top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-17

Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?

https://www.bbc.com/news/57102499

5 years ago

1008 upvotes – 637 comments

Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music-announces-spatial-audio-and-lossless-audio/

5 years ago

702 upvotes – 699 comments

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 278 comments

Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/1.0

5 years ago

545 upvotes – 113 comments

A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop

https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs-at-every-traffic-stop/

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 411 comments

How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 410 comments

Positions chess engines don't understand

https://www.chess.com/article/view/10-positions-chess-engines-just-dont-understand

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 193 comments

Can't Unsee

https://cantunsee.space/

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 126 comments

Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57139434

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 170 comments

Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/17/michael-burry-of-the-big-short-reveals-a-530-million-bet-against-tesla.html

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 287 comments

Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-lost-treasure-filled-floppy.html

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 53 comments

Home Gardening

http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com

http://jobs.hackclub.com/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 109 comments

Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects

https://schleiss.io/plotting-source-code-todos-for-open-source-projects

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 112 comments

Fish shell

http://fishshell.com/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 118 comments

uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer

https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 47 comments

SEC Charges S&P Dow Jones for Failures Relating to Volatility-Related Index

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-84

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 70 comments

Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics

https://github.com/mikecao/umami

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 42 comments

Jolie, the service-oriented programming language

https://www.jolie-lang.org/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 75 comments

Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010)

https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 75 comments
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