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Hacker News (May 2021)

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

    273 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  2. The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition

    273 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  3. LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

    272 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  4. Big list of HTTP static server one-liners

    272 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  5. Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)

    272 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  6. Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser

    272 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  7. One million people saw my dumbest tweet

    271 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  8. Deno 1.10 Release Notes

    271 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  9. UK Rail services to come under unified state control

    271 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  10. Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga

    271 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  11. The Matrix Space Beta

    271 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  12. Pyston v2.2: faster and open source

    270 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  13. Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

    270 points • comment • may 25, 2021

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

    270 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  15. Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf]

    269 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  16. PlanetScale – Database for Developers

    269 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  17. Coinbase outages

    268 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  18. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)

    268 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  19. Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]

    267 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  20. Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service

    267 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  21. Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures

    265 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  22. Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)

    265 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  23. Volta

    265 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  24. What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use

    265 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  25. “I Could Rewrite Curl”

    264 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  26. I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit

    264 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  27. FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

    263 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  28. Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban

    262 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  29. There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically

    262 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  30. Lima: Linux-on-Mac

    261 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  31. Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

    261 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  32. True U.S. Death Toll from Covid Is More Than 900k, Study Finds

    260 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  33. Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them

    260 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  34. We wrote a book about building business applications in Go

    259 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  35. Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'

    259 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  36. Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate

    259 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  37. U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack

    258 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  38. Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

    258 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  39. Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

    258 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  40. Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S

    257 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  41. Apple Design Resources

    256 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  42. Ask HN: How to cope with the death of a dear person?

    256 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  43. Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine

    256 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  44. Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro

    256 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  45. My Favorite One Liners

    256 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  46. Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack

    254 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  47. Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

    254 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  48. Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes the Problematic University of Minnesota Patches

    254 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  49. Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions

    254 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  50. There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic

    253 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  51. An iOS app update that annoys me

    252 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  52. How we use web components

    252 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  53. Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?

    252 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?

    252 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  55. MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information

    252 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  56. For those who can afford it, quitting has become the ultimate form of self-care

    251 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  57. Why People Feel Like Victims

    251 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  58. Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs

    251 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  59. Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital lost $20B in two days

    251 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  60. The Unix Game

    251 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  61. Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

    251 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  62. Create AI videos by simply typing in text

    250 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  63. YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips

    249 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  64. Show HN: I Built Multiplayer Deathmatch Joust

    249 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  65. Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor

    249 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  66. California is not in drought

    247 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  67. Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact

    245 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  68. Tune Your PID Controller

    245 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  69. Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat

    245 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  70. Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance

    244 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  71. Home Gardening

    244 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  72. Peloton recalling all treadmills after reports of injuries, one death

    244 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  73. The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits

    244 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  74. Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire

    244 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  75. The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces

    244 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  76. Rust Weird Expressions

    244 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  77. Why I Love Coding (2012)

    243 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  78. Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships

    243 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  79. WinBox: Window manager in a web browser

    242 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  80. Use Alacritty instead of Termite

    242 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  81. Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism

    242 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  82. Triplebyte now showing profiles by default without consent

    241 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  83. China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures

    241 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  84. California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products

    241 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  85. Interactive IPA Chart

    240 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  86. .org doesn't mean credible

    240 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  87. Offline-First PWA for Plotly Visualization of CSV via SQLite

    240 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  88. Smithy: A language for defining services and SDKs

    240 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  89. Bibliogram – Open-source front-end for Instagram

    240 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  90. Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

    240 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  91. Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com

    240 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  92. Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  93. A CBP contract shows the risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone

    239 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  94. The FBI seized safe deposit boxes knowing ‘some’ belonged to ‘honest citizens’

    238 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  95. Waking up one hour earlier can lower chance of major depression: study

    238 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  96. Pprof++: A Go Profiler with Hardware Performance Monitoring

    238 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  97. Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy

    237 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  98. Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go

    237 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  99. Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC

    236 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  100. Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)

    236 points • comment • may 09, 2021