top 50% 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

Biochemical Pathway Maps

http://biochemical-pathways.com

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

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

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 17 comments

CaribouLite: Turn any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR

https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 77 comments

How many flies are in my apartment?

https://saml98.github.io/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/flies.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 152 comments

ASCIIFlow Diagram Tool

https://asciiflow.com/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Become a Bad Developer

https://rafaelquintanilha.com/how-to-become-a-bad-developer/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540941

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 356 comments

Wasmer 2.0

https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-2.0

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 56 comments

U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-reverse-repo/u-s-fed-accepts-755-8-bln-in-daily-reverse-repo-operation-ny-fed-idUSAQN04ASM9

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 171 comments

On Depression and Founders

https://startupstrats.substack.com/p/dont-kill-yourself

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 137 comments

Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product

https://www.eesel.app/blog/your-product-is-a-joke

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: GraphCDN – GraphQL CDN with edge caching and analytics

https://graphcdn.io/blog/announcing-graphcdn

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 98 comments

Microsoft Ubuntu repositories are broken because of space issues

https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/6381

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Rust 1.53

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/06/17/Rust-1.53.0.html

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 95 comments

How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)

https://www.figma.com/blog/design-on-a-deadline-how-notion-pulled-itself-back-from-the-brink-of-failure/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 129 comments

Gleam 0.16 compiles to JavaScript

https://gleam.run/news/v0.16-gleam-compiles-to-javascript/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 24 comments

Neo4j raises $325M series F

https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-announces-seriesf-funding/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 133 comments

Six ways to make async Rust easier

https://carllerche.com/2021/06/17/six-ways-to-make-async-rust-easier/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

General Fusion to build demonstration plant in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57512229

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 192 comments

Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus headsets

https://www.reuters.com/technology/virtual-reality-ads-make-their-way-facebooks-oculus-headsets-2021-06-16/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 189 comments

Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syria-exam-related-internet-shutdowns/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 110 comments

Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL

https://plaid.com/blog/exploring-performance-differences-between-amazon-aurora-and-vanilla-mysql

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak (2020)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 67 comments

Designing a better strcpy

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/04/12/designing-a-better-strcpy/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 120 comments

Useful and useless code comments

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/useful-and-usless-code-comments/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 178 comments

Why I Support the Haskell Foundation

https://cdsmithus.medium.com/why-i-support-the-haskell-foundation-1ac3cda1f82f

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Write a Programming Book

https://cscalfani.medium.com/how-to-write-a-programming-book-76ab4f8a7071

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

China Launches First Crew to Live on New Space Station

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007471106/china-launches-first-crew-to-live-on-new-space-station

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 96 comments

In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (2015)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ignaz-semmelweis-doctor-prescribed-hand-washing

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 51 comments

Stripe Terminal

https://stripe.com/terminal

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

Micro-Habits of Effective Managers

https://review.firstround.com/the-25-micro-habits-of-high-impact-managers

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

TheHarvester: Emails, subdomains and names harvester for OSINT

https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/criminals-are-mailing-hacked-ledger-devices-to-steal-cryptocurrency/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Selfish vs. selfless: self-promotion in communities

https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/selfish-vs-selfless-self-promotion-in-communities/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Amazon burns through workers so quickly, they'll run out of people to employ

https://www.yahoo.com/news/amazon-burns-workers-quickly-executives-133348404.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

Typed Pipes in Every Shell

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/typed_pipes_in_every_shell/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

I will never not talk about my depression

https://annaschueth.com/?p=428

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 118 comments

Where Are Pixels? – A Deep Learning Perspective

https://ppwwyyxx.com/blog/2021/Where-are-Pixels/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

What does First Normal Form mean?

https://www.cargocultcode.com/what-does-first-normal-form-mean/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 121 comments

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [video]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments
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