top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-11

Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns

https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/11/germany-bans-facebook-from-handling-whatsapp-data-over-privacy-concerns

5 years ago

709 upvotes – 185 comments

Can I Email?

https://www.caniemail.com/

5 years ago

682 upvotes – 273 comments

Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

https://babeljs.io/blog/2021/05/10/funding-update.html

5 years ago

673 upvotes – 693 comments

FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices

https://www.fragattacks.com/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 236 comments

Amazon Sidewalk

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011

5 years ago

586 upvotes – 667 comments

I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/i-mailed-an-airtag-and-tracked-its-progress-heres-what-happened/

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 406 comments

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http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 193 comments

Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)

https://blog.thermoworks.com/thermometer/new-warning-thermoworks-website-2/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 301 comments

Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-semiconductors-idUSL1N2MX2MK

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 283 comments

Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27123553

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 277 comments

We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon

https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-code-editor/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 436 comments

Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE

http://atlasengineering.io

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 132 comments

Cloudflare on the edge

https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflare-on-the-edge/

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 114 comments

Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01222-5

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 304 comments

Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux

http://Sequencer64.com

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 122 comments

AirGradient: DIY Air Quality Monitoring with Open-Source Hardware & Firmware

https://www.airgradient.com/diy/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 74 comments

Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything

https://www.justuseemail.com/

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 298 comments

The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/03/01/announcing-the-arduino-ide-2-0-beta/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 120 comments

The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/11/edition-2021.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 118 comments

Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma

https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/voyager-1-hears-the-hush-of-interstellar-plasma

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 105 comments
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