670
173
DOOM Captcha
https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/
4 years ago
586
225
A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
https://countthings.com/case-studies/0001
564
307
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
523
369
Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/05/24/temptation-of-the-apple-dolphin-on-macos-m1/
457
346
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
446
162
Inkscape 1.1
https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/
395
158
In praise of --dry-run
https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/in-praise-of-dry-run/
365
118
Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
https://cloudbite.attejuvonen.fi/
326
209
Than Average
https://thanaverage.xyz/
322
Elk OS – Audio Operating System
https://elk.audio/audio-os/
319
197
Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57226165
304
178
Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
292
215
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/
287
385
Complexities of e-mail validation logic
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html
272
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/
263
81
Replit now supports every programming language in Nix
https://blog.replit.com/nix
261
177
Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/
241
50
Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go
https://pkg.go.dev/rsc.io/rf
231
Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane
https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/
222
194
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
333
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/
218
203
Writing Pythonic Rust
http://www.cmyr.net/blog/rust-python-learnings.html
206
214
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
204
138
HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33562203/
200
84
Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting
http://hccc.org.uk/retro/retro.html
199
14
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/
198
78
Vim Modes Transition Diagram
https://rawgit.com/darcyparker/1886716/raw/eab57dfe784f016085251771d65a75a471ca22d4/vimModeStateDiagram.svg
196
57
Nacker Hews
http://www.nackerhews.com/
184
28
Evidence-based Software Engineering: based on the publicly available data
http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/
34
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
618
How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/how-intuitive-are-macs-really-
172
62
Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/depression-anxiety-imposter-syndrome/
167
102
Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/24/tony-hawk-skateboarding-legacy-interview
165
104
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/
163
48
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/
161
WWDC21
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/
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/
157
252
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
141
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
149
107
Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport
https://twitter.com/RyanairPress/status/1396543331878981632
147
37
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/
135
24
Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (2005)
https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/
131
A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices
https://clickhouse.tech/blog/en/2021/reading-from-external-memory/
127
41
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
126
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/
123
49
Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/need-something-sorted-sleep-on-it-11fdf8453914
119
101
Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company
https://twitter.com/amyfritz/status/1395558966768377860
117
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/
110
51
The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (2017)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064176.3064187
108
26
Launch HN: Curvenote (YC W21) – Collaborative writing tools for science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27265380
Instanced Line Rendering Using WebGL
https://wwwtyro.net/2019/11/18/instanced-lines.html
105
85
The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902.html
103
98
Ask HN: Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27264560
30
Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (2018)
https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/array-initialization-rust/
74
Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-nears-deal-to-buy-hollywood-studio-mgm-11621880759
36
Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode drama
https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/4ca20da6c2295ddb06c1646791c61953
40
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/
94
56
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/
93
Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository
https://github.com/jphong1111/Useful_Swift
91
16
Using io_uring to make a high-performance finger server
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/24/io_uring-finger-server.html
35
Raspberry Pi Releases new PoE+ Hat
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/announcing-the-raspberry-pi-poe-hat
10
Discovering Goroutine Leaks with Semgrep
https://www.trailofbits.com/post/discovering-goroutine-leaks-with-semgrep
79
68
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
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4
12
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/
76
RefinedC: Automating Foundational Verification of C Code with Refined Ownership
https://plv.mpi-sws.org/refinedc/
Tardigrades survive impacts of up to 825 meters per second
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-tardigrades-survive-impacts-meters.html
1
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/
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)