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Hacker News (May 2021)

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

    126 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  2. My Resignation from Freenode

    126 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  3. Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi

    125 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  4. Anthropic AI

    125 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  5. IRCv3

    125 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  6. CP/M for OS X

    125 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  7. It’s not a ‘labor shortage,’ it’s a reassessment of work in America

    125 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  8. Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?

    125 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  9. Show HN: Cascade Timeline Maker

    125 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  10. Why interruptions are frustrating to developers

    125 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  11. Cars are about to be a software platform, subscriptions and all

    125 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  12. The failed globalization of psychedelic drugs in the early modern world

    125 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  13. A Macro View of Nanite

    125 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  14. Phil's Old Radios

    125 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  15. Show HN: Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine

    125 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  16. No, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto

    124 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  17. O'Leary: Forced landing in Belarus was 'state-sponsored hijacking'

    124 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  18. Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy

    124 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  19. Voice Assistant for VSCode

    124 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  20. An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

    123 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  21. Map of the Internet

    123 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  22. Unexpected 'Black Swan' defect discovered in soft matter for first time

    123 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  23. What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?

    123 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  24. Competitive Analysis for Engineers

    123 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  25. Forced Entrepreneurs

    123 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  26. WHO List of Essential Medicines

    123 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  27. Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table

    123 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  28. OpenAstroTracker: A cheap 3D-printed tracking mount for DSLR astrophotography

    123 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  29. Inefficient Efficiency (2019)

    123 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  30. Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data [pdf]

    123 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  31. The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its Owner Would Get Paid

    123 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  32. Replit Apps

    122 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  33. Laws of Fun (2009)

    122 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  34. Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    122 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  35. AirPods Max and AirPods Pro Don't Support Apple Music Lossless, Apple Confirms

    122 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  36. The problem with ‘follow your dream’

    122 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  37. Why is load balancing gRPC tricky?

    122 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  38. U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS

    122 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  39. Deadly fungi are an emerging microbe threat

    121 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  40. iFixit tells the sad story of how Samsung “ruined” its upcycling program

    121 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  41. What to do about GPU packages on PyPI?

    121 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  42. Stanford Bunny

    121 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  43. How many engineers does it take to make subscripting work?

    121 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  44. Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

    121 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  45. Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers

    121 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  46. Metaprogramming in Elixir

    121 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  47. Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

    121 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  48. Ruby 3 JIT can make Rails faster

    121 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

    121 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  50. Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer

    121 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  51. NetBSD 9.2

    121 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  52. The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)

    120 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  53. Finally Understanding PNG (2017)

    120 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  54. Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19

    120 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  55. Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It

    120 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  56. Study finds using Night Shift doesn’t improve sleep

    120 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  57. Setting up a Raspberry Pi with 2 Network Interfaces as a simple router

    120 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  58. Linux Air Combat (2019)

    120 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  59. Praise for Alpine Linux

    120 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  60. Collection of public datasets packaged as SQLite databases

    120 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  61. Things I wish someone told me about getting a promotion

    119 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  62. GoTTY – Share your terminal as a web application

    119 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  63. Computer Calculus Reading Group

    119 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  64. Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence

    119 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  65. Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine

    119 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  66. PocketPCR

    119 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  67. Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

    119 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  68. Book Review: Double Fold

    119 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  69. How to port your OS to EC2 (2018)

    119 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  70. Should we rebrand REST?

    119 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  71. Basic Telemetry for Audacity

    119 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  72. Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries

    118 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  73. Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

    118 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  74. Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)

    118 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  75. Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (2017)

    118 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  76. For soccer players, the less brain they use, the better for penalty kicks

    118 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  77. Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive performance (2018)

    118 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  78. Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)

    118 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  79. Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

    117 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  80. Open source mechanical Swiss watch movement

    117 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  81. A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem

    117 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  82. The ClickHouse Community

    117 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  83. Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?

    117 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  84. C++20: Building a Thread-Pool with Coroutines

    117 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  85. Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during nighttime medevac

    117 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  86. Lumber mania is sweeping North America

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  87. TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption

    117 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  88. The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (2002)

    117 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  89. Negative interest: Danske Bank changes threshold for personal customers

    117 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  90. Why Is JRuby Slow?

    116 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  91. Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep

    116 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  92. John Tiller has died

    116 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  93. I need to explain to you just how dire America's Pokémon card crisis is

    116 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  94. Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering

    116 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  95. Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Release Notes

    115 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  96. Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets

    115 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  97. The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  98. You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change

    114 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  99. Legal documents from the Philippines government have been exposed online

    114 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  100. From apes to birds, animal species that “laugh”

    114 points • comment • may 18, 2021