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1.

Fastly Outage (fastly.com)

531 points by pcr0 2021-06-08 | 242 comments

2.

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff (p.haavard.me)

271 points by ilkkao 2021-05-14 | 55 comments

3.

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B (www.wsj.com)

232 points by DavidWilkinson 2021-06-02 | 62 comments

4.

Freenode now belongs to Andrew Lee, and I'm leaving for a new network (www.kline.sh)

204 points by 4ad 2021-05-19 | 48 comments

5.

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (intuitiveexplanations.com)

203 points by raxod502 2021-06-07 | 30 comments

6.

Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid (nltimes.nl)

178 points by jsiepkes 2021-05-28 | 48 comments

7.

How did Replit respond to this blog post? (intuitiveexplanations.com)

174 points by mindB 2021-06-08 | 29 comments

8.

Amazon's Controversial 'Hire to Fire' Practice Reveals a Brutal Truth (www.inc.com)

162 points by SonOfKyuss 2021-06-02 | 93 comments

9.

Sublime Text 4 (www.sublimetext.com)

154 points by ascom 2021-05-21 | 62 comments

10.

Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving (www.bbc.com)

152 points by hheikinh 2021-06-01 | 65 comments

11.

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender (www.bbc.com)

149 points by aazaa 2021-06-09 | 85 comments

12.

Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway (arstechnica.com)

146 points by samizdis 2021-05-21 | 56 comments

13.

MDN Plus (developer.mozilla.org)

140 points by bpierre 2021-05-27 | 70 comments

14.

MoviePass changed some users' passwords so they couldn't use the service (www.ftc.gov)

139 points by aarestad 2021-06-08 | 55 comments

15.

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time (awesomekling.github.io)

136 points by there 2021-05-28 | 32 comments

16.

The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam (casparwre.de)

135 points by caspii 2021-06-07 | 21 comments

17.

Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power (www.devever.net)

130 points by hlandau 2021-05-22 | 33 comments

18.

Freenode are now routinely hijacking channels that indicate they moved to Libera (lwn.net)

125 points by daenney 2021-05-26 | 28 comments

19.

World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years (news.un.org)

124 points by infodocket 2021-05-27 | 104 comments

20.

There have been 7m-13m excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic (www.economist.com)

122 points by pranshum 2021-05-16 | 95 comments

21.

Google has launched this free course on CSS (web.dev)

121 points by markodenic 2021-05-21 | 25 comments

22.

Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist' (www.bbc.co.uk)

120 points by cjnicholls 2021-05-23 | 69 comments

23.

Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines (lore.kernel.org)

115 points by blacktulip 2021-06-10 | 33 comments

24.

DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013) (investors.modernatx.com)

113 points by 1915cb1f 2021-06-01 | 19 comments

25.

Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet (twitter.com)

112 points by bqe 2021-06-04 | 12 comments

26.

Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace (www.lrt.lt)

108 points by underscore_ku 2021-05-24 | 26 comments

27.

Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions (www.motherjones.com)

108 points by robin_reala 2021-05-21 | 32 comments

28.

The phrase “welcome back” on a page causes Safari to autofill a password (github.com)

107 points by knorthfield 2021-05-28 | 38 comments

29.

“I Could Rewrite Curl” (daniel.haxx.se)

105 points by TangerineDream 2021-05-20 | 55 comments

30.

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5 (www.cnn.com)

104 points by brutus1213 2021-05-27 | 27 comments

31.

I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages (blog.usejournal.com)

103 points by DeLopSpot 2021-05-19 | 73 comments

32.

Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla (www.cnbc.com)

101 points by kjhughes 2021-05-17 | 58 comments

33.

Amazon Refused to Refund $7k After Shipping an Empty Box Instead of a Sony A1 (fstoppers.com)

100 points by luu 2021-05-30 | 65 comments

34.

Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio (www.apple.com)

98 points by todsacerdoti 2021-05-17 | 87 comments

35.

Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims (www.bbc.com)

97 points by mikesabbagh 2021-06-02 | 37 comments

36.

Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...) (www.fastly.com)

97 points by plasma 2021-06-08 | 26 comments

37.

Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working from Home (www.bloomberg.com)

96 points by mancerayder 2021-06-01 | 39 comments

38.

Playdate. Pre-orders begin in July (play.date)

96 points by cepp 2021-06-08 | 41 comments

39.

U.S. sues Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds (www.reuters.com)

96 points by marc__1 2021-05-19 | 40 comments

40.

Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain (schlockchain.substack.com)

92 points by leifg 2021-05-19 | 100 comments

41.

I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled (petapixel.com)

92 points by rawgabbit 2021-05-25 | 54 comments

42.

“Tank Man” (duckduckgo.com)

91 points by Turukawa 2021-06-04 | 9 comments

43.

University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements (jonathanturley.org)

91 points by rsj_hn 2021-06-02 | 119 comments

44.

Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C-code file by the author of SQLite (sqlite.org)

90 points by miles 2021-06-08 | 27 comments

45.

Swedish fintech payments unicorn Klarna shows you other users' account data (www.di.se)

88 points by corroclaro 2021-05-27 | 50 comments

46.

Crypto Crash Deepens (www.reuters.com)

87 points by garraeth 2021-05-19 | 90 comments

47.

$365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin (www.cnbc.com)

84 points by awb 2021-05-13 | 109 comments

48.

PlanetScale – Database for Developers (www.planetscale.com)

84 points by samlambert 2021-05-18 | 18 comments

49.

An Unbelievable Demo (brendangregg.com)

83 points by SerCe 2021-06-04 | 5 comments

50.

Apple: Developer Relations (marco.org)

83 points by tosh 2021-06-03 | 26 comments

51.

