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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. My multi-decade quest for rural broadband

    236 points • comment • may 12, 2021

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

    236 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  3. Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC

    236 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  4. Chrome extensions are tampering with security headers

    236 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  5. Analysis of blood markers predicts human lifespan limit

    235 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  6. I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)

    235 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  7. Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API

    234 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  8. Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding

    234 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  9. The Tether Ponzi Scheme

    234 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  10. The Economist's excess deaths model

    234 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  11. Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

    234 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  12. An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

    233 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  13. Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go

    233 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  14. File Descriptor Limits

    233 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  15. Gleam 0.15

    233 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  16. Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain

    233 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  17. Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax

    232 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  18. The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower

    231 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  19. I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)

    231 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  20. Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

    231 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  21. Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it

    231 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  22. Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure

    231 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  23. Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case

    231 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  24. Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book

    230 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  25. The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device

    229 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  26. Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2

    228 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  27. Tauri: Rust-based Electron alternative releases beta

    228 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  28. iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices

    228 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  29. How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil

    228 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  30. Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution

    228 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  31. Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

    227 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  32. Office 365 leaking BCC domain name

    227 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  33. JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser

    227 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  34. Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane

    227 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  35. Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning

    227 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  36. Gnuplot is not GNU

    227 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  37. useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React

    226 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  38. Fish shell

    226 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  39. Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects

    225 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  40. Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]

    225 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  41. The California Exception

    223 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  42. Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C

    223 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  43. Starlink Satellites Tracker

    223 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  44. The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

    223 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  45. Nim 2.0 thoughts

    223 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  46. Show HN: Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board

    223 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  47. “Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020)

    223 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  48. Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production

    222 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  49. uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer

    222 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  50. Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus

    222 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  51. A Lock Picking Game Changer [video]

    222 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  52. MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs

    222 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  53. Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules

    222 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  54. Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say

    221 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  55. OCaml is 25

    221 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  56. ‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After

    220 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  57. Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project

    220 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  58. Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions

    220 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  59. One Year of TILs

    220 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  60. A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience

    218 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  61. Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics

    218 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  62. Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches

    218 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  63. Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button

    218 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  64. Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?

    217 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  65. The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin

    217 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  66. A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design

    217 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  67. Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person

    216 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  68. Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor

    216 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  69. Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English

    216 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  70. People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage

    216 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  71. Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time

    216 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  72. Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea

    215 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  73. Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair [video]

    215 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  74. Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you

    215 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  75. JsonLogic

    215 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  76. Writing Pythonic Rust

    214 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  77. The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation

    214 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  78. A New AWS SDK for Rust

    214 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  79. The stack monoid revisited

    214 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  80. Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed

    214 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  81. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

    213 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  82. How corporations buy and food made with prison labor

    213 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  83. Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today

    213 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  84. Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017)

    213 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  85. California population declines for first time in more than a century

    213 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  86. Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?

    213 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  87. OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control

    213 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  88. New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale

    212 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  89. gRPC benchmark results

    212 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  90. China allows couples to have three children

    212 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  91. Halide for iPad

    211 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  92. Download free public domain paintings, posters and illustrations

    211 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  93. Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games

    211 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  94. My thoughts about the Principal role

    211 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  95. Initial Stress-Derived Noun

    210 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  96. PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained

    210 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  97. Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B

    210 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  98. Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato

    210 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  99. Learning how to think (2015)

    210 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  100. Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP

    209 points • comment • may 22, 2021