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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Just How Big Could India’s True Covid Toll Be?

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  2. Russias' New Tactic to Deter Dissent: CCTV and a 'Knock on the Door,' Days Later

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  3. Lois Ehlert died, same day as Eric Carle

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  4. Endangered California condors 'absolutely trash' woman's house, won't leave

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  5. Ask HN: Job Options for software engineer

    5 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  6. SpaceX successfully landed a Starship prototype for the first time

    5 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  7. EU tourists complain of fingerprinting at UK border

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  8. Computers Will Be Able to Read Images from Your Brain Within a Decade

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  9. Facebook Is Worried Starbucks May Delete Its Page over Hateful Comments

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  10. Doctors fear Covid-19 vaccines are messing with mammograms

    5 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  11. RIP Eric Carle

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  12. Man finds 2.2-carat diamond for engagement ring at Arkansas state park

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  13. Alcohol use may be behind pandemic’s impact on gastrointestinal, liver diseases

    5 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  14. The Concept of “Race” Is a Lie (2019)

    5 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  15. Does that mean I’m to be banned from planes, buildings and shops?

    5 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  16. A Tough-Love Letter to the Left (2017)

    5 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  17. What to save? Climate change forces brutal choices at national parks

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  18. Fear makes you a worse programmer

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  19. Banking system consumes two times more energy than Bitcoin: Research

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  20. Show HN: Insanely powerful, AI-generated, briefs on investors/thought leaders

    5 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  21. What We’re Learning About Ingenuity’s Flight Control and Aerodynamic Performance

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  22. Tesla Cybertruck Spotted at the Times Square NYC Ahead of Musk’s SNL Appearance

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  23. Embarrassing Software Engineering Fails No One Shares

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  24. The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America

    5 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  25. Free APIs That Nobody Is Talking About

    5 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  26. China’s feminists protest wave of online abuse with ‘internet violence museum’

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  27. Stuff in Space

    5 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  28. A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  29. Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  30. Thoughts on Using Deno

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  31. Django SQL Dashboard

    5 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  32. BitTorrent Creator's 'Green' Cryptocurrency Accused of Burning Through SSDs

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  33. NordLink Energy Interconnector Officially Opened

    5 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  34. Trolls can be hunted down, rooted out. Why aren’t social media giants doing it?

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  35. Ask HN: I have no idea how to network in tech. Any tips?

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  36. TypeScript 4.3

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  37. Airbyte raises $26M Series A for open-source data tools

    5 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  38. Next Angel Investor. They're 19

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  39. Phineas Gage

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  40. Presumed Portrait of Catherine Howard May Depict Anne of Cleves

    5 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  41. I Became a Libertarian

    5 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  42. Nuclear flash cards: US secrets exposed on learning apps

    5 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  43. How to rewrite a JavaScript library that runs on billions of devices per day

    5 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  44. On the Futility of Contact Tracing

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  45. Physicists achieve quantum entanglement in larger systems

    5 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  46. California bar owner who sold fake Covid-19 vaccine cards to face felony charges

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  47. Case decision 2021-001-FB-FBR

    5 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  48. How Google's $150B advertising business works

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  49. Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger's

    5 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  50. Crypto sure requires a lot of fiat

    5 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  51. Bezos Calculator

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  52. Apple Watch could add blood sugar and alcohol readings after UK tech deal

    5 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  53. Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide During the Covid Pandemic

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  54. My Beloved College Town Has a Problem: It’s Too Popular

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  55. Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Coronavirus Research (2020)

    5 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  56. Shell on Trial as Court Weighs Its Climate Responsibility

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  57. Nordic Biker War (1994-1997)

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  58. Ask HN: What weapons are the Israels using

    5 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  59. Panel loosens rule on how long human embryos can be grown in lab

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  60. The Simple Haskell Handbook is 100% completed

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  61. DIY Solar Generator Box

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  62. Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2021: Accepted Papers

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  63. Working from Home Has Benefits Some Don't Want to Lose

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  64. What's so hard about ordering blueberries?

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  65. The international travel ban is cruel and unscientific

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  66. Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency

    5 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  67. Show HN: Acid Properties in a SQL Database Explained

    5 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  68. Blind Bipedal Stair Traversal via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  69. Keep an eye out for a chance of northern lights tonight

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  70. Debuggable Deep Networks: Sparse Linear Models

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  71. About 1.5M people still pay for AOL (but for tech support and id theft s/w)

    5 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  72. Gates crafted an image as a do-gooder. New reports reveal cracks in his facade

    5 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  73. Flash Player Getting Removed from Windows with July Patch Tuesday

    5 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  74. The Seychelles is the most vaccinated nation on Earth. But Covid has surged

    5 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  75. Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling (2012)

    5 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  76. As U.S. Hardens Line on Beijing, Taiwan's Stock Rises in Washington

    5 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  77. Linux GUI app support now shipping as part of the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    5 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  78. New Study Estimates More Than 900k People Have Died of Covid-19 in U.S.

    5 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  79. Show HN: Build internal apps and dashboards using Google Sheets

    5 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  80. Show HN: HMSC – Analyst for your files and folders

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  81. Charles C. Ebbets and His Famous 'Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper' Photo

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  82. Space Force Commander Fired After Comments Made on Conservative Podcast

    5 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  83. Stockpile of Unfinished Ford Pickups Missing Chips Is Now Visible from Space

    5 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  84. Xkcd: Surface Area (All solid surfaces of solar system as a flat map)

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  85. Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  86. Russian Search Engine Yandex Buys a Bank

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  87. Wolves scare deer and reduce deer/auto collisions 24%, study says

    4 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  88. Dark.fail Got Hijacked

    4 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  89. Florida Health Dept. investigated, fired data manager gets whistleblower status

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  90. Programming Without State Chaos

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  91. Nick Clegg to decide Donald Trump’s Facebook ban fate

    4 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  92. Astronomers create largest map of the universe’s dark matter

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  93. Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak leaves Elon Musk’s brain implant company

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  94. On Politics at Work

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  95. Why do Americans die earlier than Europeans?

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  96. The US failed to learn from the first two times Pearl Harbor was defeated

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  97. Embedding AirTag in a resin 3D print [video]

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  98. Are We on the Brink of a New Age of Scientific Discovery?

    4 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  99. Rewilding: Four tips to let nature thrive

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  100. Attorneys general urge Facebook to stop plans for an Instagram for kids

    4 points • comment • may 11, 2021