top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-29

GitHub Copilot

https://copilot.github.com/

5 years ago

2905 upvotes – 1272 comments

How to Work Hard

http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html

5 years ago

1223 upvotes – 1124 comments

A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database

https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/

5 years ago

554 upvotes – 264 comments

Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/bring-back-menus-end-qr-codes.html?via=rss

5 years ago

527 upvotes – 710 comments

Stepping Back from Speaking

https://martinfowler.com/articles/202106-reducing-speaking.html

5 years ago

517 upvotes – 127 comments

Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood

https://github.com/irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec

5 years ago

498 upvotes – 174 comments

New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-users/

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 151 comments

Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ohio-gop-ends-attempt-to-ban-municipal-broadband-after-protest-from-residents/

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 255 comments

MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U

https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629

5 years ago

422 upvotes – 197 comments

Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-57645016

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 275 comments

HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests

https://asiatimes.com/2021/06/hk-media-erase-their-archives-amid-rising-arrests/

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 323 comments

Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt1

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 220 comments

What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/29/what-mrna-is-good-for-and-what-it-maybe-isnt

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 138 comments

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 289 comments

Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network

https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 83 comments

Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained

https://death.andgravity.com/stdlib

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 43 comments

An Elixir adoption success story

https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/an-elixir-adoption-success-story/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 200 comments

Shorting Bitcoin

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/06/26/Shorting-Bitcoin

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 317 comments

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/hackers-exploited-0-day-not-2018-bug-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 97 comments

An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/06/an-epyc-escape-case-study-of-kvm.html

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 40 comments

Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/walmart-unveils-low-price-analog-insulin-amid-rising-diabetes-drug-costs.html

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 214 comments

NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised

https://ddosecrets.substack.com/p/exclusive-nato-classified-cloud-platform

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 116 comments

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03738-2

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 343 comments

Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS

https://pawelurbanek.com/ipfs-ethereum-blog

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 103 comments

I loved jQuery, and still do (2019)

https://withblue.ink/2019/04/12/i-loved-jquery-and-still-do.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 182 comments

Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671376

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 231 comments

Beets: the music geek’s media organizer

https://beets.io/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

Bob's Game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game#

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 83 comments

Command Line Interface for Signal

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 71 comments

Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210628-concrete-the-material-that-defines-our-age

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 253 comments

Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed damage in garage

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article252421658.html

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 120 comments

Neeva Announces Public Availability of Its Ads Free, Private Search Engine

https://neeva.com/blog/neeva-announces-public-availability

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

I still use plain text for everything. (2016)

https://lifehacker.com/i-still-use-plain-text-for-everything-and-i-love-it-1758380840

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 149 comments

Building a DIY Smart Doorbell

https://buzzert.net/posts/2021-05-09-doorbell

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 71 comments

LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, inferred salaries

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/29/linkedin-breach/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/28/announcing-arm64ec-building-native-and-interoperable-apps-for-windows-11-on-arm/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 96 comments

A sharp-eyed scientist became biology’s image detective

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-sharp-eyed-scientist-became-biologys-image-detective

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/kubernetes_spend_report/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

Hierapolis, Turkey's mysterious 'portal to the underworld'

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210629-turkeys-mysterious-portal-to-the-underworld

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA

https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 139 comments

Cities Are Not Loud: Cars Are Loud, and Places Without Cars Are Quiet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 137 comments

Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)

https://www.moxio.com/blog/43/ignoring-bulk-change-commits-with-git-blame

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Our plans to improve navigation on Gov.uk

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/17/our-plans-to-improve-navigation-on-gov-uk/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments

Maps Of Matter

https://futureofmatter.com/maps_of_matter.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 65 comments

The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2 (2015)

https://tamikothiel.com/cm/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 58 comments

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the Internet (2020)

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/why-is-ethernet-mtu-1500

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

The web browser I'm dreaming of

https://dustri.org/b/the-web-browser-im-dreaming-of.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 113 comments

Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210616-funazushi-the-fermented-predecessor-of-modern-sushi?utm_source=bengtan&utm_medium=email

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/physicists-confirm-two-cases-of-elusive-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Changing how I review code

https://itnext.io/im-changing-how-i-review-code-dbf212507e5f

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 77 comments

Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555371/microsoft-windows-11-cpu-support-hardware-requirements-tpm-response

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 91 comments

Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments (1997)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/electronic-lottery-tickets-as-micropayments

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Chinese censorship, surveillance found at Australian universities – rights group

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-censorship-surveillance-found-australian-universities-rights-group-2021-06-29/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

GitHub Copilot: Your AI Pair Programmer

https://copilot.github.com

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments
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