top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-24

DOOM Captcha

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

5 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

5 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

5 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/

5 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

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 346 comments

Inkscape 1.1

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

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 162 comments

In praise of --dry-run

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

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

https://cloudbite.attejuvonen.fi/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 118 comments

Than Average

https://thanaverage.xyz/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 209 comments

Elk OS – Audio Operating System

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

5 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

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 197 comments

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

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

5 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/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 215 comments

Complexities of e-mail validation logic

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

5 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/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 178 comments

Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

https://blog.replit.com/nix

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 81 comments

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

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

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 177 comments

Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go

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

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 50 comments

Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane

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

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 158 comments

If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/22/if-apple-is-the-only-organisation-capable-of-defending-our-privacy-it-really-is-time-to-worry

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 194 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/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 333 comments

Writing Pythonic Rust

http://www.cmyr.net/blog/rust-python-learnings.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 203 comments

Peloton to invest $400M to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Ohio

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/peloton-to-invest-400-million-on-first-us-production-facility-in-ohio.html

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 214 comments

HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33562203/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 138 comments

Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting

http://hccc.org.uk/retro/retro.html

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 84 comments

Scientists use optogenetics to help a blind patient see again

https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/24/scientists-use-optogenetics-for-first-time-to-help-blind-patient-see/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 14 comments

Vim Modes Transition Diagram

https://rawgit.com/darcyparker/1886716/raw/eab57dfe784f016085251771d65a75a471ca22d4/vimModeStateDiagram.svg

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 78 comments

Nacker Hews

http://www.nackerhews.com/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 57 comments

Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data

http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 28 comments

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-and-father-of-information-theory

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 34 comments

How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/how-intuitive-are-macs-really-

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 618 comments

Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/depression-anxiety-imposter-syndrome/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 62 comments

Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/24/tony-hawk-skateboarding-legacy-interview

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 102 comments

Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/delhi-police-run-by-indias-central-government-raids-twitter-offices-over-manipulated-label/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 104 comments

Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lz3rj1/why_did_the_ussr_build_such_grandiose_designs_and/gq09pvf/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 48 comments

WWDC21

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 184 comments

Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed

https://electrek.co/2021/05/24/tesla-found-guilty-throttling-charging-speed-asked-pay-16000-thousands-owners/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 158 comments

U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/business/economy/global-minimum-tax-corporations.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 252 comments

Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22450941/microsoft-surface-duo-xbox-mobile-xcloud-cloud-gaming-dual-screen

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 141 comments

Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport

https://twitter.com/RyanairPress/status/1396543331878981632

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 107 comments

Radioactivity may fuel life deep underground and inside other worlds

https://www.quantamagazine.org/radioactivity-may-fuel-life-deep-underground-and-inside-other-worlds-20210524/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 37 comments

Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (2005)

https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices

https://clickhouse.tech/blog/en/2021/reading-from-external-memory/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 37 comments

O'Leary: Forced landing in Belarus was 'state-sponsored hijacking'

https://www.newstalk.com/news/oleary-forced-landing-in-belarus-was-state-sponsored-hijacking-1199561

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 41 comments

iFixit tells the sad story of how Samsung “ruined” its upcycling program

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/ifixit-tells-the-sad-story-of-how-samsung-ruined-its-upcycling-program/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It

https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/need-something-sorted-sleep-on-it-11fdf8453914

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company

https://twitter.com/amyfritz/status/1395558966768377860

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 101 comments

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care in November 2019

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 84 comments

The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (2017)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064176.3064187

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Launch HN: Curvenote (YC W21) – Collaborative writing tools for science

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27265380

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Instanced Line Rendering Using WebGL

https://wwwtyro.net/2019/11/18/instanced-lines.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27264560

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (2018)

https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/array-initialization-rust/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-nears-deal-to-buy-hollywood-studio-mgm-11621880759

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode drama

https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/4ca20da6c2295ddb06c1646791c61953

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years-away-no-batteries-are-improving-under-your-nose/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments

I was the fastest girl in Connecticut. But transgender athletes made it unfair

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/05/22/transgender-athletes-girls-women-sports-track-connecticut-column/5149532001/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 56 comments

Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository

https://github.com/jphong1111/Useful_Swift

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Using io_uring to make a high-performance finger server

https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/24/io_uring-finger-server.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Raspberry Pi Releases new PoE+ Hat

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/announcing-the-raspberry-pi-poe-hat

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Discovering Goroutine Leaks with Semgrep

https://www.trailofbits.com/post/discovering-goroutine-leaks-with-semgrep

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

My experience binding a couple of scripting engines with C++

https://germandiagogomez.medium.com/c-scripting-alternatives-easy-to-bind-scripting-binding-chaiscript-and-wren-into-a-small-game-174c86b0ecd7

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 68 comments

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

I/O Rings: When One I/O Operation is Not Enough

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operation-is-not-enough/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

RefinedC: Automating Foundational Verification of C Code with Refined Ownership

https://plv.mpi-sws.org/refinedc/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Tardigrades survive impacts of up to 825 meters per second

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-tardigrades-survive-impacts-meters.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 57 comments

Florida Governor Signs Bill to fine tech companies that block politicians

https://www.flgov.com/2021/05/24/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-to-stop-the-censorship-of-floridians-by-big-tech/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 1 comments
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