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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. China increases spending 500% to influence America

    114 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  2. How to Teach Math?

    114 points • comment • may 06, 2021

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

    114 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  4. Functional Programming in Go with Generics

    114 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  5. Busy Being Born (2004)

    114 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  6. Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

    114 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  7. Framework Laptop pre-orders are open, starting at $999

    114 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  8. 17 of BBC's 90 “strictly necessary cookies” are for “tracking” users

    114 points • comment • may 02, 2021

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

    114 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  10. Shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

    114 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  11. Scion – A Novel Internet Architecture

    113 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  12. How necessary are the programming fundamentals?

    113 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  13. When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma

    113 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  14. Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)

    113 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  15. How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?

    113 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  16. The Brazilianization of the World

    112 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  17. Trabant: The East German car remains iconic

    112 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  18. Ask HN: What do you think will come after Kubernetes?

    112 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  19. Building Outer Wonders for Linux

    112 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  20. Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company

    112 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  21. Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators

    111 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  22. Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind

    111 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  23. Clubhouse downloads are falling

    111 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  24. A writing tip I learned at Oxford

    111 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  25. Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials

    110 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  26. “This app forced me to give it a good rating before I could use it.”

    110 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  27. Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link

    110 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  28. The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, not the Software

    110 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  29. You can't have too many angels

    110 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  30. A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare

    110 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  31. Raw keyboard handling in Unix terminals

    110 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  32. Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd

    110 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  33. Restaurant menu tricks (2020)

    110 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  34. “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]

    110 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  35. HTML Sanitizer API

    110 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  36. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Compaction

    110 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  37. Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal

    109 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  38. IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both

    109 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  39. Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD

    109 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  40. Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett

    109 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  41. The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (2017)

    109 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  42. OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope

    109 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  43. How Lucky Is Too Lucky in Minecraft?

    109 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  44. Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?

    109 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  45. Show HN: I hate adding updating to my apps, so I created Pakkly

    109 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  46. The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959

    109 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  47. Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civilization.’

    109 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  48. The original “Hello World”: B. W. Kernighan's intro to B (1973)

    108 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  49. A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13

    108 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  50. Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy

    108 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  51. "Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio]

    108 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  52. Indonesia coral reef partially restored in extensive project

    108 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  53. File Permissions: A painful side of Docker (2019)

    108 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  54. A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy

    108 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  55. One of the World’s Longest-Running Experiments Sends Up Sprouts

    108 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  56. How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever

    108 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  57. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works

    108 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  58. Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)

    108 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?

    108 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  60. Show HN: RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud

    108 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  61. Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists

    107 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  62. Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing

    107 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  63. How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)

    107 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  64. Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys

    107 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  65. Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C

    106 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  66. Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car

    106 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  67. Winding down of Alphabet’s Loon causes job cuts

    106 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  68. Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger Eventually

    106 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  69. The Psychology of Design

    106 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  70. GCC Rust Monthly Report #6 May 2021

    106 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  71. German regulator probes Google's market position, data use

    106 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  72. Highres Spectrograms with the DFT Shift Theorem

    106 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  73. Coded Illustrations

    105 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  74. Tesla Continues to Walk Back Full Self-Driving Claims

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  75. Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016)

    105 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  76. Grazing Goat Problems

    105 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  77. PID Controller: A Simple Control Loop Mechanism

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  78. Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license

    105 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  79. Instanced Line Rendering Using WebGL

    105 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  80. Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office

    105 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  81. Our memory is better than experts thought

    105 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  82. Launch HN: Curvenote (YC W21) – Collaborative writing tools for science

    104 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  83. FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars

    104 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  84. Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  85. UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low

    104 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  86. Potemkin Data Science (2020)

    104 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  87. FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15

    104 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  88. Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection

    104 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  89. Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

    104 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  90. Video Games Inspire Great UX (2019)

    104 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  91. Digging for Diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas

    104 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  92. Pimp My Microwave

    104 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  93. Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader

    104 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  94. SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator Autopilot in Elixir

    104 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  95. Tesla Rescinds Job Offer

    104 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  96. Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1

    104 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  97. Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google

    104 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  98. The search for a perfect access control system

    104 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  99. Old disease names frequently found on death certificates

    104 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  100. Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (2015)

    103 points • comment • may 11, 2021