top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-04

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see

5 years ago

1235 upvotes – 177 comments

Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/please-fix-the-aws-free-tier-before

5 years ago

840 upvotes – 439 comments

Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython

https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder

5 years ago

645 upvotes – 261 comments

Efficiency Is the Enemy

https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/

5 years ago

584 upvotes – 322 comments

On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-incels-dead-bedrooms-and-the-hard

5 years ago

544 upvotes – 1021 comments

Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56972562

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 655 comments

Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-successful-people-dont-multitask-dr-travis-bradberry/

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 293 comments

Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

https://boze.app

5 years ago

450 upvotes – 239 comments

How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/amazon-apple-facebook-google-acquisitions/

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 328 comments

Observable Plot

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-observable-plot

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 51 comments

uLisp

http://www.ulisp.com/

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 87 comments

How Basecamp Blew Up

https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 903 comments

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 282 comments

First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 314 comments

Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

https://wh0rd.ca/humor/text/Adequacy_org%20%20Is%20Your%20Son%20a%20Computer%20Hacker.htm

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 235 comments

Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 292 comments

YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 193 comments

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

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/car-surveillance-berla-msab-cbp/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 249 comments

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

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/i-found-my-grandfathers-notes-20-years-after-he-died-here-s-what-i-learnt-b550a65069d7

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 151 comments

Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.

https://rome.tools/blog/announcing-rome-tools-inc/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 86 comments
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