1008
637
Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
https://www.bbc.com/news/57102499
5 years ago
702
699
Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music-announces-spatial-audio-and-lossless-audio/
604
278
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
545
113
Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/1.0
539
411
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/
512
410
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/
407
193
Positions chess engines don't understand
https://www.chess.com/article/view/10-positions-chess-engines-just-dont-understand
393
126
Can't Unsee
https://cantunsee.space/
362
170
Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57139434
325
287
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
306
53
Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-lost-treasure-filled-floppy.html
257
81
Home Gardening
http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/
251
109
Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com
http://jobs.hackclub.com/
235
112
Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects
https://schleiss.io/plotting-source-code-todos-for-open-source-projects
233
118
Fish shell
http://fishshell.com/
230
47
uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer
https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
206
70
SEC Charges S&P Dow Jones for Failures Relating to Volatility-Related Index
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-84
204
42
Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics
https://github.com/mikecao/umami
171
75
Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
https://www.jolie-lang.org/
167
Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010)
https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/
157
59
A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/05/long-lasting-stable-solid-state-lithium-battery
156
123
Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes
https://showme.missouri.edu/2021/study-drivers-who-experience-shift-work-sleep-disorder-are-3x-more-likely-to-be-involved-in-a-vehicle-crash/
155
87
Legalese – Computational Law
https://legalese.com/
154
68
Our vendor executed a system reboot that caused a shut down of the turnstiles
https://twitter.com/nyctsubway/status/1394258614475497475
106
Saying the Difficult Things
https://ethan.katzenberg.co.uk/posts/saying-difficult-things/
153
67
AMD and GlobalFoundries Update: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16677/amd-and-globalfoundries-update-wafer-share-agreement-through-2024
79
Civilization Is Older Than We Thought
https://palladiummag.com/2021/05/17/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-thought/
152
180
Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/ndwz92/can_i_get_some_reasons_to_use_java_instead_of/gyd5yi5/
101
US investigates second suspected case of mystery 'syndrome' near White House
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/17/politics/us-investigates-second-case-mystery-syndrome-white-house/index.html
149
26
Identify a Facebook user by his phone number despite privacy settings set
https://ysamm.com/?p=691
144
71
Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
https://tinystore.app
138
62
Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children with ADHD to Focus
https://neurosciencenews.com/focus-yoga-adhd-18435/
137
Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/historys-mysteries-caltech-professor-helps-solve-hindenburg-disaster
136
How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-lab-leak-theory-f4f88446b04d
125
China increases spending 500% to influence America
https://www.axios.com/china-foreign-influence-spending-317a9be4-8ead-4abf-8ac4-3f27974d7a9d.html
124
35
Why do database columns have a character length of 191?
https://www.grouparoo.com/blog/varchar-191
17
Geocode-sqlite: Geocode rows in an SQLite database table
https://github.com/eyeseast/geocode-sqlite
122
The ClickHouse Community
https://clickhouse.tech/blog/en/2020/the-clickhouse-community/
259
Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/
18
A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem
https://tomverbeure.github.io/2021/05/16/Pixel-Purse-LED-Cube.html
115
88
How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-design-a-sailing-ship-for-the-21st-century.html
114
91
How Lucky Is Too Lucky in Minecraft?
https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-lucky-is-too-lucky-in-minecraft.html
37
Launch HN: Mozart Data (YC S20) – One-stop shop for a modern data pipeline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27182720
105
110
Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/neknjg/evolving_beyond_100_billion_recommendations_a_day/
104
100
“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (2018)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-not-a-sustainable-business-model-goldman-sachs-analysts-say/
103
36
First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01332-0
Amazon had keys to USPS mailbox used for union ballots
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/5/14/amazon-had-keys-to-usps-mailbox-used-for-union-ballots-report
99
Let’s Encrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration – September 2021
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/
95
33
Which hypercube unfoldings tile space?
https://whuts.org/
23
Dark Side of Posix APIs
https://vorner.github.io/2021/01/03/dark-side-of-posix-apis.html
Brood X Periodical Cicadas FAQ
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cicadas-brood-x.htm
94
21
JupyterLab LaTeX – live-editing of LaTeX documents in JupyterLab
https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-latex
27
Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/10/tetris-for-game-boy-gets-online-multiplayer/
93
Bonkers tri-wing jumbo jet concept reduces fuel consumption by 70%
https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/se-aeronautic-se200-tri-wing-jumbo-jet-concept-1234613101/
You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)
https://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/
92
The app that lets you pay to control another person's life
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57085557
89
Amazon's Sidewalk Network Is Turned on by Default. Here's How to Turn It Off
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-sidewalk-network-is-turned-on-by-default-heres-how-to-turn-it-off.html
85
66
The PGP Problem: A Critique (2020)
https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp
AI Mid 2021: Self Driving Car Meets Reality
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/05/12/ai-mid-2021/
Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/micromanaging-bosses.html
80
Feeling like a pariah, even when you’re not
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/05/16/feeling-like-a-pariah-even-when-youre-not/
Monday.com Files IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845338/000110465921067423/tm211978-4_f1.htm
77
52
UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/
74
AirPods Max don't support Apple Music's lossless songs, Apple says
https://www.imore.com/airpods-max-dont-support-apple-musics-lossless-songs-apple-says
