top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-05-21

Gordon Bell has died

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

2 years ago

1257 upvotes – 70 comments

What UI density means and how to design for it

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/

2 years ago

767 upvotes – 387 comments

CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium

2 years ago

669 upvotes – 241 comments

The curious case of the missing period

https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period

2 years ago

531 upvotes – 193 comments

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

https://amber-lang.com/

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 314 comments

Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

https://plsfix.co/

2 years ago

444 upvotes – 397 comments

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

2 years ago

421 upvotes – 216 comments

Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 456 comments

Shipbreaking

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbreaking

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 200 comments

Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654

2 years ago

346 upvotes – 168 comments
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