The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2021

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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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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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An Unbelievable Demo brendangregg.com · SerCe · 4 Jun 2021

2.3k pts 463 comments

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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B wsj.com · DavidWilkinson · 2 Jun 2021

2.3k pts 846 comments

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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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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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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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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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Reddit’s disrespectful design ognjen.io · rognjen · 26 Jun 2021

1.3k pts 496 comments

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Fastly Outage fastly.com · pcr0 · 8 Jun 2021

1.3k pts 694 comments

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iOS 15 Humane potential.app · uffo · 10 Jun 2021

1.2k pts 477 comments

15

How to Work Hard paulgraham.com · razin · 29 Jun 2021

1.2k pts 1.1k comments

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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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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python karpathy.github.io · yigitdemirag · 22 Jun 2021

1.2k pts 277 comments

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The 'Fuck You' Pattern cedwards.xyz · cedws · 28 Jun 2021

1.2k pts 594 comments

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Stripe Identity stripe.com · thomaspark · 14 Jun 2021

1.1k pts 536 comments

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G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals bbc.co.uk · ddek · 5 Jun 2021

1k pts 895 comments

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LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator twitter.com · bqe · 4 Jun 2021

1k pts 588 comments

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IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax propublica.org · danso · 8 Jun 2021

1k pts 967 comments

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GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? twitter.com · agomez314 · 30 Jun 2021

1k pts 459 comments

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Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home bloomberg.com · mancerayder · 1 Jun 2021

1k pts 856 comments

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Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] youtube.com · kregasaurusrex · 14 Jun 2021

1k pts 309 comments

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A New Future for Icanhazip major.io · nkcmr · 6 Jun 2021

980 pts 249 comments

27

Hire-to-fire at Amazon India? leetcode.com · bobjones334 · 20 Jun 2021

962 pts 552 comments

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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment userinyerface.com · andyjih_ · 25 Jun 2021

944 pts 215 comments

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Stripe Tax stripe.com · sirodoht · 10 Jun 2021

939 pts 367 comments

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I spent 5 years writing my own operating system github.com · halfer53 · 26 Jun 2021

939 pts 144 comments

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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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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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Apple's iCloud+ “VPN” metzdowd.com · n1000 · 16 Jun 2021

898 pts 396 comments

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Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split mainichi.jp · m3at · 21 Jun 2021

881 pts 502 comments

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

36

Brave Search beta search.brave.com · vmullin · 22 Jun 2021

845 pts 659 comments

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Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL spin.atomicobject.com · hyzyla · 12 Jun 2021

841 pts 472 comments

38

Google turned me into a serial killer hristo-georgiev.com · Kaizeras · 24 Jun 2021

840 pts 294 comments

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

40

ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program alien-project.org · tosh · 11 Jun 2021

825 pts 210 comments

41

“Great resignation” wave coming for companies axios.com · samizdis · 14 Jun 2021

824 pts 1k comments

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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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Sorry everybody, I failed with you github.com · rinesh · 7 Jun 2021

819 pts 342 comments

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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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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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SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll sparkfun.com · mkeeter · 30 Jun 2021

803 pts 178 comments

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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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Don't Feed the Thought Leaders earthly.dev · crummy · 11 Jun 2021

795 pts 280 comments

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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Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit pluralistic.net · samizdis · 30 Jun 2021

772 pts 319 comments

51

Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines lore.kernel.org · blacktulip · 10 Jun 2021

763 pts 613 comments

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GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell github.com · axiomdata316 · 16 Jun 2021

763 pts 398 comments

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Git undo: We can do better blog.waleedkhan.name · arxanas · 21 Jun 2021

762 pts 476 comments

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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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80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again venturebeat.com · lxm · 18 Jun 2021

736 pts 373 comments

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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday travisdowns.github.io · superkuh · 22 Jun 2021

735 pts 469 comments

57

A Project of One’s Own paulgraham.com · prtkgpt · 8 Jun 2021

723 pts 365 comments

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Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results twitter.com · danso · 11 Jun 2021

717 pts 294 comments

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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