top stories
Hacker News (May 2021)
-
Moving my US tech job to Australia
55 points • comment • may 29, 2021
-
First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era spares no blushes
55 points • comment • may 27, 2021
-
Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers
55 points • comment • may 18, 2021
-
North Carolina To Kickback $845.8M of Apple Employees' Taxes to Apple
55 points • comment • may 03, 2021
-
Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C
55 points • comment • may 15, 2021
-
Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam
55 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
Open source retro ISA video card
55 points • comment • may 18, 2021
-
D(?)A(?)O – Decentralization and Autonomy in “DAOs”
55 points • comment • may 04, 2021
-
Vintage HP-25 Calculator Gets Wireless Charging
55 points • comment • may 17, 2021
-
Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination
55 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Apple Discussed 'Punitive Measures' Against Netflix for Dropping In-App Purchase
55 points • comment • may 06, 2021
-
Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
55 points • comment • may 22, 2021
-
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
54 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic
54 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit
54 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Freenode resignation is official, not a draft
54 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship
54 points • comment • may 02, 2021
-
C++ Software Security Sins: Basic Issues
54 points • comment • may 24, 2021
-
So you want to build a generator (programming)
54 points • comment • may 25, 2021
-
Rectal Breathing with Perfluorocarbons
54 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
PfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package
54 points • comment • may 09, 2021
-
Ulysses
54 points • comment • may 26, 2021
-
TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment
54 points • comment • may 07, 2021
-
Warren Buffett is right, inflation is running rampant
54 points • comment • may 05, 2021
-
As a longtime BSD user, I have my doubts about our future
54 points • comment • may 15, 2021
-
Peak Web Has Passed
54 points • comment • may 08, 2021
-
The New York Times criticizes dark patterns, but fails to criticize themselves
54 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)
54 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Show HN: Hupreter – Create apps by describing them in English
54 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Caproni Ca.60
54 points • comment • may 15, 2021
-
Roden Crater
54 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
OpenMapChest is shutting down
54 points • comment • may 17, 2021
-
By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
54 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
Regex CrossWord
54 points • comment • may 22, 2021
-
Why Aren’t SMS Interventions Designed to Boost College Success Working at Scale?
54 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
In big tech’s dystopia, cat videos earn millions while real artists beg for tips
54 points • comment • may 31, 2021
-
Programming language subreddits and their choice of words
53 points • comment • may 29, 2021
-
Updated Concept of “The Surgical Team”
53 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher
53 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
Clodl: Turn dynamically linked ELF binaries into self-contained closures
53 points • comment • may 03, 2021
-
Shifting the impossible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual
53 points • comment • may 07, 2021
-
Rust 1.52.1
53 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
53 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
Interlacing, Deinterlacing, and Everything in Between
53 points • comment • may 16, 2021
-
Ask HN: What happened to the guy whose boss was ignoring him?
53 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
Non-native speakers navigate the world of 'good' and 'bad' English
53 points • comment • may 23, 2021
-
On Establishing a Cloud Security Program
53 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
Fedora has significantly fumbled DKMS handling for Linux kernel modules
53 points • comment • may 24, 2021
-
Proving 50-Year-Old Sorting Networks Optimal: Part 1
53 points • comment • may 05, 2021
-
A New Architecture for Plaid Link: Server-Driven UI with Directed Graphs
53 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
53 points • comment • may 31, 2021
-
SpecBAS: An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs
53 points • comment • may 08, 2021
-
A Substack on how social media has supercharged culture war and driven us insane
53 points • comment • may 05, 2021
-
Why Use a Novichok?
53 points • comment • may 03, 2021
-
A fungus that infects cicadas and pushes their mating into hyperdrive
53 points • comment • may 20, 2021
-
Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML
53 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
SVT Encore – Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
53 points • comment • may 08, 2021
-
Send in the bugs, the Michelangelos need cleaning
52 points • comment • may 30, 2021
-
Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places
52 points • comment • may 20, 2021
-
Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, built an open government platform
52 points • comment • may 29, 2021
-
The State of Toolchains in OpenBSD
52 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
Amygdala hijack
52 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled
52 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
Extempore – An audiovisual live programming environment
52 points • comment • may 03, 2021
-
Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020)
52 points • comment • may 09, 2021
-
Reticle: Virtual Machine for Programming Modern FPGAs [pdf]
52 points • comment • may 07, 2021
-
Life as a 90s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera
52 points • comment • may 16, 2021
-
Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls
52 points • comment • may 30, 2021
-
Réunion: the postmen of the peaks
52 points • comment • may 04, 2021
-
A Man on Death Row Has Waited Years for GitHub to Provide Key Evidence
52 points • comment • may 28, 2021
-
Israel’s most-hyped initial coin offerings were scams, ex-employees allege
51 points • comment • may 31, 2021
-
Show HN: I built uFincs – a privacy-first, encrypted personal finance app
51 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
Sonova Acquires Sennheiser Consumer Business
51 points • comment • may 08, 2021
-
Tech groups sue Florida over content moderation law
51 points • comment • may 29, 2021
-
Sony discontinues its last DSLRs
51 points • comment • may 06, 2021
-
Paper linking frequency of search terms to violence against women retracted
51 points • comment • may 22, 2021
-
Constant-Time Big Numbers: An Introduction
51 points • comment • may 21, 2021
-
Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria
51 points • comment • may 13, 2021
-
High-Speed Internet at a Crossroads
51 points • comment • may 21, 2021
-
Rare extragalactic objects are now easier to spot
51 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
Brain Differences Between Men and Women: Evidence from Deep Learning
51 points • comment • may 15, 2021
-
Haters (2020)
51 points • comment • may 01, 2021
-
Two airlines will postpone serving alcohol amid surge of in-flight violence
51 points • comment • may 30, 2021
-
nginx: 1-byte memory overwrite vulnerability in DNS resolver (CVE-2021-23017)
51 points • comment • may 25, 2021
-
The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies
51 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
Show HN: Direct manipulation flowchart editor without the mouse
51 points • comment • may 23, 2021
-
Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is
51 points • comment • may 15, 2021
-
Study in zebrafish examines how tumors alter whole-body metabolism
51 points • comment • may 14, 2021
-
Comparing trips between cellphone towers and Google timeline (GPS)
51 points • comment • may 20, 2021
-
Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
51 points • comment • may 18, 2021
-
Renewable Energy Boomed In 2020
51 points • comment • may 18, 2021
-
We applied for a job with a ransomware gang
50 points • comment • may 02, 2021
-
Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary and didn't work
50 points • comment • may 11, 2021
-
Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family
50 points • comment • may 12, 2021
-
Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer
50 points • comment • may 19, 2021
-
No safe level of alcohol for brain health: observational cohort study [pdf]
50 points • comment • may 20, 2021
-
Nonsense Laboratory
50 points • comment • may 10, 2021
-
Show HN: I made a free blogging/bookmarking platform with discussions/discovery
50 points • comment • may 27, 2021
-
A Better Fog-Trap
50 points • comment • may 27, 2021
-
On Ransomware and Cryptocurrency
49 points • comment • may 21, 2021