top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-09

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

5 years ago

671 upvotes – 1082 comments

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57398274

5 years ago

635 upvotes – 703 comments

Tell HN: SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447206

5 years ago

628 upvotes – 286 comments

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

5 years ago

587 upvotes – 468 comments

How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

https://fragile-credences.github.io/scihub-proxy/

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 189 comments

Vivaldi 4.0

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-4-0/

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 280 comments

Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

https://twitter.com/jasminericegirl/status/1402691047940100100

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 572 comments

2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2021-06-08-certificate-lifetime-incident/153426

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 164 comments

Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)

https://spieswl.github.io/blog/2020/seven-years-of-factorio-friday-facts

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 73 comments

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/

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 417 comments

Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know

https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 176 comments

One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 199 comments

Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 353 comments

What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages

https://onlineornot.com/what-fastly-outage-can-teach-about-writing-error-messages

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 132 comments

Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (2007)

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-25.html

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 106 comments

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/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 80 comments

You Don’t Need Permission

https://steveblank.com/2021/06/04/you-dont-need-permission/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 85 comments

I saw millions compromise their Facebook accounts to fuel fake engagement

https://restofworld.org/2021/sophie-zhang-facebook-autolikers/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 64 comments

I wrote a linker everyone can understand

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210609.html

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 55 comments

Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?

https://www.platformer.news/p/will-apple-mail-end-the-newsletter

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 266 comments

Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#data-collection-and-storage

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 100 comments

Angband 4.2.2: A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

http://rephial.org/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 81 comments

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

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 369 comments

Drug users use a lot of drugs

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-of-drugs

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 185 comments

Twitch: Lessons Learned

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1402449647122018304

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 67 comments

What's in email tracking links and pixels?

https://bengtan.com/blog/whats-in-email-tracking-links-and-pixels/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 103 comments

Lua-RTOS: a real-time operating system for ESP32

https://github.com/whitecatboard/Lua-RTOS-ESP32

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

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

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 206 comments

You use more open source software than you think

https://github.com/readme/unseen-oss

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 138 comments

How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/8/22523613/macos-monterey-wwdc-apple-ipad

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 149 comments

The Surveilled Student

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-surveilled-student

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 140 comments

Summary of June 8 outage

https://www.fastly.com/blog/summary-of-june-8-outage

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 106 comments

GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer

https://arankomatsuzaki.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/gpt-j/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 79 comments

Alpaca Attack

https://alpaca-attack.com/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 46 comments

The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)

https://www.abandonedberlin.com/tempelhof/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

Senate approves $250B bill to boost tech research

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-approves-250-billion-bill-to-boost-tech-research-11623192584

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Are We in a Mega Bubble?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27443944

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Bitcoin becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador

https://www.coindesk.com/its-official-el-salvadors-legislature-votes-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 137 comments

Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 156 comments

Original Hacker News Source Code (2009)

https://github.com/wting/hackernews

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

https://www.explo.co/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

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

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 178 comments

Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs

https://airy.co/hn

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 37 comments

A ToC of Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part Linkers essay (2008)

https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

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

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: A tool to self host game servers with a free static IP

https://playit.gg/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

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

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

The Expanse UI Design

https://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2021/theexpanse?ref=sidebar

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Free collection of 550+ high quality, community-made virtual instruments

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Human Memory

https://github.com/ContextLab/human-memory

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

The myth of the driverless tube train

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-of-the-driverless-tube-train/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 143 comments

Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software restriction policy

https://www.d7xtech.com/lockdown/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 71 comments
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