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Hacker News (May 2021)

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

    316 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  2. Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor

    316 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  3. Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook

    315 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  4. Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

    315 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  5. First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States

    315 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  6. Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall

    314 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  7. Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux

    314 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  8. Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws

    314 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  9. Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)

    314 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  10. Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings

    314 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  11. Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

    314 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  12. Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack

    313 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  13. Gravity is a double copy of other forces

    313 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  14. The Byte Order Fiasco

    313 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  15. Washington state removes all barriers to municipal broadband

    312 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  16. Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

    312 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  17. AirGradient: DIY Air Quality Monitoring with Open-Source Hardware & Firmware

    312 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  18. Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned

    311 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  19. Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

    310 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  20. Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

    310 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  21. Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

    309 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  22. Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla

    308 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  23. Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?

    308 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  24. Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes

    307 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  25. Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR

    307 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  26. Sixth grader expelled after Zoom provided possibly inaccurate IP address

    306 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  27. CSS Houdini

    306 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  28. Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response

    306 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  29. Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition

    305 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  30. Second-guessing the modern web (2020)

    304 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  31. Tiny Wins

    303 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  32. Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations

    303 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  33. Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on single tank of hydrogen

    303 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  34. Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

    303 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  35. Samsung to jump into laptop processor market with Exynos chip in H2

    302 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  36. Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover

    302 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  37. Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope

    301 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  38. Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said

    301 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  39. Overwork contributes to 745k premature deaths per year

    301 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  40. Haiku OS ported and running on RISC-V

    300 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  41. The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day

    300 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  42. TimescaleDB raises $40M

    299 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  43. PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

    298 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  44. What can mRNA treat next?

    298 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  45. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)

    297 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  46. A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes

    297 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  47. Than Average

    297 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  48. Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit

    296 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  49. Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

    296 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  50. Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)

    294 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  51. The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

    294 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  52. ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts

    294 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  53. WordPress 18

    293 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  54. Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

    292 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  55. US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps

    291 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  56. Immudb 1.0 – open-source, immutable database with SQL and verified timetravel

    291 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  57. An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)

    291 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  58. What3Words – The Algorithm

    290 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  59. Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]

    290 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  60. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

    290 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  61. GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

    289 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  62. Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains

    289 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  63. eBPF on Windows

    288 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  64. Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything

    288 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  65. Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with a first-gen Nest Hub

    288 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  66. Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years

    286 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  67. Wikipedia is up (2001)

    286 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  68. Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)

    286 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  69. V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler

    286 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  70. San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge

    285 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  71. The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)

    285 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  72. HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor

    284 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  73. Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015)

    284 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  74. The word “decide” has deadly origins

    284 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  75. MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals

    284 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  76. What's Salesforce? (2019)

    283 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  77. Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120

    282 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  78. “Computer science is not about computers”

    282 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  79. Complexities of e-mail validation logic

    282 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  80. What Oxford taught me about posh people

    281 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  81. Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers

    281 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  82. Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

    280 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  83. Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs

    280 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  84. Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

    280 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  85. Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access

    280 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  86. India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

    279 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  87. The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius

    277 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  88. iPad Camera Multitasking

    276 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  89. How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

    276 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  90. Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512

    275 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  91. Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back

    275 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  92. Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma

    275 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  93. The anus is an evolutionary marvel

    275 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  94. How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)

    274 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  95. The Case of the 50ms request

    274 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  96. Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?

    274 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  97. The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition

    273 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  98. A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)

    273 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  99. ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login

    273 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  100. Flat Data

    273 points • comment • may 18, 2021