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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

    401 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  2. Positions chess engines don't understand

    401 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  3. Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to

    399 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  4. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

    396 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  5. WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

    396 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  6. NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)

    395 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  7. Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

    394 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  8. Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

    393 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  9. Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root

    392 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  10. World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years

    391 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  11. NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

    391 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  12. Teardown of a PC Power Supply

    391 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  13. Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library

    389 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  14. Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

    387 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  15. Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

    383 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  16. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

    383 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  17. Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)

    383 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  18. Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time

    381 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  19. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

    380 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  20. In praise of --dry-run

    377 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  21. Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan

    377 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  22. 1Password for Linux

    377 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  23. Text editing hates you too (2019)

    375 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  24. Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research

    374 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  25. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part IV

    374 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  26. Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam

    371 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  27. uLisp

    371 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  28. Can't Unsee

    370 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  29. Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

    370 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  30. WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

    370 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  31. Google Dataset Search

    369 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  32. Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities

    369 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  33. JavaScript for Shell Scripting

    368 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  34. Elixir 1.12

    368 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  35. Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing

    365 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  36. So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

    363 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  37. Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)

    362 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  38. Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

    361 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  39. SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)

    361 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  40. Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly

    360 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  41. Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip

    359 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  42. After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand

    359 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  43. How Basecamp Blew Up

    356 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  44. I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack

    355 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  45. Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?

    354 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  46. Starting a crypto project

    352 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  47. Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry

    351 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  48. KolibriOS

    350 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  49. Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency

    350 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  50. Systemd: The Good Parts

    349 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  51. Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

    349 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  52. Squeezebox Keyboard

    348 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  53. The True Size of Africa (2015)

    348 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  54. Half a million lines of Go

    347 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  55. Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

    347 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  56. Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

    347 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  57. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019)

    347 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  58. Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack

    346 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  59. How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix

    346 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  60. Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

    346 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  61. Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions

    345 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  62. The End of AMP

    343 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  63. Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

    342 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  64. Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

    342 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  65. We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon

    341 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  66. Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over (2020)

    341 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  67. Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations

    341 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  68. The compiler will optimize that away

    341 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  69. New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up

    340 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  70. What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative

    340 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  71. Magit 3.0

    340 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  72. On Smoking

    340 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  73. Will Linux phones stay around this time?

    339 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  74. SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty

    339 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  75. Audacity Aquired by Muse Group

    338 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  76. Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)

    338 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  77. Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

    334 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  78. Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

    334 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  79. Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

    334 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  80. FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds

    331 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  81. Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?

    330 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  82. Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force

    327 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  83. Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker

    327 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  84. Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?

    326 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  85. Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?

    326 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  86. JWT should not be your default for sessions

    325 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  87. Cloudflare on the edge

    324 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  88. Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

    324 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  89. How to get rich without being lucky (2019)

    323 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  90. The data model behind Notion's flexibility

    322 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  91. Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?

    322 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  92. AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years

    321 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  93. Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

    320 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  94. Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI

    320 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  95. If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats

    318 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  96. TikTok Remix Culture

    318 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  97. The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos

    317 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  98. Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller

    317 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  99. Elk OS – Audio Operating System

    317 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  100. Linux Foundation starts AgStack, an open-source agtech initiative

    316 points • comment • may 08, 2021