top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-06-30

A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING

5 years ago

2682 upvotes – 602 comments

GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?

https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410037309848752128

5 years ago

1028 upvotes – 459 comments

SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3917

5 years ago

803 upvotes – 178 comments

Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc

5 years ago

772 upvotes – 319 comments

Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1409576956828405760

5 years ago

666 upvotes – 443 comments

Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations

https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 119 comments

‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/more-people-plan-to-quit-as-return-to-work-plans-go-into-effect-.html

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 512 comments

Software estimation is hard – do it anyway

https://jacobian.org/2021/may/20/estimation/

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 230 comments

Software Engineering principles to make teams better

https://principles.dev/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 102 comments

Modular Homes for Under $50k

https://www.boxabl.com/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 333 comments

OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/30/openstreetmap-looks-to-relocate-to-eu-due-to-brexit-limitations

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 67 comments

Globally Distributed Postgres

https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 107 comments

Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 211 comments

Move fast, but understand the problem first

https://jacobobryant.com/blog/understand/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 51 comments

Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 302 comments

1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2021/06/brief-everything-we-know-about-1970s.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 90 comments

A curated list of books on Software Architecture

https://github.com/mhadidg/software-architecture-books

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 58 comments

Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/broker-robinhood-pay-70-mln-systemic-supervisory-failures-2021-06-30/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 237 comments

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2020)

https://johz.bearblog.dev/book-review-philosophy-software-design/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 61 comments

Pop_OS 21.04

https://blog.system76.com/post/655369428109869056/popos-2104-a-release-of-cosmic-proportions

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 165 comments

Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/federal-targeting-of-americans-records-is-routine-microsoft-exec-testifies/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 51 comments

Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/heat-dome-record-breaking-heatwave-pacific-northwest-canada-united-states-mk/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 293 comments

Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s

https://madned.substack.com/p/black-hat-exploits-of-the-stupid

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 106 comments

Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA

https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/accessible-quality

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 188 comments

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 148 comments

Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/30/os-x-lion-mountain-lion-free-to-download/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 69 comments

How Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/nda-amazon-google-facebook.html

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: An interactive visual history of Git development

https://git-history.jpalmer.dev/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 22 comments

Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets

https://zitadel.ch/blog/treat-clusters-as-cattle/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 134 comments

The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles under his house (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 17 comments

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 10 comments

Data notation in Clojure

https://ostash.dev/posts/2021-06-24-edn-data-notation/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

NASA Space Tourism Posters

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/682/space-tourism-posters/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator (2020)

https://nicholasreese.com/lessons-from-building-a-static-site-generator/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Success in reversing dementia in mice sets the stage for human clinical trials

https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/eversing_dementia_stage_set_for_human_clinical_trials.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple still planning return to in-person work despite complaints

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/30/apple-still-plans-return-to-in-person-work/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 159 comments

Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/these-ancient-weights-helped-create-europe-s-first-free-market-more-3000-years-ago

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 36 comments

Goldman seems to be running networking software from 2008

http://gs.com./

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

Io_uring is not (only) a generic asynchronous syscall facility

https://fancl20.github.io/contents/00-posts/2021-06-30-io_uring-is-not-only-a-generic-asynchronous-syscall-facility.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Hardware Memory Models

https://research.swtch.com/hwmm

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple's DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/06/29/apple-docc-great-but-useless-for-oss/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

We're Levels.fyi, the most accurate resource for tech salaries, ask us anything

https://tldr.tech/ama/levels-fyi

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 109 comments

Functional, declarative audio applications

https://www.nickwritesablog.com/functional-declarative-audio-applications/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 4

https://twitter.com/shichinomiya_s/status/1409891589707636741

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

Yale Drama goes tuition-free with $150m gift from David Geffen

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/theater/yale-drama-david-geffen-tuition.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 88 comments

A 1982 chess computer plays itself by mechanically moving the pieces [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLd_wiGMA4

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments
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