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Browse 180 retained Hacker News discussion records from May 2021, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back31 May 2021 · 282 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $12031 May 2021 · 286 points · 156 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?31 May 2021 · 623 points · 595 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)30 May 2021 · 270 points · 219 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency30 May 2021 · 949 points · 1,143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Overkill objects for everyday life30 May 2021 · 856 points · 706 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’30 May 2021 · 1,057 points · 440 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer30 May 2021 · 1,086 points · 494 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A130 May 2021 · 1,013 points · 624 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. “Computer science is not about computers”30 May 2021 · 288 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel29 May 2021 · 1,189 points · 347 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained29 May 2021 · 269 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login29 May 2021 · 287 points · 298 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private29 May 2021 · 681 points · 329 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years29 May 2021 · 287 points · 83 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia29 May 2021 · 291 points · 181 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid28 May 2021 · 622 points · 328 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage28 May 2021 · 607 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time28 May 2021 · 1,644 points · 249 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Safari tries to fill username28 May 2021 · 628 points · 376 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. QUIC is now RFC 900028 May 2021 · 561 points · 235 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co27 May 2021 · 284 points · 234 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative27 May 2021 · 562 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?27 May 2021 · 819 points · 271 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)27 May 2021 · 832 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Ask HN: Anybody Started a Research Institute?27 May 2021 · 287 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up27 May 2021 · 877 points · 127 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research26 May 2021 · 707 points · 395 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Servers as they should be – shipping early 202226 May 2021 · 876 points · 256 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?26 May 2021 · 639 points · 417 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Neovim 0.5 is overpowering26 May 2021 · 753 points · 421 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B26 May 2021 · 780 points · 820 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Upheaval at freenode26 May 2021 · 648 points · 1 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser26 May 2021 · 275 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked26 May 2021 · 622 points · 4 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Freenode ops take control of 700 channels26 May 2021 · 604 points · 944 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability26 May 2021 · 1,067 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side25 May 2021 · 741 points · 581 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane25 May 2021 · 876 points · 265 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Stripe Payment Links25 May 2021 · 988 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie25 May 2021 · 272 points · 169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)25 May 2021 · 733 points · 658 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures25 May 2021 · 269 points · 146 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies25 May 2021 · 638 points · 405 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Use native context menus on Mac OS25 May 2021 · 587 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)24 May 2021 · 292 points · 215 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use24 May 2021 · 272 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. DOOM Captcha24 May 2021 · 670 points · 173 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. Complexities of e-mail validation logic24 May 2021 · 287 points · 385 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace24 May 2021 · 564 points · 307 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls24 May 2021 · 586 points · 225 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Why I prefer making useless stuff23 May 2021 · 772 points · 270 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist23 May 2021 · 766 points · 4 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says23 May 2021 · 1,037 points · 829 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks23 May 2021 · 1,331 points · 544 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015)23 May 2021 · 288 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor22 May 2021 · 269 points · 408 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally22 May 2021 · 601 points · 413 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more22 May 2021 · 602 points · 319 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps21 May 2021 · 270 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning21 May 2021 · 727 points · 1,396 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Learn CSS21 May 2021 · 842 points · 189 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds21 May 2021 · 772 points · 67 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak21 May 2021 · 595 points · 329 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Sublime Text 421 May 2021 · 1,436 points · 631 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning20 May 2021 · 976 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater Idaho'20 May 2021 · 271 points · 633 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"20 May 2021 · 679 points · 397 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs20 May 2021 · 284 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. UK Rail services to come under unified state control20 May 2021 · 277 points · 376 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Facebook says I'm abusive content [video]20 May 2021 · 286 points · 204 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 202219 May 2021 · 763 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Improving Firefox stability on Linux19 May 2021 · 631 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Coinbase outages19 May 2021 · 276 points · 288 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Welcome to Libera Chat19 May 2021 · 1,425 points · 529 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Leaving Freenode for a new network19 May 2021 · 613 points · 296 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Poor in Tech19 May 2021 · 725 points · 782 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work19 May 2021 · 1,464 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius19 May 2021 · 289 points · 108 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. The Matrix Space Beta18 May 2021 · 281 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards18 May 2021 · 629 points · 791 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together18 May 2021 · 1,339 points · 513 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company18 May 2021 · 925 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology18 May 2021 · 282 points · 149 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Flat Data18 May 2021 · 290 points · 60 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. PlanetScale – Database for Developers18 May 2021 · 279 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers18 May 2021 · 287 points · 251 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge18 May 2021 · 1,661 points · 1,690 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search18 May 2021 · 719 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?17 May 2021 · 1,008 points · 637 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate17 May 2021 · 604 points · 278 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio17 May 2021 · 702 points · 699 