top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-08

All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot

https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635

5 years ago

We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments

5 years ago

Building a data team at a mid-stage startup

https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story.html

5 years ago

The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

http://rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html

5 years ago

Google Internal Comics

https://goomics.net/

5 years ago

Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal

https://prospect.org/health/juul-taking-academic-corruption-to-new-level/

5 years ago

Compiling Rust is NP-hard

https://niedzejkob.p4.team/rust-np/

5 years ago

Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-exec-reportedly-working-remote-after-opposing-it-for-staff-2021-7

5 years ago

List of Special Elevator Modes

https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_elevator_special_modes

5 years ago

What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)

https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-percents

5 years ago

EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax

5 years ago

Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool

https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic

5 years ago

A better business model for video folks

https://streambus.com/

5 years ago

Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-billionaire-playbook-how-sports-owners-use-their-teams-to-avoid-millions-in-taxes

5 years ago

Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1djPMooVY&t=0s

5 years ago

California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/California-exodus-is-just-a-myth-massive-UC-16301134.php

5 years ago

You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)

https://iism.org/article/you-need-software-developers-to-believe-in-your-project-45

5 years ago

Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/firefox-by-default-dns-over-https-rollout-in-canada/

5 years ago

Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/52

5 years ago

Apple's camera design choices from the iPhone 6S Plus to the 12 Pro Max [pdf]

https://www.systemplus.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SPR21553_Camera-Module-Comparison-Vol.-2-iPhone-Evolution_Sample.pdf

5 years ago