top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-06-02

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400

4 years ago

2330 upvotes – 846 comments

Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465846/apple-employees-return-office-three-days-week-september

4 years ago

615 upvotes – 1079 comments

PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/paypal-shuts-down-long-time-tor-supporter-no-recourse

4 years ago

532 upvotes – 181 comments

Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/mass-scale-manipulation-of-twitter-trends-discov-2/

4 years ago

485 upvotes – 181 comments

Leaky Abstractions

https://textslashplain.com/2021/06/02/leaky-abstractions/

4 years ago

480 upvotes – 111 comments

When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

4 years ago

463 upvotes – 193 comments

Pesticides are killing the world's soils

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pesticides-are-killing-the-worlds-soils/

4 years ago

390 upvotes – 219 comments

Blender 2.93 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-93/

4 years ago

347 upvotes – 72 comments

Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/jpg-loader-bork/

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 164 comments

California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 218 comments

NixOS 21.05

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-21.05

4 years ago

310 upvotes – 232 comments

Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tracks-unregretted-attrition-rate-people-not-sad-to-lose-2021-4

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 336 comments

Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US

https://puri.sm/posts/manufacturing-the-librem-5-usa-phone-in-the-united-states-of-america/

4 years ago

305 upvotes – 142 comments

G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 308 comments

King County, WA bans facial recognition software

https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-is-first-in-the-country-to-ban-facial-recognition-software

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 190 comments

Want a killer product? Become more opinionated

https://adilaijaz.medium.com/want-a-killer-product-become-more-opinionated-dce7b12bba3e

4 years ago

265 upvotes – 149 comments

Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B

https://www.reuters.com/business/etsy-buy-gen-z-focused-fashion-marketplace-depop-163-billion-2021-06-02/

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 185 comments

Why Prefetch Is Broken

https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-prefetch-is-broken

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 89 comments

Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/57199.html

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 138 comments

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

https://yare.io

4 years ago

233 upvotes – 64 comments
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