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Hacker News (May 2021)

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

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  2. Common data model mistakes made by startups

    167 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  3. Excalidraw+

    167 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  4. Waymo AV Freaked Out by Traffic Cones, Blocks Traffic, Evades Support Vehicles

    167 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  5. Clojure by Example (2015)

    167 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  6. Jolie, the service-oriented programming language

    167 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  7. Rust heads into the kernel?

    166 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  8. Counterexamples in Type Systems

    166 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  9. John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

    166 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  10. Peak non-creepy dating pool

    166 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  11. Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome

    166 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  12. Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)

    166 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  13. Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too

    165 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  14. Google is going to turn on 2FA by default

    165 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  15. Six years of professional Clojure development

    165 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  16. Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

    165 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  17. Edward Snowden Hails Court Ruling Acknowledging Devastation of Mass Surveillance

    164 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  18. Replacements for existing software written in Rust

    164 points • comment • may 28, 2021

  19. Definitive Guide to Ruby's C API

    164 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  20. What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?

    164 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  21. What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?

    164 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  22. Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010)

    163 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  23. Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]

    163 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  24. ABI Mistakes

    163 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  25. OpenBSD 6.9

    163 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  26. How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World

    163 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  27. Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy

    163 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  28. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes

    163 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  29. Yuan Longping has died

    162 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  30. What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?

    162 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  31. Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly

    162 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  32. I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

    162 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  33. Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python

    162 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  34. Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor

    162 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  35. Ransomware gang threatens release of Washington D.C. police records

    162 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  36. Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host

    162 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  37. Study: 40.2% of Consumers Would Consider Switching to Municipal Broadband

    162 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  38. After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism

    162 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  39. Hacker News Classics (2018)

    161 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  40. Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021

    161 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  41. The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  42. Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this

    161 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  43. The problem with reinforced concrete (2016)

    161 points • comment • may 25, 2021

  44. Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints

    161 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  45. An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems

    161 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  46. Fly’s Prometheus Metrics

    161 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  47. The Amish as a source of tech-savvy guidance

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  48. Making Your Own Tools

    161 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  49. Engineer Who Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Physics

    161 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  50. First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language

    160 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  51. So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)

    160 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  52. Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups

    160 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  53. TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production

    160 points • comment • may 20, 2021

  54. The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages

    159 points • comment • may 19, 2021

  55. Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment

    159 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  56. Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?

    159 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  57. Launch HN: UPchieve (YC W21 Nonprofit) – Live tutoring for low-income students

    159 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  58. RFC.fyi: Browse RFCs by keywords, id or collection

    158 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  59. Racket 8.1

    158 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  60. The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems

    158 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  61. Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture

    157 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  62. Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light

    157 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  63. Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism

    157 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  64. How to write a resume that converts

    156 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  65. AmigaOS 3.2

    156 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  66. Bootstrap 5 Released

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  67. Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10%

    156 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  68. Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox

    156 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  69. Introverts can make great leaders (2018)

    156 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  70. Elementary OS 6 beta

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2021

  71. Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024

    155 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  72. The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

    155 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  73. Apple tries to get Epic to admit there's porn on its store

    155 points • comment • may 08, 2021

  74. Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language

    155 points • comment • may 07, 2021

  75. The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)

    155 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  76. Branchless Coding in Go

    155 points • comment • may 04, 2021

  77. Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

    154 points • comment • may 18, 2021

  78. Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

    154 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  79. SeL4 on RISC-V Verified to Binary Code

    154 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  80. Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

    154 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  81. The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenges of reversal (2020)

    154 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  82. Good data scientist, bad data scientist

    154 points • comment • may 11, 2021

  83. The Midnight Pub

    154 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  84. Use the WiFi Chip on RaspberryPi/Broadcom as Software-Defined Radio (SDR)

    154 points • comment • may 15, 2021

  85. A new algorithm for graph crossings, hiding in plain sight (2020)

    153 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  86. Our vendor executed a system reboot that caused a shut down of the turnstiles

    153 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  87. A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery

    153 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  88. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Impairs Endothelial Function via Downregulation of ACE2

    153 points • comment • may 02, 2021

  89. Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)

    153 points • comment • may 05, 2021

  90. DIY Boat Monitoring System

    152 points • comment • may 06, 2021

  91. Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes

    152 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  92. Ask HN: Negotiating Salary

    152 points • comment • may 30, 2021

  93. HAProxy 2.4

    152 points • comment • may 23, 2021

  94. Uber recognises a union for the first time

    152 points • comment • may 27, 2021

  95. AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive

    152 points • comment • may 17, 2021

  96. Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed

    152 points • comment • may 24, 2021

  97. Four years after a man was executed, someone else’s DNA found on murder weapon

    152 points • comment • may 22, 2021

  98. The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

    152 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  99. I still like C and strongly dislike C++

    152 points • comment • may 26, 2021

  100. RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon

    151 points • comment • may 26, 2021