The Limits to Blockchain Scalability (vitalik.ca)

83 points by bpierre 2021-05-23 | 26 comments

52.

Advertisers are already combining Google's FLoC IDs with personal data (digiday.com)

83 points by EdwinHoksberg 2021-06-10 | 15 comments

53.

The emperor has no clothes (twitter.com)

83 points by null_object 2021-05-30 | 26 comments

54.

Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++ (binji.github.io)

82 points by brundolf 2021-06-04 | 7 comments

55.

FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web (www.theverge.com)

81 points by jbredeche 2021-06-07 | 28 comments

56.

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate (krebsonsecurity.com)

81 points by todsacerdoti 2021-05-17 | 17 comments

57.

Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges (www.reddit.com)

81 points by NCFZ 2021-05-21 | 60 comments

58.

Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results (twitter.com)

79 points by danso 2021-06-11 | 17 comments

59.

Chiropractors are bullshit (theoutline.com)

78 points by michaelmachine 2021-05-15 | 51 comments

60.

Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing (chrome.google.com)

78 points by cheph 2021-05-18 | 16 comments

61.

Apple: Employees Asked to Return to Offices 3 Days a Week Starting in September (www.macrumors.com)

77 points by tosh 2021-06-02 | 76 comments

62.

Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype (huebnerob.com)

76 points by farmerbb 2021-06-07 | 8 comments

63.

WWDC21 (developer.apple.com)

74 points by tosh 2021-05-24 | 43 comments

64.

GitHub Is Having Issues (www.githubstatus.com)

72 points by Kiro 2021-06-02 | 34 comments

65.

Solar assets are underperforming and modules degrading faster than expected (www.pv-tech.org)

71 points by lando2319 2021-06-10 | 33 comments

66.

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ (mattstoller.substack.com)

71 points by yarapavan 2021-05-30 | 41 comments

67.

Fabrice Bellard – NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (bellard.org)

71 points by ToJans 2021-05-22 | 12 comments

68.

Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta (tauri.studio)

71 points by adamnemecek 2021-05-14 | 42 comments

69.

One Week of Libera Chat (libera.chat)

71 points by wut42 2021-05-26 | 9 comments

70.

Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals (www.vice.com)

71 points by jbegley 2021-05-13 | 15 comments

71.

There are no results for tank man (www.bing.com)

70 points by rcoveson 2021-06-04 | 11 comments

72.

Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities (www.apple.com)

70 points by ArmandGrillet 2021-05-19 | 18 comments

73.

Bitcoin extends losses after U.S. seizes most of Colonial ransom (www.cnbc.com)

69 points by prostoalex 2021-06-08 | 83 comments

74.

Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode drama (gist.github.com)

69 points by buovjaga 2021-05-24 | 18 comments

75.

What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use (www.brookings.edu)

69 points by kemonocode 2021-05-24 | 4 comments

76.

Slack is experiencing an outage (status.slack.com)

69 points by tjwds 2021-05-20 | 40 comments

77.

Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images (9to5mac.com)

68 points by hownottowrite 2021-06-07 | 28 comments

78.

Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho' (www.upi.com)

68 points by rmason 2021-05-20 | 64 comments

79.

Show HN: Arturo – Simple, expressive and portable programming language (arturo-lang.io)

68 points by stchacademy 2021-05-18 | 6 comments

80.

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed (www.reuters.com)

68 points by pseudolus 2021-05-24 | 52 comments

81.

Notion launches its API in public beta (developers.notion.so)

68 points by cristinacordova 2021-05-13 | 21 comments

82.

Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire (www.protocol.com)

67 points by amaBasics 2021-05-21 | 37 comments

83.

Colorado Becomes First State to Ban Legacy College Admissions (text.npr.org)

66 points by gshubert17 2021-05-27 | 69 comments

84.

The Plan for React 18 (reactjs.org)

66 points by joeyespo 2021-06-08 | 9 comments

85.

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017) (stackoverflow.blog)

66 points by aminozuur 2021-05-17 | 104 comments

86.

Facebook Calls Links to Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree (www.npr.org)

65 points by tareqak 2021-05-18 | 32 comments

87.

An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video (www.inquiremore.com)

65 points by MikeUt 2021-05-26 | 14 comments

88.

Apple, Google and Microsoft wage war on right-to-repair laws (www.bloomberg.com)

64 points by holmesworcester 2021-05-21 | 19 comments

89.

Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR (www.alias.dev)

64 points by mehdim 2021-05-25 | 12 comments

90.

Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office (apnews.com)

64 points by AndrewBissell 2021-05-15 | 42 comments

91.

JsonLogic (jsonlogic.com)

63 points by sebmellen 2021-05-27 | 27 comments

92.

Bonkers Tri-Wing Jumbo Jet Concept Reduces Fuel Consumption by 70% (robbreport.com)

63 points by _Microft 2021-05-17 | 53 comments

93.

NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools (www.msn.com)

63 points by donohoe 2021-06-03 | 28 comments

94.

Aaron Swartz, Vindicated (pluralistic.net)

62 points by samizdis 2021-06-04 | 3 comments

95.

Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features (www.reuters.com)

62 points by camjohnson26 2021-05-27 | 47 comments

96.

Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc. (github.com)

61 points by navaneethpk 2021-06-07 | 3 comments

97.

The Economist's excess deaths model (github.com)

61 points by raldu 2021-05-25 | 26 comments

98.

Fierce Nerds (paulgraham.com)

61 points by prtkgpt 2021-05-18 | 43 comments

99.

No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal (www.thetimes.co.uk)

61 points by aluket 2021-06-04 | 88 comments

100.

Most and Least Affordable Places to Buy a Home (priceonomics.com)

60 points by paulpauper 2021-05-15 | 65 comments

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