top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-05

ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/

5 years ago

HTML Tips (2020)

https://markodenic.com/posts/html-tips/

5 years ago

Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send

https://github.com/timvisee/send

5 years ago

White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/white-house-eyes-subsidies-nuclear-plants-help-meet-climate-targets-sources-2021-05-05/

5 years ago

60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent

https://me2ba.org/me2ba-product-testing-spotlight-report-published-data-sharing-in-primary-secondary-school-mobile-apps-2/

5 years ago

Is this what enterprise means?

https://twitter.com/steffoz/status/1389946268764475394

5 years ago

Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time

https://github.com/andymatuschak/orbit

5 years ago

Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

https://massivelyop.com/2021/05/04/activision-blizzard-q1-2021-financials-blizzard-maus-down-to-27m/

5 years ago

Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

http://mobileatscale.com/

5 years ago

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned

https://gizmodo.com/signal-tried-to-run-the-most-honest-facebook-ad-campaig-1846823457

5 years ago

New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up

https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/

5 years ago

Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook

https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1389279726305353730

5 years ago

Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings

https://petapixel.com/2021/05/05/netflixs-love-is-blind-wants-unpaid-photographer-for-five-weddings/

5 years ago

Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/netflix-it-exec-forced-employees-to-use-products-from-vendors-that-bribed-him/

5 years ago

Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html

5 years ago

Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56910393

5 years ago

TimescaleDB raises $40M

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/40-million-to-help-developers-measure-everything-that-matters/

5 years ago

Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit

https://www.securityweek.com/tesla-car-hacked-remotely-drone-zero-click-exploit

5 years ago

MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/mh370-pilot-made-many-turns-speed-changes-new-report-reveals/

5 years ago

The Case of the 50ms request

https://mysteries.wizardzines.com/50ms-request.html

5 years ago