top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-25

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

https://userinyerface.com/

5 years ago

Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408507323031592964

5 years ago

Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/25/blood-test-that-finds-50-types-of-cancer-is-accurate-enough-to-be-rolled-out

5 years ago

I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern

https://www.peachesnstink.com/p/6pJoCuczOj8cxCUQDMlfQv

5 years ago

Nvidia Canvas

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/studio/canvas/

5 years ago

“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/18/153

5 years ago

Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-cook-onions-why-recipe-writers-lie-and-lie-about-how-long-they-take-to-caramelize.html

5 years ago

Open Source Farming Robot

https://farm.bot/

5 years ago

As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1007914455/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit

5 years ago

Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/bflat

5 years ago

Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/hacker-smart-meter-texas-snowstorm/

5 years ago

Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoAndDeprecatingGoGet

5 years ago

Burnout Is Real

https://twitter.com/denvercoder/status/1407540584223440897

5 years ago

Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL (2020)

https://hoverbear.org/blog/postgresql-hierarchical-structures/

5 years ago

Goodbye C++, Hello C

https://momentsingraphics.de/ToyRenderer1KeepItSimple.html

5 years ago

Group Video Calls

https://telegram.org/blog/group-video-calls

5 years ago

Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/take-control-over-your-data-with-rally-a-novel-privacy-first-data-sharing-platform/

5 years ago

Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown

https://community.wd.com/t/help-all-data-in-mybook-live-gone-and-owner-password-unknown/268111

5 years ago

Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27627381

5 years ago

The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-instant-flash-to-the-past/

5 years ago

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2223-preliminary-assessment-unidentified-aerial-phenomena

5 years ago

Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636743

5 years ago

Microsoft's Introduction to Rust Video Course

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrxD0HtieHjbTjrchBwOVks_sr8EVW1x#

5 years ago

Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor

https://v2.onivim.io

5 years ago

Chemical space is really big (2014)

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemical-space-is-big-really-big/7899.article

5 years ago

AWS acquires Wickr

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-welcomes-wickr-to-the-team/

5 years ago

The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem

https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1001964/the-miami-condo-collapse-is-a-devastating-reminder-of-americas-landfill

5 years ago

Star Citizen Progress Tracker v1.0

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/progress-tracker/teams

5 years ago

Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot

https://allthings.how/how-to-install-windows-11-on-legacy-bios-without-secure-boot-or-tpm-2-0/

5 years ago

QUIC at Snapchat

https://eng.snap.com/quic-at-snap

5 years ago

AWS BugBust

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/aws-announces-aws-bugbust/

5 years ago

Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635613

5 years ago

Moving from Hey to Fastmail

https://blog.francocorrea.com/posts/moving-from-hey-to-fastmail

5 years ago

The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies

https://acoup.blog/2021/06/25/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-ii-citizens-and-allies/

5 years ago

A man whose software ate the world

https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-man-whose-software-ate-the-world

5 years ago

OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world

https://github.com/stevage/opentrees

5 years ago

Private Gmail and Docs alternatives: Proton, Skiff, and more

https://www.fastcompany.com/90649563/google-gmail-docs-drive-privacy-alternatives

5 years ago

Notes on streaming large API responses

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jun/25/streaming-large-api-responses/

5 years ago

Where did my 256 GB go? Mobile storage Analysis [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460095

5 years ago

Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html

5 years ago

Deep dive into plastic monomers, additives, and processing aids

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c00976

5 years ago

Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628296

5 years ago

Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound

5 years ago

New type of ancient human discovered in Israel

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57586315

5 years ago

Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech?

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-did-congress-just-vote-to-break

5 years ago

Intel to Create RISC-V Dev Platform with SiFive P550 Cores on 7nm in 2022

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16780/intel-to-create-riscv-development-platform-with-sifive-p550-cores-on-7nm-in-2022

5 years ago

EvalAI: An Open-Source Alternative to Kaggle

https://eval.ai/

5 years ago

Onyx Boox Mira Pro is a 25 inch E INK Monitor

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-mira-pro-is-a-25-inch-e-ink-monitor

5 years ago

Correctly implementing a spinlock in Modern C++

https://rigtorp.se/spinlock/

5 years ago

Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake

https://finbold.com/panasonic-dumps-its-entire-3-6-billion-tesla-stake/

5 years ago

Final Fantasy remasters reignite controversies over pixel art

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj83yp/final-fantasy-remasters-reignite-controversies-over-pixel-art

5 years ago

How to outsource marketing for your side project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27634540

5 years ago

Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/viralpolitics

5 years ago

Ask HN: LinkedIn suggesting I connect with my infertility doctor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27634920

5 years ago

JWT Tokens are NOT safe

https://redislabs.com/blog/json-web-tokens-jwt-are-dangerous-for-user-sessions/

5 years ago

Starting with Kafka

https://blog.tinybird.co/2021/06/25/starting-with-kafka/

5 years ago

NATO is looking to connect with startups

https://sifted.eu/articles/nato-war-startups/

5 years ago

Can Northvolt solve Europe’s impending electric car battery problem?

https://sifted.eu/articles/northvolt-raise/

5 years ago

MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/mybook-users-urged-to-unplug-devices-from-internet/

5 years ago

ATM NFC Hack

https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hack-nfc-bugs-point-of-sale/

5 years ago

Why the text terminal cursor is important for accessibility

https://blind.guru/blog/2021-06-25-brick.html

5 years ago

Lamport Clock

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/lamport-clock.html

5 years ago

81% of developers admit to knowingly releasing vulnerable apps – research

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/25/application_vulnerability_epidemic/

5 years ago

Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgrowing/

5 years ago

Ask HN: What's your experience working for a YC backed startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636593

5 years ago