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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Moving my US tech job to Australia

    55 points • comment • may 29, 2021

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

    55 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  3. Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers

    55 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  4. North Carolina To Kickback $845.8M of Apple Employees' Taxes to Apple

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  5. Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C

    55 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  6. Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  7. Open source retro ISA video card

    55 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  8. D(?)A(?)O – Decentralization and Autonomy in “DAOs”

    55 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  9. Vintage HP-25 Calculator Gets Wireless Charging

    55 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  10. Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination

    55 points • comment • may 13, 2021

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

    55 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  12. Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

    55 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  13. Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

    54 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  14. Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  15. Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  16. Freenode resignation is official, not a draft

    54 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  17. A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship

    54 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  18. C++ Software Security Sins: Basic Issues

    54 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  19. So you want to build a generator (programming)

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  20. Rectal Breathing with Perfluorocarbons

    54 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  21. PfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package

    54 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  22. Ulysses

    54 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  23. TeamViewer sends collection agency if missed emails, even after making payment

    54 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  24. Warren Buffett is right, inflation is running rampant

    54 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  25. As a longtime BSD user, I have my doubts about our future

    54 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  26. Peak Web Has Passed

    54 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  27. The New York Times criticizes dark patterns, but fails to criticize themselves

    54 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  28. The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  29. Show HN: Hupreter – Create apps by describing them in English

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  30. Caproni Ca.60

    54 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  31. Roden Crater

    54 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  32. OpenMapChest is shutting down

    54 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  33. By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  34. Regex Cross­Word

    54 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  35. Why Aren’t SMS Interventions Designed to Boost College Success Working at Scale?

    54 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  36. In big tech’s dystopia, cat videos earn millions while real artists beg for tips

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  37. Programming language subreddits and their choice of words

    53 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  38. Updated Concept of “The Surgical Team”

    53 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  39. AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher

    53 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  40. Clodl: Turn dynamically linked ELF binaries into self-contained closures

    53 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  41. Shifting the impossible to the inevitable: A Private ARPA user manual

    53 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  42. Rust 1.52.1

    53 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  43. The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming

    53 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  44. Interlacing, Deinterlacing, and Everything in Between

    53 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  45. Ask HN: What happened to the guy whose boss was ignoring him?

    53 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  46. Non-native speakers navigate the world of 'good' and 'bad' English

    53 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  47. On Establishing a Cloud Security Program

    53 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  48. Fedora has significantly fumbled DKMS handling for Linux kernel modules

    53 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  49. Proving 50-Year-Old Sorting Networks Optimal: Part 1

    53 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  50. A New Architecture for Plaid Link: Server-Driven UI with Directed Graphs

    53 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  51. Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

    53 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  52. SpecBAS: An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs

    53 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  53. A Substack on how social media has supercharged culture war and driven us insane

    53 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  54. Why Use a Novichok?

    53 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  55. A fungus that infects cicadas and pushes their mating into hyperdrive

    53 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  56. Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML

    53 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  57. SVT Encore – Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg

    53 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  58. Send in the bugs, the Michelangelos need cleaning

    52 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  59. Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places

    52 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  60. Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, built an open government platform

    52 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  61. The State of Toolchains in OpenBSD

    52 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  62. Amygdala hijack

    52 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  63. EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled

    52 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  64. Extempore – An audiovisual live programming environment

    52 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  65. Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020)

    52 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  66. Reticle: Virtual Machine for Programming Modern FPGAs [pdf]

    52 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  67. Life as a 90s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera

    52 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  68. Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls

    52 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  69. Réunion: the postmen of the peaks

    52 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  70. A Man on Death Row Has Waited Years for GitHub to Provide Key Evidence

    52 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  71. Israel’s most-hyped initial coin offerings were scams, ex-employees allege

    51 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  72. Show HN: I built uFincs – a privacy-first, encrypted personal finance app

    51 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  73. Sonova Acquires Sennheiser Consumer Business

    51 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  74. Tech groups sue Florida over content moderation law

    51 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  75. Sony discontinues its last DSLRs

    51 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  76. Paper linking frequency of search terms to violence against women retracted

    51 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  77. Constant-Time Big Numbers: An Introduction

    51 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  78. Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria

    51 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  79. High-Speed Internet at a Crossroads

    51 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  80. Rare extragalactic objects are now easier to spot

    51 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  81. Brain Differences Between Men and Women: Evidence from Deep Learning

    51 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  82. Haters (2020)

    51 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  83. Two airlines will postpone serving alcohol amid surge of in-flight violence

    51 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  84. nginx: 1-byte memory overwrite vulnerability in DNS resolver (CVE-2021-23017)

    51 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  85. The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies

    51 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  86. Show HN: Direct manipulation flowchart editor without the mouse

    51 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  87. Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is

    51 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  88. Study in zebrafish examines how tumors alter whole-body metabolism

    51 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  89. Comparing trips between cellphone towers and Google timeline (GPS)

    51 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  90. Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen

    51 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  91. Renewable Energy Boomed In 2020

    51 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  92. We applied for a job with a ransomware gang

    50 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  93. Babel has no money because someone took a $130K salary and didn't work

    50 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  94. Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family

    50 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  95. Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer

    50 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  96. No safe level of alcohol for brain health: observational cohort study [pdf]

    50 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  97. Nonsense Laboratory

    50 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  98. Show HN: I made a free blogging/bookmarking platform with discussions/discovery

    50 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  99. A Better Fog-Trap

    50 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  100. On Ransomware and Cryptocurrency

    49 points • comment • may 21, 2021