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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Derivations 102 – Learning Nix pt 4

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  2. Graphs of relationships between DNS RFCs

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  3. The startup that made air conditioning units look cool

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  4. Train firm's 'worker bonus' email is cybersecurity test

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  5. Study: Covid-19 lockdowns led to 95K fewer air pollution-related deaths globally

    7 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  6. Science Has Become a Cartel

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  7. Two of the Most Famous Pirates in History Were Women

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  8. What is the temperature range for food not to burn your mouth?

    7 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  9. Sony expects PS5 supply issues to continue into next year

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  10. Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  11. Fortran, GSoC21 and Me

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  12. To Stripe: Winning the hearts of Valley startups is not winning payments (2014)

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  13. Building your SaaS business with Partnerships

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  14. The benefits of locality in random access

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  15. Covert channel in Apple’s M1 is mostly harmless, but it sure is interesting

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  16. DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  17. Facebook, Instagram accused of bias by censoring Palestinian content

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  18. Chinese province sets up hotline to report suspected crypto miners

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2021

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

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  20. iOS 14.6 Causing Excessive Battery Drain, Heat Issues on iPhone

    7 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  21. AMS Notice: The End of Pure Mathematics in Leicester [pdf]

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  22. Flatfile

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  23. Science of the Trompe (Old Technology for Compressing Air)

    7 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  24. Spectral Passages (2013)

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  25. Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce Announcement Tweet

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  26. TikTok removes 500k+ accounts in Italy after DPA order to block underage users

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  27. Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing Lidar with Manufacturer Plates

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  28. Olpc’s $100 Laptop Was Going to Change the World – Then It All Went Wrong (2018)

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  29. Show HN: RiteRaft - Build a raft service with only 160 lines Rust code

    7 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  30. A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  31. Monotremes

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Resources to Learn Scientific Computing?

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  33. Tesla tells regulator that full self-driving may not be achieved by year-end

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  34. Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed after immigration van standoff

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  35. Chinese Tesla Owners Are Installing Brake Cameras in Their Cars

    7 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  36. Travelling downwind faster than the wind [video]

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  37. Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney

    7 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  38. The Historian Embodied

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  39. My Robot Vacuum Cleaner Is Afraid of Sunshine

    7 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  40. Columbia Engineering Team Builds First Hacker-Resistant Cloud Software System

    6 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  41. Blame regulation, not financial speculation, for skyrocketing housing prices

    6 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  42. AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs

    6 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  43. Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan (May 2020)

    6 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  44. Curl Pictures

    6 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  45. Mystery of the vanishing piano – David Berglas

    6 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  46. Cosmic light detected in Tibetan plateau may rewrite laws of physics

    6 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  47. An NFT That Saves Lives

    6 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  48. Ask HN: How to automate handling tech recruiter spam?

    6 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  49. Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New ‘Life-Is-Short’ Mindset

    6 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  50. New Spectre Variants Discovered by Exploiting Micro-Op Caches

    6 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  51. An easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer

    6 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  52. ‘Lost’ Charles Schulz strips have been rediscovered. Do they show an adult Lucy?

    6 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  53. Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years (2019)

    6 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  54. APL SQL DSL

    6 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  55. Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B

    6 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  56. Copyright notice from ISP for pirating Linux

    6 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  57. I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me

    6 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  58. Study: One million cancer cases undiagnosed in Europe due to Covid restrictions

    6 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  59. Dogecoin Is Surging Again, for Some Actual Reasons

    6 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  60. The First Law of Cybernetics

    6 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  61. Biden signs anti-Asian hate crimes bill into law

    6 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  62. Using Wikipedia as an Impromptu RottenTomatoes API

    6 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  63. How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy

    6 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  64. Bill Gates’s Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks

    6 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  65. How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history

    6 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  66. The social contract of open source

    6 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  67. California condors swoop on home and 'declare war'

    6 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  68. Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find

    6 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  69. Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas

    6 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  70. Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers

    6 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  71. Expensify S-1

    6 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  72. Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain

    6 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  73. Chinese Long March 5B re-enters over Arabian Peninsula

    6 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  74. Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds

    6 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  75. Full-blown boycott pushed for Beijing Olympics

    6 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  76. About 1.5M people still pay for AOL for tech support/identity theft help

    6 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  77. French cyber insurance provider to stop covering ransomware

    6 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  78. The Myth of the 'Asymptomatic Spreader' Dealt Another Blow This Week

    6 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  79. Speedbuilding LLVM/Clang in 2 minutes on ARM

    6 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  80. Artificial Neuron Device Runs NN Computations Using 100-1000 Times Less Energy

    6 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  81. Popular Elitism in Programming

    6 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  82. The UML was designed to be a language for just visualizing and reasoning

    6 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  83. The Engineering Genius of the Largest Ski Lift Ever

    6 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  84. Israeli police attack worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque

    6 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  85. Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing

    6 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  86. Chromebook shipments grew 275% in Q1

    6 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  87. Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines

    6 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  88. How do I sound like a guy so I can stop getting kicked [from TF2]?

    6 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  89. Everyone wore masks during the 1918 flu pandemic. They were useless. (2020)

    6 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  90. India is hiding its Covid crisis – and the whole world will suffer for it

    6 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  91. Show HN: 3D Editor to Create Animations, in the Browser

    6 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  92. Re: It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

    6 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  93. The Fedora I3 Spin

    6 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  94. Flipper Zero: Case Manufacturing

    6 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  95. New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot

    6 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  96. Internet Rips into Airbnb for High Prices, Hidden Fees: Prices Are Ludicrous

    6 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  97. Edit live video background with WebRTC and TensorFlow.js

    6 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  98. Knowledge Graphs with Inductive Logic Programming

    6 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  99. Covid-19 'has NO credible natural ancestor' and was created by scientists

    6 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  100. A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong

    6 points • comment • may 13, 2021