top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-07

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

4 years ago

4022 upvotes – 1274 comments

The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

https://casparwre.de/blog/seo-scam/

4 years ago

1743 upvotes – 395 comments

Sorry everybody, I failed with you

https://github.com/pedronauck/docz/issues/1634

4 years ago

819 upvotes – 342 comments

FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522889/apple-facetime-android-windows-web-ios-15-wwdc

4 years ago

638 upvotes – 334 comments

Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

https://www.farms.com/news/farmers-deserve-the-right-to-repair-their-tractors-168298.aspx

4 years ago

595 upvotes – 262 comments

The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

4 years ago

477 upvotes – 318 comments

Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/apple-pays-out-millions-in-compensation-to-student-after-iphone-repair-facility-shared-her-explicit-personal-images-online/

4 years ago

474 upvotes – 325 comments

Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/04/intel-hidden-instructions/

4 years ago

449 upvotes – 121 comments

We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours

https://aninjusticemag.com/were-all-paying-for-someone-else-s-4-hour-work-week-not-ours-68b2168af55?gi=f8725c21cb1b

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 315 comments

Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet/

4 years ago

429 upvotes – 68 comments

It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450

4 years ago

412 upvotes – 192 comments

“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/07/ai-promised-to-revolutionize-radiology-but-so-far-its-failing/

4 years ago

405 upvotes – 387 comments

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

4 years ago

386 upvotes – 300 comments

DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside

4 years ago

359 upvotes – 278 comments

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57379704

4 years ago

353 upvotes – 232 comments

Language learning with Netflix

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/

4 years ago

324 upvotes – 160 comments

Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype

https://huebnerob.com/2021/06/06/found-at-goodwill-webpad-1001-prototype/

4 years ago

321 upvotes – 81 comments

Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/06657c82b3b9a1871c483982282f046b1ac7b3be

4 years ago

302 upvotes – 174 comments

FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]

https://www.foundationdb.org/files/fdb-paper.pdf

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 99 comments

ST3000DM001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

4 years ago

270 upvotes – 250 comments

If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple”

https://justsimply.dev

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 138 comments

Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-shut-down-my-icloud-account-for-four-days-no-warning-no-explanation-no-excuse

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 89 comments

Notepad++ v8 release

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 161 comments

CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go

https://codeperfect95.com

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 142 comments

HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

https://httpstatusdogs.com/

4 years ago

197 upvotes – 40 comments

Campaign launches to try to force Palantir out of Britain’s NHS

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/campaign-launched-to-get-palantir-out-of-nhs.html

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 45 comments

Google fined €220m by French competition watchdog over online advertising market

https://www.euronews.com/2021/06/07/google-fined-220m-by-french-competition-watchdog-over-online-advertising-market

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 30 comments

Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57341592

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 71 comments

Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser

https://stopa.io/post/279

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 73 comments

How to sequence your genome at home

http://blog.booleanbiotech.com/human-genome-at-home.html

4 years ago

184 upvotes – 45 comments

Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why

https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 64 comments

Server is smoking, trying to figure out why

https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1401980524428627970

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/New-Technologies-WWDC-2021

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 131 comments

A Random Walk Through Git

https://bakkenbaeck.github.io/a-random-walk-through-git/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 3 comments

Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/07/jeff-bezos-to-fly-on-blue-origin-first-passenger-flight-in-july.html

4 years ago

165 upvotes – 201 comments

Abstract Syntax Tree for Patching Code and Assessing Code Quality

https://engineering.soroco.com/abstract-syntax-tree-for-patching-code-and-assessing-code-quality/

4 years ago

163 upvotes – 58 comments

Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/braincomputer-interface-smashes-previous-record-for-typing-speed

4 years ago

161 upvotes – 126 comments

Clever vs. Insightful Code

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cleverness/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 111 comments

Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files

https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 22 comments

Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers

https://www.heavybit.com/library/blog/kwans-hierarchy-of-product-needs-the-four-levels-of-product-managers/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 5 comments

Software maker Altium rejects $3.9B takeover bid from Autodesk

https://www.reuters.com/technology/asx-listed-altium-rejects-39-bln-buyout-offer-us-peer-autodesk-2021-06-07/

4 years ago

141 upvotes – 136 comments

Artist says Capcom stole her photos for Resident Evil, Devil May Cry

https://www.polygon.com/22519568/resident-evil-4-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-capcom

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 85 comments

Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye exams and at-home eyecare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423738

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 93 comments

Fizzygum

http://fizzygum.org/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 40 comments

Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files

http://harelba.github.io/q/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3411764.3445750

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 6 comments

On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-biweekly-and-bimonthly

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 139 comments

Chrome is faster in M91

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/chrome-is-faster-in-m91.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 122 comments

Lepton – Firefox UI Fix

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

macOS Monterey Preview

https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey-preview/

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 121 comments
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