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1.

Valve Steam Deck (www.steamdeck.com)

284 points by homarp 2021-07-15 | 195 comments

2.

Akamai Edge DNS Down (edgedns.status.akamai.com)

268 points by vhab 2021-07-22 | 101 comments

3.

I spent 5 years writing my own operating system (github.com)

193 points by halfer53 2021-06-26 | 22 comments

4.

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (twitter.com)

175 points by bencollier49 2021-07-02 | 32 comments

5.

EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax (www.argusmedia.com)

163 points by AndrewBissell 2021-07-08 | 89 comments

6.

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment (userinyerface.com)

149 points by andyjih_ 2021-06-25 | 47 comments

7.

Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters (www.thedrive.com)

140 points by samizdis 2021-07-12 | 38 comments

8.

Nancy Pelosi’s stock options made incredible returns (unusualwhales.com)

139 points by aminozuur 2021-07-21 | 87 comments

9.

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) (www.mcmillen.dev)

135 points by codetrotter 2021-07-23 | 27 comments

10.

A 3°C world has no safe place (www.economist.com)

124 points by lsllc 2021-07-23 | 112 comments

11.

Valve shows Steam Desk - portable 4/8 CPU, 16GB RAM, 1.6TFlop GPU, starting $399 (www.steamdeck.com)

120 points by terafo 2021-07-15 | 68 comments

12.

Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch (www.sciencemag.org)

119 points by sohkamyung 2021-07-16 | 40 comments

13.

Amazon.com product pages are down (www.amazon.com)

119 points by ghshephard 2021-07-12 | 70 comments

14.

Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions (commonsware.com)

115 points by ingve 2021-06-27 | 34 comments

15.

Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon (www.amazon.com)

112 points by nrjames 2021-07-01 | 35 comments

16.

Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses with Equifax (krebsonsecurity.com)

111 points by todsacerdoti 2021-07-01 | 31 comments

17.

Abandoning GitHub (thelig.ht)

110 points by janvdberg 2021-07-03 | 39 comments

18.

Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger (github.com)

106 points by pelagicAustral 2021-07-06 | 44 comments

19.

Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking (www.eenewseurope.com)

106 points by giuliomagnifico 2021-07-09 | 64 comments

20.

Delta Variant (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

104 points by tosh 2021-07-13 | 56 comments

21.

The Framework Laptop is now shipping (frame.work)

103 points by ahaferburg 2021-07-23 | 44 comments

22.

I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media (restofworld.org)

103 points by rguiscard 2021-06-26 | 14 comments

23.

SpaceX’s Starlink Review – Four months in (www.jeffgeerling.com)

102 points by geerlingguy 2021-07-22 | 56 comments

24.

SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll (www.sparkfun.com)

101 points by mkeeter 2021-06-30 | 24 comments

25.

Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use (fairuseify.ml)

100 points by alphabet9000 2021-07-10 | 26 comments

26.

GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering? (twitter.com)

99 points by agomez314 2021-06-30 | 32 comments

27.

Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner (appleinsider.com)

97 points by doener 2021-07-05 | 53 comments

28.

MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Shows We're on Schedule (flip.it)

92 points by ako 2021-07-14 | 60 comments

29.

Warp: The fast, Rust-based terminal (www.warp.dev)

91 points by garrettdimon 2021-07-14 | 29 comments

30.

GOP Rep. on cyber committee dumped MSFT shortly before $10B contract scrapped (www.salon.com)

89 points by fooey 2021-07-15 | 26 comments

31.

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon (www.theguardian.com)

88 points by johnny_reilly 2021-07-18 | 20 comments

32.

Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product (odysee.com)

88 points by deworms 2021-07-22 | 55 comments

33.

Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison (krebsonsecurity.com)

88 points by parsecs 2021-07-21 | 86 comments

34.

Google: Well Tempered Traveler (www.google.com)

88 points by nvahalik 2021-07-15 | 27 comments

35.

