1. | | The most expensive number in engineering (surjan.substack.com) |
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501 points by as89 on May 31, 2021 | 167 comments
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2. | | We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com) |
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427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 | 238 comments
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3. | | PostGIS at 20, the Beginning (cleverelephant.ca) |
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302 points by jkatz05 on May 31, 2021 | 32 comments
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4. | | Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct (nationalgeographic.com) |
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316 points by gadf on May 31, 2021 | 203 comments
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5. | | On Smoking (annagat.substack.com) |
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345 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 383 comments
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6. | | Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? (dailydot.com) |
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623 points by tech-historian on May 31, 2021 | 595 comments
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7. | | NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report (bbc.com) |
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403 points by Black101 on May 31, 2021 | 167 comments
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8. | | Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com) |
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413 points by bryan0 on May 31, 2021 | 196 comments
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9. | | The May 18 Gwangju Uprising (datasecretslox.com) |
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202 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 82 comments
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10. | | Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 (economist.com) |
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233 points by martincmartin on May 30, 2021 | 190 comments
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11. | | Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business (thebigtech.substack.com) |
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209 points by devnerd239 on May 31, 2021 | 211 comments
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12. | | Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years (rhizome.org) |
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287 points by keiferski on May 29, 2021 | 83 comments
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13. | | Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 (hackaday.com) |
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286 points by ushakov on May 31, 2021 | 156 comments
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14. | | How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s (atlasobscura.com) |
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187 points by rbanffy on May 31, 2021 | 71 comments
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15. | | Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? |
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362 points by LifeIsBio on May 30, 2021 | 306 comments
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16. | | WordTsar, a WordStar Clone (wordtsar.ca) |
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203 points by rhabarba on May 31, 2021 | 140 comments
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17. | | TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption (github.com/cs01) |
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118 points by illuminated on May 31, 2021 | 37 comments
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18. | | UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys? (cybertec-postgresql.com) |
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204 points by lhenk on May 31, 2021 | 178 comments
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19. | | Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts) (windowslatest.com) |
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270 points by minama on May 30, 2021 | 219 comments
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20. | | Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back (jalopnik.com) |
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282 points by HiroProtagonist on May 31, 2021 | 201 comments
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21. | | Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10% (nih.gov) |
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159 points by ve55 on May 31, 2021 | 120 comments
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22. | | A Macro View of Nanite (elopezr.com) |
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126 points by haxiomic on May 31, 2021 | 42 comments
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23. | | Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer (observablehq.com) |
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125 points by tlarkworthy on May 31, 2021 | 81 comments
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24. | | A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1 (willusher.io) |
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105 points by tempodox on May 31, 2021 | 55 comments
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25. | | What Oxford taught me about posh people (unherd.com) |
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293 points by hownottowrite on May 31, 2021 | 364 comments
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26. | | Small B Blogging (2018) (tomcritchlow.com) |
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90 points by exolymph on May 31, 2021 | 26 comments
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27. | | The faulty digital clock problem (andersource.dev) |
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91 points by andersource on May 31, 2021 | 16 comments
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28. | | Open-source soft-core RISC-V SoC with gdb support (github.com/stnolting) |
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94 points by _quarks_ on May 31, 2021 | 18 comments
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29. | | Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU (incoherency.co.uk) |
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129 points by nickt on May 31, 2021 | 20 comments
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30. | | Dragon Go Server (dragongoserver.net) |
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85 points by Tomte on May 31, 2021 | 32 comments
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