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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month

    67 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  2. YouTube deletes links to Russian anti-government voting project

    67 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  3. Why Working from Home Will Stick

    67 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  4. Why are there so many people in prison in America? (2017)

    67 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  5. SunBook – Sunlight Readable Netbook (2014)

    67 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  6. The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?”

    67 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  7. We Are Still Out Here

    67 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  8. Part 2 of Interview with Linus Torvalds

    67 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  9. Apple’s A15 chip will ship with an objc_msgSend branch predictor

    67 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  10. Total Relighting: Learning to Relight Portraits for Background Replacement

    66 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  11. Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel

    66 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  12. Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective

    66 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  13. Verizon Selling AOL and Yahoo

    66 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  14. The Red One

    66 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  15. Linear Clock: Solar

    66 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  16. 3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far

    65 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  17. Forth – The Early Years (1991)

    65 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  18. James Bond Unmasked (1968)

    65 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  19. 80/20 is the new Half-Ass

    65 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  20. Noisy appliances: How loud is your house?

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  21. Mauryan Polish

    65 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  22. China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business

    65 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  23. TeXmacs and the Art of Mathematical Writing

    65 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  24. IPFS Powers the Distributed Web

    65 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  25. Android 12 will let alternative app stores update apps automatically

    65 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  26. Kibbutz

    64 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  27. Iceland played an unexpected and crucial role in the Second World War

    64 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  28. May Update: Connection Established

    64 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  29. 50B birds live on Earth, new study finds

    64 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  30. Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps After 1967

    64 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  31. What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)

    64 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  32. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work

    64 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  33. Tesla Autopilot system was on during fatal California crash, more safety concern

    64 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  34. Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science

    64 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  35. Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems

    64 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  36. Converting stroked primitives to filled primitives (2020)

    64 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  37. Shrinkflation: Costco Paper Towels, Now with 20 Fewer Sheets per Roll (2012)

    64 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  38. Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  39. Z80 Development Toolchain

    63 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  40. Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  41. SXS switching cutover to ESS, live at Glendale CA central office (1984) [video]

    63 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  42. Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go in Terms of Input?

    63 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  43. Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the U.S. [pdf]

    63 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  44. The downfall of Malaysia’s biggest sugar daddy platform

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  45. Why A.I. Moonshots Miss

    63 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  46. Atomics in AArch64

    63 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  47. Federal Gov. left ‘completely blind’ on cyberattacks looks to force reporting

    63 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  48. Thunderbird stored OpenPGP secret keys without master password protection

    63 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  49. The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  50. Play the trombone in your web browser

    63 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  51. Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (2020)

    63 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  52. Thinking fast, slow, and not at all: System 3 jumps the shark

    63 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  53. Windows Package Manager 1.0

    63 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Where would you incorporate in 2021?

    63 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  55. US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay fell

    63 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  56. Show HN: Monty, Mongo tinified. MongoDB implemented in Python

    63 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  57. Tesla owner arrested after riding in the back seat while it was on autopilot

    63 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Is it better to generalise or specialise as a developer?

    63 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  59. An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers in Denmark

    63 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  60. Open source computer vision API

    63 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  61. Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle

    62 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  62. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    62 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  63. Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants

    62 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  64. The history of lab leaks

    62 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  65. Using CMake and Managing Dependencies

    62 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  66. Developers Turn to Analog for Neural Nets

    62 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  67. Some stealth edits Vox made to its article debunking “conspiracy theories”

    62 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  68. All Is Orwell

    62 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  69. Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

    62 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  70. Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity (2019)

    62 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  71. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

    62 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  72. Most and Least Affordable Places to Buy a Home

    62 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  73. Portability Is Reliability

    62 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  74. Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment of the CDC

    62 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  75. My life as a woman in tech, told in three beverages

    62 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  76. Making a “MiniKanren” using Z3Py

    62 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  77. What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years

    61 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  78. 60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?

    61 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  79. Using Kubernetes to rethink your system architecture and ease technical debt

    61 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  80. Thinking for Programmers (2014) [video]

    61 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  81. Instruction level just-in-time programming

    61 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  82. Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s

    61 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  83. Bitcoin Is Failing at Becoming the Future of Money

    61 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  84. Google Relaxes Work-from-Home Rules to Let More Staff Be Remote

    61 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  85. Authorities are looking to close the gap on crypto unhosted wallets

    61 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  86. Improved distributed algorithms for fundamental graph problems (2017)

    61 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  87. Justin Trudeau’s Plan to Control the Internet

    61 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  88. The Mammoth Pirates

    61 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  89. One man’s journey to the center of the bowling ball

    61 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  90. Run your ghost blog on Raspberry Pi for free

    61 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  91. The Man of the Circular Ruins

    61 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  92. Awk is the coolest tool you don't know

    61 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  93. Show HN: ThingsTwin – 3D House Plan Based UI for Smart Home

    61 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  94. Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting German WhatsApp Data

    61 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  95. I got 22k app downloads in one weekend with a $0 budget

    61 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  96. Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds, Citing 'Security Concerns'

    61 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  97. Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?

    61 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  98. Zellij – a friendlier tmux or screen in rust

    61 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  99. Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land”

    61 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  100. Palestinians criticise social media censorship over Sheikh Jarrah

    61 points • comment • may 08, 2021