top 50% 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

Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 128 comments

Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?

https://www.microprediction.com/blog/prophet

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 78 comments

IT Without Software

http://ndt.instedd.org/2010/05/it-without-software.html?m=1

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 72 comments

Otter Browser

https://otter-browser.org

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 94 comments

FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-reaffirms-nearly-3-million-fine-for-marketing-unauthorized-drone-transmitters

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 114 comments

PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09799

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 47 comments

Whistleblower thought he would get a big payout, but got nothing and went broke

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whistleblower-thought-he-would-get-a-big-payout-instead-he-got-nothing-and-went-broke-11624791602

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 140 comments

Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors

https://nagimov.me/post/measure-with-music-how-to-read-analog-sensors-using-a-pc-sound-card/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 14 comments

Fortran adds conditional expressions

https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/21/21-157r2.txt

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 77 comments

Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?

https://kenstechtips.com/index.php/download-speeds-2g-3g-and-4g-actual-meaning

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 95 comments

REPL vs CLI: IDE wars

https://vlaaad.github.io/clj-vs-cli

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 105 comments

The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

https://samoburja.com/the-youtube-revolution-in-knowledge-transfer/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 138 comments

Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-apks-sunset-1636829/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin

https://github.com/JesseDrain/Less-Addictive-YouTube

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 68 comments

Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams

https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chaos-engineering-for-teams/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

Vaccine made of live malaria parasites shows early success

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01806-1

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989

https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/installing-linux-into-a-286-laptop-from-the-year-1989/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 93 comments

Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

https://dynomight.net/alcohol/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 126 comments

'Most homes' in Lytton destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-lytton-july-1-2021-1.6087311

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 94 comments

Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per_notation#Uno

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 115 comments

A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/30/security-update-synapse-1-37-1-released/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 77 comments

IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/ibm_email_disruption_sales

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 79 comments

Amazon announce two new leadership principles

https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 173 comments

Mudras in Indian Dance

https://www.webindia123.com/dances/abhinaya/angika%20bhinaya/asamyukta.htm

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 22 comments

The short tale of an online scam

https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/tale-online-scammer-python

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 93 comments

An efficient way to make hash maps with insertion ordering

https://blog.toit.io/hash-maps-that-dont-hate-you-1a96150b492a

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 117 comments

Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx

https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Change.org workers form a union

https://text.npr.org/1011387838

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 154 comments

Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/oklo-planning-nuclear-micro-reactors-that-run-off-nuclear-waste.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

Why does my installer get flagged by Windows?

https://blog.pakkly.com/why-does-my-installer-get-flagged-by-windows/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 79 comments

Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

https://blog.flipperzero.one/electronics-testing/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: VisaWhen – Data on US visa issuance backlogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698322

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same

https://www.ventscape.life/chat

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 50 comments

Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57670737

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 134 comments

Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families

https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 72 comments

Micron to Sell 3D XPoint Fab to Texas Instruments for $900M

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-to-sell-3d-xpoint-fab-to-texas-instruments-for-dollar900-million

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Any Encoding, Ever – ztd.text and Unicode for C++

https://thephd.dev/any-encoding-ever-ztd-text-unicode-cpp

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

A simple way to feel happier, according to the new science of emotion

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/29/1010319240/stuck-in-a-rut-sometimes-joy-takes-a-little-practice

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 107 comments

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story drew the ire of the internet

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750k Meant to Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House (2018)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274/alabama-sheriff-legally-took-750-000-meant-to-feed-inmates-bought-beach-house

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

FUSE-based file system to inject faults

https://github.com/ligurio/unreliablefs

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 160 comments

Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/americans-arent-willing-to-pay-to

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 143 comments

U.K. Will Stop Using Coal Power in Just Three Years

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-k-will-stop-using-coal-power-in-just-three-years/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929119914000546

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 157 comments
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