top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-06-24

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/

5 years ago

1279 upvotes – 672 comments

Google turned me into a serial killer

https://hristo-georgiev.com/google-turned-me-into-a-serial-killer

5 years ago

840 upvotes – 294 comments

Microsoft announces Windows 11

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22546791/microsoft-windows-11-announcement-features-updates

5 years ago

551 upvotes – 684 comments

Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 775 comments

Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27612894

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 194 comments

Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage

https://newsblur.com/

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 316 comments

Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status

https://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-and-sony-music-german-injunction-status/

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 227 comments

Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548428/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-support-amazon-store

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 277 comments

Facebook keeps recommending political groups

https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/06/24/after-repeatedly-promising-not-to-facebook-keeps-recommending-political-groups-to-its-users

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 248 comments

Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games

https://blog.system76.com/post/654884924769370112/developing-games-on-linux-an-interview-with

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 238 comments

Tiny Acquisitions

https://tinyacquisitions.com

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 167 comments

Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 90 comments

Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/its-true-stress-does-turn-hair-gray-and-its-reversible

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 132 comments

Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 353 comments

NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009567351/hubble-trouble-nasa-cant-figure-out-whats-causing-computer-issues-on-the-telesco

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 320 comments

YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/24/1027048/youtube-xinjiang-censorship-human-rights-atajurt/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 178 comments

Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-using-your-work-laptop-or-phone-for-personal-stuff-because-i-know-you-are/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 431 comments

No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/upshot/remote-work-innovation-office.html

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 238 comments

Bash PS1 Generator

http://bashrcgenerator.com/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 143 comments

Crazy Clock

https://www.tindie.com/products/nsayer/crazy-clock/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 89 comments
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