top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-18

80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/16/cybereason-80-of-orgs-that-paid-the-ransom-were-hit-again/

4 years ago

736 upvotes – 373 comments

Brave, the false sensation of privacy

http://ebin.city/%7Ewerwolf/posts/brave-is-shit/

4 years ago

617 upvotes – 486 comments

HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1405682888545349635

4 years ago

565 upvotes – 331 comments

TDD from the Factorio Team

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366

4 years ago

457 upvotes – 303 comments

HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kongs-apple-daily-newspaper-says-police-arrest-five-directors-2021-06-16

4 years ago

446 upvotes – 233 comments

StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

4 years ago

434 upvotes – 49 comments

SNES – Super Mario World Widescreen

https://github.com/VitorVilela7/wide-snes

4 years ago

431 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548204

4 years ago

303 upvotes – 476 comments

Oregon has legalized human composting

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xz3j/oregon-has-legalized-human-composting

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 233 comments

Verkle Trees

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 47 comments

Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/

4 years ago

246 upvotes – 192 comments

Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply

https://peewee.com/2021/06/18/rest-in-peace-john-paragon/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 39 comments

DenoDB

https://github.com/eveningkid/denodb

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 216 comments

I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/car-accident-brain-injury/619227/

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 181 comments

Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly

https://control.com/news/mars-helicopter-employs-advanced-control-techniques-to-survive-an-in-flight-anomaly/

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 97 comments

AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 164 comments

It appears that Reddit is forcing me to use their app to see deep linked content

https://twitter.com/stevenhubertron/status/1405956220976910339

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 165 comments

Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

Hasura GraphQL Engine and SQL Server

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/architecture/sql-server.md

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

https://steez.news

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 70 comments

.NET 6 Preview 5

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-5/

4 years ago

170 upvotes – 236 comments

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (1978)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 129 comments

Minimum Viable Self

https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 73 comments

Amazon’s HR Failures

https://amazonchronicles.substack.com/p/amazons-staggering-hr-failures

4 years ago

160 upvotes – 141 comments

Launch HN: Hedgehog (YC S21) – Cryptocurrency Portfolio Manager

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27550255

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 137 comments

There is no “us” in team

https://www.sicpers.info/2021/06/there-is-no-us-in-team/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 65 comments

There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/o2a0kp/there_are_at_least_10_different_microsoft_design/

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 133 comments

Disney Claims Trademark over Loki

https://twitter.com/YourBoswell/status/1405622998313455618/photo/1

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 139 comments

Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

https://www.memorysafety.org/

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 122 comments

Stride Game Engine

https://stride3d.net/download/

4 years ago

129 upvotes – 143 comments

Kazakhstan’s forest is the birthplace of modern apples

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181120-the-birthplace-of-the-modern-apple

4 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 202 comments

BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 64 comments

From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer

https://blog.alexqua.ch/posts/from-nand-to-raytracer/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-evolution-led-to-an-extreme-thirst-for-water/

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 137 comments

Woodsat: A Space Agency Will Launch a Tiny, Wooden Satellite

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007106908/plywood-satellite-wood-woodsat-european-space-agency-esa

4 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Coreutils Gotchas (2015)

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Rust is not a company

https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-is-not-a-company/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 80 comments

Exposing Tether [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 90 comments

Thirty Tesla crashes linked to assisted driving system under investigation in US

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/18/thirty-tesla-crashes-linked-to-assisted-driving-system-under-investigation-in-us

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Saying Goodbye to Android 2.3 Gingerbread

https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-android-2.3-gingerbread.html

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2021/06/17/licenses-and-social-norms/

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 127 comments

Antikernel: A Decentralized Secure Operating System Architecture (2016) [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/550.pdf

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

How to end up with 500k commits in your log

https://www.arp242.net/500k-commits.html

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 55 comments

How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the war on drugs

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1004476457/war-on-drugs-the-wire-miami-vice-orange-is-the-new-black-dragnet-law-and-order

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 79 comments

Commodore 64 and Raspberry Pi 4 = Synth6581

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/commodore-64-raspberry-pi-4-synth6581/

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Projects for learning a language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549463

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 60 comments

Can *YOU* blow a PC speaker using only a Linux kernel driver?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/06/18/can-you-blow-a-pc-speaker-using-only-a-linux-kernel-driver/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/books/review/republic-of-detours-scott-borchert.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

A Juror’s Guide to Going Rogue

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2021/05/a-jurors-guide-to-going-rogue/

4 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Tesla’s ‘Knight Rider’ Steering Yoke Is Getting Panned in Early Reviews

https://www.thedrive.com/news/41161/teslas-knight-rider-steering-yoke-is-getting-panned-in-early-reviews

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 62 comments
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