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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Can We Build ‘Her’? (2014)

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  2. Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  3. University of NSW gives dumped Data61 seL4 research group funding lifeline

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  4. Concerns rising over Taiwan chip supply stability

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  5. Facebook blocks Palestinian activists like it blocks American Black activists

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  6. A Fossil Squid Eating a Crustacean Being Eaten by a Shark

    4 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  7. Smart guitar will practically play itself

    4 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  8. How "pwned" went from hacker slang to internet's favorite taunt

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  9. Recursive Islands and Lakes

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  10. OnlyFans Isn’t Just Porn;)

    4 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  11. Senator Reid Foreshadows Big Nothing Burger in DNI UFO Report

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  12. Xinjiang Gov. Believed to Be Behind Social Campaign to Deny Human Rights Abuses

    4 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  13. Ampere Is Designing Their Own Arm Server CPU Cores, Coming in 2022

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  14. Let’s Throw Away These Rules of the Road

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  15. SSDs More Reliable Than HDDs: Backblaze Study

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  16. Melinda Gates began divorce when Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein revealed

    4 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  17. The internals of App Review’s testing

    4 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  18. How Gamaleya’s Sputnik V Vaccine Works

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  19. Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win’

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  20. How Basecamp Blew Up

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  21. The world is kicking its coal habit. China is still hooked

    4 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  22. Hyundai is launching in-car payments in the all-electric Ioniq 5

    4 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  23. CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Go Maskless in Most Places

    4 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  24. Inflationary cryptocurrency and domain identity: A recipe for a social network

    4 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  25. Ask HN: What's the best way to protect a network against ransomware?

    4 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  26. Amazon will block police indefinitely from using its facial-recognition software

    4 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  27. People Aren’t ‘Addicted’ to Wearing Masks, They’re Traumatized

    4 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  28. Basic 10-Liners

    4 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  29. Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorization

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  30. The World’s Most Expensive Carpets

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  31. Ask HN: Easiest way to build something I can use across devices?

    4 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  32. New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  33. Rapid Prototyping (electronics) with a $100 Inkjet Printer

    4 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  34. Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  35. Some Star Wars-themed Forth programming. May the Forth be with you!

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  36. System Design Behind USPS

    4 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  37. Digital Self-Determination

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  38. Making eBPF Work on Windows

    4 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  39. U.N. Report says methane is far worse for the climate, human health than thought

    4 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  40. Arduino's New DIY Kit Makes It Easy to Build Smart Home Gadgets

    4 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  41. Vilnius built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  42. Boom Supersonic: 'Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  43. Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps?

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  44. Con of the Week: Greensill Capital

    4 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  45. Google tackles fake news in Search update. Here's how it works

    4 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  46. Paulgraham.com doesn't use SSL Certificate?

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  47. Help wanted, work from anywhere except if you're located in Colorado

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  48. Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life

    4 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  49. Historic verdict in climate case against Shell

    4 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  50. GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines (2017)

    4 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  51. Elon Musk Tweet may suggest change in Tesla’s Bitcoin holdings

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  52. Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  53. Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  54. In the beginning was CAOS (Amiga History – 1988)

    4 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  55. Competition Can Be Good for the Developing World

    4 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  56. They’re Vaccinated and Keeping Their Masks On, Maybe Forever

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  57. Bosses are acting like the pandemic never happened

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  58. If Microsoft Designed macOS (Concept)

    4 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  59. Analysis Report of the Facefish Rootkit

    4 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  60. A new biography shows how Adrienne Rich changed her mind

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  61. Is Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine safe? Brazil’s veto sparks lawsuit and confusion

    4 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  62. SEC charges five individuals involved in BitConnect lending program

    4 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  63. UFO Sightings Interactive Map

    4 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  64. Why Ingenuity’s Fifth Flight Will Be Different

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  65. Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling

    4 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  66. Cryptocurrency Mines Consume More Power Than Argentina–But PSUs Can Help

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  67. Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says

    4 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  68. Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal

    4 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  69. Ask HN: Is there open source AI based search engine for photos?

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  70. Pastor Rick Wiles Has Covid After Refusing Vaccines He Called 'Global Genocide'

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  71. Satya Nadella teases major updates coming soon to Windows during Build 2021

    4 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  72. The Apollo Flight Journal – Ejectable Camera Pods (2019)

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  73. When does the country get back to normal?

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  74. Bold Adversarial Journalism: The Intercept Does the Feds Work

    4 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  75. Cryptocurrency Is Now Worth More Than All U.S. Currency in Circulation

    4 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  76. NASA Use Open API

    4 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  77. James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45B Deal for MGM

    4 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  78. Information inequality might become a bigger issue than wealth inequality

    4 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  79. Google allowing sponsored ads for pseudoscience products

    4 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  80. Bitcoin Tumbles After Musk Implies Tesla May Sell Cryptocurrency

    4 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  81. OnlyFans Isn’t Just Porn

    4 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  82. The bubblegum misogyny of 2000s pop culture

    4 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  83. Sisters with Transistors Puts Women Back into Music History

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  84. Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now “100%-1000% Faster” for Many Scenarios

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  85. Why Physics Has Relevancy to Artificial Intelligence

    4 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  86. New Gnome Human Interface Guidelines

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  87. Black fungus piles on the misery for India’s Covid victims

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  88. Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups. It Didn’t

    4 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  89. Microsoft Terminology Translator

    4 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  90. Developers Flee Open Source Project After ‘Takeover’ by Korean Crown Prince

    4 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  91. Can Skyscrapers Withstand Earthquakes

    4 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  92. Ask HN: How a junior can handle a big bad coded project

    4 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  93. RL-IoT: Towards IoT Interoperability via Reinforcement Learning

    4 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  94. UK NHS site allows your employer to determine if you've been vaccinated

    3 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  95. How to do a $10K network security scan for $10

    3 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  96. Lois Lew Mastered IBM's 1940s Chinese Typewriter

    3 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  97. Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking–To Protect Themselves from the Vaccinated

    3 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  98. 3D Printed Camera Crane for the Workshop

    3 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  99. Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here’s how to avoid it

    3 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  100. Unit test your Java architecture

    3 points • comment • may 25, 2021