top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-07

Npm Audit: broken by design?

https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/

4 years ago

872 upvotes – 259 comments

A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

http://www.minimizedistraction.com/

4 years ago

740 upvotes – 271 comments

Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising

https://vivaldi.com/blog/letter-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/

4 years ago

487 upvotes – 265 comments

Haiti’s President Is Assassinated

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/07/world/jovenel-moise-assassinated-killed

4 years ago

471 upvotes – 403 comments

The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/news.asp

4 years ago

411 upvotes – 291 comments

Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/psilocybin-repairs-brains-cells-depression-yale-study-shows/

4 years ago

403 upvotes – 328 comments

Runway – Create impossible video

https://runwayml.com/

4 years ago

402 upvotes – 78 comments

What Does My Site Cost?

https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/210707_AiDc36_6f01cdff93b8299725303f88e60febbc

4 years ago

378 upvotes – 295 comments

An Intern’s Guide to Trading

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/an-interns-guide-to-trading-2021-07-01

4 years ago

369 upvotes – 80 comments

How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 198 comments

Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively

https://libimobiledevice.org/

4 years ago

283 upvotes – 80 comments

Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-kind-of-information-coding-seen-in-the-human-brain-20210707/

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 108 comments

YouTube algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies: study

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation-youtube-algorithm-recommends-videos-that-violate-the-platforms-very-own-policies/

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 208 comments

What really happened to Jack Ma?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2021/06/24/what-really-happened-to-jack-ma/

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 195 comments

Corona Game: A simulation of how Covid-19 spreads

https://koronahra.cz/game

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 234 comments

DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants

https://blog.doordash.com/aligning-reward-with-impact-an-update-to-our-equity-vesting-approach-96bf61d21eda

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 268 comments

AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones

https://mashable.com/article/flemish-politicians-ai-phone-use

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 113 comments

First new VAX in 30 years?

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 89 comments

Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 40 comments

Ideas in statistics that have powered AI

https://news.columbia.edu/news/top-10-ideas-statistics-ai

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 78 comments
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