top 50% 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

623 upvotes – 595 comments

The most expensive number in engineering

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

5 years ago

501 upvotes – 167 comments

Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept

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

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 590 comments

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

427 upvotes – 238 comments

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

413 upvotes – 196 comments

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

411 upvotes – 159 comments

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

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

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 167 comments

On Smoking

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

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 383 comments

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

316 upvotes – 203 comments

PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

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

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 32 comments

What Oxford taught me about posh people

https://unherd.com/2021/05/what-oxford-taught-me-about-posh-people/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 364 comments

Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120

https://hackaday.com/2021/05/30/neural-networks-emulate-any-guitar-pedal-for-120/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 156 comments

Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back

https://jalopnik.com/woman-catches-louisiana-state-police-attaching-tracker-1846738167

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 201 comments

iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices

https://www.imore.com/ios-14-tracking-changes-sees-big-ad-spending-drop-tumbling-prices

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 210 comments

China allows couples to have three children

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57303592

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 322 comments

Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/quit-mentoring-at-plato/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 53 comments

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-mexico-police-f6ea7798ca3cc171ac13b3a5a6a6c266

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 231 comments

Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)

https://outofyourrut.com/avoid-buying-hoa-neighborhoods/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 456 comments

Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business

https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/googles-new-popup-will-further-weaken

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 211 comments

UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys?

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/uuid-serial-or-identity-columns-for-postgresql-auto-generated-primary-keys/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 178 comments

WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

http://wordtsar.ca/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 140 comments

The May 18 Gwangju Uprising

https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,3506.0.html?PHPSESSID=d15c31b38395146f6e114073ff5a02d1

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 82 comments

Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-issues-more-500-gdpr-complaints

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 123 comments

I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/ketamine-treatment-depression.html

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 163 comments

Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-france-delays-two-moscow-bound-flights-over-lack-russian-permits-ria-2021-05-31/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 185 comments

How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-commodore-amiga-powered-your-cable-system-in-the-90s

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 71 comments

After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism

https://monocle.com/magazine/issues/144/open-invitation/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 84 comments

Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33555034/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 120 comments

Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes

http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/vizgp/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 9 comments

Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas

https://www.insider.com/japanese-government-selling-rural-homes-cheap-akiya-banks-2021-5

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/scamp-lives.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 20 comments

A Macro View of Nanite

https://www.elopezr.com/a-macro-view-of-nanite/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 42 comments

Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/sign-a-pdf

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 81 comments

The Brazilianization of the World

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 41 comments

You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change

https://vsupalov.com/rebuilding-docker-image-development/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 62 comments

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access Release Notes

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/ReleaseNotes/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption

https://github.com/cs01/termpair

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

Caught in the Study Web

https://every.to/cybernaut/caught-in-the-study-web

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

GCC Rust Monthly Report #6 May 2021

https://thephilbert.io/2021/05/31/gcc-rust-monthly-report-6-may-2021/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1

https://www.willusher.io/graphics/2020/12/20/rt-dive-m1

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 55 comments

The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc-andreessen

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Exxon Lost a Board Battle with a Small Hedge Fund

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/energy-environment/exxon-engine-board.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support

https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021

https://www.getkisi.com/work-life-balance-2021

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 174 comments

FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed for free online

https://foss-north.se/2021/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

The faulty digital clock problem

https://andersource.dev/2021/04/29/faulty_digital_clock.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Small B Blogging (2018)

https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Sri Lanka faces 'worst-ever beach pollution' from burning ship

https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-faces-worst-ever-beach-pollution-from-burning-ship/a-57712086

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Dragon Go Server

https://www.dragongoserver.net/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia

https://narratively.com/they-were-labeled-witches-they-just-had-dementia/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments
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