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Hacker News (May 2021)

  1. Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance

    186 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  2. Nacker Hews

    186 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  3. How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook

    186 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  4. Atomic Gardening

    186 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  5. Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power

    185 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  6. Ansible 4.0

    185 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  7. Manifest v3 Update

    185 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  8. Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder

    185 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  9. ML model can classify sex from retinal photograph, clinicians can't

    185 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  10. Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?

    185 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  11. The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told

    184 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  12. Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835

    184 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  13. The Rustonomicon

    184 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  14. How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s

    184 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  15. Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference?

    183 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  16. NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot

    183 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  17. US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed

    183 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  18. I spent some time exploring how to improve the UX of code blocks on the web

    182 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  19. Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009

    182 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  20. First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years

    182 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  21. How to look at the stack with gdb

    182 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  22. The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit

    182 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  23. Be in a field where tech is the limit

    181 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  24. Counter-Strike Global Offsets: reliable remote code execution

    181 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  25. How image search works at Dropbox

    181 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  26. Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data

    181 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  27. The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct

    180 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  28. Writing a Programming Book in 2021

    180 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  29. Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

    180 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  30. Transition to React Native

    180 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  31. Being Poor (2005)

    180 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  32. Researchhub: GitHub for Science

    180 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  33. The End of Retirement (2014)

    179 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  34. Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features

    179 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  35. 40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple

    179 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  36. Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go

    179 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  37. ProcMon for Linux (Preview)

    179 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  38. CRISPR Editing in Primates

    179 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  39. Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables

    179 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  40. What nobody says about startup moms

    179 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  41. Show HN: Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates

    179 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  42. Advice for young scientists and curious people in general

    179 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  43. A Hybrid Approach to Work

    178 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  44. Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)

    178 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  45. Show HN: Save, annotate and organize podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, videos

    178 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  46. Golden Handcuffs

    177 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  47. MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console

    177 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  48. How inevitable is the concept of numbers?

    177 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  49. Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks

    177 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  50. Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool

    177 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  51. Do countries get the list of every passenger that's transiting their airspace?

    176 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  52. Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference

    176 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  53. Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer

    176 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  54. Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)

    176 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  55. Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS

    176 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  56. Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues

    175 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  57. Using GDPR to obtain one’s data as JSON

    175 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  58. SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code

    175 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  59. Overcoming Tab Overload

    175 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  60. DragonflyBSD 6.0

    175 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  61. Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead

    174 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  62. Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]

    174 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  63. We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service

    174 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  64. Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug

    173 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  65. Clubhouse doesn’t value privacy, security or accessibility

    173 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  66. ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"

    173 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  67. Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)

    173 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  68. The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

    172 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  69. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

    172 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  70. LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO

    172 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  71. Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr

    172 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  72. Dropping cache didn’t drop cache

    172 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  73. Universal basic income to be tested in Wales

    172 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  74. TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator

    172 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  75. The only Buddhist region in Europe

    171 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  76. Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters

    171 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  77. Ursula Le Guin Books

    171 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  78. Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminal

    171 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  79. CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)

    171 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  80. How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning

    171 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  81. Flipped an element in an old lens and got 'magic' bokeh (2018)

    171 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  82. Scottish Café

    171 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  83. Pyodide: Python for the Browser

    171 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  84. Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5

    170 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  85. Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

    170 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  86. Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm

    170 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  87. Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler

    170 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  88. The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

    170 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  89. Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare

    170 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  90. How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

    169 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  91. An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video

    169 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  92. Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app

    169 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  93. Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking

    169 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  94. The Lisperati1000 is a cyberdeck terminal dedicated to Lisp programming

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  95. Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access

    168 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  96. Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation

    168 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  97. Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  98. Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  99. Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES

    168 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  100. Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway

    168 points • comment • may 21, 2021