top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-15

Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/15-universities-have-formed-company-looks-lot-patent-troll

5 years ago

815 upvotes – 232 comments

Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth

https://utopia.app/

5 years ago

750 upvotes – 171 comments

Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/

5 years ago

685 upvotes – 683 comments

The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-quiet-rise-of-e-ink-tablets-and-infinite-paper-note-takers-remarkable-2-vs-onyx-boox-note-air

5 years ago

601 upvotes – 521 comments

Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

https://digiday.com/media/amazon-is-blocking-googles-floc-and-that-could-seriously-weaken-the-fledgling-tracking-system/

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 231 comments

Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

http://shadyurl.com/create.php

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 91 comments

How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632#how_opt_out&zippy=

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 491 comments

Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2021/06/13/avoid-news-part-2-what-the-stock-market-taught-me-about-news/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 356 comments

Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game

http://cintrest.com/influence/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 112 comments

Europe's Software Problem

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europes-software-problem/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 565 comments

We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories

https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 229 comments

Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule

https://www.axios.com/hospitals-price-transparency-costs-regulations-noncompliance-ebf6bd21-5709-4298-b67a-74c8a90a1ec1.html

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 235 comments

Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006934154/senate-unanimously-approves-a-bill-to-make-juneteenth-a-public-holiday

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 286 comments

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)

https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 150 comments

Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network

https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_suicide

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 146 comments

Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (2018)

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/richard-feynmans-integral-trick-e7afae85e25c

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 139 comments

Next.js 11

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-11

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 121 comments

Emacs Love Tale by sdp

https://emacs.love/tales/emacs-love-tale-by-sdp.html

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 88 comments

Note Taking in 2021

http://blog.dornea.nu/2021/06/13/note-taking-in-2021/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 205 comments

Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo

https://www.gq.com/story/johnny-knoxvilles-last-rodeo/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 130 comments

Linux with “memory folios”: a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 158 comments

Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27514005

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 384 comments

RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)

https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 63 comments

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1993)

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 258 comments

Why bugs might feel “impossible”

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/06/08/reasons-why-bugs-might-feel-impossible/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 126 comments

Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage

https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/southwest-airlines-grounds-all-flights-amid-computer-outage/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 176 comments

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-supreme-court-revives-linkedin-bid-shield-personal-data-2021-06-14/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 83 comments

What we learned doing Fast Grants

https://future.com/what-we-learned-doing-fast-grants/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 100 comments

Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD (2012)

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/operation-midnight-climax-how-the-cia-dosed-s-f-citizens-with-lsd/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 95 comments

Cue, an open-source data validation language

https://cuelang.org/docs/about/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 71 comments

Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/top-eu-court-says-national-watchdogs-may-act-against-violations-blow-facebook-2021-06-15/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 150 comments

U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/gallup-us-workers-are-among-the-most-stressed-in-the-world.html

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 191 comments

On Comments in Code

https://henrikwarne.com/2021/06/15/on-comments-in-code/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 232 comments

DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations

https://hindenburgresearch.com/draftkings/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 100 comments

Finish Your Stuff (2015)

https://250bpm.com/blog:50/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 68 comments

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-15/airbnb-spends-millions-making-nightmares-at-live-anywhere-rentals-go-away

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 227 comments

A pencil sharpener that creates a never-ending pencil (2015)

https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/04/01/tsunago-sharpener-never-ending-pencil/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 63 comments

Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57443598

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 446 comments

NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-offers-new-evidence-early-sars-cov-2-infections-us

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 284 comments

Lina Khan, Big Tech Critic, Will Lead the FTC

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006807299/lina-khan-prominent-big-tech-critic-will-lead-the-ftc

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

Spatial Audio

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2021/06/11/spatial-audio/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 136 comments

Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals

https://github.com/jamii/dida

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

Modelplace: AI Model Marketplace by OpenCV

https://modelplace.ai

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

A New Era for Mechanical CAD

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3469844

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 107 comments

The state of the Linux kernel security (2020)

https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects/blob/main/presentations/The_state_of_the_Linux_kernel_security.pdf

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Critical entities targeted in suspected Chinese cyber spying

https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-hacking-technology-business-7350235e07d46ba5afc1238b553ea4b9

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization

https://joplinapp.org/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 74 comments

Well-behaved bubbles often make history

https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovation/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 127 comments

Next.js Live: Code in the Browser with ESM, ServiceWorkers, Replicache, and WASM

http://nextjs.org/live

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Future from a16z

https://future.a16z.com/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57484720

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Launch HN: Axolo (YC W21) – Faster pull requests and code reviews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515468

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 56 comments

Time to sunburn

https://deepnote.com/@daniel-zvara-036a/Time-to-sunburn-73Bmeo76QwO33IxA3GYGcQ

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: fcp – A significantly faster alternative to cp(1), written in Rust

https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 102 comments

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions – outline (2013)

https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

The UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/15/silicon-valley-of-turf-uk-perfect-football-pitch

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Freenode resets its IRC network, drops all channels and accounts

https://www.devever.net/%7Ehl/freenode_suicide

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

A strong commitment to backwards compatibility means keeping your mistakes

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/MistakesAndBackwardCompatibility

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

Tailwindo: Convert Your Bootstrap CSS to Tailwind CSS

https://awssat.com/opensource/tailwindo/1_introduction.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-search-engine-qwant-huawei-bailout-loan/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments

Failure in Tech Journalism: Getting the Truth about Antivirus Software

https://raywoodcockslatest.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/bitdefender-criticism/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Mackenzie Scott gives away another £2B

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57487967

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments
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