top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-05

G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57368247

5 years ago

1047 upvotes – 895 comments

Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-mozilla-google-microsoft-form-group-to-standardize-browser-plug-ins

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 178 comments

Password Managers

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/passmgrs.html

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 330 comments

El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/05/el-salvador-becomes-the-first-country-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-.html

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 398 comments

Google can't pass its own page speed test

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ns4t1z/oc_google_cant_pass_its_own_page_speed_test/

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 163 comments

Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/05/fbi-withdraws-usa-today-subpoena-seeking-reader-identity/7561422002/

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 170 comments

3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/3000-eggs-abandoned-drone-scares-birds-california-78090817

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 234 comments

Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-declassified-cold-war-code-breaking-manual.html

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 38 comments

Zero to Production in Rust

https://www.zero2prod.com/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 193 comments

If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/if-not-overturned-bad-copyright-decision-will-lead-many-americans-lose-internet

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 48 comments

All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congressional insider trading

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/nsvma5/i_analyzed_all_the_controversial_trades_made_by/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 80 comments

USA Today resists FBI subpoena seeking IP addresses of readers of a story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/usa-today-fbi-subpoena/2021/06/04/4741213a-c550-11eb-8c18-fd53a628b992_story.html

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 69 comments

The modern web on a slow connection (2017)

https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 173 comments

North Atlantic warming over six decades drives decreases in krill abundance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02159-1

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 63 comments

From Julia to Rust

https://miguelraz.github.io/blog/juliatorust/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 106 comments

Handsfree.js – integrate face, hand, and/or pose tracking to front end projects

https://github.com/midiblocks/handsfree

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 35 comments

Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/job-creation-and-investment/study-shows-amazons-wage-increase-to-15-an-hour-also-upped-pay-for-non-amazon-workers

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 173 comments

Ask HN: Books for Effective Communication

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27408120

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 54 comments

Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ultra-high-density-hard-drives-made-with-graphene-store-ten-times-more-data

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 144 comments

The Mandelbrot Monk (1999)

https://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals/MandelSet/MandelMonk/MandelMonk.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

How I Learned Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis

https://akircanski.github.io/cryptanalysis/2021/04/27/symmetric-key-cryptanalysis-howto.html

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 31 comments

The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 36 comments

ET-Jekyll: Edward Tufte-inspired Jekyll theme

https://et-jekyll.netlify.app/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 27 comments

Ftxui: C++ Functional Terminal User Interface

https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 70 comments

Catalog of viruses from human metagenomes reveals chronic disease associations

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2023202118

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 9 comments

Tips for Interviewing over Zoom

https://dev.jimgrey.net/2021/06/03/nine-tips-for-interviewing-over-zoom/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 284 comments

IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics

https://github.com/google/iconvg

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor

https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 21 comments

Learn R Through Examples (2020)

https://gexijin.github.io/learnR/index.html

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/belavia/the-european-union-officially-bans-its-airspace-to-belarusian-companies/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 53 comments

Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (2003)

http://www.usu.edu/geo/geomorph/kansas.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Implementing strict three-point perspective

https://pomax.github.io/three-point-perspective/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 51 comments

Conway's Game of Life on FPGA

https://k155la3.blog/2020/10/09/conways-game-of-life-on-fpga/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Is Thinning Faster Than Previously Thought

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coastal-arctic-sea-ice-is-thinning-faster-than-previously-thought1/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 14 comments

“That Won't Work”

https://meetryanflowers.com/that-wont-work/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 146 comments

Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs

https://blog.telegeography.com/trans-pacific-cables-asian-hubs-plcn-status

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 87 comments

Valid Signal privacy issues shrugged off while patches quietly rolled out

https://403forbiddenblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/signal-safety-numbers.html?m=1

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

Zld: Drop-in, faster version of Apple's linker

https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 10 comments

Ancient Indigenous forest gardens still yield bounty 150 years later

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ancient-indigenous-forest-gardens-still-yield-bounty-150-years-later-study

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Computer chips are mercurial: Rare miscalculations frequent at cloud hyperscale

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/04/google_chip_flaws/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

6502 “Illegal” Opcodes Demystified

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2021/6502-illegal-opcodes

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/you-can-now-use-cdc-from-cloudsql-for-postgresql

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments

Using Clang LibFuzzer coverage-guided fuzzing engine with Nim

https://github.com/planetis-m/libfuzzer

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

‘We Eat Roti and Salt’: Delhi’s Most Vulnerable Still Wait for Food

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/delhi-non-ration-card-holders-still-wait-for-food-arvind-kejriwal-manish-sisodia

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Y Combinator entrepreneurs say they were kicked out of the accelerator

https://www.businessinsider.com/ycombinator-katia-damer-paul-biggar-criticized-founders-vaccine-line-skipping-2021-6

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Secure sensitive info while recording videos live or screen sharing

https://blurweb.app

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

“Stories” Don’t Tell a Story: Good Sprint Planning Uses Milestones

https://cgroom.medium.com/stories-dont-tell-a-story-good-sprint-planning-uses-milestones-a71326aa8849

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return-office-internal-letter-tim-cook

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Twitter Ban in Nigeria

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57363779

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 83 comments

WebGPU for Metal Developers

https://metalbyexample.com/webgpu-part-one/

5 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments
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