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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. After a decade of VC influence at Stanford, what’s next?

    49 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  2. Marriott Files Lawsuit Against Unknown Robocalls Perpetrators

    49 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  3. Product placements may soon be added to classic films

    49 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  4. Why Don't Americans Use Bidets?

    49 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  5. Bill Gates left Microsoft board amid probe into prior relationship with staffer

    49 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  6. Startup Growth Calculator (2014)

    49 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  7. Intel Confirms Sapphire Rapids Uses Golden Cove

    49 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  8. Thunderbird, RNP, and the Importance of a Good API

    49 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  9. Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

    49 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  10. New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes in-cluster observability platform

    49 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  11. Known-plaintext attack

    49 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  12. Getting Schooled: The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs

    49 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  13. OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 2

    49 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  14. Pixie is now open source

    49 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  15. Why Clinical Laboratorians Should Embrace the R Programming Language

    49 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  16. Taiwan: Request to drop word 'country' preceded BioNTech vaccine deal collapse

    49 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  17. 'Irresponsible' London Underground Bitcoin Advert Banned

    49 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  18. Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s crown prince

    49 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  19. When Wiener Met Einstein

    49 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  20. Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do

    48 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  21. Why is India having a Covid-19 surge?

    48 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  22. Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me

    48 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  23. Show HN: terraform-provider-factorio

    48 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  24. iOS IDE Play.js Goes Online: Acquired by CodeSandbox

    48 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  25. The Cardiovascular Secrets of Giraffes

    48 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  26. Show HN: ReplPad – Javascript Repl/Scratchpad

    48 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  27. 83% of Americans Are Belt Tightening Due to Inflation Pressures

    48 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  28. An Escalator Made of Cardboard

    48 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  29. QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized (“Low-Precision”) Simulations on the GPU

    48 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  30. Dancing robots you can fling

    48 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  31. Every (US) cyclist who was killed by a driver in 2020

    48 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2021)

    48 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  33. Getting Started with Org Mode (2016)

    48 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  34. Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users over the past year

    48 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  35. Inflation speeds up in April as consumer prices leap 4.2%, fastest since 2008

    48 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  36. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics (2015)

    47 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  37. Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain inside Jupiter and Saturn

    47 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  38. Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang

    47 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  39. India tells WhatsApp to withdraw its new policy terms

    47 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  40. MCL65 – Fastest Apple II+

    47 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  41. The M1 iPad Pro Cameras

    47 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  42. Discord's new UX design is harmful to the visually impaired and colorblind

    47 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  43. Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated

    47 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  44. Kickstarting AI for Code: Introducing IBM’s Project CodeNet

    47 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  45. Founding vs. Inheriting

    47 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  46. MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning

    47 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  47. Crash a Ryzen system in single line of tweetable PowerShell

    47 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  48. In Singapore, Covid vs. privacy is no contest

    47 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  49. Resetting the App Store

    47 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  50. WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #9

    47 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  51. Wall Street struggles to sell Washington on Bitcoin for the masses

    47 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  52. Asynchronous Tasks with FastAPI and Celery

    47 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  53. Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage elsewhere

    47 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  54. 100 Largest Landowners in America

    47 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  55. Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

    47 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  56. C++ Constructors, Memory, and Lifetimes

    47 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Best Resources to Learn SEO?

    46 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  58. Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)

    46 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  59. Reopening Texas Had No Discernible Impact on Covid-19 Cases or Deaths

    46 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  60. Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight

    46 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  61. Research reveals why some find the sound of others eating so irritating

    46 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  62. Show HN: MPL Plotter – Python library to make technical plots more efficiently

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  63. Sen. Warren wants to bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks

    46 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  64. Insurance giant AXA hit by ransomware attack after it stops covering ransoms

    46 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  65. Blockchain Is Not Decentralised

    46 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  66. Pfizer vaccine reprograms innate immune responses

    46 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  67. England’s NHS plans to share patient records with third parties

    46 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  68. Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list

    46 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  69. The Agas Map of Early Modern London

    46 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  70. FuseSoC – Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development

    46 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  71. Quantum Computer Datasheet [pdf]

    46 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  72. Indestructible light waves travel through opaque material as if it isn’t there

    46 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  73. Learning Skeletal Articulations with Neural Blend Shapes

    46 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  74. Chipotle bumps pay to 15$, adds benefits in push to hire 20k

    46 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  75. Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste – study

    45 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  76. April 2021 Librem 5 News Summary

    45 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  77. Copyright notice from ISP for downloading Ubuntu

    45 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  78. Map-like use of Earth’s magnetic field in sharks

    45 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  79. Someone Has to Run the Fabs

    45 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  80. Big Mail: Your inbox, upgraded

    45 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  81. A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines

    45 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  82. Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

    45 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  83. On Freenode and its commitment to FOSS

    45 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  84. Morphing Pasta and Beyond

    45 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  85. Evidence supports claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA

    45 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  86. Warren Buffett seeing 'substantial inflation' and raising prices

    45 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  87. Magic-Wormhole: Get Things from One Computer to Another, Safely

    45 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  88. Making live repls behave

    45 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  89. Automatically Make Unit Tests

    45 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  90. Jerikan: A configuration management system for network teams

    45 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  91. GitHub Restores Reverse-Engineered GTA Code Following DMCA Counter Notice

    45 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  92. React best practices

    45 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  93. Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life?

    45 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  94. How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy

    44 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  95. Balancing DNA Methylation May Decrease Biological Age by 3.23 Years in 8 Weeks

    44 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  96. Spearmint – JavaScript Test-Code Generator – New In-App Testing

    44 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  97. 'I lost millions through cryptocurrency addiction'

    44 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  98. New York’s Hyphenated History

    44 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  99. Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia

    44 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  100. CircuitPython

    44 points • comment • may 19, 2021