top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-06-25

When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157161487396994&id=501751993

5 years ago

1039 upvotes – 425 comments

Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

https://www.coindesk.com/blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations

5 years ago

716 upvotes – 280 comments

Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53165293

5 years ago

689 upvotes – 374 comments

Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ads-boycott-verizon/verizon-suspends-advertising-on-facebook-joins-growing-boycott-idUSKBN23W3HK

5 years ago

535 upvotes – 332 comments

Symbian Won

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/symbian-won/

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 284 comments

Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pilot-intl-hnk/index.html

5 years ago

506 upvotes – 342 comments

Quora goes permanently remote-first

https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1276210618786168833

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 256 comments

Curl Wttr.in

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 122 comments

Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest

5 years ago

454 upvotes – 96 comments

Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indictment

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 398 comments

Krita 4.3.0

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-3-0-released/

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 83 comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 72 comments

Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible

https://github.com/team-video/aviary.sh

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 208 comments

Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/comcast-mozilla-strike-privacy-deal-to-encrypt-dns-lookups-in-firefox/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 203 comments

DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search

https://m.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 250 comments

We use too many damn modals (2018)

https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 120 comments

The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box

https://blog.plover.com/2020/06/24/#boundary-conditions

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 158 comments

Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare

https://www.dw.com/en/wirecard-files-for-insolvency-after-financial-hole-laid-bare/a-53936447

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 159 comments

How Zoom works [slides]

https://builtformars.co.uk/how-zoom-works/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 147 comments
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