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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  2. The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be far-fetched

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  3. Embassy Gardens Sky Pool

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  4. Erik Stolterman: Design Theory and Philosophy

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  5. Stadia product head John Justice has left Google

    22 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  6. Show HN: Mobile App Automizer

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  7. Kimarite

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  8. Snap CEO: We’re happy to pay Apple 30% – without Apple we wouldn’t exist

    22 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  9. The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (2009)

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  10. Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)

    22 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  11. Structural Equality for Better Tests

    22 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  12. Tether publishes ... two pie charts of its reserves

    22 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  13. Why the Ford Mustang Mach-E Is So Important

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  14. Jewish employees urge Google to support Palestinians, cancel contracts

    22 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  15. Semantic search with embeddings: index anything

    22 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  16. Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior

    22 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  17. Ethereum Creator, Vitalik Buterin, Donates over $1B to India Covid Relief

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  18. The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright

    22 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  19. Tech Companies That Made #BlackLivesMatter Pledges Had 20% Fewer Black Employees

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  20. Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  21. 10-20% of pulls of Docker Official Images coming from Apple M1 machines

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  22. First results from UK experiment point to a solution for fusion’s heat problems

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  23. Linus Torvalds on Why Open Source Solves the Biggest Problems

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  24. Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  25. A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Foam Rolling on Performance and Recovery (2019)

    22 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  26. John McAfee Statement from Prison

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  27. Why the Sad Face?

    22 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  28. VW Will Sell You Self-Driving for $8.50/Hour Someday. Too High or Too Low?

    22 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  29. How to Optimize Order by Random()

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  30. Don’t be so sure you know what a lowercase G looks like (2018)

    22 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  31. Gatsby employee abuse his maintainer status in GraphQL to insert politics

    22 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  32. Inequality Would Widen If U.S. Policies Spur Sustained Inflation

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  33. Neovim Treesitter Playground

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  34. Silicon carbide radio circuits can take the volcanic heat of Venus

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  35. Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down

    22 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  36. Remote Work has exposed a Fundamental Truth

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  37. Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  38. Mammalian Hybrids

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  39. Guantánamo Detainee Agrees to Drop Call for CIA Testimony

    22 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  40. Oxide Computer – Product

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  41. We Found Joe Biden’s Venmo. Why That’s a Privacy Nightmare for Everyone

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  42. Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award

    22 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  43. Jeff Bezos’s New Superyacht Heralds Roaring Market for Big Boats

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  44. Apple Silicon Hardware Secrets: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  45. What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  46. Tasmanian devils have the first births on the Australian mainland in 3000 years

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  47. 1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched back to gas

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  48. SKreen: Human Centric Smartphones for Everyone

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  49. Papers finding that lockdowns had little or no efficacy

    22 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  50. .C as a file extension for C++ is not portable

    21 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  51. Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  52. My PGP key used to be here

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  53. Dogecoin Is Up Because It’s Funny

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  54. What Python creator Guido van Rossum thinks of Rust, Go, Julia, and TypeScript

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  55. Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows

    21 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  56. The 24-Inch M1 iMac

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  57. In 2019 US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  58. A Deep Dive into QUIC

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  59. UFOs Are Real

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  60. Show HN: Flow-based programming for cryptocurrency trading

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  61. Grammar-Nerd Heaven

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  62. Programming Challenge: Build your own Redis

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  63. Vintage Fashion: Second-Hand Clothing in Medieval France

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  64. Waymo Self Driving Taxi Goes Rogue: Blocks Traffic, Evades Capture – JJRicks #54

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  65. Accelerating Eye Movement Research for Wellness and Accessibility

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  66. Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Is Bitcoin part of the Money Supply? Is it affecting Inflation?

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  68. The Coming Conflict Between Introverts and Extroverts

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  69. Humble Bundle sues Steam over alleged monopoly practices

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  70. The World of Edward Said

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  71. Lemonade says website security flaw is ‘by design’

    21 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  72. Why some tech workers are turning down jobs at TikTok

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  73. China Railway Map (2021)

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  74. Snow science; 100 years later

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  75. Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method (2016) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  76. Apple is using payment transactions information to target ads

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  77. It's hard for founders to find a job

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  78. Company Lets Celebrities Digitally Clone Their Voice So They Can Loan It Out

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  79. Transport vs. Network

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  80. The Contemplative Life: the monastic cowl (2020)

    21 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  81. Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  82. The Itch (2008}

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  83. Graffiti (Palm OS)

    20 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  84. Costco is seeing inflation abound, impacting a slew of consumer products

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  85. Footage of Israeli defenses vs. rockets around Tel Aviv [video]

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  86. Show HN: Hal9 – Roblox for AI

    20 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  87. App Store stopped over $1.5B in suspect transactions in 2020

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  88. OpenSSH 8.6 is still vulnerable to CVE-2020-14145 and will not be fixed

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  89. Problems with ancient musical scales

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  90. Covid is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?

    20 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  91. Multiple US agencies probing world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange

    20 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  92. Black Swan author: An employee is basically an “obedient, housebroken dog.”

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  93. No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)

    20 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  94. Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs

    20 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  95. How MDMA and Psilocybin Became Hot Investments

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  96. Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  97. The phenomenon of “mathcoins” – Fancy tech and academic obscurantism

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  98. Ask HN: How to Cultivate Gifted Child's Interest in Science?

    20 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  99. Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’ (2019)

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  100. Facebook Still Doesn't Get It–People Care About Their Privacy

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2021