top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-07

Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

4 years ago

589 upvotes – 201 comments

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/

4 years ago

496 upvotes – 537 comments

Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-threatens-to-make-ios-users-pay-please-do-it-mr-zuckerberg/

4 years ago

477 upvotes – 256 comments

Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/amazon-reviews-leak-report/

4 years ago

476 upvotes – 265 comments

Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

http://css.umich.edu/publication/beyond-meats-beyond-burger-life-cycle-assessment-detailed-comparison-between-plant-based

4 years ago

469 upvotes – 760 comments

Searching the web for under $1000/month

https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl/

4 years ago

456 upvotes – 147 comments

WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/07/whatsapp-chickens-out-on-its-privacy-policy-deadline/

4 years ago

424 upvotes – 271 comments

Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/07/most-iphone-users-app-tracking-opt-out/

4 years ago

412 upvotes – 353 comments

JavaScript for Shell Scripting

https://github.com/google/zx

4 years ago

385 upvotes – 181 comments

Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations

https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2021/05/04/honeywell-fined-13-million-for-defense-export-violations/

4 years ago

307 upvotes – 176 comments

The Pinecone Overlay Network

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network

4 years ago

279 upvotes – 47 comments

Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga

https://github.com/Mukosame/Anime2Sketch

4 years ago

273 upvotes – 54 comments

Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)

https://blog.svenpeter.dev/posts/m1_sprr_gxf/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 94 comments

Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19

http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 364 comments

WinBox: Window manager in a web browser

https://github.com/nextapps-de/winbox

4 years ago

250 upvotes – 111 comments

Use Alacritty instead of Termite

https://github.com/thestinger/termite

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 323 comments

Smithy: A language for defining services and SDKs

https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 73 comments

Starlink Satellites Tracker

https://findstarlink.com

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 142 comments

California population declines for first time in more than a century

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-population-declines-for-first-time-in-more-than-a-century-11620416887

4 years ago

225 upvotes – 515 comments

A New AWS SDK for Rust

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/a-new-aws-sdk-for-rust-alpha-launch/

4 years ago

219 upvotes – 61 comments
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