top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-27

River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up

https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

5 years ago

877 upvotes – 127 comments

How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)

https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634

5 years ago

832 upvotes – 228 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195

5 years ago

819 upvotes – 271 comments

Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

5 years ago

562 upvotes – 157 comments

MDN Plus

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/plus

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 213 comments

The media's lab leak fiasco

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco

5 years ago

501 upvotes – 701 comments

Eric Carle has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eric-carle-dead/2021/05/26/cbb39414-2234-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 162 comments

Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

https://twitter.com/esraefe/status/1397842160607711232

5 years ago

475 upvotes – 498 comments

World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/05/1092842

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 693 comments

Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

https://medlifestyle.news/2021/05/26/immediate-skin-to-skin-contact-with-unstable-newborns-improves-premature-babies-chances-of-survival/

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 228 comments

Second-guessing the modern web (2020)

https://macwright.com/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 296 comments

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2019/10/07/elliptic-curve-cryptography-explained/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 44 comments

V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler

https://v8.dev/blog/sparkplug

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27300594

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 163 comments

How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co

https://www.celinehh.com/seed-raise-how-to

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 234 comments

Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16703/marvell-announces-first-pcie-50-nvme-ssd-controllers

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: I Built Multiplayer Deathmatch Joust

https://joust.life/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 103 comments

Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 209 comments

Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/herodotus-on-the-first-circumnavigation-of-africa/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 145 comments

Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protasevich-street-bucharest-mulls-changing-address-belarusian-embassy-2021-05-27/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 199 comments

Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57254488

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 220 comments

‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bomb-threat-cited-in-belarus-hijacking-came-24-minutes-after

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 77 comments

The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower

https://japan-forward.com/goodbye-to-the-future-the-last-days-of-tokyos-nakagin-capsule-tower/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 112 comments

JsonLogic

https://jsonlogic.com/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 251 comments

LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/999969718/high-cost-of-los-angeles-homeless-camp-raises-eyebrows-and-questions

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 289 comments

OpenHD - HD video, UAV telemetry, audio, and RC control

https://github.com/OpenHD/Open.HD

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 34 comments

Blog about what you've struggled with

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/05/24/blog-about-what-you-ve-struggled-with/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 45 comments

The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 207 comments

Manifest v3 Update

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-update/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 93 comments

Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-briefed-tesla-radar-sensor-removal-2021-05-26/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 356 comments

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/tech/jeff-bezos-andy-jassy-amazon-ceo/index.html

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 57 comments

Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57122120

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 174 comments

Swedish fintech payments unicorn Klarna shows you other users' account data

https://www.di.se/digital/stort-teknikhaveri-hos-klarna-nar-kunder-sag-andras-uppgifter-fi-har-kontaktat-bolaget/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 1 comments

Uber recognises a union for the first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57254962

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 123 comments

Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate

https://rockylinux.org/download

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 116 comments

Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patches

https://stacked-git.github.io/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 82 comments

Control-flow integrity in Linux 5.13

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/856514/bd36cc646fac2071/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

https://redact.dev/?hn

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information

https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 40 comments

Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages

https://www.cyberscoop.com/court-rules-encrypted-email-tutanota-monitor-messages/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 60 comments

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

https://stopa.io/post/265?repost=true

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 113 comments

Phil's Old Radios

https://antiqueradio.org/welcome.htm

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301210

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

Functional Programming in Go with Generics

https://ani.dev/2021/05/25/functional-programming-in-go-with-generics/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 114 comments

Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-polynomial-building-blocks-hilbert-sought-20210525

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/05/26/irc/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-are-on-the-move-their-stuff-doesnt-always-follow-11622050745

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 328 comments

Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/tech/facebook-covid-19-origin-claims-removal/index.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Vaccine-Induced Covid-19 Mimicry Syndrome

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-558954/v1

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 67 comments

Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admissions

https://text.npr.org/1000868262

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 213 comments

Primates change their 'accent' to avoid conflict

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-primates-accent-conflict.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem

https://onezero.medium.com/a-i-is-solving-the-wrong-problem-253b636770cd

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 102 comments

Automated Data Wrangling

https://catalyst.coop/2021/05/23/automated-data-wrangling/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Convect – Instant Serverless Deployment of ML Models

https://convect.ml

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Interact with self driving car data built by former Pixar and Tesla engineers

https://paralleldomain.com/data-visualizer/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs

https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/news/woodworking-industry-news/lumber-firms-applaud-home-builders-angry-us-moves-double-canadian

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 96 comments

Think critically about college admissions

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-think-critically-about-college

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57244708

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 108 comments

Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link

https://www.well.com/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server

http://wired.com/story/hostile-takeover-microsoft-flight-simulator/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

The Penis Poster That Rubbed People the Wrong Way (2018)

https://www.topic.com/the-penis-poster-that-rubbed-people-the-wrong-way

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 49 comments
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