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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub

    40 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  2. Why are there no return statements in Objective-S?

    40 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  3. Bitcoin gave a shuttered coal plant a second life

    40 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  4. “It doesn’t seem to me you feel any pressure or competition” Judge says to Cook

    40 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  5. Citizen app sparked a $30k manhunt for the wrong guy

    40 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  6. Unreal Engine 5 is now available in Early Access

    40 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  7. Are we cut out for universal morality?

    40 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  8. Compositor: A database of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments

    40 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  9. Deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory

    40 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  10. Causal Inference: The Mixtape

    40 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  11. Databricks Unity Catalog

    40 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  12. PostgreSQL 14 Beta 1 Released

    39 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  13. Testing in the Twenties

    39 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  14. From Nand to Tetris (Building a Modern Computer From First Principles)

    39 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  15. Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?

    39 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  16. Better Thinking and Incentives: Lessons from Shakespeare

    39 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  17. AXM Paper Space Scale Models

    39 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  18. Florida, in a first, will fine social media companies that bar candidates

    39 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Startup, how to get companies to take you seriously?

    39 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  20. Women's Pockets Are Inferior (2018)

    39 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  21. Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory

    39 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  22. Why Covid-19 patients become critically ill

    39 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  23. NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9B moon lander contract after rivals protest

    39 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  24. Have I been Pwned goes open source

    39 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  25. Who Is “Public” Data For?

    39 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  26. Folio: A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks

    39 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  27. Show HN: A social platform where you get paid for being helpful

    39 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  28. Show HN: BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next

    39 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  29. U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory

    39 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  30. Show HN: Browser-based audio extractor tool

    39 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  31. BPF for Storage: An Exokernel-Inspired Approach [pdf]

    39 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  32. Afternoons are the new rush hour in the suburbs

    39 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  33. Satellites may have underestimated warming in the lower atmosphere

    39 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  34. Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned content

    39 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  35. US to ramp up tracking of domestic extremism on social media

    39 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  36. Divorce

    39 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  37. Show HN: Baldur's Gate 2 online demo reimplemented in WASM

    39 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  38. Minsk Family of Computers (2001)

    39 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  39. Show HN: TapeX – Draw, Annotate and Record on your desktop screen

    38 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  40. Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It

    38 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  41. Creating Non-Rectangular Headers (2017)

    38 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  42. Declarative Validation in Python

    38 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  43. Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015)

    38 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  44. Google Analytics deleted my entire account because I didn't log in for 60 days

    38 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  45. Gargantuanisation

    38 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  46. How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?

    38 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  47. The Problem of Distributed Consensus

    38 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  48. China maintains fusion at 120M Celsius for over 100sec, setting new WR

    38 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  49. NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars

    38 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  50. Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)

    38 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  51. Brazilian gang defrauds Uber, Lyft, DoorDash using GPS spoofing and stolen IDs

    38 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  52. Bitcoin traders using up to 100-to-1 leverage driving swings in cryptocurrencies

    38 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  53. Android Studio 4.2

    38 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Why did your business fail?

    38 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  55. Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid – Cummings

    38 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  56. The 11th Reason to Delete Your Social Media Account: The Algorithm Will Find You

    38 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  57. Neutrons unlock the secrets of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes

    38 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  58. How China lends: A rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments

    38 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  59. Germany Rejected Nuclear Power–and Deadly Emissions Spiked

    38 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  60. Horseshoe crab blood: miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives

    38 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  61. Doom multiplayer in Wasm running on Cloudflare Workers

    38 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  62. Freenode Now Taking over Channels

    38 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  63. A new way to approach Wayback Machine

    38 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  64. Show HN: A Decentralized Q&A Platform

    38 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  65. Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75k per year [pdf]

    38 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  66. Senate Preparing $10B Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm

    38 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  67. Turmoil shakes California National Guard with firing, suspension of top generals

    37 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  68. Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical architecture

    37 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  69. Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District

    37 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  70. Reactive, reproducible, collaborative: computational notebooks evolve

    37 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  71. The Pitchblende of Cornwall, England (1915) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  72. German ambulances uses QR code to avoid people taking photos of accidentes

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  73. Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff

    37 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  74. Starlink Review: Broadband Dreams Fall to Earth

    37 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  75. New Versions Released! Flask 2.0 with async

    37 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?

    37 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  77. How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  78. Origins of the D Programming Language (2020)

    37 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  79. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi (2017)

    37 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  80. Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane

    37 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  81. Who Goes Nazi? (1941)

    37 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  82. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary

    37 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  83. Study: Vitamin D won’t limit risk, severity of Covid-19

    37 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  84. Show HN: I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal JavaScript)

    37 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  85. Android Devices Are at Risk of Data Theft (2020)

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  86. Infinitic (Apache Pulsar framework for building distributed applications)

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  87. Facebook should never have stifled the debate about Covid’s origins

    37 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  88. New York City Has Just Approved a Floating Pool in Its East River

    37 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  89. Ask HN: Who here has been successful buying a small business or tiny project?

    37 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  90. Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming

    37 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  91. How the N-Word Became Unsayable

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  92. Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?

    37 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  93. Back-ups for GPS: Satellite-navigation systems at risk of jamming

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  94. What’s the web dev equivalent of SICP?

    37 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  95. Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter

    37 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  96. Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  97. Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  98. The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet

    36 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  99. Yuan Longping, the man who helped feed China, dies at 91

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  100. Software Carpentry: Teaching basic lab skills for research computing

    36 points • comment • may 23, 2021