NPM Audit: Broken by Design (overreacted.io)

87 points by wongmjane 2021-07-07 | 19 comments

36.

JWT Tokens are NOT safe (redislabs.com)

87 points by node-bayarea 2021-06-25 | 62 comments

37.

Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund (www.blender.org)

86 points by Tomte 2021-07-20 | 31 comments

38.

Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families (qz.com)

84 points by paulpauper 2021-07-01 | 56 comments

39.

John Carmack wishes he'd used the BSD license instead of the GPL (twitter.com)

84 points by bifrost 2021-07-06 | 15 comments

40.

Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely (www.businessinsider.com)

84 points by throwawaysea 2021-07-08 | 46 comments

41.

Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of journalists (www.reuters.com)

83 points by hassanahmad 2021-07-14 | 49 comments

42.

List of Special Elevator Modes (elevation.fandom.com)

83 points by altrus 2021-07-08 | 38 comments

43.

Mexico marijuana: Top court decriminalises recreational use of cannabis (www.bbc.co.uk)

82 points by pmoriarty 2021-06-29 | 11 comments

44.

Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go (obsidian.md)

81 points by ericax 2021-07-12 | 24 comments

45.

Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card (wificard.io)

81 points by bndw 2021-07-11 | 45 comments

46.

U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA (www.reuters.com)

80 points by paulpauper 2021-06-29 | 73 comments

47.

Panasonic dumps its entire $3.6B Tesla stake (finbold.com)

80 points by sammyaxe 2021-06-25 | 80 comments

48.

It costs $0.17 to visit reddit.com on mobile in Canada (whatdoesmysitecost.com)

79 points by shadowfaxRodeo 2021-07-07 | 91 comments

49.

25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build (michael.stapelberg.ch)

77 points by secure 2021-07-10 | 59 comments

50.

An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up (fanfan.rambo.codes)

76 points by spideymans 2021-07-18 | 17 comments

51.

SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (www.sqlite.org)

74 points by emilengler 2021-07-20 | 23 comments

52.

Vegetables have become far less nutritious (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

73 points by johndcook 2021-06-27 | 22 comments

53.

Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco (oilprice.com)

72 points by syncsynchalt 2021-07-13 | 44 comments

54.

Linux Audio Is Dead (non.tuxfamily.org)

71 points by beprogrammed 2021-07-10 | 14 comments

55.

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (svelte.dev)

71 points by rob 2021-06-29 | 29 comments

56.

Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV (gizmodo.com)

71 points by gpspake 2021-07-19 | 39 comments

57.

Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 [pdf] by V I Arnold (www.imaginary.org)

71 points by sebg 2021-07-19 | 25 comments

58.

Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Slack (slack.com)

70 points by kalendos 2021-07-21 | 32 comments

59.

Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (2019) (twitter.com)

68 points by smusamashah 2021-07-10 | 35 comments

60.

The Perils of M1 Ownership (eclecticlight.co)

68 points by ingve 2021-07-18 | 33 comments

61.

I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) (withblue.ink)

66 points by notoriousarun 2021-06-29 | 48 comments

62.

The terminal is on life support. Is it worth saving? (blog.warp.dev)

65 points by ridiculous_fish 2021-07-14 | 32 comments

63.

Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare (blog.ryotak.me)

65 points by arkadiyt 2021-07-16 | 5 comments

64.

Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout (www.usehaystack.io)

64 points by IcyApril 2021-07-13 | 43 comments

65.

A foreign seller has hijacked Cliff Stoll's Amazon Klein bottle listing (kleinbottle.com)

64 points by _Robbie 2021-06-30 | 3 comments

66.

Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software? (drewdevault.com)

63 points by als0 2021-07-04 | 27 comments

67.

Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher (publichealth.berkeley.edu)

62 points by programmarchy 2021-07-08 | 82 comments

68.

Google Drive Bans Distribution of “Misleading Content” (support.google.com)

62 points by temp8964 2021-07-16 | 38 comments

69.

