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Hacker News (May 2021)

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

    87 points • comment • may 11, 2021

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

    87 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  3. Rejection Sensitivity

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  4. Cray-2 Memories [pdf]

    86 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  5. Show HN: Convect – Instant Serverless Deployment of ML Models

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  6. India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims

    86 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  7. Web worker meets worker threads – threads.js

    86 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  8. C++ Workflow: C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine

    86 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  9. Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

    86 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  10. Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration

    86 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  11. Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance

    86 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  12. SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing

    86 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  13. Holes in the WiFi

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  14. Emacs Lisp book revived: Marcin Borkowski

    86 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  15. 80% of the 22M comments on net neutrality rollback were fake

    86 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  16. The Carrington Event: not something to worry about (2020)

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  17. Amazon's Sidewalk Network Is Turned on by Default. Here's How to Turn It Off

    85 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  18. ZenithOS is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System

    85 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  19. Counting Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB of Memory (2012)

    85 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  20. Directory of Open Access Journals

    85 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  21. The metabolic face of migraine

    85 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  22. Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  23. Ask HN: I think I hate the software development industry? Am I crazy?

    85 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  24. Tiresias typeface

    85 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  25. Ask HN: How Long Is Your CI Process?

    85 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  26. Paper Aeroplane Wind Tunnel

    85 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  27. VGA ROM Fonts (2020)

    85 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  28. GitHub Actions Down

    85 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  29. Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction (2020)

    85 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  30. The intestinal microbiome of latrine sediments from two medieval cities (2020)

    85 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  31. Camera-Only Autopilot Requires Automatic High Beams Enabled

    85 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  32. Competing with Steve Jobs (the first time)

    85 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  33. My oldest kid made this to raise awareness for composting

    85 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  34. New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  35. Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

    84 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  36. Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

    84 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  37. The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Absorbs

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  38. U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs

    84 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  39. Redbean 0.4

    84 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  40. Integrating Rust into the Android Open Source Project

    84 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  41. Diffie-Hellman for the Layman

    84 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  42. Bird Architecture

    84 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  43. Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings

    84 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  44. We can 3D print wood now

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  45. Rural purge

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  46. Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality

    84 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  47. 80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System

    84 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  48. Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932)

    84 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  49. Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)

    84 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  50. Sri Lanka faces 'worst-ever beach pollution' from burning ship

    84 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  51. All Hail King Pokémon

    84 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  52. 1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  53. Mac the Knife

    84 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  54. Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5th

    84 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  55. U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity

    84 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  56. The PGP Problem: A Critique (2020)

    84 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  57. Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your searches

    83 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  58. How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism

    83 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  59. Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2

    83 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  60. Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  61. Bill and Melinda Gates Separated

    83 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  62. Plaid paid people $500 for their employer payroll logins

    83 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  63. The Opportunists

    83 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  64. YouTube Experiencing Issues

    83 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  65. Dragon Go Server

    83 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  66. Ask HN: Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?

    82 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  67. Commodore’s Assemblers: Part 1: MOS Cross-Assembler

    82 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  68. Court orders WhatsApp to suspend users sharing pirated movie

    82 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  69. Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater

    82 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  70. Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores

    82 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  71. Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert

    82 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  72. Fungus-like organisms in deep time and deep rock

    82 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  73. Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  74. Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences

    82 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  75. 1nm Breakthrough: TSMC, MIT and NTU Published on Nature

    82 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  76. Raspberry Pi Releases new PoE+ Hat

    82 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  77. The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server

    82 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  78. Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]

    82 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  79. Moderna to take mRNA flu and HIV vaccines into Phase 1 trials this year

    82 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  80. Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap

    82 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  81. Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?

    82 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  82. Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’

    81 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  83. 55,000 lines of Rust code later: A debugger is born

    81 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  84. MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review

    81 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  85. Please, Think Critically About College Admissions

    81 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  86. From Rust to Spark: Formally Proven Bip-Buffers

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  87. Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  88. Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder

    81 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  89. Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care in November 2019

    81 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  90. Multiplying Integers Using Fourier Transforms [pdf]

    81 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  91. When Hackers Were Heroes

    81 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  92. The Memex Method

    81 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  93. Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware

    81 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  94. Hacking the Silvercrest (Lidl) Smart Home Gateway

    81 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  95. They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia

    81 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  96. Spin-torque oscillators for WiFi band transmission and energy harvesting

    80 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  97. System76 Launch Keyboard

    80 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  98. Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)

    80 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  99. U.S. Treasury seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers

    80 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  100. Two men arrested with 7 kg radioactive uranium in Mumbai

    80 points • comment • may 08, 2021