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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Dubai Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency, Set to Become the City's Digital Currency

    25 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  2. A Better Way to Picture Atoms

    25 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  3. Facebook Wi-Fi

    25 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  4. New SSDs Have Built-In Protection Against Ransomware, Data Theft

    25 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  5. The Optimal Amount of Hassle

    25 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  6. Fasting and the Dangers of Silicon Valley’s Trendy Diets

    25 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  7. Kremlin: Russia is preparing to be disconnected from SWIFT

    25 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  8. Show HN: Programmerhumor.io

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  9. 21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server

    24 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  10. Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  11. The Muldrow Glacier in Alaska Is Moving 100 Times Faster Than Normal

    24 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  12. Online video platform Vimeo plunges on Nasdaq debut following spin-off

    24 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  13. As opioid epidemic raged, drug company executives made fun of West Virginians

    24 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  14. Unfixable Apple M1 chip bug enables cross-process chatter, breaking OS security

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  15. Cuba migrating to open source platforms [By 2024]

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  16. Taking the Measure of a Forest

    24 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  17. Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  18. Trump DOJ Tried to Unmask User Behind Devin Nunes Parody Twitter Account

    24 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  19. Cancel culture, Twitter trendings and radical transparency

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  20. Nassim Taleb Is Possibly Wrong about Wealth and IQ

    24 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  21. Starting the World's First V8 Powered Tesla [video]

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2021

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

    24 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  23. Roots of 'Program' Revisited

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  24. Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  25. Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  26. Technobabble, Libertarian Derp and Bitcoin

    24 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  27. Typeface Descriptions and Histories (2006)

    24 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  28. Superdeterminism could reconcile quantum and relativity

    24 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  29. The Lyme Disease Vaccine

    24 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  30. Was the US complicit in China’s Covid research?

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  31. Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  32. Show HN: Inliner - Pull blocks of code into a single file

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  33. Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers (2015)

    24 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  34. Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats

    24 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  35. First AstraZeneca dose can safely be followed by Pfizer for second shot

    24 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  36. IGN Takes Down Article and Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups

    24 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  37. The Switch: How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer

    24 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  38. A Dutch City Gets a €600k Fine for WiFi Tracking

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  39. Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  40. The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth (2012)

    24 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  41. China will likely ban all Bitcoin mining soon

    24 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  42. The Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious in Latest Crypto Binge

    24 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  43. SpaceX: Arrest warrant for YouTuber who broke into launch site in Texas

    24 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  44. The economics of movie production placements

    23 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  45. Ask HN: How do I help my 6yr old learn robotics and coding?

    23 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  46. The future of war is bizarre and terrifying

    23 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  47. Facebook no longer stops the spread of a theory that Covid-19 was manufactured

    23 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  48. Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects – The Pragmatic Engineer

    23 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  49. A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  50. iMac M1 24“ Teardown

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  51. Bose built the first FDA-cleared hearing aids that won't require a doctor visit

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  52. Killing Cyclists Is as American as Mass Shootings

    23 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  53. Eric Carle, Author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Dies at 91

    23 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  54. Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  55. How lobbyists made breakfast 'the most important meal of the day'

    23 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  56. DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims

    23 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  57. Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says

    23 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  58. Ask HN: Former employees that went through an acquisition with equity payout

    23 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  59. Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers have struck again

    23 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  60. Health boss unsure how many patients were overdosed due to Windows upgrade

    23 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  61. Antonio García Martínez, a newly hired Apple engineer, is gone from Apple

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  62. Show HN: zxpy, a cleaner version of Google's zx

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  63. Monads Schmonads: Functional Input Without Tears (PYFL)

    23 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  64. California has a $75bn budget surplus

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  65. Stripe announces pricing for invoicing

    23 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  66. Journey to Poom (Pico8 Doom)

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Can you share your experience when you bombed an interview badly?

    23 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  68. Why I Quit DIY

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  69. Sacred Monster

    23 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  70. Firefox Performance Tweaks

    23 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  71. Chip Ignite: Rapid IC Creation

    23 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  72. BlueHydra – Bluetooth device discovery service

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  73. Barry Diller says cryptocurrencies are a 'con'

    23 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  74. Windows 10 “Sun Valley” will do away with Windows 95 era icons

    23 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  75. Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow

    23 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  76. Dogecoin Now Valued Higher Than Twitter and Ford

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  77. Ansible 4.0.0 final has been released

    23 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  78. Verification = TCB/PB Reduction

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  79. Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’

    23 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  80. Neutron tomography of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes

    23 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  81. If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird

    23 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  82. Show HN: Webm.to, convert webm to mp4, GIF, mp3 and an API

    23 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  83. Melinda Gates began divorce moves at time Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  84. Google search doesn't work without JavaScript anymore

    23 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  85. Show HN: Stream-unzip – stream unZIP files in Python

    23 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  86. Generate syntax diagrams (railroad diagrams) for various parser grammars

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  87. Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  88. Police Kill Too Many People–White and Black (2016)

    23 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  89. iPhone takes infrared photo of your face every 5 seconds

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  90. ML data and model drift in Prometheus and Grafana

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  91. Drain brain: The secret life of a gutter enthusiast

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  92. Millions at security risk from old routers, provided by EE, Sky and Virgin

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?

    22 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  94. Show HN: Tubenotes.xyz – Annotate and Loop Videos

    22 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  95. The 2021 iMac is a great family computer

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  96. Big banks to share customer deposit records for credit card approvals

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  97. Germany agrees to pay Namibia €1.1bn over historical Herero-Nama genocide

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  98. Freenode removes hate speech rule

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  99. Show HN: I am building a new Scrum Project Management App

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  100. 'We made a mistake': Citizen app offers $30K reward for wrong man in CA wildfire

    22 points • comment • may 18, 2021