671
1082
If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a-pension-fund-11617544801
4 years ago
635
703
El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57398274
628
286
Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447206
587
468
Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/facebook-will-let-all-employees-who-can-work-remotely-to-request-full-time-remote-work.html
484
189
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
https://fragile-credences.github.io/scihub-proxy/
469
280
Vivaldi 4.0
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-4-0/
403
572
Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
https://twitter.com/jasminericegirl/status/1402691047940100100
400
164
2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426
385
73
Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)
https://spieswl.github.io/blog/2020/seven-years-of-factorio-friday-facts
310
417
TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tc-energy-terminates-keystone-xl-pipeline-project-2021-06-09/
297
176
Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know
https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/
287
199
One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224
273
353
Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2
266
132
What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
https://onlineornot.com/what-fastly-outage-can-teach-about-writing-error-messages
260
106
Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (2007)
https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-25.html
231
80
Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.8B to supercharge EV battery output
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/battery-maker-northvolt-raises-275-bln-expand-factory-2021-06-09/
216
85
You Don’t Need Permission
https://steveblank.com/2021/06/04/you-dont-need-permission/
211
64
I saw millions compromise their Facebook accounts to fuel fake engagement
https://restofworld.org/2021/sophie-zhang-facebook-autolikers/
208
55
I wrote a linker everyone can understand
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210609.html
198
Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
https://www.platformer.news/p/will-apple-mail-end-the-newsletter
197
100
Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#data-collection-and-storage
81
Angband 4.2.2: A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game
http://rephial.org/
182
369
French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brexit-france-eu-french-english-b1861087.html
178
185
Drug users use a lot of drugs
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-of-drugs
67
Twitch: Lessons Learned
https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1402449647122018304
173
103
What's in email tracking links and pixels?
https://bengtan.com/blog/whats-in-email-tracking-links-and-pixels/
171
56
Lua-RTOS: a real-time operating system for ESP32
https://github.com/whitecatboard/Lua-RTOS-ESP32
206
Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow
https://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2021/article/how-1-percent-s-savings-buried-middle-class-debt
163
138
You use more open source software than you think
https://github.com/readme/unseen-oss
150
149
How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/8/22523613/macos-monterey-wwdc-apple-ipad
140
The Surveilled Student
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-surveilled-student
148
Summary of June 8 outage
https://www.fastly.com/blog/summary-of-june-8-outage
144
79
GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer
https://arankomatsuzaki.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/gpt-j/
142
46
Alpaca Attack
https://alpaca-attack.com/
52
The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
https://www.abandonedberlin.com/tempelhof/
129
Senate approves $250B bill to boost tech research
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-approves-250-billion-bill-to-boost-tech-research-11623192584
123
68
Ask HN: Are We in a Mega Bubble?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27443944
122
137
Bitcoin becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador
https://www.coindesk.com/its-official-el-salvadors-legislature-votes-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender
120
156
Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts/
119
34
Original Hacker News Source Code (2009)
https://github.com/wting/hackernews
112
Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports
https://www.explo.co/
104
The drought in the western U.S. is getting bad
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse
37
Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs
https://airy.co/hn
99
14
A ToC of Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part Linkers essay (2008)
https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/
97
87
National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/theres-a-new-ocean-now-can-you-name-all-five-southern-ocean
91
44
Show HN: A tool to self host game servers with a free static IP
https://playit.gg/
88
27
How to Make Your Landing Pages Look Like a Design Team Was Behind It
https://inonesnap.medium.com/unprofessional-landing-pages-how-to-make-your-pages-look-like-a-design-team-was-behind-it-50868ed524fb
82
18
The Expanse UI Design
https://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2021/theexpanse?ref=sidebar
7
Free collection of 550+ high quality, community-made virtual instruments
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/
78
13
Human Memory
https://github.com/ContextLab/human-memory
66
143
The myth of the driverless tube train
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-of-the-driverless-tube-train/
71
Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software restriction policy
https://www.d7xtech.com/lockdown/
If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
