top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-06-17

I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

https://gentlydownthe.stream/

5 years ago

1797 upvotes – 226 comments

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com/

5 years ago

607 upvotes – 153 comments

Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ohio-republicans-close-to-imposing-near-total-ban-on-municipal-broadband/

5 years ago

577 upvotes – 394 comments

Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python

https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 181 comments

The Document Culture of Amazon

https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-culture-of-amazon/

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 210 comments

The collapse of the IRON stable coin

https://irony-97882.medium.com/the-melting-of-iron-89469b01e083

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 484 comments

Rethinking Triplebyte

https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 448 comments

PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/681907

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 407 comments

The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)

http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2016/02/02/qotd-the-hair-dryer-incident/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 263 comments

Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 113 comments

1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedel-1931-founder-theoretical-computer-science-AI.html

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 296 comments

Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests

https://reprieve.org/uk/2021/06/15/saudi-arabia-executes-mustafa-al-darwish-for-teenage-protests/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 162 comments

Cool URIs don't change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 140 comments

Io_uring is not an event system

https://despairlabs.com/posts/2021-06-16-io-uring-is-not-an-event-system/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 134 comments

After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 338 comments

ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/raidz-expansion-code-lands-in-openzfs-master/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 193 comments

Apology

https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Apology.html

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 256 comments

In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance

https://restofworld.org/2021/argentina-netbooks-music/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 169 comments

Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut

https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-appstore-will-reduce-developer-revenue-cut-from-30-to-20-and-give-10-in-free-aws-credit/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 108 comments

What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

https://www.simplanations.in/p/ipo-1

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 17 comments
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