top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-21

Sublime Text 4

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4

5 years ago

1436 upvotes – 631 comments

Learn CSS

https://web.dev/learn/css/

5 years ago

842 upvotes – 189 comments

Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1340

5 years ago

772 upvotes – 67 comments

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/

5 years ago

727 upvotes – 1396 comments

Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

https://twitter.com/ccgus/status/1395145361136644098

5 years ago

595 upvotes – 329 comments

Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux

https://voice2json.org/

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 108 comments

Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 394 comments

Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/22/why-tech-firms-are-trying-to-run-away-from-politics-and-failing

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 1073 comments

Text editing hates you too (2019)

https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 182 comments

Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/canada-declares-plastics-toxic-ban-restrictions/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 162 comments

Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-security-leaked-emails

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 404 comments

Microsoft and Apple wage war on gadget right-to-repair laws

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/microsoft-and-apple-wage-war-on-gadget-right-to-repair-laws

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 152 comments

San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 431 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 79 comments

FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

https://flutterflow.io/launch

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 105 comments

Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/coffee-stenophylla-1.5995940

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 78 comments

Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes the Problematic University of Minnesota Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.13-UMN-Fixes

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 111 comments

Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire

https://www.protocol.com/apple-epic-trial/tim-cook-apple-epic-grilled

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 358 comments

Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447446/citizen-app-internal-slack-palisades-fire-arson-bounty-manhunt-los-angeles

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 165 comments

useStateMachine: A ½ kb state machine hook for React

https://github.com/cassiozen/useStateMachine

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 97 comments

Download free public domain paintings, posters and illustrations

https://www.artvee.com/?

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 24 comments

My thoughts about the Principal role

https://www.galiglobal.com/blog/2021/20210313-The-principal-role.html

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 113 comments

High-performance speech recognition with no supervision at all

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/wav2vec-unsupervised-speech-recognition-without-supervision/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 62 comments

Atomic Gardening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 96 comments

Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-gov-knew-of-natural-gas-shortages-days-before-blackout-blamed-wind-anyway/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 102 comments

Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too

https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-too/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 213 comments

What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 313 comments

What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/whats-your-apis-time-to-200/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 84 comments

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4df

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 33 comments

Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub-streams/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 252 comments

Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Proof-Of-Stake-Wears-No-Clothes

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 251 comments

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 14 comments

France's 18-year-olds given €300 culture pass

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57198737

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 163 comments

The Third Thumb Project

https://www.daniclodedesign.com/thethirdthumb

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

Launch HN: Journey (YC W21) – a better tool for selling software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233718

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods

https://www.jeremyong.com/cpp/2021/05/20/graphics-pipelines-for-young-bloods/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 17 comments

PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

http://web.archive.org/web/19980701120538/http://www.php.net/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 169 comments

CSIRO's Data61 Dismantles SeL4 Team

https://twitter.com/GernotHeiser/status/1395517697689931780

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

Metaprogramming in Elixir

https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-metaprogramming

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 35 comments

Transparent Network Monitoring with a NanoPi R4S

https://jedi.sh/nanonet

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 0 comments

Deadly fungi are an emerging microbe threat

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-fungi-are-the-newest-emerging-microbe-threat-all-over-the-world/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 76 comments

Ruby 3 JIT can make Rails faster

https://k0kubun.medium.com/ruby-3-jit-can-make-rails-faster-756310f235a

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 70 comments

C++20: Building a Thread-Pool with Coroutines

https://blog.eiler.eu/posts/20210512/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)

https://turtlespaces.org/2021/05/21/past-and-future-turtles-the-evolution-of-the-logo-programming-language-part-1/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 69 comments

How to port your OS to EC2 (2018)

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-07-14-port-OS-to-EC2.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]

http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lee-side.pdf

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 290 comments

Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/gender-stereotyped-toys

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Ninjabot – A fast cryptocurrency bot implemented in Go

https://github.com/rodrigo-brito/ninjabot

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 55 comments

Video Games Inspire Great UX (2019)

https://jenson.org/games/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 26 comments

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it”

https://wordhistories.net/2020/01/06/put-pipe-and-smoke/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27235288

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 123 comments

A VR Frame’s Life

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/a-vr-frames-life/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447328/twitter-ticketed-spaces-monetization-stripe-approval

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 115 comments

Accessibility is the hardest thing for me about making things for the web

https://gomakethings.com/accessibility-is-hard.-its-also-your-job./

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 81 comments

National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (2015)

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Mega65 – Open 8-Bit Computer

https://mega65.org/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Holes in the WiFi

https://lwn.net/Articles/856044/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Are Angels More Likely Than VCs to Drive Entrepreneurial Experimentation? [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5835e608414fb5a615f828bb/t/5ff3cac7dc8f8e0b7122ff58/1609812690849/AmirSariri_JMP.pdf

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Competing with Steve Jobs (the first time)

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/008-competing-with-steve-jobs-the

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/building-llvm-in-90s/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

The Carrington Event: not something to worry about (2020)

https://yarchive.net/blog/carrington-event/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments
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