1016
676
LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
https://techstartups.com/2021/05/05/liveleak-shuts-15-years-online/
4 years ago
901
774
Crazy New Ideas
http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html
674
245
Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
https://qntm.org/hatetris
657
865
Why I Work on Ads
https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads
579
213
IBM creates 2nm chip
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip
549
260
Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/technology/internet-providers-fake-comments-net-neutrality-new-york.html
472
176
"To our surprise"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22to+our+surprise%22
388
42
Google Dataset Search
https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
369
351
Starting a crypto project
https://twitter.com/jonsyu/status/1389635626698297344
324
105
Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/branch-predictor/
281
41
I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2021/05/05/how-i-hacked-google-app-engine-anatomy-of-a-java-bytecode-exploit.html
272
100
Pyston v2.2: faster and open source
https://blog.pyston.org/2021/05/05/pyston-v2-2-faster-and-open-source/
263
473
Why People Feel Like Victims
https://nautil.us/issue/99/universality/why-people-feel-like-victims
254
202
California is not in drought
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-there-is-no-drought
243
179
Interactive IPA Chart
https://www.ipachart.com/
237
188
Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images
234
78
Gleam 0.15
https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.15-released/
232
126
Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198
225
61
A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design
https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/carnot-centrifugal-air-compressor/
220
120
Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches
https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intent-to-issue--25-million-fine-to-disqus-inc/
207
64
1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.
https://if50.substack.com/p/1988-prestavba
201
206
Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/nuclear-reactions-reawaken-chernobyl-reactor
198
190
Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
191
51
The Rustonomicon
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/
66
I spent some time exploring how to improve the UX of code blocks on the web
https://ped.ro/blog/code-blocks-but-better
182
43
ProcMon for Linux (Preview)
https://github.com/Sysinternals/ProcMon-for-Linux/
How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/marriage-college-status-meritocracy/618795/
80
Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/364048/were-switching-to-system-fonts-on-may-10-2021
156
69
DIY Boat Monitoring System
https://l-36.com/DIY-boat-monitoring-system.php
142
Tip Jar
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-tip-jar.html
154
409
Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27061631
139
The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenges of reversal (2020)
https://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2020/11/whats-in-a-name-the-sovietisation-of-a-modern-mongolian-language.html
149
98
Hardening macOS (2018)
https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos/
147
353
Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage
https://money.yahoo.com/montana-plans-to-cancel-unemployment-benefits-161755830.html
141
Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27057978
140
129
Modern C and What We Can Learn from It [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAhX-gsHMs
138
215
Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/04/researchers-chart-path-to-lower-health-care-administrative-costs.html.html?mkt_tok=ODg0LUZTQi0zMDcAAAF84YXDwjcow7qSEyVjeiYYymJxwwegZeKlZ0lY80KpvyGXnFFbRZ5F3f95hhsB45PHpP51zf1pFjdkKSLmKtSenWlsRIWs1W9g06_HVvcnbA
Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-depressive-disorders-have-an-enormous-economic-impact/
Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/persuading-the-body-to-regenerate-its-limbs
136
170
Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57004302
134
21
Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
https://kylebarron.dev/usgs-topo-mosaic
53
Basic Telemetry for Audacity
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
133
84
Playlist for iOS
https://brave.com/playlist/
127
Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data [pdf]
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3309074.3309076
125
Study finds using Night Shift doesn’t improve sleep
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/iphones-night-shift-feature-doesnt-help-you-sleep-better-study-finds/
119
184
My MacBook Air M1 is dead
https://medium.com/codex/my-macbook-air-m1-is-dead-a394e3581e95
116
130
Clubhouse downloads are falling
https://www.businessinsider.com/clubhouse-downloads-900000-in-april-2021-5
115
166
How to Teach Math?
https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2021/05/05/how-to-teach-math/
114
82
HTML Sanitizer API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Sanitizer_API
113
79
Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD
https://klarasystems.com/articles/deep-diving-into-the-strengths-of-freebsd/
110
49
Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger Eventually
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/06/putting-an-ultra-tiny-linux-board-in-a-phone-charger-eventually/
109
31
Rust 1.52.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/06/Rust-1.52.0.html
108
255
UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/ufos-say-govt-competence-is-either-surprisingly-high-or-surprisingly-low.html
223
A future without passwords
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/a-simpler-and-safer-future-without-passwords/
101
35
Coinbase is closing their SF office
https://twitter.com/CoinbaseNews/status/1390065013071781889
13
Faster DISTINCT queries on PostgreSQL
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-distinct-queries-up-to-8000x-faster-on-postgresql/
97
9
Fifteen Years Forsaken
https://www.damninteresting.com/fifteen-years-forsaken/
96
29
Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions [pdf]
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fix-ftc-report-congress-repair-restrictions/nixing_the_fix_report_final_5521_630pm-508_002.pdf
74
How Cities Will Fossilise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210505-how-cities-will-fossilise
107
The XY Problem (2014)
https://xyproblem.info/
95
40
ZenithOS is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System
https://github.com/ZenithOS/ZenithOS
Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price vs. 32-Bit Integers
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/05/05/berkshire-32-bit-ints
93
33
ARM vs. RISC-V Vector Extensions
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/arm-vs-risc-v-vector-extensions-992f201f402f
90
24
SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine
https://spidermonkey.dev/
87
18
80% of the 22M comments on net neutrality rollback were fake
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/80-of-the-22-million-comments-on-net-neutrality-rollback-were-fake-
47
Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope
https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-quantum-experiment-offers-hope-for-earth-size-telescope-20210505/
86
Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration
https://github.com/msxie92/MangaRestoration
85
The Opportunists
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/06/louis-menand-the-free-world-cold-war/618713/
7
From Rust to Spark: Formally Proven Bip-Buffers
https://blog.adacore.com/from-rust-to-spark-formally-proven-bip-buffers
FreeBSD 2021 Q1 Status Report
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-01-2021-03/
99
The Grim Secret of Nordic Happiness
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/finland-happiness-lagom-hygge.html
Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says