top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-06-26

Reddit’s disrespectful design

https://ognjen.io/reddits-disrespectful-design/

5 years ago

1278 upvotes – 496 comments

I spent 5 years writing my own operating system

https://github.com/halfer53/winix

5 years ago

939 upvotes – 144 comments

Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tvlauncher&showAllReviews=true

5 years ago

709 upvotes – 498 comments

YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-youtube-takes-down-xinjiang-videos-forces-rights-group-seek-2021-06-25/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 245 comments

CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/26/1009817539/he-inherited-a-devastating-disease-a-crispr-gene-editing-breakthrough-stopped-it

5 years ago

600 upvotes – 234 comments

Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/

5 years ago

572 upvotes – 304 comments

So you want to build a house more efficiently

https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/construction.html

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 480 comments

The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 267 comments

Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whatever-happened-to-ui-affordances/

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 203 comments

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 270 comments

Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 248 comments

Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 349 comments

Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05968

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-admits-to-signing-rootkit-malware-in-supply-chain-fiasco/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27644387

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 293 comments

Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/26/22550981/carl-bergstrom-joe-bak-coleman-biologists-ecologists-social-media-risk-humanity-research-academics

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 189 comments

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 74 comments

When it comes to Git history, less is more

https://brennan.io/2021/06/15/git-less-is-more/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 122 comments

The Book of Secret Knowledge

https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 31 comments

One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades

https://www.livescience.com/bee-creates-perfect-clone-army.html

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 25 comments
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