976
145
Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-point-two-million/
5 years ago
679
397
Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1395089205986988043
503
117
Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upperstory/spintronics-build-mechanical-circuits
483
1191
Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219759
405
74
Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
https://javier.xyz/pintr/
387
230
WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
362
155
How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/19/how-the-u-ks-online-safety-bill-threatens-matrix
359
121
Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-2.0.0.org
324
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/05/19/science.abg6296
308
189
“I Could Rewrite Curl”
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
298
203
The anus is an evolutionary marvel
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/evolution-butts/618915/
286
204
Facebook says I'm abusive content [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXK0Y9xHBI
284
210
Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16684/ampere-roadmap-full-custom-cores
277
376
UK Rail services to come under unified state control
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57176858
271
633
Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/05/19/Oregon-Idaho-Donald-Trump-Joe-Biden/3341621450876/
248
69
Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance
https://v2.parceljs.org/blog/beta3/
229
554
Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/16/995963311/prepone-that-your-accent-is-funny-readers-share-their-esl-stories
88
TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57181225
491
Undefined behavior in C is a reading error
https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/19/undefined-behavior-in-c-is-a-reading-error/
202
124
Saying Good Bye to Hey.com
https://vishnugopal.com/2021/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-hey-com/
198
Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/treasury-calls-for-crypto-transfers-over-10-000-reported-to-irs
196
81
The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told
https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/
195
33
Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/856685/10206d3c9d10daf2/
183
71
CRISPR Editing in Primates
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/20/crispr-editing-in-primates
179
21
SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code
https://ionescu007.github.io/SimpleVisor/
174
254
Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca situation
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161028-native-english-speakers-are-the-worlds-worst-communicators
171
180
Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
https://blog.scaleway.com/scaleway-and-chia/
170
Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Out-of-control-Organized-crime-drives-S-F-16175755.php
165
63
TSMC Claims Breakthrough on 1nm Chip Production
https://www.techpowerup.com/282422/tsmc-claims-breakthrough-on-1nm-chip-production
152
133
The whole freenode kerfluffle
https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluffle/
150
Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-identify-the-engine-powering-black-hole-energy-beams-20210520/
138
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormhole-tunnels-in-spacetime-may-be-possible-new-research-suggests/
129
137
New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display
https://www.spectacles.com/new-spectacles
127
44
Setting up a Raspberry Pi with 2 Network Interfaces as a simple router
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/setting-raspberry-pi-2-network-interfaces-very-simple-router
126
59
Unexpected 'Black Swan' defect discovered in soft matter for first time
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-unexpected-black-swan-defect-soft.html
108
U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html
120
30
Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during nighttime medevac
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/05/19/red-cross-honors-igiugig-woman-for-helping-light-runway-during-late-night-medevac/
118
55
The hard part of Enterprise Software is the Enterprise, not the Software
https://medium.com/rocket-mortgage-technology-blog/16-lessons-learned-from-five-years-as-an-enterprise-technologist-part-2-37407526da0a
113
39
OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
106
175
The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple exec at Epic trial
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22444353/mac-malware-not-acceptable-craig-federighi-apple-epic
98
13
SimuLand, a lab environment to simulate attacker tradecraft
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/05/20/simuland-understand-adversary-tradecraft-and-improve-detection-strategies/
97
41
Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/long-pepper-better-than-black-pepper
80
India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57154564
94
96
Slack was experiencing an outage
https://status.slack.com/2021-05/33aed870657e30a0
90
99
U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-job-openings-500k/
82
Divisible by 7 (2016)
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Divisible+by+7
19
Quadratic Method: Detailed Explanation (2020)
https://www.poshenloh.com/quadraticdetail/
89
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/ford-unveils-the-f-150-lightning-its-all-electric-pickup-truck-that-will-start-under-40000/
101
std::latch
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/latch
79
Breeze Keyboard
https://afternoonlabs.com/breeze/
42
Exclusive: Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881
77
87
Launch HN: YSplit (YC W19) – Automatically split and pay any bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27222985
76
As Texas Went Dark, the State Paid Natural-Gas Companies to Go Offline
https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-texas-went-dark-the-state-paid-natural-gas-companies-to-go-offline-11620385201
72
159
Bitcoin is failing at becoming the future of money
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/bitcoin-crash-rebound-on-elon-musk-tweets-shows-its-failings