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Top of Month - May 2021

1. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
   (2 May 2021 | 1812 points | Comments)

2. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
   (18 May 2021 | 1661 points | Comments)

3. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
   (28 May 2021 | 1644 points | Comments)

4. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
   (19 May 2021 | 1464 points | Comments)

5. Sublime Text 4
   (21 May 2021 | 1436 points | Comments)

6. Welcome to Libera Chat
   (19 May 2021 | 1425 points | Comments)

7. Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
   (18 May 2021 | 1339 points | Comments)

8. One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
   (23 May 2021 | 1331 points | Comments)

9. The Animal Is Tired
   (9 May 2021 | 1299 points | Comments)

10. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
    (2 May 2021 | 1260 points | Comments)

11. Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
    (15 May 2021 | 1256 points | Comments)

12. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
    (4 May 2021 | 1235 points | Comments)

13. A URL Lengthener
    (14 May 2021 | 1204 points | Comments)

14. Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
    (29 May 2021 | 1189 points | Comments)

15. Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
    (12 May 2021 | 1167 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
    (12 May 2021 | 1102 points | Comments)

17. Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
    (30 May 2021 | 1086 points | Comments)

18. M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
    (26 May 2021 | 1067 points | Comments)

19. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
    (30 May 2021 | 1057 points | Comments)

20. Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
    (23 May 2021 | 1037 points | Comments)

21. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
    (6 May 2021 | 1016 points | Comments)

22. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1
    (30 May 2021 | 1013 points | Comments)

23. Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
    (17 May 2021 | 1008 points | Comments)

24. Stripe Payment Links
    (25 May 2021 | 988 points | Comments)

25. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
    (20 May 2021 | 976 points | Comments)

26. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
    (30 May 2021 | 949 points | Comments)

27. The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
    (18 May 2021 | 925 points | Comments)

28. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
    (1 May 2021 | 922 points | Comments)

29. Crazy New Ideas
    (6 May 2021 | 901 points | Comments)

30. I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
    (8 May 2021 | 888 points | Comments)

31. River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
    (27 May 2021 | 877 points | Comments)

32. YouTube approves ad by Belarusian gov with journalist from hijackd Ryanair plane
    (25 May 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

33. Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
    (26 May 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

34. Overkill objects for everyday life
    (30 May 2021 | 856 points | Comments)

35. Learn CSS
    (21 May 2021 | 842 points | Comments)

36. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
    (4 May 2021 | 840 points | Comments)

37. How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
    (27 May 2021 | 832 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
    (27 May 2021 | 819 points | Comments)

39. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
    (5 May 2021 | 803 points | Comments)

40. Observing my cellphone switch towers
    (16 May 2021 | 800 points | Comments)

41. “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
    (1 May 2021 | 792 points | Comments)

42. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
    (14 May 2021 | 787 points | Comments)

43. Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
    (26 May 2021 | 780 points | Comments)

44. Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
    (21 May 2021 | 772 points | Comments)

45. Why I prefer making useless stuff
    (23 May 2021 | 772 points | Comments)

46. Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
    (2 May 2021 | 769 points | Comments)

47. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
    (23 May 2021 | 766 points | Comments)

48. Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
    (19 May 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

49. Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
    (26 May 2021 | 753 points | Comments)

50. Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
    (25 May 2021 | 741 points | Comments)

51. It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
    (25 May 2021 | 733 points | Comments)

52. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
    (21 May 2021 | 727 points | Comments)

53. Poor in Tech
    (19 May 2021 | 725 points | Comments)

54. Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class
    (3 May 2021 | 722 points | Comments)

55. AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
    (18 May 2021 | 719 points | Comments)

56. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
    (9 May 2021 | 712 points | Comments)

57. Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over privacy concerns
    (11 May 2021 | 709 points | Comments)

58. Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research
    (26 May 2021 | 707 points | Comments)

59. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
    (17 May 2021 | 702 points | Comments)

60. Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator Wyden reveals
    (13 May 2021 | 699 points | Comments)

61. Scala 3.0
    (14 May 2021 | 690 points | Comments)

62. HTML Tips (2020)
    (5 May 2021 | 688 points | Comments)

63. What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
    (13 May 2021 | 684 points | Comments)

64. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
    (8 May 2021 | 683 points | Comments)

65. Can I Email?
    (11 May 2021 | 682 points | Comments)

66. Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
    (29 May 2021 | 681 points | Comments)

67. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
    (20 May 2021 | 679 points | Comments)

68. Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
    (6 May 2021 | 674 points | Comments)

69. Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
    (11 May 2021 | 673 points | Comments)

70. DOOM Captcha
    (24 May 2021 | 670 points | Comments)

71. The Unix Magic Poster
    (3 May 2021 | 666 points | Comments)

72. Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
    (5 May 2021 | 666 points | Comments)

73. Why I Work on Ads
    (6 May 2021 | 657 points | Comments)

74. Upheaval at freenode
    (26 May 2021 | 648 points | Comments)

75. Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
    (4 May 2021 | 645 points | Comments)

76. Dave Herman’s contributions to Rust
    (3 May 2021 | 641 points | Comments)

77. Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
    (26 May 2021 | 639 points | Comments)

78. EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
    (25 May 2021 | 638 points | Comments)

79. White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
    (5 May 2021 | 637 points | Comments)

80. Improving Firefox stability on Linux
    (19 May 2021 | 631 points | Comments)

81. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
    (18 May 2021 | 629 points | Comments)

82. Safari tries to fill username
    (28 May 2021 | 628 points | Comments)

83. Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
    (31 May 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

84. Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
    (26 May 2021 | 622 points | Comments)

85. Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid
    (28 May 2021 | 622 points | Comments)

86. The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
    (9 May 2021 | 619 points | Comments)

87. Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
    (14 May 2021 | 617 points | Comments)

88. Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
    (3 May 2021 | 615 points | Comments)

89. 60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent
    (5 May 2021 | 613 points | Comments)

90. Leaving Freenode for a new network
    (19 May 2021 | 613 points | Comments)

91. US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
    (10 May 2021 | 611 points | Comments)

92. FragAttacks: new security vulnerabilities that affect wi-fi devices
    (11 May 2021 | 609 points | Comments)

93. List of apps people pay for but have low rating
    (1 May 2021 | 607 points | Comments)

94. It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
    (28 May 2021 | 607 points | Comments)

95. Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
    (17 May 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

96. Freenode ops take control of 700 channels
    (26 May 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

97. Practical SQL for Data Analysis
    (3 May 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

98. A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
    (22 May 2021 | 602 points | Comments)

99. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally
    (22 May 2021 | 601 points | Comments)

100. Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak
     (21 May 2021 | 595 points | Comments)