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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline

    103 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  2. Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can

    103 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  3. Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications

    103 points • comment • may 04, 2021

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

    103 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  5. Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k

    103 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  6. A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1

    103 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  7. A VR Frame’s Life

    103 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  8. Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

    103 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  9. Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice for Downloading Ubuntu

    103 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  10. Fast, Open Source Search

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  11. EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  12. An open letter from Atheme's developers and community

    102 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  13. The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)

    102 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  14. Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (2018)

    102 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  15. Swedish fintech payments unicorn Klarna shows you other users' account data

    102 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  16. Caught in the Study Web

    102 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  17. Reasons some languages are harder to learn

    102 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  18. E-Prime – English without the verb “to be”

    102 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  19. “Put that in your pipe and smoke it”

    102 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  20. Franz Kafka: Manuscripts, drawings and personal letters go online

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  21. MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]

    102 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  22. I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments

    102 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  23. TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D

    102 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  24. Bit-sync: synchronizing arbitrary data using rsync algorithm in pure JavaScript

    102 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  25. The digital natives are not who you think they are

    101 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  26. Show HN: Ninjabot – A fast cryptocurrency bot implemented in Go

    101 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  27. Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata

    101 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  28. An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (2016)

    101 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  29. Robinhood’s big gamble

    101 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  30. The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme

    101 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  31. HN: The Good Parts (2016)

    101 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  32. History of RSpec

    101 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  33. The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple exec at Epic trial

    101 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  34. Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone

    100 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  35. Antibody levels highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic Covid

    100 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  36. Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  37. First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals

    100 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  38. John Glenn popularized the word “glitch” (2019)

    100 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  39. A unified theory of low/no code and middleware

    100 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  40. Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce companies

    100 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  41. As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

    100 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  42. Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming

    100 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  43. Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict

    100 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  44. Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses

    99 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  45. Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  46. Where the top of the stack is on x86 (2011)

    99 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  47. Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers for publishing City Hall documents

    99 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  48. One Hundred Ideas for Computing

    99 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  49. Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC

    99 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  50. How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory

    99 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  51. A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  52. A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate

    99 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  53. Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM

    99 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  54. Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap

    99 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  55. The Syslog Hell

    99 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  56. Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store

    99 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  57. An obsessive scholar who rescued Iceland’s ancient literary legacy

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  58. An analysis of Bitcoin's throughput bottlenecks

    99 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  59. Rust 1.52.0

    98 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  60. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021

    98 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  61. In the search to stall aging, biotech startups are out for blood

    98 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  62. Docusaurus 2 Beta

    98 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  63. So, You Want to Become a Digital Nomad

    98 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  64. Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?

    98 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  65. How to build a custom data connector in 2 hours

    98 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  66. FiatMarketCap

    98 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  67. A future without passwords

    98 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  68. The Oncoming Ransomware Storm

    98 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  69. Email Explained from First Principles

    98 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  70. My MacBook Air M1 is dead

    97 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  71. Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

    97 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  72. Gnat 2021 GPL Community Edition Ada 202x compiler released

    97 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  73. Consumer prices increase 2.6 percent

    97 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  74. Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry

    97 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  75. The great resignation is coming?

    97 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  76. Let’s Encrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration – September 2021

    97 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  77. SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft

    96 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  78. Facebook, Twitter & Instagram can be banned in India tomorrow for non-compliance

    96 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  79. Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support

    96 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  80. How Japanese technology shaped dance music

    96 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  81. CPU Bugs (2018)

    96 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  82. The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen

    96 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  83. Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)

    96 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  84. Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

    96 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  85. MIMO Radar Antenna Arrays

    96 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  86. Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admissions

    96 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  87. Old electric cars are a raw material of the future

    96 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  88. A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX

    96 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  89. Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia

    96 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  90. The GNU D Compiler on OpenBSD/armv7

    96 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  91. CSS Container Queries in Web Components

    96 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  92. SpaceX launches Starlink sats in record 10th liftoff, landing of reused rocket

    96 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  93. Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud

    96 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  94. Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?

    95 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  95. “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (2018)

    95 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  96. Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)

    95 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  97. Italian towns will pay you to work remotely

    95 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  98. Co-founders tried to reduce my equity after company was accepted into YC

    95 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  99. Movie Tycoon Sues YouTube over Piracy and Exposes Content-ID ‘Caveat’

    95 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  100. China emissions exceed all developed nations combined

    95 points • comment • may 07, 2021