top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-20

Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1281540/amazon-lethal-for-career-think-100-times-before-you-join-amazon

5 years ago

962 upvotes – 552 comments

Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-unstable-s-iso-minimal-x86-64-linux-is-100-reproducible/13723

5 years ago

778 upvotes – 225 comments

A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years

https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/83645454#36493

5 years ago

638 upvotes – 309 comments

Internet in a Box

http://internet-in-a-box.org/

5 years ago

620 upvotes – 139 comments

What every programmer should know about SSDs

https://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2021/06/what-every-programmer-should-know-about.html

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 158 comments

The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon

https://chrislaing.net/blog/the-memo/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 130 comments

Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/bee-friendly-urban-wildflower-meadows-prove-a-hit-with-german-city-dwellers

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 117 comments

AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

https://altstore.io/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 215 comments

LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor

https://deepnight.itch.io/ldtk

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 54 comments

Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy

https://www.matecdev.com/posts/numpy-julia-fortran.html

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 232 comments

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger

https://share.streamlit.io/pinecone-io/playground/hacker_news/src/server.py

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 215 comments

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

https://zkp.science/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 66 comments

Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 112 comments

Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/insurance/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 240 comments

4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 148 comments

Ask HN: Do software engineers have leverage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569539

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 199 comments

Watchy: Open-source E-Paper Watch with ESP32

https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 64 comments

Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism

https://blog.evjang.com/2021/06/nft.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 253 comments

Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer, as Vehicle Age Hits 12 Years

https://www.wsj.com/articles/average-u-s-vehicle-age-hits-record-12-years-11623680640

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 420 comments

Microsoft have signed multiple rootkits

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1405805536403243009

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 25 comments

Path Tracing Quake in Blender

http://matthewearl.github.io/2021/06/20/quake-blender/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (2010)

http://zsync.moria.org.uk/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 28 comments

MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57528249

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 213 comments

Is Julia Really Fast?

https://medium.com/codex/is-julia-really-fast-12cd7caef96b

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

Obvious and possible software innovations

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/obvious-and-possible-software-innovations-nobody-does/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 149 comments

Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-rc1-release/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 64 comments

Gramps – Free Genealogy Software

https://gramps-project.org

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 194 comments

Common Lisp Books

https://lisp-lang.org/books/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

XUAN-Bike: Self-riding, riderless bike

https://github.com/peng-zhihui/XUAN-Bike

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

My experiments with sprouting legumes

https://www.upgrademyfood.com/sprouting-legumes/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 75 comments

SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/introducing-slsa-end-to-end-framework.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/unitrees-go1-robot-dog-looks-pretty-great-costs-just-usd-2700

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 126 comments

Postgres to TypeScript Interfaces and Enums

https://github.com/vramework/schemats

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 64 comments

Haunting Photos Reveal an Abandoned Town of Disneyesque Castles

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/haunting-photos-reveal-massive-abandoned-town-disneyesque-castles

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Ransomware attack payments might be tax deductible, says US government

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/ransomware-attack-payments-might-be-tax-deductible-says-us-government

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

Our journey from office-centric to remote-first

https://www.docker.com/blog/our-journey-from-office-centric-to-remote-first/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

Many companies want remote workers, except from Colorado

https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-companies-want-remote-workersexcept-from-colorado-11623937649

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

Polygon: L2 or Not L2?

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-polygon-l2-or-not-l2

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Reading Grossman's “Stalingrad” and ”Life and Fate”

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-21

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (1974)

http://www.nwmangum.com/Kodak/Rochester.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

So Long Autodesk Shotgun

https://thejackjam.medium.com/so-long-autodesk-shotgun-32fb3da74f55

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk (2013)

https://robohub.org/swiss-robots-cubli-a-cube-that-can-jump-up-balance-and-walk-across-your-desk/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: AES67 Stream Monitor – An app to monitor audio over IP streams

https://aes67.app/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma

https://www.westword.com/news/alan-turing-enigma-british-codebreaker-homeland-security-colorado-11996659

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Browsers Decode Images Differently

https://bien.ee/image-decoding-differences-between-browsers/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments
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