top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-04

An Unbelievable Demo

https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

5 years ago

2339 upvotes – 463 comments

There are no results for tank man

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man

5 years ago

2105 upvotes – 534 comments

LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/1400904600421535744

5 years ago

1041 upvotes – 588 comments

The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer

http://www.jeffwidener.com/stories/2016/09/tankman/

5 years ago

658 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925

5 years ago

560 upvotes – 126 comments

Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

https://binji.github.io/posts/pokegb/

5 years ago

551 upvotes – 63 comments

Why we should end the data economy

https://thereboot.com/why-we-should-end-the-data-economy/

5 years ago

519 upvotes – 386 comments

John Carmack on JPEG

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1400930510671601666

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 214 comments

My site was disallowed from advertising on Google when using Matomo analytics

https://twitter.com/Adam_Hosker/status/1400748390355456002

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 114 comments

Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-sticks-to-ceilings

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 60 comments

Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/under-exploit-vmware-vulnerability-with-severity-rating-of-9-8-out-of-10/

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 95 comments

Aaron Swartz, Vindicated

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#cfaa

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 123 comments

“Tank Man”

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&iax=images&ia=images

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 54 comments

Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs

https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/04/bookingcom-repay-eu65-million-state-aid-giving-eu28-million-bonuses-3-execs

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 156 comments

Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/medium-exodus-culture-memo/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 613 comments

Go: Fuzzing Is Beta Ready

https://blog.golang.org/fuzz-beta

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 53 comments

Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57348415

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 138 comments

Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes

https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 81 comments

Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal

https://riedel.wtf/iphone-12-pro-in-canal-magsafe-fishing-rod/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 201 comments

HOWTO: Be more productive (2005)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 58 comments

Firefox 89 Tab Appearance

https://amitp.blogspot.com/2021/06/firefox-89-tab-appearance.html

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 188 comments

Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats

https://www.vox.com/recode/22423706/walmart-memo-retail-amazon-target-instacart

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 359 comments

Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised password

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-04/hackers-breached-colonial-pipeline-using-compromised-password

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 138 comments

Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/van-buren-victory-against-overbroad-interpretations-cfaa-protects-security

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 91 comments

Social virtual spaces with Elixir at Mozilla

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/06/02/social-virtual-spaces-with-elixir-at-mozilla/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 69 comments

The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullshit-jobs-thesis-may-be-well-bullshit

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 379 comments

PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available

https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/06/pycon-us-2021-recordings-are-complete.html?m=1

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 101 comments

Intel and AMD Contemplate Different Replacements for x86 Interrupt Handling

https://www.eejournal.com/article/we-interrupt-this-program/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 121 comments

43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training

https://www.iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/iafrikan-daily-brief-166-time-bomb/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 220 comments

The rise of remote work may reshape college towns

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-of-remote-work-may-reshape-college-towns-heres-how-these-campuses-are-wooing-transplants

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 204 comments

Heroic rat retiring from detecting land mines

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003258540/after-years-of-detecting-land-mines-a-heroic-rat-is-hanging-up-his-sniffer

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 103 comments

Compute Shader 101 [video]

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

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 18 comments

Bitcoin’s reliance on stablecoins harks back to the Wild West of finance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-reliance-on-stablecoins-harks-back-to-the-wild-west-of-finance-11622115246

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 228 comments

Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/06/08/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-lookup-part-i/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 49 comments

Replacing grass lawns with native plants

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-pandemic-garden-project-st-0530-20210528-2kklpxumlrfnhecwr2ljx7e2qe-story.html

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 190 comments

Implementing a LLVM Micro C compiler in Haskell

https://blog.josephmorag.com/posts/mcc0/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 15 comments

UK and EU launch antitrust probes into Facebook

https://www.ft.com/content/1836b3a0-cf7b-4dd1-9821-85f209e15667

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465357/amazon-industrial-athlete-warehouse-worker-wellness-pamphlet

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 111 comments

Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control

http://gvv.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/NeuralActor/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

Non-technical security best-practices for open source projects

https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-non-tech-security

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Tank Man

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tank+man

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 15 comments

Bonzi Buddy

https://bonzi.link/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 114 comments

PM and EM Rules of Engagement

https://segment.com/blog/product-manager-engineering-manager-rules-of-engagement/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 35 comments

AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are from Dept of Defense

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/amazon-hiring-former-government-officials-491878

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 76 comments

Ultra-processed food targets bone quality via endochondral ossification

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41413-020-00127-9

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 123 comments

The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem

https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-problem-bitcoin-problem

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 179 comments

TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-permission-to-collect-biometric-data-on-u-s-users-including-faceprints-and-voiceprints

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/06/03/computing-the-number-of-digits-of-an-integer-even-faster/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

Pijul – Datacenter on Fires

https://pijul.org/posts/2021-06-03-on-fires/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 31 comments

Haiku Monthly Activity Report – May 2021

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-06-03-haiku_activity_report_may_2021/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-evidence-ufos-are-alien-spacecraft-unclassified-us-intelligence-report-to-reveal-qscqhkznh

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 220 comments

Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage Based Pricing

https://adilaijaz.medium.com/6-questions-to-ask-before-adopting-usage-based-pricing-77bf2a669309

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments
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