top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-05-24

DOOM Captcha

https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/

4 years ago

670 upvotes – 173 comments

A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls

https://countthings.com/case-studies/0001

4 years ago

586 upvotes – 225 comments

Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1416084/baltic-airlines-reroute-flights-to-avoid-belarus-airspace

4 years ago

564 upvotes – 307 comments

Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/05/24/temptation-of-the-apple-dolphin-on-macos-m1/

4 years ago

523 upvotes – 369 comments

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed

https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228

4 years ago

457 upvotes – 346 comments

Inkscape 1.1

https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/

4 years ago

446 upvotes – 162 comments

In praise of --dry-run

https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/in-praise-of-dry-run/

4 years ago

395 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

https://cloudbite.attejuvonen.fi/

4 years ago

365 upvotes – 118 comments

Than Average

https://thanaverage.xyz/

4 years ago

326 upvotes – 209 comments

Elk OS – Audio Operating System

https://elk.audio/audio-os/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 158 comments

Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57226165

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 197 comments

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 178 comments

Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/07/complexity-is-a-source-of-income-in-open-source-ecosystems/

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 215 comments

Complexities of e-mail validation logic

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 385 comments

What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use

https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-lies-beneath-evidence-from-leaked-account-data-on-how-elites-use-offshore-banking/

4 years ago

272 upvotes – 178 comments

Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

https://blog.replit.com/nix

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 81 comments

Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/

4 years ago

261 upvotes – 177 comments

Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go

https://pkg.go.dev/rsc.io/rf

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 50 comments

Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane

https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/

4 years ago

231 upvotes – 158 comments

Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?

https://brainybiker.com/why-did-bar-ends-go-away-from-mountain-bikes-the-nostalgia-is-real/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 333 comments
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