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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Rust Is a Wave of the Future

    61 points • comment • may 25, 2021

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

    61 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  3. A primer on code generation in Cranelift

    61 points • comment • may 08, 2021

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

    61 points • comment • may 12, 2021

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

    61 points • comment • may 04, 2021

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

    61 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  7. HashCow, BTC.TOP have halted China operations after Beijing crackdown on Bitcoin

    61 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  8. The Machinery of Freedom (1989) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  9. Windows 2000 Running in WebAssembly

    60 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  10. Chip-8 in Common Lisp: The CPU (2016)

    60 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  11. A Historical Perspective on COBOL (2020)

    60 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  12. The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

    60 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  13. The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons

    60 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  14. Webtops: A Linux Desktop Environment in the Browser

    60 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  15. My apps were listed at the top of Developers Tools (iOS/Mac), I made $60

    60 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  16. The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics

    60 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  17. Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis

    60 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  18. Introducing AWS App Runner

    60 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  19. Lelush: How a sulky Russian model became China’s slacker icon

    60 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  20. There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and not Google

    60 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  21. Daniel Stenberg: curl doesn't qualify for TravisCI free tier

    60 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  22. Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy

    60 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  23. Galapagos Islands: Erosion fells Darwin’s Arch

    60 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  24. Vector tiles to GeoJSON

    60 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  25. How to use RabbitMQ in service integration

    60 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  26. What I learned by re-learning HTML

    60 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  27. I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches [pdf]

    60 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  28. Whole body regeneration in marine life

    59 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  29. Django IRC Channels Migration to Libera.Chat

    59 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  30. Security Issues with LastPass on Android

    59 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  31. Politics and the English Language (1946)

    59 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  32. Steve Finberg, W1GSL, SK

    59 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  33. The art of reading non-fiction non-linearly

    59 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  34. GADTs for Dummies

    59 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  35. Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

    58 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  36. No Flutter on Linux desktop

    58 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  37. Shel Silverstein and the Missing Piece Meets the Big O

    58 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  38. The Spanish Witches of Cartagena

    58 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  39. The Remarkable Life of Eugène-François Vidocq, Inventor of Modern Detective Work

    58 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  40. Berkshire Hathaway Down 99.5%

    58 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  41. Amazon Warns Employees Not to Trust Their Unionizing Co-Workers

    58 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  42. Chicago Police Started Secret Drone Program Using Untraceable Cash: Report

    58 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  43. Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon

    58 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  44. Ford “Volume knob” is “finger” on set of bearings epoxied directly onto display

    58 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  45. Technocratic Plimsoll Line

    58 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  46. FreeSurfer: Open-source software for processing and analyzing brain MRI images

    58 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  47. Braess's Paradox

    58 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  48. Securing a swift return: how a simple brick can help migratory birds

    58 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  49. When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs

    58 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  50. Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio

    58 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  51. Kaufmann's Posographe: a pocketable analog exposure calculator

    58 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  52. Commodore’s Assemblers: Overview

    58 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  53. The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive

    57 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  54. Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative

    57 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  55. Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain

    57 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  56. Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber

    57 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  57. Wuhan Lab Staff Sought Hospital Care Before Covid-19 Outbreak Disclosed

    57 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  58. Circuit Synthesis for Analog Computing

    57 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  59. MindCuber for Lego Mindstorms EV3

    57 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  60. Black homeowner has white friend stand in for third appraisal. Value doubles.

    57 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  61. “Just avoid the satellites” they said

    57 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  62. How Long Can We Live?

    57 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  63. The Digital Wallet of the Future (1996)

    57 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  64. White House discussing plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance

    57 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  65. Someone stole my videos and YouTube is terminating me

    57 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  66. The Heathkit Legacy (2013)

    57 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  67. Preventing Crypto Mining Abuse on Gitlab.com SaaS

    57 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  68. Playing Codenames with Language Graphs and Word Embeddings

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  69. Mediterranean diet may prevent memory loss and dementia, study finds

    57 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  70. An industrial designer who inspired Steve Jobs

    57 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  71. The 1788 Doctors' Riot

    57 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  72. The Historic Russian Recipe That Turns Apples into Marshmallows

    56 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  73. Cox Hotspots with Panoramic Wifi

    56 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  74. 64% would prefer to permanently WFH rather than get a $30k-a-year raise

    56 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  75. Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin

    56 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  76. Tani Adewumi is now a chess master

    56 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  77. Nix solves the package manager ejection problem

    56 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  78. Apple AirTag Hacked

    56 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  79. The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush

    56 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  80. Show HN: IPster – Peer-to-peer simple job notifications

    56 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  81. Steve Jobs on his “glide slope” theory of tech (1988)

    56 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  82. I Used to Be a Human Being – How we are all becoming information addicts

    56 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  83. America’s Forgotten Tea Rooms

    56 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  84. Human Antibodies Target Many Parts of Coronavirus Spike Protein

    56 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  85. Returns to Scale in Broken Windows

    56 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  86. Spencer Silver, inventor behind the Post-it Note, has died

    56 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  87. Girls need higher entrance exam scores than boys at 80% of Tokyo high schools

    56 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  88. Google user asks Google support for help, user ends up helping support employee

    56 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  89. Show HN: Monito, a browser extension for software testers

    56 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  90. Larry Page asking how to change User Agent in Java

    56 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  91. The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything

    56 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  92. Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical applications

    56 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  93. Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

    56 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  94. Stay Calm and Stay in the Cab (1999) [video]

    56 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  95. Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  96. Florida governor signs bill to ban Big Tech 'deplatforming'

    55 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  97. Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?

    55 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  98. First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era spares no blushes

    55 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  99. GameStop Is Creating a NFT Platform

    55 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  100. Apple Discussed 'Punitive Measures' Against Netflix for Dropping In-App Purchase

    55 points • comment • may 06, 2021