

Deepest Hand Dug Well in the World (www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk)

43 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062018 4 comments

86

Why more women identify as sexually fluid than men (www.bbc.com)

42 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061909 67 comments

28

I Have No Group, and I Must Scream (bastian.rieck.me)

41 points first seen 2021061921 last seen 2021062100 13 comments

35

Mapbox Workers Union (www.mapboxworkersunion.org)

40 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021061921 22 comments

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SQLite 3.36.0 Changelog (www.sqlite.org)

38 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021061918 2 comments

41

Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with Covid-19 (www.thelancet.com)

37 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062003 21 comments

32

High-Throughput Random Number Generation Using Quad Row Activation in DRAM Chips [pdf] (people.inf.ethz.ch)

36 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021062006 8 comments

61

BioNTech treats patients with mRNA-based cancer vaccine (biontechse.gcs-web.com)

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0

“Thermal Shutdown” – Heat Wave Knocks Beta Starlink Users Offline (www.zerohedge.com)

33 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061906 19 comments

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Amazon suspends popular electronics manufacturer for buying reviews (www.theverge.com)

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30

Chasing After Wind: Reframing the Book of Ecclesiastes (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

32 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062012 5 comments

26

Branch Magazine – Issue 2 (branch.climateaction.tech)

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Texas Power Companies Remotely Raise Temps Amid Energy Shortage (www.dailydot.com)

30 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061912 24 comments

35

Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (2020) (www.freedos.org)

30 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062009 3 comments

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In the last 7 days people created 23 new decentralized websites (twitter.com)

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40

A Modest Proposal: Let's Change Earth's Orbit (www.scientificamerican.com)

29 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021062000 14 comments

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How I Became the Honest Broker (tedgioia.substack.com)

25 points first seen 2021061900 last seen 2021061906 0 comments

49

A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies (geohot.github.io)

25 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021062000 6 comments

38

Thoughts on managing engineering teams (www.minaandrawos.com)

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62

iOS backups expire after 6 months (twitter.com)

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37

U.S. Pledges to Return Okinawa to Japan (1971) (www.nytimes.com)

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Implications of the rocket equation without the math (blog.jatan.space)

22 points first seen 2021061915 last seen 2021062003 4 comments

25

Tanning an Animal Skin (www.delanceyplace.com)

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38

Binary Golf Grand Prix 2021 (n0.lol)

21 points first seen 2021061906 last seen 2021061921 2 comments

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Morgan Stanley CEO tells employees if they want to WFH they will face pay cuts (news.yahoo.com)

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The Ganges Is Returning Its Dead. It Does Not Lie (www.nytimes.com)

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DeepMind plans to open source AlphaFold (twitter.com)

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0

Why Has “Ivermectin” Become a Dirty Word? (taibbi.substack.com)

18 points first seen 2021061909 last seen 2021061909 8 comments

59

All the ways Amazon tracks you and how to stop it (www.wired.co.uk)

18 points first seen 2021061918 last seen 2021062000 0 comments

73

Apple Is This Close to Turning the iPad into an App-Development Tool (www.theverge.com)

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63

Lifting the Mask (edwardsnowden.substack.com)

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I paid $300K to quit a startup (www.productlessons.xyz)

16 points first seen 2021061912 last seen 2021061915 8 comments

0

“mediocre” men fail up (www.axios.com)

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62

Clean URLs – tracking rule detector and cleaner (https://clearurls.xyz)

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32

The Science of the Squeezable, Poppable Vegan Egg Yolk (www.vice.com)

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33

The Ident Zone – Television Graphics Through the Ages (2000) (www.meldrum.co.uk)

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0

2022 Tesla Model S Plaid First Test: 0–60 MPH in 1.98 Seconds (www.motortrend.com)

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A hacker tried to poison a Calif. water supply: as easy as entering a password (www.nbcnews.com)

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0

How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 1 (www.quantstart.com)

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0

mRNA vaccine yields full protection against malaria in mice (medicalxpress.com)

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Drinking straw device is instant cure for hiccups, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)

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California’s unemployment debt grows as businesses ask Newsom for help (www.latimes.com)

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That Song Stuck in Your Head Is Helping the Brain with Long-Term Memory (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

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0

Ralf Brown's Interrupt List (en.wikipedia.org)

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0

Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (www.khou.com)

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The clever folds that kept letters secret (www.bbc.com)

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Morgan Stanley CEO to NYC workers: Be back in the office by September or else (edition.cnn.com)

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World leaders must act to reverse the trend of soaring displacement (www.unhcr.org)

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0

Microsoft Bing Still Hasn't Cleaned Up Its Child Pornographic Content (item?id=27554144)

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Heat, humidity and UV rays linked to Covid-19 spread, YSPH finds (news.yale.edu)

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Tesla’s ‘Knight Rider’ Steering Yoke Is Getting Panned in Early Reviews (www.thedrive.com)

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Going with your gut can result in better decision-making than using data methods (medicalxpress.com)

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Mister Car Wash sets IPO terms that values the carwash chain at about $5B (www.marketwatch.com)

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0

Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate, study finds (www.theverge.com)

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Cashless society draws closer with only one in six payments now in cash (www.theguardian.com)

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America Almost Made a New Route 66 with 22 Nuclear Bombs (www.thedrive.com)

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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster loses bid for legal recognition (www.abc.net.au)

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Webiny (YC W21) Is Hiring: 4x JavaScript Engineers and 1x DevRel [Remote] [Full-Time] (item?id=27549459)

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SoloSuit (YC W21) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)

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