top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-01

The most precious resource is agency

https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 325 comments

Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/intuit-to-share-payroll-data-from-1-4m-small-businesses-with-equifax/

5 years ago

565 upvotes – 207 comments

British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/british-right-to-repair-law/

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 370 comments

Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public

https://gizmodo.com/exxon-lobbyists-reveal-in-secret-recordings-how-they-ma-1847205392

5 years ago

516 upvotes – 198 comments

Check If Email Exists

https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 250 comments

Steve Jobs in Kyoto

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1622/

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 142 comments

Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/1/22558292/police-officer-video-taylor-swift-youtube-copyright

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 312 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699704

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 978 comments

Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/encoding-data-for-post-requests/

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 333 comments

Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RKILN7HFLF4CS/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 224 comments

Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)

https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 69 comments

Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph

https://epilys.github.io/bibliothecula/notekeeping.html

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 41 comments

Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 104 comments

Robinhood S-1 IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783879/000162828021013318/robinhoods-1.htm

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 379 comments

Folk wisdom on visual programming

https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 162 comments

Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/nations-agree-to-support-us-proposal-for-global-minimum-tax-on-corporations.html

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 338 comments

Servo Engine contributions this year

https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 115 comments

Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time

https://news.mit.edu/2021/hawkings-black-hole-theorem-confirm-0701

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 71 comments

Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups

https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-first-five-years

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 65 comments

Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57684497

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 243 comments
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