top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-05-31

Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/

5 years ago

The most expensive number in engineering

https://surjan.substack.com/p/the-most-expensive-number-in-engineering

5 years ago

Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept

https://onezero.medium.com/the-document-metaphor-desktop-gui-doesnt-work-anymore-d276271bfa40

5 years ago

We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor

https://www.butwhatfor.com/admiral-yarnell-and-an-attack-on-pearl-harbor/

5 years ago

Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station

https://www.sciencealert.com/space-debris-has-damaged-the-international-space-station

5 years ago

Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/danish-whistleblower-details-nsa-collaboration-submarine-cable-spying-surveillance-data-center/

5 years ago

NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806

5 years ago

On Smoking

https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-smoking

5 years ago

Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chinese-paddlefish-one-of-largest-fish-extinct?loggedin=true

5 years ago

PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/05/postgis-20-years.html

5 years ago