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May 2021 Archive
181.
Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept (onezero.medium.com)
440 points by todsacerdoti on May 31, 2021 | 590 comments
182.
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom (bloomberg.com)
440 points by longdefeat on May 13, 2021 | 505 comments
183.
More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins (nytimes.com)
440 points by temp8964 on May 14, 2021 | 344 comments
184.
Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website (blog.stunning.co)
439 points by rfelix2121 on May 3, 2021 | 209 comments
185.
Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts (reuters.com)
438 points by tareqak on May 12, 2021 | 218 comments
186.
TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter (reuters.com)
437 points by adventured on May 15, 2021 | 486 comments
187.
Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News (instruments.digital)
437 points by Aaronmacaron on May 22, 2021 | 120 comments
188.
Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse (narrator.ai)
435 points by cedricd on May 10, 2021 | 150 comments
189.
USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops (theverge.com)
428 points by Tomte on May 26, 2021 | 478 comments
190.
We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)
427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 | 238 comments
191.
Teach Yourself Demoscene in 14 Days (github.com)
427 points by _gjrn on May 23, 2021 | 45 comments
192.
How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions (washingtonpost.com)
426 points by kjhughes on May 4, 2021 | 328 comments
193.
WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy (androidpolice.com)
424 points by superhumanuser on May 7, 2021 | 271 comments
194.
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work (ingrids.space)
423 points by intarga on May 23, 2021 | 296 comments
195.
Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO (reddit.com)
418 points by kasabali on May 26, 2021 | 129 comments
196.
Observable Plot (observablehq.com)
418 points by subbu on May 4, 2021 | 51 comments
197.
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability (vitalik.ca)
417 points by bpierre on May 23, 2021 | 450 comments
198.
World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years (news.un.org)
415 points by infodocket on May 27, 2021 | 693 comments
199.
Benzene detected in many sunscreen products (valisure.com)
414 points by rchiba on May 26, 2021 | 292 comments
200.
Midair Collision over Denver (avherald.com)
413 points by lunchbreak on May 13, 2021 | 231 comments
201.
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to (arstechnica.com)
413 points by throwawaysea on May 8, 2021 | 212 comments
202.
Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com)
413 points by bryan0 on May 31, 2021 | 196 comments
203.
Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5 (macrumors.com)
412 points by Tomte on May 7, 2021 | 353 comments
204.
Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020) (datacenterdynamics.com)
411 points by giuliomagnifico on May 31, 2021 | 159 comments
205.
Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf] (fifty.user-interface.io)
411 points by Akcium on May 19, 2021 | 151 comments
206.
Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) (blog.thermoworks.com)
410 points by carabiner on May 11, 2021 | 301 comments
207.
Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production (reuters.com)
410 points by tareqak on May 11, 2021 | 283 comments
208.
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (arstechnica.com)
410 points by throwaway888abc on May 29, 2021 | 277 comments
209.
Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library (old.reddit.com)
408 points by diplodocusaur on May 14, 2021 | 52 comments
210.
Teardown of a PC Power Supply (righto.com)
407 points by picture on May 23, 2021 | 239 comments