top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-29

Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

https://dental.washington.edu/trials-begin-on-lozenge-that-rebuilds-tooth-enamel/

4 years ago

1189 upvotes – 347 comments

Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

https://www.businessinsider.com/unredacted-google-lawsuit-docs-detail-efforts-to-collect-user-location-2021-5

4 years ago

681 upvotes – 329 comments

Yamaha MOTOROiD

https://global.yamaha-motor.com/design_technology/design/concept/motoroid/

4 years ago

494 upvotes – 315 comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html

4 years ago

443 upvotes – 98 comments

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/

4 years ago

410 upvotes – 277 comments

Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

https://index.medium.com/shameless-work-influencers-are-the-bane-of-linkedin-5f458bb046aa

4 years ago

308 upvotes – 222 comments

Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/remains-of-215-children-found-at-former-residential-school-in-british-columbia/

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 181 comments

Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/may/18/true-fans-translate-fansubbing-bookstory/

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 83 comments

ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242

4 years ago

287 upvotes – 298 comments

Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: How to cope with the death of a dear person?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27323430

4 years ago

263 upvotes – 94 comments

Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro

https://www.urbextour.com/en/urbex-travel/7-ghost-stations-of-the-paris-metro-and-how-to-get-into-the-illegally-unusual-tunnels-rer/

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 74 comments

Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/using-fake-reviews-to-find-dangerous-extensions/

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 103 comments

Create AI videos by simply typing in text

https://www.synthesia.io/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 110 comments

Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study

https://medlifestyle.news/2021/05/29/waking-up-one-hour-earlier-can-lower-a-persons-chance-of-major-depression-by-23-new-research-finds/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 170 comments

Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

https://www.darkpatterns.org/hall-of-shame

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 71 comments

JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser

https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlite

4 years ago

237 upvotes – 64 comments

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

4 years ago

214 upvotes – 61 comments

Abolish High School (2015)

https://harpers.org/archive/2015/04/abolish-high-school/

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 312 comments

Scottish Café

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

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 46 comments

Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/technology/emily-wilder-firing-ap.html

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 155 comments

My Personal Creed of Employment

https://devjac.dev/posts/2021-05-29-my-personal-creed-of-employment.html

4 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)

https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 101 comments

Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edgar-allen-poe-seashell-book

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 38 comments

Collection of public datasets packaged as SQLite databases

http://2016.padjo.org/tutorials/sqlite-data-starterpacks/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 5 comments

Book Review: Double Fold

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-double-fold

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 59 comments

GoTTY – Share your terminal as a web application

https://github.com/sorenisanerd/gotty

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep

https://til.simonwillison.net/bash/finding-bom-csv-files-with-ripgrep

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Is JRuby Slow?

https://earthly.dev/blog/jruby/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 60 comments

A writing tip I learned at Oxford

https://newsletter.timber.fm/p/a-writing-tip-i-learned-at-oxford

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 82 comments

Winding down of Alphabet’s Loon causes job cuts

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/28/alphabet-moonshot-loon-jolted-layoff-employee-job-tech-google-edd/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 86 comments

Franz Kafka: Manuscripts, drawings and personal letters go online

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-57267874

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 16 comments

The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/05/27/the-pandemic-revives-interest-in-a-morbid-french-financial-scheme

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 93 comments

Future of work will be 5-hour days, 4-day workweek, flexible staggered schedules

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/05/28/the-future-of-work-will-be------------five-hour-days-a-four-day-workweek-and-flexible-staggered-schedules/

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 124 comments

Writing a game from first principles in 65c02 – Part One

http://feertech.com/legion/software/game/2021/05/28/game-from-scratch-02.html

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

The reason people don't read the article: They just want to socialize

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27327687

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Tcl Calling Parallel C++ Code Using OpenMP

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Parallel+C%2B%2B+thread+with+OpenMP

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Camera-Only Autopilot Requires Automatic High Beams Enabled

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/nnf5ta/autopilot_requires_auto_high_beam_with_tesla/

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 99 comments

Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932)

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nn4q4j/heres_a_photo_of_the_photographer_charles_c/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Submerged Italian Village Resurfaces After 70 Years Underwater

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-italian-village-briefly-surfaces-after-70-years-underwater-180977838/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking the Silvercrest (Lidl) Smart Home Gateway

https://paulbanks.org/projects/lidl-zigbee/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: What's your sleeping setup(bed/pillows/sheets)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27327050

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: How to disconnect from work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27326607

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Innovation Is Inherently Controversial

https://www.etftrends.com/disruptive-technology-channel/cathie-wood-innovation-is-inherently-controversial/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2003) [pdf]

https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 49 comments

“Faraday Wax” – recreating old school high-vacuum epoxy

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/faraday-wax-recreating-old-school-high-vacuum-epoxy!/

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278932-astronomers-have-created-the-largest-ever-map-of-dark-matter

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/9/2984/htm

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: TeXMe – Create self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents

https://github.com/susam/texme

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Just designed the most evil UI component: x box – the inverse of the check box

https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1398091976445202433

4 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments
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