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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. What we lose when literary criticism ends

    36 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  2. VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon

    36 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  3. When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math

    36 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  4. We Fixed the Ozone Layer

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2021

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

    36 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  6. Hot Chips 33: Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Zen 3, Next-Gen Z, Neoverse N2

    36 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  7. The Once and Future Shell [pdf]

    36 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  8. Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers

    36 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  9. Hackers who shut down pipeline: We don’t want to cause “problems for society”

    36 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  10. Types of Robotics Papers

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  11. Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly

    36 points • comment • may 30, 2021

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

    36 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  13. The Distribution Vector That Changed Linux Forever

    36 points • comment • may 07, 2021

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

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  15. There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math

    36 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  16. Omnimatte: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Video

    36 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  17. Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps

    36 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  18. Small Satellite Launchers – A Comparison

    36 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

    36 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  20. Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  21. Show HN: Run SQL on Spreadsheets

    36 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  22. Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?

    36 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  23. City pays $350k after suing “hackers” for opening Dropbox link it sent them

    36 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  24. Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010)

    36 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  25. Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  26. WiFiStation: A WiFi Interface for the Cidco MailStation

    35 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  27. Starship's Belly Flop Maneuver

    35 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  28. FDA finds wood pulp in major American parmesan cheese brands

    35 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  29. Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi

    35 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  30. Response to your May 12, 2021 letter to Chairman Sellers [pdf]

    35 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  31. How We Moved from MongoDB to Postgres Without Downtime and Cut Our Costs by 30%?

    35 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  32. New version of Kinesis Advantage coming late 2021

    35 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  33. Bill to Federally Decriminalize Marijuana, Expunge Records Reintroduced

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  34. Elon Musk Suggests Tesla May Have Dumped Bitcoin Holdings

    35 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  35. Google employees demand Palestine support in letter to CEO

    35 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  36. Cornell and NTT’s Physical Neural Nets Enable Arbitrary Physical System Training

    35 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  37. Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is not coming in 2021, and likely never will

    35 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  38. ExxonMobil Wants You to Take Responsibility for Climate Change, Study Says

    35 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  39. Many Need for Speed Games Are Abiut to Be Erased by EA

    35 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  40. A Warning from History: The Carrington Event Was Not Unique

    35 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  41. Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

    35 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  42. Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization

    35 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  43. ST3 Update now is ST4

    35 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  44. Gen Z is going to have a hard time getting rich

    35 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  45. Replacing Bert Self-Attention with Fourier Tranform: 92% Accuracy, 7X Faster

    35 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  46. Virtuozzo’s Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux Now Available to Public

    35 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  47. How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on Film

    35 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  48. I just open sourced my music collaboration site

    35 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  49. Show HN: Cocert: split your private keys securely amongst untrusted network

    35 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  50. Serendipity Finds You (2010)

    35 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  51. Short Tutorial on Python's ChainMap

    35 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  52. Ubuntu 21.04 significantly faster than windows 10 on Threadripper

    35 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  53. STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-Based High-Performance Radio Link for RC Applications

    34 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  54. Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world

    34 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  55. Offensive Tweet Quiz – Twitter is terrible at identifying offensive tweets

    34 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  56. Where did the notion of “one return only” come from?

    34 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  57. Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss

    34 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  58. Airlines customer data breach for 4.5M users, Star Alliance, Air India, et al.

    34 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  59. Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever

    34 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  60. A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life

    34 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  61. Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians

    34 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  62. The Dunyazad Digital Library

    34 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  63. “Collectors might be confused … you're not auctioning the [320x200] originals”

    34 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  64. The Lives of Napoleon

    34 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  65. Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’

    34 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  66. Google ‘Experiments’ with Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  67. A Death in Cryptoland: The Story of Gerald Cotten and QuadrigaCX

    34 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  68. Bitcoin falls further as China cracks down on crypto currencies

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  69. PipeWire: The new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34

    34 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  70. SpaceX aims for its 100th successful flight in a row TODAY with a Falcon 9

    34 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  71. Handling exceptions in Python like a pro

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  72. In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math

    34 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  73. Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month

    34 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  74. Indian scientists flag virus mutations that could ‘evade immune response’

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  75. Experiment, powered by RSS, to allow following of creators in Chrome

    34 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  76. Walking in L.A

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  77. Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold

    33 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  78. SciteQt: A Port of the SciTE Editor to Qt/Quick – Android App and WASM available

    33 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  79. Evening is the Best Time of Day for Men to Exercise for Metabolic Health

    33 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  80. Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fonts

    33 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  81. Let's talk about the Tether scandal

    33 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  82. Ask HN: How can I move away from engineering?

    33 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  83. Putting an old digital clock (with an outdoor thermometer) on steroids

    33 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  84. Daytripper: Hide-My-Windows Laser Tripwire

    33 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  85. PEP 657 – Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks

    33 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  86. San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders

    33 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  87. Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States (2016)

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  88. We’re on track to set a new record for global meat consumption

    33 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  89. Arbitrary code execution found in ExifTool. Make sure to update to 12.24

    33 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  90. On the New Architecture of Location-Based Services [pdf]

    33 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  91. A six figure meme making job at a legit company

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  92. Prioritise the Highest Order Bit

    33 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  93. Over 10k women are suing Google over gender pay disparity

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  94. No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  95. Python Default Dict

    33 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  96. If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?

    33 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  97. BMC: Accelerating Memcached using In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing

    33 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  98. Ask HN: Freelancers and consultants, what do your project proposals look like?

    33 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  99. Where have all the Uber drivers gone?

    33 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  100. Ward: Modern Test Framework for Python

    33 points • comment • may 16, 2021