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May 2021 Archive
31.
River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up (river-runner.samlearner.com)
877 points by prawn on May 27, 2021 | 127 comments
32.
YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane (twitter.com)
876 points by notimetocry on May 25, 2021 | 265 comments
33.
Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022 (oxide.computer)
876 points by ykl on May 26, 2021 | 256 comments
34.
Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer)
856 points by mrzool on May 30, 2021 | 706 comments
35.
Learn CSS (web.dev)
842 points by markodenic on May 21, 2021 | 189 comments
36.
Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com)
840 points by forrestbrazeal on May 4, 2021 | 439 comments
37.
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020) (twitter.com)
832 points by eevilspock on May 27, 2021 | 228 comments
38.
Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
819 points by zffr on May 27, 2021 | 271 comments
39.
ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs (github.com)
803 points by stanislavb on May 5, 2021 | 307 comments
40.
Observing my cellphone switch towers (fabiensanglard.net)
800 points by ingve on May 16, 2021 | 132 comments
41.
“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” (lore.kernel.org)
792 points by pengaru on May 1, 2021 | 501 comments
42.
DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized (krebsonsecurity.com)
787 points by feross on May 14, 2021 | 584 comments
43.
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B (reuters.com)
780 points by helsinkiandrew on May 26, 2021 | 820 comments
44.
Why I prefer making useless stuff (web.eecs.utk.edu)
772 points by azhenley on May 23, 2021 | 270 comments
45.
Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds (blog.freesound.org)
772 points by diibv on May 21, 2021 | 67 comments
46.
Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop (regulations.gov)
769 points by sincerely on May 2, 2021 | 529 comments
47.
Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist (bbc.com)
766 points by kensai on May 23, 2021 | 4 comments
48.
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 (blogs.windows.com)
763 points by smukherjee19 on May 19, 2021 | 294 comments
49.
Neovim 0.5 is overpowering (crispgm.com)
753 points by imbnwa on May 26, 2021 | 421 comments
50.
Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
741 points by pmoriarty on May 25, 2021 | 581 comments
51.
It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) (qntm.org)
733 points by avinassh on May 25, 2021 | 658 comments
52.
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning (ford.com)
727 points by awb on May 21, 2021 | 1396 comments
53.
Poor in Tech (megelison.com)
725 points by tosh on May 19, 2021 | 782 comments
54.
Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class (twitter.com)
722 points by renameme on May 3, 2021 | 214 comments
55.
AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search (plausible.io)
719 points by ColinWright on May 18, 2021 | 172 comments
56.
The Ultimate Guide to Inflation (lynalden.com)
712 points by jger15 on May 9, 2021 | 344 comments
57.
Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns (euronews.com)
709 points by giuliomagnifico on May 11, 2021 | 185 comments
58.
Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research (m-cacm.acm.org)
707 points by djoldman on May 26, 2021 | 395 comments
59.
Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio (apple.com)
702 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2021 | 699 comments
60.
Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals (vice.com)
699 points by jbegley on May 13, 2021 | 247 comments