top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-27

Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat

https://www.mumble.info/

5 years ago

591 upvotes – 248 comments

Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/

5 years ago

521 upvotes – 391 comments

Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions

https://commonsware.com/blog/2021/06/26/windows-11-amazon-uncomfortable-questions.html

5 years ago

464 upvotes – 243 comments

Let's code a TCP/IP stack (2016)

https://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-arp/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650775

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 71 comments

The Unison Programming Language

https://www.unisonweb.org/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 131 comments

Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna

https://www.dw.com/en/cubas-covid-vaccine-rivals-biontech-pfizer-moderna/a-58052365

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 382 comments

Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 148 comments

Binance banned from doing business in UK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-27/u-k-financial-regulator-bars-crypto-exchange-binance

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 270 comments

Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

https://nbailey.ca/post/win11-will-create-trash/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 335 comments

Avoiding Complexity with Systemd

https://mgdm.net/weblog/systemd/

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 347 comments

Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible

https://multilogin.com/why-mimicking-a-device-is-almost-impossible/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 212 comments

The economics of dollar stores

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-dollar-stores

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 214 comments

Why wood has gotten so dang expensive

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/lumber-price-faq

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 143 comments

x86 Bare Metal Examples: Minimal operating systems, learn x86 system programming

https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How to learn how to sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653357

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 126 comments

Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine

https://gizmodo.com/canada-to-make-online-hate-speech-a-crime-punishable-by-1847163213

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 298 comments

World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis

https://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2021/06-18/acoustic.html

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 50 comments

CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler

https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 123 comments

ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others”

https://doctorow.medium.com/isp-announces-86-slowdown-in-line-with-others-d0884df51fc1

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 209 comments

Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/michelin-puffy-sails-cargo-ships-improve-fuel-economy#.YNezQMYEw4I.twitter

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 108 comments

Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/privacy-students

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 90 comments

Tips for Better Signup / Login UX

https://learnui.design/blog/tips-signup-login-ux.html

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: What should I say to my manager when my performance starts suffering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650550

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 156 comments

Roblox on Linux with recent Wine 6.11

https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Roblox_on_Linux

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 117 comments

Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 777X certification

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/citing-a-serious-flight-test-incident-and-lack-of-design-maturity-faa-slows-boeing-777x-certification/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 157 comments

Confessions of a serial startup software developer

https://betterprogramming.pub/dont-write-code-for-a-startup-1eead038c372

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 84 comments

Protein found in robins’ eyes has all the hallmarks of a magnetoreceptor

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/new-study-fuels-debate-about-source-of-birds-magnetic-sense-68917

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 50 comments

Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1871406

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 278 comments

Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood

https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2021/06/crazeh-conclusions-in-early-childhood.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

Lambda Calculus Examples (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/teaching/inf212W12/readings/lambda-calculus-handout.pdf

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 18 comments

Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57624942

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 95 comments

The Unlikely Survival of the 1,081 Year-Old Redwood El Palo Alto

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/palo-alto-redwood.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Near

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pOhaaFh998B0kyc5Sm4IhlhIp1c9t5gDNTVVPaiJgI/preview?pru=AAABenOWZRw*12os1nsp8s--b2cIT-LqCA#

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 2 comments

Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)

https://danilafe.com/blog/math_rendering_is_wrong/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 85 comments

Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/van-gogh-found-tucked-into-a-novel

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 16 comments

Typed Programs Don't Leak Data

https://dodisturb.me/posts/2021-06-27-Typed-Programs-Dont-Leak-Data.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

No Space Left to Run: China's Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

https://uhrp.org/report/no-space-left-to-run-chinas-transnational-repression-of-uyghurs/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 59 comments

Secure Messaging, Anywhere

https://briarproject.org/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

https://rr-tw5.github.io/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 97 comments

Interactive Periodic Table

https://ptable.com/#Properties

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

A Pure HTTP/3 Alternative to MQTT-over-QUIC in Resource-Constrained IoT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12684

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

Turbo Rascal Syntax Error

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

The parallel universe of FireWire hubs

https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-parallel-universe-of-firewire-hubs.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 60 comments

Curated Code CAD (2020)

https://learn.cadhub.xyz/blog/curated-code-cad/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani unveils $10B green energy push

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/24/asias-richest-man-mukesh-ambani-unveils-10bn-green-energy-pus

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

OpenSmalltalk – Cross-platform virtual machine for Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, Newspeak

https://opensmalltalk.org/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 7 comments

Groundbreaking new bridge design could transform rail crossings across the UK

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/06/groundbreaking-new-bridge-design-could-transform-rail-crossings-across-the-uk.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 90 comments

Reverse-engineering the Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm track format

https://gitlab.com/mpiroot/rideau/-/blob/master/re/re.md

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

The Sandia Cooler (2016)

https://ip.sandia.gov/technology.do/techID=66

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Sonoluminescence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Austin cyclists split on sharing bike lanes with pizza delivery robots

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2021/06/24/401460/austin-cyclists-split-on-sharing-bike-lanes-with-pizza-delivery-robots/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 155 comments

Circling–or cycling–the track at F1’s famous Circuit of the Americas

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/circling-or-cycling-the-track-at-f1s-famous-circuit-of-the-americas/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments
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