906
501
Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
5 years ago
677
790
After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract
638
207
Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/
622
407
How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
https://iism.org/article/how-many-of-you-know-deep-down-that-the-team-is-working-on-something-that-no-customer-wants-54
607
408
Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
https://mothership.sg/2020/06/woman-china-scam-insurance-delayed-flights/
549
170
On Coding, Ego and Attention
https://josebrowne.com/on-coding-ego-and-attention/
473
150
Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
https://lucperkins.dev/blog/new-db-tech-1/
345
376
U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-idUSKBN23M20N
341
212
Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
https://www.protocol.com/hey-email
329
184
T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21292024/t-mobile-verizon-att-calls-failing-down-phone-networks-us-carriers
311
111
MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software
https://musescore.org/en/MuseScore4
309
138
WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues
https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-dm-smr-update-3-vendors-bail-and-wd-knew-of-zfs-issues/
290
74
Looking Back at Postgres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01973
285
214
Supreme Court declines to hear cases over qualified immunity
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-cases-over-qualified-immunity.html
272
236
Remembering Windows 2000
https://www.howtogeek.com/676095/remembering-windows-2000-microsofts-forgotten-masterpiece/
92
New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/june/lego-mindstorms-robot-inventor/
241
54
Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel
https://github.com/excalidraw
240
117
The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)
http://strangepaths.com/the-sun-seen-through-the-earth-in-neutrino-light/2007/01/06/en/
235
103
Fighting poverty accidentally stopped deforestation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/how-fighting-poverty-accidentally-stopped-deforestation
234
132
AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/14/Amazon-profit-from-AWS
195
89
Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/
193
76
PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/06/15/pinephone-postmarketos-community-edition/
191
61
An exploratory statistical analysis of Akira and Ghost in the Shell
https://nibnalin.me/dust-nib/shadows-of-stained-glass.html
181
113
Indie.vc: Unicorns Are Out, Profits Are In
https://marker.medium.com/indie-vc-unicorns-are-out-profits-are-in-648d2576319
171
40
DIY True 4K Projector
https://youtu.be/YfvTjQ9MCwY
13
Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (2018)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3226595
169
81
Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525456
163
55
Facebook disqualifies leaders of Deepfake Detection Challenge for rule breach
https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/14/facebook-and-kaggle-face-backlash-after-disqualifying-apparent-deepfake-detection-challenge-winner/
161
65
The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53178/first-woman-earn-phd-computer-science-was-nun
157
189
Hertz SEC Filing: Up to $500M Common Stock
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1657853/000110465920073132/tm2022223-1_424b5.htm
154
Geany – A flyweight IDE
https://www.geany.org/
29
Gated Linear Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01526
142
A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-guy-named-craig-may-soon-have-control-over-a-large-swath-of-utah
139
35
Basics of Pneumatic Logic
https://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/technologies/pneumatic-valves/article/21122363/basics-of-pneumatic-logic
11
Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures
https://www.chrislaux.com/
137
30
Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection
https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language.sh
121
42
Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/06/14/how-to-use-an-ordinary-light-bulb-to-spy-on-conversation-80-feet-away-security-research-lamphone-hack/
52
Grassmann.jl A\b 3x faster than Julia's StaticArrays.jl
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/grassmann-jl-a-b-3x-faster-than-julias-staticarrays-jl/41451?u=chakravala
73
Assange indictment fails to mention video that exposed US 'war crimes' in Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/15/julian-assange-indictment-fails-to-mention-wikileaks-video-that-exposed-us-war-crimes-in-iraq
85
Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (2003)
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0305062
18
Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown
https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/
106
9
Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529759
57
An exploratory statistical analysis of the 2014 World Cup Final
https://beta.deepnote.com/article/statistical-analysis-of-2014-world-cup-final
93
84
Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/instagram-algorithm-nudity/
47
Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche
https://postbag.co/
41
New TLS certificate for .herokuapp.com hostnames
https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1813
88
38
NetBSD Code Study
http://silas.net.br/codereading/netbsd-code.html
28
Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Foundry's 130nm node
https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk
After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract