The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2021
We track 1,371 stories from June 2021, averaging 274 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 86 stories. Together they drew 227,254 comments, 166 per story on average.
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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
intuitiveexplanations.com · raxod502 · 7 Jun 2021
4k pts
1.3k comments
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GitHub Copilot
copilot.github.com · todsacerdoti · 29 Jun 2021
2.9k pts
1.3k comments
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3
A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
kleinbottle.com · _Robbie · 30 Jun 2021
2.7k pts
602 comments
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5
Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
wsj.com · DavidWilkinson · 2 Jun 2021
2.3k pts
846 comments
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6
There are no results for tank man
bing.com · rcoveson · 4 Jun 2021
2.1k pts
534 comments
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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
bbc.com · ews · 23 Jun 2021
2.1k pts
1.1k comments
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I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
gentlydownthe.stream · mitchum_ · 17 Jun 2021
1.8k pts
226 comments
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9
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
casparwre.de · caspii · 7 Jun 2021
1.7k pts
395 comments
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10
The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
vanityfair.com · codechicago277 · 3 Jun 2021
1.4k pts
1.1k comments
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11
WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted
arstechnica.com · bjelkeman-again · 24 Jun 2021
1.3k pts
672 comments
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12
Reddit’s disrespectful design
ognjen.io · rognjen · 26 Jun 2021
1.3k pts
496 comments
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16
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
usa.oceana.org · belter · 6 Jun 2021
1.2k pts
592 comments
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17
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
karpathy.github.io · yigitdemirag · 22 Jun 2021
1.2k pts
277 comments
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20
G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
bbc.co.uk · ddek · 5 Jun 2021
1k pts
895 comments
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21
LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator
twitter.com · bqe · 4 Jun 2021
1k pts
588 comments
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22
IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
propublica.org · danso · 8 Jun 2021
1k pts
967 comments
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23
GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
twitter.com · agomez314 · 30 Jun 2021
1k pts
459 comments
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24
Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home
bloomberg.com · mancerayder · 1 Jun 2021
1k pts
856 comments
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25
Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]
youtube.com · kregasaurusrex · 14 Jun 2021
1k pts
309 comments
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27
Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?
leetcode.com · bobjones334 · 20 Jun 2021
962 pts
552 comments
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28
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
userinyerface.com · andyjih_ · 25 Jun 2021
944 pts
215 comments
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30
I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
github.com · halfer53 · 26 Jun 2021
939 pts
144 comments
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31
Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
dispatch.com · infodocket · 8 Jun 2021
934 pts
713 comments
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32
I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
extremetech.com · terseus · 28 Jun 2021
927 pts
644 comments
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34
Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
mainichi.jp · m3at · 21 Jun 2021
881 pts
502 comments
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35
Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
tannerv.com · tonyhawkins · 23 Jun 2021
866 pts
157 comments
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37
Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
spin.atomicobject.com · hyzyla · 12 Jun 2021
841 pts
472 comments
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38
Google turned me into a serial killer
hristo-georgiev.com · Kaizeras · 24 Jun 2021
840 pts
294 comments
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39
Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
jblake · 21 Jun 2021
833 pts
308 comments
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40
ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
alien-project.org · tosh · 11 Jun 2021
825 pts
210 comments
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41
“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
axios.com · samizdis · 14 Jun 2021
824 pts
1k comments
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42
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
skamille.medium.com · kungfudoi · 6 Jun 2021
821 pts
219 comments
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43
Sorry everybody, I failed with you
github.com · rinesh · 7 Jun 2021
819 pts
342 comments
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44
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
eff.org · polm23 · 15 Jun 2021
815 pts
232 comments
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45
U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says
reuters.com · mjreacher · 3 Jun 2021
803 pts
554 comments
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46
SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
sparkfun.com · mkeeter · 30 Jun 2021
803 pts
178 comments
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47
Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
twitter.com · dsr12 · 28 Jun 2021
799 pts
469 comments
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48
Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
earthly.dev · crummy · 11 Jun 2021
795 pts
280 comments
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49
Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible
discourse.nixos.org · todsacerdoti · 20 Jun 2021
778 pts
225 comments
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50
Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
pluralistic.net · samizdis · 30 Jun 2021
772 pts
319 comments
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51
Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
lore.kernel.org · blacktulip · 10 Jun 2021
763 pts
613 comments
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52
GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
github.com · axiomdata316 · 16 Jun 2021
763 pts
398 comments
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53
Git undo: We can do better
blog.waleedkhan.name · arxanas · 21 Jun 2021
762 pts
476 comments
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54
Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
utopia.app · rheeseyb · 15 Jun 2021
750 pts
171 comments
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55
80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
venturebeat.com · lxm · 18 Jun 2021
736 pts
373 comments
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56
Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
travisdowns.github.io · superkuh · 22 Jun 2021
735 pts
469 comments
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58
Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results
twitter.com · danso · 11 Jun 2021
717 pts
294 comments
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59
Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
sqlite.org · miles · 8 Jun 2021
715 pts
339 comments
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Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge
play.google.com · _v7gu · 19 Jun 2021
711 pts
383 comments
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