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Observing my cellphone switch towers16 May 2021 · 800 points · 132 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)15 May 2021 · 278 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)15 May 2021 · 1,256 points · 728 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. China lands rover on Mars15 May 2021 · 581 points · 314 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. A URL Lengthener14 May 2021 · 1,204 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized14 May 2021 · 787 points · 584 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff14 May 2021 · 561 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Scala 3.014 May 2021 · 690 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat14 May 2021 · 617 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)13 May 2021 · 280 points · 99 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals13 May 2021 · 699 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go13 May 2021 · 269 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages13 May 2021 · 684 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service13 May 2021 · 274 points · 251 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Big list of HTTP static server one-liners13 May 2021 · 282 points · 95 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue12 May 2021 · 583 points · 401 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX51212 May 2021 · 278 points · 177 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C12 May 2021 · 1,102 points · 262 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering12 May 2021 · 1,167 points · 930 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator12 May 2021 · 591 points · 150 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Deno 1.10 Release Notes12 May 2021 · 274 points · 147 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)12 May 2021 · 289 points · 216 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-1912 May 2021 · 273 points · 321 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices11 May 2021 · 609 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns11 May 2021 · 709 points · 185 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition11 May 2021 · 279 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Amazon Sidewalk11 May 2021 · 586 points · 667 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?11 May 2021 · 673 points · 693 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma11 May 2021 · 277 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Can I Email?11 May 2021 · 682 points · 273 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. One million people saw my dumbest tweet10 May 2021 · 277 points · 123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)10 May 2021 · 270 points · 147 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Advanced Situational Awareness [pdf]10 May 2021 · 280 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Writing books is not really a good idea10 May 2021 · 577 points · 609 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. The word “decide” has deadly origins10 May 2021 · 286 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack10 May 2021 · 611 points · 451 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access09 May 2021 · 287 points · 218 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. The Animal Is Tired09 May 2021 · 1,299 points · 426 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation09 May 2021 · 712 points · 344 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Wikipedia is up (2001)09 May 2021 · 291 points · 198 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences09 May 2021 · 619 points · 716 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)09 May 2021 · 280 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]08 May 2021 · 275 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay08 May 2021 · 568 points · 292 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them08 May 2021 · 277 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder08 May 2021 · 562 points · 259 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React08 May 2021 · 683 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. I’ve had the same supper for 10 years08 May 2021 · 888 points · 749 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)07 May 2021 · 272 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-1907 May 2021 · 272 points · 364 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. The Pinecone Overlay Network07 May 2021 · 279 points · 47 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility07 May 2021 · 589 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga07 May 2021 · 273 points · 54 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit06 May 2021 · 281 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece06 May 2021 · 674 points · 245 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Crazy New Ideas06 May 2021 · 901 points · 774 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. IBM creates 2nm chip06 May 2021 · 579 points · 213 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. Why I Work on Ads06 May 2021 · 657 points · 865 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. Pyston v2.2: faster and open source06 May 2021 · 272 points · 100 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online06 May 2021 · 1,016 points · 676 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. HTML Tips (2020)05 May 2021 · 688 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. The Case of the 50ms request05 May 2021 · 284 points · 79 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send05 May 2021 · 666 points · 141 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets05 May 2021 · 637 points · 568 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs05 May 2021 · 803 points · 307 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals05 May 2021 · 286 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent05 May 2021 · 613 points · 155 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt04 May 2021 · 840 points · 439 commentsPartial reading withheld
  161. Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython04 May 2021 · 645 points · 261 commentsPartial reading withheld
  162. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you04 May 2021 · 1,235 points · 177 commentsPartial reading withheld
  163. Efficiency Is the Enemy04 May 2021 · 584 points · 322 commentsPartial reading withheld
  164. Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class03 May 2021 · 722 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  165. The Unix Magic Poster03 May 2021 · 666 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  166. Practical SQL for Data Analysis03 May 2021 · 602 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  167. My Favorite One Liners03 May 2021 · 269 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  168. Volta03 May 2021 · 271 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  169. Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales03 May 2021 · 615 points · 438 commentsPartial reading withheld
  170. Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust03 May 2021 · 641 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  171. Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop02 May 2021 · 769 points · 529 commentsPartial reading withheld
  172. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster02 May 2021 · 1,812 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  173. What's Salesforce? (2019)02 May 2021 · 290 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  174. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM02 May 2021 · 1,260 points · 404 commentsPartial reading withheld
  175. Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?02 May 2021 · 276 points · 215 commentsPartial reading withheld
  176. “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”01 May 2021 · 792 points · 501 commentsPartial reading withheld
  177. A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)01 May 2021 · 278 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  178. List of apps people pay for but have low rating01 May 2021 · 607 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  179. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]01 May 2021 · 922 points · 487 commentsPartial reading withheld
  180. India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first01 May 2021 · 288 points · 366 commentsPartial reading withheld