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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
615
1079
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
532
181
PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/paypal-shuts-down-long-time-tor-supporter-no-recourse
485
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/
480
111
Leaky Abstractions
https://textslashplain.com/2021/06/02/leaky-abstractions/
463
193
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
390
219
Pesticides are killing the world's soils
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pesticides-are-killing-the-worlds-soils/
347
72
Blender 2.93 LTS
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-93/
335
164
Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery
https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/jpg-loader-bork/
320
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California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/
310
232
NixOS 21.05
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#sec-release-21.05
307
336
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
305
142
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/
291
308
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
288
190
King County, WA bans facial recognition software
https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-is-first-in-the-country-to-ban-facial-recognition-software
265
149
Want a killer product? Become more opinionated
https://adilaijaz.medium.com/want-a-killer-product-become-more-opinionated-dce7b12bba3e
259
185
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/
245
89
Why Prefetch Is Broken
https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-prefetch-is-broken
236
138
Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/57199.html
233
64
Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript
https://yare.io
223
91
The Development of Erlang (1997)
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-development-of-erlang
221
126
Kinda a Big Announcement
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announcement/
217
32
Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles
https://deepnote.com/viewer
215
Microsoft's low-code strategy paints a target on UIPath and other RPA companies
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cloud-vendors-low-code/
101
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-fast-on-webassembly
199
113
Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower
https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-selected-as-site-of-new-nuclear-power-plant-in-partnership-with-bill-gates-terrapower/article_ab632119-c5c5-53b0-9468-677ef87fd80a.html
189
42
I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
https://reverb.com/news/why-i-painstakingly-built-my-own-analog-drum-machine
143
25 Years of CSS
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/
251
Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack; ferries delayed
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-steamship-authority-delayed-due-to-cyber-attack/2395477/
176
170
History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
https://www.bowerswilkins.com/blog/products/history-of-nautilus
172
Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE
156
39
Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture
https://github.com/easafe/purescript-flame
153
80
Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach (2000)
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
144
71
Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57332390
141
69
Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year
https://twitter.com/rw_grim/status/1399817799657218059
134
65
History of ZFS Part 2: Exploding in Popularity
https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-zfs-part-2-exploding-in-popularity/
133
119
W3.org Cert Expired
https://www.w3.org/
128
Fifteen years of radar reveal Venus’s most basic facts
https://eos.org/articles/fifteen-years-of-radar-reveal-venuss-most-basic-facts
127
125
New Details Emerge on the “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40756/new-details-emerge-on-the-highly-modified-drone-that-outran-police-helicopters-over-tucson
A Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex
https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/06/a-browsable-petascale-reconstruction-of.html
29
Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-deep-iron-based-materials-magnetic-superconducting.html
110
Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa
https://jsonmatic.com/
122
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JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020)
http://benschmidt.org/post/2020-01-15/2020-01-15-webgpu/
121
90
GitHub was having issues
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76nv9h8pmkv4
120
22
Scientific Data Repositories
https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
37
Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08378
Amazon backs marijuana legalization, drops weed testing for some jobs
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-backs-marijuana-legalization-drops-weed-testing-some-jobs-2021-06-02/
112
Corpus Clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock
107
Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?
https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/05/do-wide-and-deep-networks-learn-same.html
105
30
Italian Car Design History
https://www.cardesignhistory.com/
104
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University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/05/30/duck-hunt-university-of-oregon-announces-policy-on-monitoring-student-social-media-and-off-campus-statements/
103
California Senate Approves Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Like Psilocybin and LSD
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/california-senate-approves-bill-to-legalize-possession-of-psychedelics-like-psilocybin-and-lsd/
67
Can Apple change ads?
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/13/apples-ads-music
96
114
Stop overstimulating your mind with digital entertainment
https://quintusertorius.com/letyourmindrest/
95
36
Confluent S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm
3
Apple employees asked to return to offices 3 days a week starting in September
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/02/apple-employees-returning-to-work/
The M.T.A. Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/nyregion/mta-cyber-attack.html
77
Amazon ends testing most employees for cannabis, will lobby for legalization
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002409858/amazon-wont-test-jobseekers-for-marijuana
43
RectCut for dead simple UI layouts
https://halt.software/dead-simple-layouts/
Amazon backs marijuana legalization, drops weed testing for some jobs