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

Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

https://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/oceana-finds-hundreds-vessels-vanishing-along-argentinas-waters#

5 years ago

1210 upvotes – 592 comments

A New Future for Icanhazip

https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/

5 years ago

980 upvotes – 249 comments

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f

5 years ago

821 upvotes – 219 comments

In Praise of Open Source Textbooks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414145

5 years ago

506 upvotes – 104 comments

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater/

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 290 comments

The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux

https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/saas-cto-security-checklist/

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 73 comments

Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 507 comments

Publish and Perish

https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/publish-and-perish

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 163 comments

Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/06/apple-app-store-scams-fraud/

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 245 comments

Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/curious-crow-behavior-known-as-anting-looks-like-violent-dirt-bath-1.6053823

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 111 comments

The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)

https://repeller.com/trap-of-turning-hobbies-into-hustles/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 136 comments

A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 75 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 115 comments

Dolphin Emulator - Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/06/06/dolphin-progress-report-april-and-may-2021/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: I discovered a trading algorithm that returns ~24.85% annually

https://github.com/KibaeKim/SectorTradingAlgorithm

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 128 comments

Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office

https://www.engadget.com/apple-employees-reject-return-to-office-plans-153302337.html

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 273 comments

The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)

https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machine-the-dangers-of-low-head-dams

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 100 comments

HN “Why Not Simply”

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22why%20not%20simply%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 118 comments

Submarine Cable Map 2021

https://submarine-cable-map-2021.telegeography.com/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 83 comments

English medical records are about to be given away. As GPs, we’re fighting back

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/03/gp-nhs-digital-data-patients-records-england

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 79 comments

Mastershot – Web based video editor

https://mastershot.app

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 69 comments

Why are American workers becoming harder to find?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/04/29/why-are-american-workers-becoming-harder-to-find

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 619 comments

Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27410951

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 116 comments

The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML

https://localghost.dev/2021/06/the-right-tag-for-the-job-why-you-should-use-semantic-html/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 98 comments

How we achieved write speeds of 1.4M rows per second

https://questdb.io/blog/2021/05/10/questdb-release-6-0-tsbs-benchmark

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 37 comments

FreeBSD from a NetBSD developer’s perspective

https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 75 comments

City roads – This website renders every single road within a city

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 30 comments

A first lesson in meta-rationality

https://metarationality.com/bongard-meta-rationality

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 106 comments

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 87 comments

Remove left turns for less dangerous city traffic

https://theconversation.com/sick-of-dangerous-city-traffic-remove-left-turns-161397

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 166 comments

Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems

https://github.com/stateright/stateright

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 24 comments

How to Start a Novel

https://granta.com/notes-on-craft-jonathan-lee/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 85 comments

The Repeated Deaths of OOP (2015)

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/deaths-of-oop

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 212 comments

Writing a Technical Book

https://andregarzia.com/2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 13 comments

Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100041

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Prestige, a text based HTTP client, for working with HTTP APIs

https://prestigemad.com

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 38 comments

A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/06/03/a-growing-number-of-governments-hope-to-clone-americas-darpa

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 66 comments

The case for continuous documentation

https://www.virtuallifestyle.nl/2021/04/the-case-for-continuous-documentation/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-identify-threshold-at-which-shapes-give-way-20210603/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

It’s Time to Ditch Chrome

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-chrome-browser-data

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

Peter Norvig: Singularity is in the eye of the beholder

https://wandb.ai/wandb_fc/gradient-dissent/reports/Peter-Norvig-Google-s-Director-of-Research-Singularity-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder--Vmlldzo2MTYwNjk?galleryTag=gradient-dissent

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

How ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’ Saved Disney

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians-saved-disney-180977869/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Cicero used humor to charm audiences–and humiliate opponents

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-tell-a-joke-review-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum-11622821485

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

OS X/Hydromac: New Mac adware, leaked from a flashcards app

https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x65.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Web Publications – LaTeX Style – HTML View

https://goessner.github.io/mdmath/publication.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Rain Backscatter on 10 GHz

https://destevez.net/2021/06/rain-backscatter-on-10-ghz/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

The Levenshtein distance in production (2020)

https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/levenshtein-distance/index.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Workspacer: A tiling window manager for Windows 10

https://workspacer.org/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments
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