top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-11

ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

https://alien-project.org/

5 years ago

825 upvotes – 210 comments

Don't Feed the Thought Leaders

https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/

5 years ago

795 upvotes – 280 comments

Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results

https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1402986015107653647

5 years ago

717 upvotes – 294 comments

New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill

https://www.ifixit.com/News/50722/victory-new-york-senate-passes-landmark-right-to-repair-bill

5 years ago

651 upvotes – 196 comments

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america-politics-religion/618072/

5 years ago

594 upvotes – 768 comments

Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/11/22528701/apple-rank-own-app-over-competitor-files-dropbox-wwdc-2017

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 319 comments

'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 156 comments

Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/fewer-young-men-are-in-the-labor-force-more-are-living-at-home

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 1144 comments

Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right

https://engineering.theblueground.com/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-migration-done-right/

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 132 comments

Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 209 comments

OpenHistoricalMap

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 109 comments

It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-meritocracy-became-trickle-down-education

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 361 comments

J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/j-kenji-lopez-alt-is-seattles-most-powerful-food-influencer-and-its-most-reluctant-one/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 155 comments

How to think clearly

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-think-clearly-to-improve-understanding-and-communication

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 71 comments

Surprising Shared Word Etymologies

https://www.danielde.dev/blog/surprising-shared-word-etymologies/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 167 comments

NVMe is not a hard disk

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2021/05/25/nvme-is-not-a-hard-disk.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 206 comments

Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/congress-is-going-to-throw-the-kitchen

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 323 comments

The NSA Instruction (2019)

https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 86 comments

Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/third-member-us-fda-advisory-panel-resigns-over-alzheimers-drug-approval-2021-06-10/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 204 comments

Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/husband-amazon-employee-sentenced-prison-insider-trading-amazon-stock

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 228 comments

Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf]

https://ourway.keybase.pub/mathematics_cheat_sheet.pdf

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 67 comments

Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corporate-heavyweight-europe-is-now-an-also-ran-can-it-recover-its-footing

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 863 comments

Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options

https://mynorthwest.com/2960761/amazon-offering-flexible-work-from-home-options-seattle-tech-companies/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 214 comments

Bandcamp's app is no longer listed on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandcamp.android&hl=en_US&gl=US

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 119 comments

EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57431987

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 150 comments

Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes

https://niedzejkob.p4.team/bootstrap/miniforth/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 57 comments

Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes

https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/plan2scene/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 56 comments

Legislation would unmask third-party sellers, but Amazon is fighting it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-ebay-fight-legislation-that-would-unmask-third-party-sellers/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 80 comments

Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup

https://kopia.io/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 76 comments

Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers

https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/guix/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 73 comments

El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005231250/el-salvador-plans-to-use-electricity-generated-from-volcanoes-to-mine-bitcoin

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 322 comments

A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57399288

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 135 comments

How to average floating point numbers (2015)

https://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 84 comments

Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.

https://www.reuters.com/business/google-build-new-undersea-cable-connect-latin-america-us-2021-06-09/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head

https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/11/netherlands-must-ban-cryptocurrencies-immediately-cpb-head

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 205 comments

Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_50eb22586414571ed4fecc991feee20a

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 114 comments

Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (2017)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2017.1294256

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 71 comments

Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1402388133086367751

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 91 comments

Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/10/global-banking-regulators-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dutch-official-calls-for-complete-ban-on-bitcoin

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 215 comments

Wildland – open data management protocol

https://wildland.io/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Desertification in Romania (2020)

https://www.geographyrealm.com/desertification-in-romania/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends

https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-i-beginnings-and-legends/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

https://winaero.com/microsoft-will-end-windows-10-support-in-2025/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 209 comments

Fitting a Forth in 512 Bytes

https://niedzejkob.p4.team/bootstrap/miniforth/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 1 comments

Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3073723

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/the-iphone-12-mini-makes-me-sick-literally

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Toward Vagrant 3.0

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/toward-vagrant-3-0

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?

https://wyclif.substack.com/p/incentives-in-economics-are-wrong

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 154 comments

Launch HN: Slingshow (YC W20) – Easily build custom virtual events and webinars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474808

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Responsive images

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Echo Dot, Apple Watch, JBL Speakers listings hijacked

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/review-manipulation-amazon-echo-dot-listing-hijacked-seriosly/856604

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Reducing Python String Memory Use in Apache Arrow 0.12 (2019)

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/02/05/python-string-memory-0.12/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

https://wapp.tcl.tk/home/doc/trunk/README.md

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities

https://twitter.com/jennleaver/status/1402972896184586244

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome

https://therecord.media/google-abandons-experiment-to-show-simplified-domain-urls-in-chrome/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 2 comments

Work from home and productivity: evidence from personnel and analytics data [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BFI_WP_2021-56.pdf

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 80 comments

London and Switzerland seeking to dodge G7 global minimum tax

https://www.businessinsider.com/london-switzerland-plans-dodge-g7-global-minimum-tax-reports-2021-6

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 96 comments

Trump officials seized Democrat's Apple data – reports

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57438354

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

AlpineJS

https://alpinejs.dev/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 37 comments

The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations (2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report-the-u-s-military-emits-more-co2-than-many-industrialized-nations-infographic/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 99 comments

Linux-Kernel: Printk() Indexing

https://lwn.net/Articles/857148/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Soggi's BIOS and Firmware Page (2020)

https://soggi.org/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

Post Mortem: Incorrect Cache Configuration Exposes Personal Information

https://www.klarna.com/us/blog/detailed-incident-report-incorrect-cache-configuration-leading-to-klarna-app-exposing-personal-information/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments
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