woid

top stories

Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Learn Datalog Today

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2021

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

    138 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  3. First-Time Buyer Lorenz Curves (2020)

    138 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  4. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory

    138 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  5. When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  6. Why are there so many Canadians in India?

    137 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  7. CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine

    137 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  8. Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact

    137 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  9. Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs

    137 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  10. Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage

    137 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  11. Building a Space-Based ISP

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  12. Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  13. Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)

    137 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  14. Civilization Is Older Than We Thought

    137 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  15. Unveiling our new Quantum AI campus

    137 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  16. Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

    137 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  17. The Third Thumb Project

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  18. Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig

    137 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  19. Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3

    136 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  20. Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes

    136 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  21. Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master

    136 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  22. Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

    136 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  23. Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    136 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  24. Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  25. Launch HN: Journey (YC W21) – a better tool for selling software

    136 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  26. Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]

    135 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  27. Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children with ADHD to Focus

    135 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  28. Avoid Git LFS if possible

    135 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  29. The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information

    135 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  30. Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property

    135 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  31. In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly

    135 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  32. Online cheating charges upend Dartmouth Medical School

    135 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  33. The Ball and Supply Chain

    135 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  34. Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

    135 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  35. Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study

    135 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  36. Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

    135 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  37. Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (2005)

    135 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  38. The Awful German Language (1880)

    135 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  39. PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL

    135 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  40. Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to fall to Earth in the coming days

    134 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  41. Go Modules Cheat Sheet

    134 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  42. Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods

    134 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  43. Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan

    134 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  44. Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade

    133 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  45. Why programmers don’t write documentation

    133 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  46. Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care

    133 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  47. An NFT That Saves Lives

    133 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  48. I could send any text message from Indian government IDs

    132 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  49. The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks

    132 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  50. Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse

    132 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  51. Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores

    132 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  52. Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them

    132 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  53. Compose for Web

    132 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  54. PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

    132 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  55. Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster

    132 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  56. Modern C and What We Can Learn from It [video]

    132 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  57. Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13

    132 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  58. Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad

    132 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  59. Python vs Common Lisp, workflow and ecosystem (2019)

    131 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  60. Video uploads now available across GitHub

    131 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  61. Saying Goodbye to Typo CI

    131 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  62. Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons

    131 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  63. Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages

    131 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  64. 1700 Cascadia Earthquake

    131 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  65. Playlist for iOS

    131 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  66. Faster web fonts

    131 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  67. Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests

    130 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  68. Hydrofoiling

    130 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  69. The Tragic Story of Vernon and Oswald (2016)

    130 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  70. What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?

    130 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  71. Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL

    129 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  72. Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU

    129 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  73. My Personal Creed of Employment

    129 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  74. SCP-055

    129 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  75. Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?

    129 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  76. Towards an HD44780-Based Video Mode

    129 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  77. Over the next year or so, Google will try out new office designs

    128 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  78. Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs

    128 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  79. Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars

    128 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  80. The Graphics Gremlin – An Open Source Retro ISA Video Card

    128 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  81. Remote-first companies that actively hire

    128 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  82. Second Climacs – Emacs Implementation in Common Lisp

    128 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  83. A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)

    128 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  84. An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers

    128 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  85. Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)

    128 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  86. Preparing your game for deterministic netcode

    127 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  87. Show HN: Wg-easy] Easy to setup, all-in-one WireGuard and Management Web UI

    127 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  88. Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles

    127 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  89. NumWorks – An open source Graphing Calculator

    127 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  90. Preparing for Pre-Orders! (Framework modular laptop)

    127 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  91. Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas

    127 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  92. The Button Cheat Sheet

    127 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  93. Uber Engineering Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services

    127 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  94. Material You – The next stage for Material Design

    127 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  95. Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?

    127 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  96. It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting

    126 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  97. Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatient Visits

    126 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  98. New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

    126 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  99. CSIRO's Data61 Dismantles SeL4 Team

    126 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  100. A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices

    126 points • comment • may 24, 2021