How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub (engineuring.wordpress.com)

61 points by boramalper 2021-07-09 | 13 comments

70.

WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to Doom (2021) (github.com)

60 points by popitter 2021-07-14 | 12 comments

71.

Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp (www.hashicorp.com)

60 points by tosh 2021-07-22 | 20 comments

72.

ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others” (doctorow.medium.com)

60 points by smackay 2021-06-27 | 42 comments

73.

Letsencrypt Service Disruption (letsencrypt.status.io)

59 points by hw 2021-07-19 | 23 comments

74.

Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm (www.dailydot.com)

59 points by certifiedloud 2021-06-25 | 8 comments

75.

American builders’ productivity has plunged by half since the late 1960s (www.economist.com)

58 points by baybal2 2021-07-10 | 46 comments

76.

No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction (www.reuters.com)

58 points by DocFeind 2021-07-10 | 20 comments

77.

Our lawsuit against ChessBase – Stockfish – open-source Chess Engine (stockfishchess.org)

58 points by EvgeniyZh 2021-07-20 | 5 comments

78.

Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30B (www.reuters.com)

57 points by hi5eyes 2021-07-15 | 21 comments

79.

Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get' (utcc.utoronto.ca)

57 points by nitinreddy88 2021-06-25 | 28 comments

80.

It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us (www.redcross.ca)

56 points by Tomte 2021-07-09 | 55 comments

81.

A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement (www.theatlantic.com)

56 points by yamrzou 2021-07-14 | 36 comments

82.

Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits (www.axios.com)

56 points by paulpauper 2021-07-16 | 45 comments

83.

A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network (matrix.org)

56 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2021-07-01 | 21 comments

84.

Sharing our engineering career framework with the world (dropbox.tech)

56 points by atg_abhishek 2021-07-13 | 14 comments

85.

Dogecoin Co-Founder Calls Cryptocurrency a Scam to Help the Rich Get Richer (www.barrons.com)

55 points by triple_m 2021-07-18 | 36 comments

86.

Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking (www.bbc.com)

55 points by shivbhatt 2021-07-22 | 78 comments

87.

Building a vision of life without work (2015) (livingafi.com)

54 points by milkcircle 2021-07-13 | 33 comments

88.

T-10 to Blue Origin flight (www.blueorigin.com)

54 points by squarefoot 2021-07-20 | 86 comments

89.

GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license (cybre.space)

53 points by NmAmDa 2021-07-08 | 29 comments

90.

11,500 cookbooks from the 1700’s to today, UCLA. Searchable, scans of original (archive.org)

53 points by zhte415 2021-07-08 | 1 comments

91.

Windows 11 laptops will REQUIRE front facing camera in 2023 (www.tweaktown.com)

53 points by billyharris 2021-07-06 | 66 comments

92.

If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2003) (sellsbrothers.com)

52 points by alfiedotwtf 2021-07-23 | 21 comments

93.

HaikuOS running on real RISC-V hardware (HiFive Unmatched) (discuss.haiku-os.org)

52 points by iamnotarobotman 2021-07-17 | 2 comments

94.

DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants (blog.doordash.com)

52 points by matan_a 2021-07-07 | 20 comments

95.

List price for stitches at American hospital: $93306 (twitter.com)

52 points by jeffbee 2021-07-11 | 15 comments

96.

Roger Waters to Mark Zuckerberg: Fuck You (m.youtube.com)

51 points by amar-laksh 2021-07-11 | 5 comments

97.

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (alphafold.ebi.ac.uk)

51 points by matejmecka 2021-07-22 | 9 comments

98.

Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for (www.bbc.com)

51 points by baybal2 2021-07-16 | 13 comments

99.

Instant water cleaning method millions of times better than commercial approach (www.cardiff.ac.uk)

51 points by rootusrootus 2021-07-06 | 9 comments

100.

Right to repair movement gains power in US and Europe (www.bbc.com)

50 points by shivbhatt 2021-07-07 | 15 comments

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