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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. IBM creates 2nm chip

    574 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  2. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

    571 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  3. Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

    567 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  4. Amazon Sidewalk

    566 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  5. Writing books is not really a good idea

    565 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  6. A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

    564 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  7. Efficiency Is the Enemy

    560 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  8. Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

    558 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  9. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

    556 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  10. China lands rover on Mars

    554 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  11. QUIC is now RFC 9000

    553 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  12. Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace

    553 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  13. Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

    552 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  14. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

    548 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  15. Show HN: NocoDB – The Open Source Airtable Alternative

    547 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  16. Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing

    537 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  17. Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0

    535 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  18. FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

    532 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  19. FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

    531 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  20. A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop

    528 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  21. I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress

    528 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  22. Notion API – public beta

    528 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  23. MDN Plus

    519 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  24. CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries

    518 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  25. Why Russians do not smile (2002)

    517 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  26. Please commit more blatant academic fraud

    516 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  27. Terms and Conditions Game

    513 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  28. Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1

    511 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  29. The Expanse UI Design

    511 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  30. Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance

    509 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  31. Life after an internet mob attack

    508 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  32. Building a personal website in 2021

    503 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  33. Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement

    503 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  34. One week of Libera Chat

    499 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  35. Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits

    499 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  36. The most expensive number in engineering

    495 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  37. Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says

    494 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  38. Yamaha MOTOROiD

    493 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  39. How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS

    492 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  40. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

    490 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  41. Eric Carle has died

    489 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  42. Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

    488 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  43. I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff

    487 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  44. On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

    486 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  45. Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban

    486 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  46. Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

    478 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  47. Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux

    478 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  48. Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

    475 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  49. Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network

    475 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  50. The media's lab leak fiasco

    473 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  51. Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

    472 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  52. Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

    470 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  53. "To our surprise"

    468 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  54. Site Isolation in Firefox

    467 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  55. How I Practice Piano

    464 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  56. Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

    460 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  57. Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

    454 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  58. Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

    452 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  59. An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements

    452 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  60. $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin

    451 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  61. Erlang/OTP 24 highlights

    450 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  62. Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing

    449 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  63. Searching the web for under $1000/month

    448 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  64. The Return of Fancy Tools

    441 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  65. Monetizing open-source is problematic

    441 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  66. Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

    439 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  67. Is this what enterprise means?

    436 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  68. Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

    436 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  69. The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

    435 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  70. Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

    435 points • comment • may 13, 2021

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    434 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  72. Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept

    434 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  73. The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

    433 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  74. Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg

    431 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  75. More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins

    430 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  76. Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website

    429 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  77. Inkscape 1.1

    429 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  78. How Tech Loses Out

    427 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  79. TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

    426 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  80. Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

    425 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  81. Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed

    423 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  82. USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops

    422 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  83. Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts

    421 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  84. Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

    421 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  85. Fierce Nerds

    419 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  86. Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse

    419 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  87. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

    418 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  88. Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News

    417 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  89. We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor

    415 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  90. Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days

    415 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  91. I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages

    414 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  92. Observable Plot

    413 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  93. Midair Collision over Denver

    410 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  94. Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

    409 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  95. Benzene detected in many sunscreen products

    406 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  96. Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station

    406 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  97. The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

    405 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  98. Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)

    404 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  99. Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work

    404 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  100. Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

    404 points • comment • may 19, 2021