top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-01

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home

5 years ago

1023 upvotes – 856 comments

Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

https://helix-editor.com/

5 years ago

657 upvotes – 365 comments

YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578

5 years ago

596 upvotes – 445 comments

Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/01/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing

5 years ago

576 upvotes – 328 comments

America has a drinking problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 866 comments

Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/best-practices-around-production-ready-web-apps-with-docker-compose

5 years ago

514 upvotes – 139 comments

Firefox Release 89.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

487 upvotes – 474 comments

AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16725/amd-demonstrates-stacked-vcache-technology-2-tbsec-for-15-gaming

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 213 comments

OBS Studio 27.0

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355392

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 1029 comments

Driving with D

https://dlang.org/blog/2021/06/01/driving-with-d/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 181 comments

DIY Book Scanner

https://www.diybookscanner.org/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 124 comments

The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 315 comments

Virtual deck of cards using just a browser

https://playingcards.io/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 74 comments

One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-31/meat-is-latest-cyber-victim-as-hackers-hit-top-supplier-jbs

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 414 comments

Intl

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 68 comments

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

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/darpa-awards-moderna-therapeutics-grant-25-million-develop

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 66 comments

GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 242 comments

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

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-faced-75-000-arbitration-demands-now-it-says-fine-sue-us-11622547000

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 41 comments

A virtual machine for microcontrollers

https://blog.toit.io/why-doesnt-v8-fit-on-my-microcontroller-71dc6e2d8f5c

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 116 comments

Rotations with quaternions

https://imadr.github.io/rotations-with-quaternions/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 154 comments

The Anxiety of Influencers

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 185 comments

Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed

https://calebporzio.com/making-100k-as-an-employee-versus-being-self-employed

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 170 comments

Google Groups has banned comp.lang.tcl

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.tcl

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 144 comments

Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57316838

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 133 comments

Europe to US: Pass new laws if you want a data-transfer deal

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-to-us-pass-new-laws-if-you-want-data-transfer-deal-privacy-regulation/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 68 comments

I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/post-pandemic-dont-want-to-reenter-society/619045/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 292 comments

Reclaim Windows10

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 200 comments

Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-rp2040-on-sale/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 83 comments

Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57309538

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 128 comments

EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for various services

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-set-unveil-plans-bloc-wide-digital-wallet-ft-2021-06-01/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 224 comments

Pynguin – Generate Python unit tests automatically

https://github.com/se2p/pynguin

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Cloudera taken private for $5.3B, acquires Datacoral and Cazena

https://blog.cloudera.com/turning-the-page/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 109 comments

The Big Alien Theory

http://thebigalientheory.com/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 240 comments

A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2021/06/a-possible-link-between-childhood-trauma-and-alzheimer-disease

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 77 comments

DoD Budget Appears to Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/06/dod-budget-appears-to-cut-cyber-offense-beef-up-defenses/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 62 comments

Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/25/apple-fedex-and-the-cookie-apocalypse

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Floptimal – Preflop ranges reimagined

https://floptimal.com

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 53 comments

William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)

https://www.infoq.com/interviews/byrd-relational-programming-minikanren/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 28 comments

Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-light-shrinking-material-ordinary-microscope-super.html

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

Mars: NASA's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-57233756

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 31 comments

The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmCW8xSWGZY

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 246 comments

What is traceability and why does WhatsApp oppose it?

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/what-is-traceability-and-why-does-whatsapp-oppose-it/?_fb_noscript=1#

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 117 comments

RFC-8905: The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments (2020)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8905

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 73 comments

Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01431-y

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 154 comments

Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCertificate-Documents

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 136 comments

Simone Biles Makes History as First Woman to Ever Land Yurchenko Double Pike

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/simone-biles-first-woman-yurchenko-double-pike

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 143 comments

The website obesity crisis (2015)

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355390

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 212 comments

How Not to Redact a Warhead

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2021/05/17/how-not-to-redact-a-warhead/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57253947

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 388 comments

Surreal Numbers – An Introduction (2019) [pdf]

https://www.tondering.dk/download/sur16.pdf

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 73 comments

A Secure and Formally Verified Linux KVM Hypervisor [pdf]

http://nieh.net/pubs/ieeesp2021_kvm.pdf

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 3 comments

New report details Beijing’s foreign influence operations in Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-report-details-beijings-foreign-influence-operations-in-canada/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Chinese ‘Artificial Sun’ experimental fusion reactor sets world record

https://nation.com.pk/29-May-2021/chinese-artificial-sun-experimental-fusion-reactor-sets-world-record-for-superheated-plasma-time

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 96 comments

GQless: A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration

https://gqless.com/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355391

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 125 comments

I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ufo-sightings-report.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 172 comments

NVMe over Fabrics Explained

https://blog.westerndigital.com/nvme-of-explained/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57156797

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 104 comments

Freenode Exodus: A List

https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/introducing-loaf-guardians

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments
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