top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-02

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

4 years ago

1280 upvotes – 640 comments

Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying

https://www.medialens.org/2021/a-remarkable-silence-media-blackout-after-key-witness-against-assange-admits-lying/

4 years ago

1110 upvotes – 637 comments

Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

https://purelymail.com

4 years ago

606 upvotes – 307 comments

Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207

4 years ago

591 upvotes – 227 comments

Neovim v0.5

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.5.0

4 years ago

449 upvotes – 208 comments

Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/

4 years ago

400 upvotes – 226 comments

Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7ez5x/amazon-delivery-companies-revolt-against-amazon-shut-down

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 301 comments

Mise-en-place for knowledge workers

https://fortelabs.co/blog/mise-en-place-for-knowledge-workers/

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 82 comments

Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price

https://www.migadu.com/

4 years ago

275 upvotes – 168 comments

The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/

4 years ago

274 upvotes – 255 comments

RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops

https://rateourcops.org/

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 207 comments

Back to the Future with RSS

https://ncase.me/rss/

4 years ago

244 upvotes – 101 comments

Image unshredding using a TSP solver

https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 87 comments

HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise medical bills

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-surprise-medical-bills.html

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 204 comments

When Orcs Were Real

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/when-orcs-were-real

4 years ago

201 upvotes – 219 comments

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 61 comments

Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President

https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 222 comments

Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-07-02/pokemon-go-bagram-troop-withdrawal-2027917.html

4 years ago

187 upvotes – 159 comments

The Yoghurt Mafia

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018800662/the-yoghurt-mafia

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 79 comments

Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-play-dumps-apks-for-the-more-google-controlled-android-app-bundle/

4 years ago

180 upvotes – 76 comments
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