May 2021 Archive
2011.
The Spanish Witches of Cartagena (historytoday.com)
2012.
Chip-8 in Common Lisp: The CPU (2016) (stevelosh.com)
2013.
Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vaccination (nytimes.com)
2014.
Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is (washingtonpost.com)
2015.
Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain (theverge.com)
2016.
America’s Forgotten Tea Rooms (eater.com)
2017.
Recall the Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden (greenwald.substack.com)
2018.
Berkshire Hathaway Down 99.5% (google.com)
2019.
Google user asks Google support for help, user ends up helping support employee (twitter.com)
2020.
Shel Silverstein and the Missing Piece Meets the Big O (newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
2021.
Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon (denverpost.com)
2022.
Programming language subreddits and their choice of words (github.com)
2023.
Steve Finberg, W1GSL, SK (wma.arrl.org)
2024.
The Remarkable Life of Eugène-François Vidocq, Inventor of Modern Detective Work (allthatsinteresting.com)
2025.
Whole body regeneration in marine life (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2026.
Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life?
2027.
Why Ethereum Will Win Store of Value (michaelmcguiness.com)
2028.
When Stockton gave people cash, they got jobs (reasonstobecheerful.world)
2029.
How Long Can We Live? (nytimes.com)
2030.
Executives don’t decide if the company culture is good, employees do (warzel.substack.com)
2031.
Apple incentives are the largest in NC history (newsobserver.com)
2032.
Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam (lastweekinaws.com)
2033.
The Digital Wallet of the Future (1996) (buffalonews.com)
2034.
Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places (propublica.org)
2035.
Girls need higher entrance exam scores than boys at 80% of Tokyo high schools (mainichi.jp)
2036.
Cox Hotspots with Panoramic Wifi (cox.com)
2037.
Ford “Volume knob” is “finger” on set of bearings epoxied directly onto display (twitter.com)
2038.
A Man on Death Row Has Waited Years for GitHub to Provide Key Evidence (gizmodo.com)
2039.
Show HN: I built uFincs – a privacy-first, encrypted personal finance app (ufincs.com)
2040.
The 1788 Doctors' Riot (en.wikipedia.org)