top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-13

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

5 years ago

693 upvotes – 115 comments

Ripgrep 13.0

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/13.0.0

5 years ago

547 upvotes – 150 comments

I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

https://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/i-miss-the-old-internet.57195/

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 424 comments

The Elephant at WWDC

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/06/13/last-week-on-my-mac-the-elephant-at-wwdc/

5 years ago

470 upvotes – 205 comments

Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead

https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-going-back-to-the-officepeople-are-just-quitting-instead-11623576602

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 404 comments

“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1403915244473253893

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 300 comments

How to handle secrets on the command line

https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 75 comments

Goodbye Freenode

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 118 comments

The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e77y/the-dollar149-smartphone-that-could-bring-the-linux-mobile-ecosystem-to-life

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 219 comments

Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)

https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 194 comments

Git for Computer Scientists (2010)

https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 101 comments

Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/disasters-i-ve-seen-in-a-microservices-world-a9137a51

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 140 comments

An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors

https://scitechdaily.com/an-omega-3-thats-poison-for-cancer-tumors/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 83 comments

Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature

https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 193 comments

Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users

https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/1404153550159159298

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 100 comments

The Schindler of Japan, Chihune Sugihara

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2021/06/chiune-sugihara-japanese-schindler/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 68 comments

Why I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists

https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/12/why-i-have-zero-faith-in-crypto-venture-capitalists/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 231 comments

How to get yourself to do things (2015)

https://www.raptitude.com/2015/03/how-to-get-yourself-to-do-things/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 79 comments

Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reed-solomon-for-programmers/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 43 comments

Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 62 comments

House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stronger online economy”

https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/house-lawmakers-release-anti-monopoly-agenda-stronger-online-economy-opportunity

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 212 comments

Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migration

https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 60 comments

LSD and psilocybin increase the fractal dimension of brain activity

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/517847v2.full

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 150 comments

Untapped potential in Rust's type system

https://www.jakobmeier.ch/blogging/Untapped-Rust.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 33 comments

Pitch doctoring should be the biggest scandal in sports

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/06/04/sticky-stuff-is-the-new-steroids-daily-cover

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 189 comments

Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-media-are-turbocharging-the-export-of-americas-political-culture

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 234 comments

Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/linux-on-chromebooks-just-might-get-me-through-a-masters-in-computer-science/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 180 comments

Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective

https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/animal-testing-is-exploitative-and-largely-ineffective/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 302 comments

Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs

https://juliagpu.org/post/2021-06-10-cuda_3.3/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 32 comments

I want to learn D3. I don’t want to learn Observable. Is that ok?

https://talk.observablehq.com/t/i-want-to-learn-d3-i-don-t-want-to-learn-observable-is-that-ok/1957/2

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 84 comments

Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz

https://solana.com/news/solana-labs-completes-a-314-15m-private-token-sale-led-by-andreessen-horowitz-and-polychain-capital

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 337 comments

Silicon Valley thought India was its future, now things have changed

https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/india-silicon-valley-twitter-google-censorship.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490018

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 204 comments

Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/could-face-and-voice-recognition-become-the-new-phrenology-1.6046992

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 79 comments

Comic Mono – a legible monospace font

https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Infosec Core Competencies

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/infosec-competencies.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 41 comments

Internet of Shit

https://twitter.com/internetofshit

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 12 comments

Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote

https://www.axios.com/netanyahu-out-israel-government-vote-bennett-b1da96f5-0e4f-47f4-863e-7dcf504b7558.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 159 comments

Skribilo: A Document Programming Framework

https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/Rust1BackwardIncompatibility

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 113 comments

The Enterprise Eats Software

https://jessitron.com/2021/06/12/the-enterprise-eats-software/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Mary Catherine Bateson: Systems Thinker

https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary-catherine-bateson

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (2018)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/why-the-future-of-data-storage-is-still-magnetic-tape

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 105 comments

Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117022714/https://www.pcworld.com/hardware/storage_backup/articles/jan96/jan9621.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 125 comments

Roger Waters refused use of song for Instagram ad [video]

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ksRVJsvWc3B/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Also leaving Freenode: FSF, GNU, plus Linux and Python support channels

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/06/13/184251/also-leaving-freenode-fsf-gnu-plus-linux-and-python-support-channels

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Ness – Deploy web sites to your AWS account

https://ness.sh/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

Launching the Libre Tech Shop

https://abhas.io/libretechshop/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments
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