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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

    1776 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  2. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

    1635 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  3. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

    1617 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  4. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

    1437 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  5. Welcome to Libera Chat

    1416 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  6. Sublime Text 4

    1378 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  7. Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

    1327 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  8. One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

    1315 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  9. The Animal Is Tired

    1276 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  10. Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)

    1246 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  11. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

    1241 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  12. A URL Lengthener

    1191 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  13. Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

    1174 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  14. Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

    1159 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  15. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

    1115 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  16. Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

    1085 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  17. M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability

    1057 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  18. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

    1030 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  19. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

    1012 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  20. Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

    1000 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  21. Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?

    996 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  22. Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

    991 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  23. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

    976 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  24. Stripe Payment Links

    972 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  25. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning

    949 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  26. The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company

    912 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  27. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

    904 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  28. Crazy New Ideas

    883 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  29. I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

    870 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  30. River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up

    865 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  31. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

    843 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  32. Overkill objects for everyday life

    838 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  33. Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

    836 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  34. How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)

    829 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  35. Learn CSS

    811 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  36. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

    798 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  37. YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane

    794 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  38. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

    790 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  39. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

    784 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  40. Observing my cellphone switch towers

    781 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  41. Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

    769 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  42. Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

    768 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  43. “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

    768 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  44. Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop

    765 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  45. Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

    761 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  46. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

    759 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  47. Why I prefer making useless stuff

    747 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  48. Neovim 0.5 is overpowering

    746 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  49. Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side

    723 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  50. Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

    722 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  51. AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search

    714 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  52. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

    712 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  53. Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns

    706 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  54. It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)

    704 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  55. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

    700 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  56. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

    695 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  57. Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

    695 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  58. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

    693 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  59. Poor in Tech

    685 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  60. Scala 3.0

    674 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  61. Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

    671 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  62. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

    671 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  63. Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals

    671 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  64. What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages

    669 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  65. Can I Email?

    667 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  66. Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

    659 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  67. DOOM Captcha

    658 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  68. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

    656 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  69. The Unix Magic Poster

    653 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  70. Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send

    653 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  71. HTML Tips (2020)

    650 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  72. Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

    641 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  73. Why I Work on Ads

    640 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  74. Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython

    636 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  75. Upheaval at freenode

    636 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  76. Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

    635 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  77. Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust

    630 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  78. Improving Firefox stability on Linux

    629 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  79. White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets

    626 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  80. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

    625 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  81. EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

    624 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  82. The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences

    618 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  83. Safari tries to fill username

    615 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  84. Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat

    612 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  85. Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

    610 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  86. Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked

    602 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  87. Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid

    599 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  88. US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

    596 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  89. A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

    595 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  90. FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices

    594 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  91. Leaving Freenode for a new network

    591 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  92. Practical SQL for Data Analysis

    591 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  93. 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent

    590 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  94. Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

    590 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  95. Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

    586 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  96. Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

    585 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  97. List of apps people pay for but have low rating

    582 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  98. Use native context menus on Mac OS

    580 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  99. It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage

    579 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  100. Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

    579 points • comment • may 07, 2021