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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Idiosyncrasies of the HTML Parser

    95 points • comment • may 28, 2021

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

    95 points • comment • may 21, 2021

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

    95 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  4. Amazon had keys to USPS mailbox used for union ballots

    95 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  5. Why “Idea” People Are Risky and What to Do About It

    94 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  6. HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 Beta

    94 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  7. Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)

    94 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  8. Using Computer Modern on the web (2013)

    94 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  9. Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs

    94 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  10. Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose

    94 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  11. Mega65 – Open 8-Bit Computer

    94 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  12. Fifteen Years Forsaken

    94 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  13. Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions [pdf]

    94 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  14. The XY Problem (2014)

    94 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  15. Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs

    93 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  16. Elevator Sabbath service mode (SHO)

    93 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  17. IncludeOS – Run your application with zero overhead

    93 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  18. Exxon Lost a Board Battle with a Small Hedge Fund

    93 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  19. Jetoptera VTOL aircraft design features “bladeless fans on steroids”

    93 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  20. ESA advances its plan for satellites around the Moon

    93 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  21. Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode drama

    93 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  22. Ghost subway station in Paris where films come to life

    93 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  23. Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made

    93 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  24. JupyterLab LaTeX – live-editing of LaTeX documents in JupyterLab

    93 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  25. An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (2019)

    93 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  26. A Misleading CDC Number

    93 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  27. FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed for free online

    93 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  28. X-Transformers: A fully-featured transformer with experimental features

    93 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  29. Brood X Periodical Cicadas FAQ

    93 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  30. Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript

    93 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  31. Dark Side of Posix APIs

    93 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  32. Which hypercube unfoldings tile space?

    92 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  33. Google AI leader has defected to Apple

    92 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  34. ARM vs. RISC-V Vector Extensions

    92 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  35. How Cities Will Fossilise

    92 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  36. Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (2011)

    92 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  37. Why should I put my website to sleep?

    92 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  38. Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository

    92 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  39. Google I/O 2021

    92 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  40. Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1

    92 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  41. Coinbase is closing their SF office

    92 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  42. Suicide by Culture (2017)

    92 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  43. CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020)

    92 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  44. Elon Musk, master promoter

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  45. Slack was experiencing an outage

    92 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  46. Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin

    91 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  47. How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)

    91 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  48. Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines

    91 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  49. Are Angels More Likely Than VCs to Drive Entrepreneurial Experimentation? [pdf]

    91 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  50. Introduction to Security Good Practices

    91 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  51. Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price vs. 32-Bit Integers

    91 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  52. Accessibility is the hardest thing for me about making things for the web

    91 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  53. Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison

    91 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  54. Experts suggest AXA’s plan to shun ransomware payouts will set a precedent

    91 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  55. Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support

    91 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  56. Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP

    91 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  57. Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021

    91 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  58. You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)

    91 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  59. Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey

    90 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  60. OpenDrop

    90 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  61. National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (2015)

    90 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  62. Future of Work Will Be 5-Hour Days, 4-Day Workweek, Flexible Staggered Schedules

    90 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  63. Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow

    90 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  64. Generate RSS feeds with grep(1), sed(1), and Awk(1)

    90 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  65. A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free

    90 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  66. It's time for a data-first front end revolution

    90 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  67. Learning About the GeoTIFF File Format with a Hex Editor (2018)

    90 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  68. The faulty digital clock problem

    90 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  69. Vaccine-Induced Covid-19 Mimicry Syndrome

    89 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  70. Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019)

    89 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  71. Small B Blogging (2018)

    89 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  72. Automated Data Wrangling

    89 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  73. Show HN: CandyGraph, a flexible, fast-by-default WebGL plotting library

    89 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  74. Enigmatic designs found in India may be the largest images made by human hands

    89 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  75. Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except

    89 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  76. Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking

    89 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  77. Target stops selling Pokémon cards in store, citing safety concerns

    89 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  78. Using io_uring to make a high-performance finger server

    89 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  79. Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channel of the ancient world

    89 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  80. SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine

    89 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  81. Show HN: Split-Grid Generator

    88 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  82. Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer

    88 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  83. Bonkers tri-wing jumbo jet concept reduces fuel consumption by 70%

    88 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  84. Multics Public Access

    88 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  85. Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story

    88 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  86. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

    88 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  87. Tcl Calling Parallel C++ Code Using OpenMP

    88 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  88. Verifying Vectorized Rust Revisited

    88 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  89. On Weakness

    88 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  90. Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub

    88 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  91. Neural Network Enabled Filmmaking

    88 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  92. Man used Coinbase to pay hitman in Bitcoin for wife's murder, FBI says

    87 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  93. Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as your app

    87 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  94. A blood test may help the diagnosis and treatment of depression

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  95. The app that lets you pay to control another person's life

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  96. Developing MLB’s Automated Ball/Strike System

    87 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  97. A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure (2002)

    87 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  98. Why psychology isn’t science (2012)

    87 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  99. Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode

    87 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  100. Writing a game from first principles in 65c02 – Part One

    87 points • comment • may 29, 2021