top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-03

Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1389106103179378689

5 years ago

722 upvotes – 214 comments

The Unix Magic Poster

https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/

5 years ago

666 upvotes – 120 comments

Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust

https://brson.github.io/2021/05/02/rusts-most-unrecognized-contributor

5 years ago

641 upvotes – 170 comments

Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales

https://www.politico.eu/article/amazon-seller-data-company-sales/

5 years ago

615 upvotes – 438 comments

Practical SQL for Data Analysis

https://hakibenita.com/sql-for-data-analysis

5 years ago

602 upvotes – 191 comments

Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website

https://blog.stunning.co/stop-making-your-paying-customers-hunt-for-the-sign-in-button-on-your-website/

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 209 comments

What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-whatfreewords/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 193 comments

Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 78 comments

The End of AMP

https://www.lafoo.com/the-end-of-amp/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 154 comments

Bill and Melinda Gates Separated

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1389316412259270657

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025922

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 916 comments

Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/business/verizon-aol-yahoo-sale.html

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 354 comments

ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts

https://www.shellcheck.net/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 54 comments

Volta

https://volta.sh/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 88 comments

My Favorite One Liners

https://muhammadraza.me/2021/Oneliners/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 190 comments

.org doesn't mean credible

http://dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 193 comments

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

https://mattbutterfield.com/blog/2021-05-02-adding-video-chat

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 64 comments

Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-idUSWNAS894220080201

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 219 comments

Office 365 leaking BCC domain name

https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/n3qky1/office_365_leaking_bcc_domain_name/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 45 comments

Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics

https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/google-penalizes-you-for-using-google-analytics

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 102 comments

A Lock Picking Game Changer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2K_WgL71Ro

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library

https://thoughtspile.github.io/grafar?new

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 24 comments

The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations

https://ggcarvalho.dev/posts/montecarlo/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 44 comments

Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company

https://www.engadget.com/co-founder-leaves-elon-musk-neuralink-164856798.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 294 comments

What nobody says about startup moms

https://www.femfosec.com/what-nobody-says-about-startup-moms/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 277 comments

Programming in Z3 by learning to think like a compiler

https://bellmar.medium.com/programming-in-z3-by-learning-to-think-like-a-compiler-401fd46828d5

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 18 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yuZ2pejGU&list=PL4HH_QTuUTNCpGq4LW-3jCKmIUIt8aGhr

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 55 comments

We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/04/23/we-mailed-100-letters-to-test-the-postal-service-we-did-not-get-speedy-delivery

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 294 comments

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

https://www.reviews.com/utilities/internet/40-percent-would-switch-to-municipal-internet-study/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/pressing-flesh-against-flesh-

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 357 comments

The Programming Languages Zoo

https://plzoo.andrej.com/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 13 comments

Why are there so many Canadians in India?

https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/data-science-is-interesting-why-are-there-so-many-canadians-in-india/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 122 comments

Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141076819843654

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 169 comments

Go Modules Cheat Sheet

https://encore.dev/guide/go.mod

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 50 comments

The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/the-unlikely-prevailing-success-of-fish-sticks/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025920

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 231 comments

Competitive Analysis for Engineers

https://staysaasy.com/product/2021/05/02/competition.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Highres Spectrograms with the DFT Shift Theorem

https://soundshader.github.io/hss/gallery/index.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/liberalizing-land-use-regulations-case-houston

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 279 comments

Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030972

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy

https://www.rvalles.net/bootstrapping-an-amiga-without-a-bootable-amiga-floppy.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 21 comments

Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/andrew-ng-xrays-the-ai-hype

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Coded Illustrations

https://zachlieberman.medium.com/coded-illustrations-bebdf385cd98

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 4 comments

HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 Beta

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-nomad-1-1-beta

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry

https://financialpost.com/technology/fishing-for-chips-making-the-case-for-a-homegrown-canadian-semiconductor-industry

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 99 comments

Google AI leader has defected to Apple

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-hires-yet-another-ex-google-ai-leader/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs

https://github.com/kpdemetriou/fuuid

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle

https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-owners-switching-gas-charging-a-hassle-study-2021-4

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 187 comments

How ayahuasca changed my perspective

https://pmoncada.medium.com/on-god-or-something-or-anything-how-ayahuasca-changed-my-perspective-on-life-e000c89b4b4d

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 158 comments

Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/facebook-and-the-normalization-of-deviance

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

VGA ROM Fonts (2020)

http://www.alexandrugroza.ro/microelectronics/essays-research/vga-rom-fonts/index.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Rural purge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)

http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/17/homoiconicity-isnt-the-point/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

The Evolution of Jamstack

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/evolution-jamstack/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

Putting the fear of AirPlay into Yamaha YAS-207 soundbar

https://wejn.org/2021/04/multi-weekend-project-reversing-yamaha-yas-207-remote-control/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020)

https://roadrunnerwmc.github.io/blog/2020/05/08/nsmb-rng.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Reverse Debugging at Scale

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/27/developer-tools/reverse-debugging/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Dogecoin Capped?

https://provscons.com/is-dogecoin-capped/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 162 comments

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 3: SCSI2SD, Solaris Install and Expansion

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-3-scsi2sd-solaris-install-and-expansion

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments
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