top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-14

Stripe Identity

https://stripe.com/identity

5 years ago

1057 upvotes – 536 comments

Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ybybf4tJWw

5 years ago

1009 upvotes – 309 comments

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies

https://www.axios.com/resignations-companies-e279fcfc-c8e7-4955-8a9b-47562490ee55.html

5 years ago

824 upvotes – 1035 comments

The 88x31 GIF Collection

http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 124 comments

Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower

https://www.renehersecycles.com/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-tires-are-slower/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 405 comments

Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

https://routinedb.com/routines

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 188 comments

Irish police to be given powers over passwords

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57468750

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 258 comments

I teach Python on the Raspberry Pi 400 at the public library

https://opensource.com/article/21/6/teach-python-raspberry-pi

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 84 comments

Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff

https://linux.chat/linux-on-freenode/

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 196 comments

Tetris in ClojureScript

https://shaunlebron.github.io/t3tr0s-slides

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 33 comments

‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-positive-deviants-why-rebellious-workers-spark-gr-ideas

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 117 comments

Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers

https://www.wired.com/story/how-americans-breaking-political-echo-chambers/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 888 comments

“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 348 comments

21st Century Baker's Tent

https://azartiz.com/?2021-06-13T20:25:16.558Z

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 163 comments

Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)

https://medium.com/nmc-techblog/advanced-console-log-tips-tricks-fa3762930bca

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 72 comments

IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari

https://twitter.com/feross/status/1404568122158313474

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 231 comments

Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27501316

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 180 comments

Google Workspace for everyone

https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 337 comments

When pop history bombs: a response to Malcolm Gladwell

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a-response-to-malcolm-gladwells-love-letter-to-american-air-power/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 210 comments

Reality Winner, NSA contractor in leak case, out of prison

https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-europe-80600704e46e10ec53e85590d1d3fefb

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 163 comments

You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/80768.html

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 211 comments

How Indian Zoroastrians helped shape modern Iran

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-an-indian-religious-minority-shaped-modern-iran/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 162 comments

Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)

https://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 63 comments

Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/13/microsoft-brad-smith-trump-justice-department-gag-orders/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 48 comments

Let web applications be file handlers

https://web.dev/file-handling/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 171 comments

Up for Grabs

https://up-for-grabs.net/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 28 comments

A boy, his brain, and a decades-long medical controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/a-boy-his-brain-and-a-decades-long-medical-controversy/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 173 comments

Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all

https://blog.1password.com/supporting-lets-encrypt/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 90 comments

The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/where-did-the-computer-go/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 187 comments

Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020)

https://gru.gq/2020/02/12/forgotten-tricks-of-trench-warfare/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 95 comments

Baseball's dirty little secret is out – we decided to experiment

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2180019

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 55 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 27 comments

Building a WebAuthn Click Farm

https://betterappsec.com/building-a-webauthn-click-farm-are-captchas-obsolete-bfab07bb798c

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 42 comments

Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arrested-in-operation-ironside/100213036

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Nuclear Power, Not Renewables, Is the Path to Low-Carbon Energy (2020)

https://freopp.org/why-nuclear-power-not-renewables-is-the-path-to-low-carbon-energy-part-1-c0b66d4b9570

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 232 comments

Scaling Relational SQL Databases (2020)

https://stribny.name/blog/2020/07/scaling-relational-sql-databases/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 29 comments

Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/06/11/open-source-opengl-es-3.1-on-mali-gpus-with-panfrost/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Ancient Greek accents in ten rules

https://antigonejournal.com/2021/06/greek-accents-ten-rules/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Bentley Railbike (2000)

http://rrbike.freeservers.com/main.htm

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

It’s hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/business/online-groceries-pickers-instacart.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 191 comments

The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-global-chip-shortage-is-creating-a-new-problem-more-fake-components-as-fraudsters-cash-in/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27504190

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 62 comments

Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-pacific-islanders-antarctica.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Adventures in Fuzzing Matrix’s Encryption

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/14/adventures-in-fuzzing-libolm

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

Alternative: A community software search engine

https://alternative-a.com/en/blog/v3release

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 38 comments

AirDrop Anywhere – Making it work on Windows

https://bakedbean.org.uk/posts/2021-06-airdrop-anywhere-part-4/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Why gold and Bitcoin are popular

https://www.lynalden.com/gold-and-bitcoin/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 182 comments

Stabel: A pure, concatenative and statically typed programming language

https://fossils.stabel-lang.org/compiler/technote/ac09a67207a9d59053492364dc586bc263ef71cf

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

Thailand bans meme coin and NFT: “no clear objective or substance or underlying”

https://www.engadget.com/thailand-bans-meme-coins-nft-113518980.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: macOS HNReader Application

https://github.com/mattrighetti/HNReaderApp

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: Can you think deeply in real time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27501730

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Playing the piano taught me math (2016)

https://xiaoyunyang.medium.com/how-playing-the-piano-taught-me-math-8917f84a4326

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Seizing the Middle: Chess Strategy in Business

https://fs.blog/2021/06/seizing-the-middle-chess-strategy-in-business/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

Analysing bird songs with Wigner transform

https://soundshader.github.io/hss/gallery/wigner

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Winners and losers of the work-from-home revolution

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/winners-losers-work-home-remote/619181/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools

https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/14/80-of-tech-could-be-built-outside-it-by-2024-thanks-to-low-code-tools/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 223 comments

US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57478076

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 126 comments

Code Observation: Clojure's Destructuring

https://danielgregoire.dev/posts/2021-06-13-code-observation-clojure-destructuring/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments
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