The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2020

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I Am Deleting the Blog slatestarcodex.com · perditus · 23 Jun 2020

2.5k pts 1.5k comments

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The End of the Redis Adventure antirez.com · kristoff_it · 30 Jun 2020

2.3k pts 294 comments

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Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event axios.com · surajama · 10 Jun 2020

2k pts 517 comments

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Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs theverge.com · happyopossum · 22 Jun 2020

1.9k pts 1.4k comments

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iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes twitter.com · georgespencer · 24 Jun 2020

1.8k pts 591 comments

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India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps techcrunch.com · samdung · 29 Jun 2020

1.5k pts 795 comments

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I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors calebporzio.com · calebporzio · 23 Jun 2020

1.5k pts 493 comments

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Mozilla VPN blog.mozilla.org · caution · 18 Jun 2020

1.4k pts 504 comments

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Time to Upgrade Your Monitor tonsky.me · neonbones · 17 Jun 2020

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Teach Yourself Computer Science teachyourselfcs.com · JDW1023 · 21 Jun 2020

1.2k pts 265 comments

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Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28 niemanlab.org · laurex · 2 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 768 comments

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MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations news.mit.edu · davrosthedalek · 11 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 263 comments

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Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly medium.com · CM30 · 29 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 523 comments

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Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement twitter.com · sneak · 3 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 458 comments

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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website coding.napolux.com · napolux · 11 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 407 comments

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Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple blog.anylist.com · dirtae · 29 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 469 comments

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Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request npr.org · dehrmann · 13 Jun 2020

1.1k pts 371 comments

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You download the app and it doesn’t work youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com · DVassallo · 19 Jun 2020

1k pts 543 comments

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When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com facebook.com · shiftpgdn · 25 Jun 2020

1k pts 425 comments

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New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie kqed.org · jcarpio · 6 Jun 2020

952 pts 332 comments

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Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development dev.lemmy.ml · jasonbourne1901 · 27 Jun 2020

944 pts 634 comments

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Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old paraschopra · 9 Jun 2020

937 pts 128 comments

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Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020 adobe.com · michaelhoffman · 15 Jun 2020

906 pts 501 comments

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An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT cyberlaw.stanford.edu · abecedarius · 25 Jun 2020

903 pts 351 comments

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Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser cs-online.club · m0ck · 12 Jun 2020

878 pts 317 comments

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Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar androidpolice.com · vezycash · 14 Jun 2020

869 pts 698 comments

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Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut support.apple.com · rydre · 18 Jun 2020

865 pts 387 comments

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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead secondbreakfast.co · secondbreakfast · 24 Jun 2020

857 pts 550 comments

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Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare? tech4all · 11 Jun 2020

855 pts 217 comments

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Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying blog.zoom.us · jmsflknr · 17 Jun 2020

845 pts 524 comments

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Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first reuters.com · rbanffy · 26 Jun 2020

836 pts 605 comments

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Written communication is remote work super power snir.dev · snird · 19 Jun 2020

831 pts 190 comments

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Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site decrypt.co · KANahas · 11 Jun 2020

822 pts 393 comments

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You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain reddit.com · ashitlerferad · 10 Jun 2020

821 pts 363 comments

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Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks theconversation.com · znpy · 26 Jun 2020

815 pts 532 comments

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Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations driveandlisten.herokuapp.com · herval · 16 Jun 2020

804 pts 171 comments

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Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse washingtonpost.com · coldsnap427 · 29 Jun 2020

795 pts 851 comments

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My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works propublica.org · danso · 23 Jun 2020

792 pts 603 comments

39

The Return of the 90s Web mxb.dev · mxbck · 18 Jun 2020

786 pts 338 comments

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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead eugeneyan.com · 7d7n · 2 Jun 2020

785 pts 300 comments

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Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack blog.coinbase.com · arkadiyt · 8 Jun 2020

778 pts 397 comments

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Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3 jepsen.io · aphyr · 12 Jun 2020

769 pts 140 comments

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P2P Matrix matrix.org · Arathorn · 2 Jun 2020

764 pts 174 comments

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NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers nodesign.dev · uvic · 8 Jun 2020

762 pts 160 comments

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ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press aclu.org · soraminazuki · 3 Jun 2020

758 pts 247 comments

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Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics lwn.net · Tomte · 18 Jun 2020

738 pts 319 comments

47

Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn pcmaffey.com · rohmanhakim · 11 Jun 2020

737 pts 448 comments

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Biohacking Lite karpathy.github.io · askytb · 12 Jun 2020

731 pts 362 comments

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University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs uopeople.edu · tomato2juice · 11 Jun 2020

725 pts 464 comments

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SimRefinery Recovered obscuritory.com · velmu · 5 Jun 2020

723 pts 139 comments

51

Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator tholman.com · gitgud · 24 Jun 2020

719 pts 313 comments

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Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin coindesk.com · ur-whale · 25 Jun 2020

716 pts 280 comments

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Woodworking for Engineers woodgears.ca · jakear · 11 Jun 2020

715 pts 293 comments

54

SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange peeringdb.com · walrus01 · 3 Jun 2020

715 pts 291 comments

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Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa twitter.com · luu · 14 Jun 2020

710 pts 495 comments

56

Most tech content is bullshit aleksandra.codes · velmu · 7 Jun 2020

709 pts 461 comments

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After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered forklog.media · signa11 · 10 Jun 2020

704 pts 358 comments

58

Reflections on Being a Female Founder tracy.posthaven.com · ralphleon · 22 Jun 2020

699 pts 273 comments

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Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub github.com · DaniAkash · 28 Jun 2020

699 pts 226 comments

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Cloudflare TV blog.cloudflare.com · eastdakota · 7 Jun 2020

696 pts 261 comments