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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. WWDC21

    151 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  2. Legalese – Computational Law

    151 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  3. Six Years of Rust

    151 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  4. Ask HN: Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice

    151 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  5. Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua

    151 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  6. Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?

    150 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  7. What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?

    150 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  8. GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG

    150 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  9. New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud

    150 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  10. YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators

    150 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  11. Great books on classic video games

    149 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  12. Parsix: Parse Don't Validate

    149 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  13. US investigates second suspected case of mystery 'syndrome' near White House

    149 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  14. PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries

    149 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  15. Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that

    149 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  16. Introduction to Robotics

    149 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  17. U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas

    149 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  18. The Bizarre World of Scam Audiobooks

    149 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  19. My Road to Erlang (2008)

    149 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  20. Bette Graham, inventor and founder of Liquid Paper

    149 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  21. Telescope.nvim: Find, Filter, Preview, Pick

    149 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  22. How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner

    148 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  23. Irish health service hit by cyber attack

    148 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  24. The whole freenode kerfluffle

    148 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  25. Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch

    148 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  26. Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa

    148 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  27. Tip Jar

    148 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  28. Naomi Osaka faces default from Grand Slam for refusing to speak to media

    148 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  29. History of Programming Languages

    148 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  30. The architecture of Uber’s API gateway

    147 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  31. Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport

    147 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  32. Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams

    147 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  33. Let's Build a Regex Engine (2019)

    147 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  34. Beads: Computer language and toolchain

    147 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  35. Saying the Difficult Things

    147 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  36. America’s Dead Souls

    147 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  37. JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)

    147 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  38. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

    147 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  39. ClojureScript 1.10.866 Release

    147 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  40. Zstandard v1.5.0

    146 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  41. The computers are getting better at writing

    146 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  42. Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

    146 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  43. There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore

    146 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  44. Paper Notes

    146 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  45. Work from Home and Productivity

    145 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  46. Unfork: The Inverse of Fork(2)

    145 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  47. Radioactivity may fuel life deep underground and inside other worlds

    145 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  48. Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate

    145 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  49. Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong

    145 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  50. John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”

    145 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  51. Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code

    145 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  52. Multicore OCaml: April 2021

    144 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  53. Identify a Facebook user by his phone number despite privacy settings set

    144 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  54. What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?

    144 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  55. Royal Marines Testing Out Jet Suits [video]

    143 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  56. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]

    143 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  57. Java JDK 1.0 (1996)

    143 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  58. Hardening macOS (2018)

    143 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  59. The Programming Languages Zoo

    143 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  60. Watches from the Soviet Union

    143 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  61. Generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick

    143 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  62. The Suez Canal will be widened

    143 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  63. Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world

    143 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  64. Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)

    143 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  65. Using a Pager in the 21st Century

    143 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  66. Control-flow integrity in Linux 5.13

    143 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  67. The digital currencies that matter

    142 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  68. Guix 1.3

    142 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  69. SICL: A New Common Lisp Implementation

    142 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  70. Show HN: Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API

    142 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  71. Physical Warp Drives

    142 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  72. 3000-pound triceratops skull excavated in South Dakota (2020)

    142 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  73. 'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay

    142 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  74. The IRS Is Coming for Crypto Investors Who Haven’t Paid Their Taxes

    142 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  75. Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks

    141 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  76. Show HN: Euporie, a Tui for Jupyter Notebooks

    141 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  77. Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes

    141 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  78. A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages

    141 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  79. A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection

    141 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  80. Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology

    141 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  81. Query Engines: Push vs. Pull

    141 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  82. Official Elixir IRC channel moves to Libera

    141 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  83. Movfuscator: Compile C into only mov instructions

    141 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  84. What Is the Transparent Material at the End of a Gel Pen Refill?

    141 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  85. Apache Arrow 4.0

    140 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  86. Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

    140 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  87. Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider

    140 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  88. Building Products at Stripe

    140 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  89. Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked

    140 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  90. Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews

    140 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  91. Illumos to drop SPARC Support

    140 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  92. Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patches

    139 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  93. France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass

    139 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  94. Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL

    139 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  95. Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  96. Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones

    139 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  97. Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020)

    139 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  98. Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?

    139 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  99. Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

    139 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  100. Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps

    138 points • comment • may 07, 2021