top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-18

Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/

5 years ago

1661 upvotes – 1690 comments

Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together

https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/

5 years ago

1339 upvotes – 513 comments

The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company

https://blog.thea.codes/winterblooms-tech-stack/

5 years ago

925 upvotes – 130 comments

AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search

https://plausible.io/blog/google-amp

5 years ago

719 upvotes – 172 comments

Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/nvidia-cripples-cryptocurrency-mining-on-rtx-3080-and-3070-cards/

5 years ago

629 upvotes – 791 comments

Terms and Conditions Game

https://termsandconditions.game/

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 110 comments

Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/selling_tiny_internet_projects_for_fun_and_profit

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 138 comments

Site Isolation in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-site-isolation-in-firefox/

5 years ago

473 upvotes – 115 comments

Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/microsoft-authenticator/mabdjppmcjpjploliggpbonahnjjlgkf/related?hl=en-US

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 212 comments

Fierce Nerds

http://paulgraham.com/fn.html

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 452 comments

1Password for Linux

https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 272 comments

Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/990234501/facebook-calls-links-to-depression-inconclusive-these-researchers-disagree

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 219 comments

Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192873

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 287 comments

The data model behind Notion's flexibility

https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 120 comments

Hyundai Nexo sets new world record 887.5 km travelled on single tank of hydrogen

https://www.h2-view.com/story/hyundai-nexo-breaks-world-record-for-longest-distance-travelled-in-a-fcev/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 412 comments

Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains

https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-before-brains-hydras-are-living-proof-20210518/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 135 comments

Flat Data

https://octo.github.com/projects/flat-data

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 60 comments

Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-treasury-cyber/companies-may-be-punished-for-paying-ransoms-to-sanctioned-hackers-u-s-treasury-idUSKBN26M77U

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 251 comments

LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology

https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 149 comments

The Matrix Space Beta

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 94 comments

PlanetScale – Database for Developers

https://www.planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-the-database-for-developers

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 128 comments

Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/boosting-dropbox-upload-speed

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 115 comments

Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C

https://github.com/skullchap/chadstr

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 95 comments

Halide for iPad

https://lux.camera/halide-pro-camera-for-ipad/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Arturo – Simple, expressive and portable programming language

https://arturo-lang.io/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 22 comments

Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research

https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/13/minoan-language-linear-a-linked-to-linear-b-in-groundbreaking-new-research/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 50 comments

Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire MGM for about $9B

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reportedly-negotiating-to-acquire-mgm-for-9-billion-2021-5

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 246 comments

Ad block shouldn't break your checkout

https://ilakovac.com/teespring-ublock-issue

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 201 comments

The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-strange-story-of-dagobert-the-ducktales-bandit

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 57 comments

40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple

https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/18/40-core-mac-pro-high-end-mac-mini-in-development/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 4 comments

The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00064-7

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 76 comments

Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 159 comments

Ask HN: Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192884

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 152 comments

Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 339 comments

First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9059

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 117 comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 6 comments

Building Products at Stripe

https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/p/building-products-at-stripe

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 24 comments

America’s Dead Souls

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/17/americas-dead-souls/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

Movfuscator: Compile C into only mov instructions

https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 40 comments

Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked

https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 79 comments

Unveiling our new Quantum AI campus

https://blog.google/technology/ai/unveiling-our-new-quantum-ai-campus/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 74 comments

Uber Engineering Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services

https://eng.uber.com/jvm-tuning-garbage-collection/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 50 comments

The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its Owner Would Get Paid

https://jalopnik.com/the-colonial-pipeline-was-fine-but-it-was-shutdown-to-1846911689

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 101 comments

AirPods Max and AirPods Pro Don't Support Apple Music Lossless, Apple Confirms

https://www.t3.com/news/airpods-max-and-airpods-pro-dont-support-apple-music-lossless-apple-confirms

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 243 comments

Forced Entrepreneurs

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801637

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 90 comments

NetBSD 9.2

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_2_released

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 60 comments

Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 83 comments

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

http://airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

How necessary are the programming fundamentals?

https://swiftrocks.com/how-necessary-are-the-programming-fundamentals.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 112 comments

Raw keyboard handling in Unix terminals

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 52 comments

From apes to birds, animal species that “laugh”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/from-apes-to-birds-there-are-65-animal-species-that-laugh/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

FiatMarketCap

https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support

https://www.macworld.com/article/344971/adobe-drops-postscript-type1.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud

https://github.com/grailbio/reflow

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

Google I/O 2021

https://events.google.com/io/?lng=en

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 64 comments

It's time for a data-first front end revolution

https://kea.js.org/blog/2021/05/14/data-first-frontend-revolution

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

Spin-torque oscillators for WiFi band transmission and energy harvesting

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23181-1

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments
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