woid

top stories

Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

    4097 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  2. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

    3009 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  3. Internal Combustion Engine

    2311 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  4. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

    1869 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  5. Just Be Rich

    1802 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  6. Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research

    1790 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  7. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

    1670 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  8. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    1544 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  9. Microsoft Coffee

    1540 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  10. Why Lichess will always be free

    1514 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  11. Dan Kaminsky has died

    1359 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  12. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

    1318 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  13. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    1312 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  14. 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

    1276 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  15. Yayagram

    1254 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  16. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

    1247 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  17. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

    1201 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  18. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

    1199 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  19. My Current HTML Boilerplate

    1181 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  20. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    1178 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  21. Google have declared Droidscript is malware

    1174 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  22. I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

    1164 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  23. Embrace the Grind

    1154 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  24. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    1101 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  25. Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

    1030 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  26. Screw it, I’ll host it myself

    1012 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  27. Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong

    982 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  28. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    968 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  29. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

    938 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  30. Apple Introduces AirTag

    930 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  31. Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

    921 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  32. Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

    909 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  33. EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd

    906 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  34. Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)

    874 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  35. Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k

    842 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  36. Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19

    805 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  37. Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

    792 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  38. Et Tu, Signal?

    786 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  39. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

    783 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  40. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

    780 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  41. Changes at Basecamp

    773 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  42. The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered

    760 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  43. Show HN: PDFs from HTML

    737 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  44. How People Get Rich Now

    734 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  45. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

    727 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  46. Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

    718 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  47. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    709 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  48. Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic

    708 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  49. Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds

    701 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  50. This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem

    700 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  51. OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

    698 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  52. Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

    694 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  53. It's your device, you should be able to repair it

    694 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  54. Use console.log() like a pro (2020)

    686 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  55. Docker without Docker

    681 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  56. Monkey MindPong

    670 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  57. The health benefits of better air

    669 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  58. EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

    667 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  59. Deno 1.9

    663 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  60. Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos

    661 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  61. Get better at Googling

    661 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  62. Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree

    655 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  63. Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B

    655 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  64. The “Granny Knot”

    653 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  65. Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

    653 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  66. Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke

    652 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  67. IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address

    651 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  68. The Norway Problem

    649 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  69. New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials

    645 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  70. Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers

    643 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  71. Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades

    642 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  72. Has UML died without anyone noticing?

    635 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  73. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    632 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  74. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

    632 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  75. Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

    631 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  76. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

    627 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  77. I hope work from home continues

    619 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  78. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

    617 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  79. Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel

    607 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  80. Writing tools I learned from The Economist

    607 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  81. Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity

    607 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  82. Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams

    596 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  83. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

    592 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  84. We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis

    586 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  85. The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years

    576 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  86. Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C

    576 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  87. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube

    575 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  88. Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

    575 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  89. Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out

    574 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  90. Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir

    573 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  91. Programming is hard

    571 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  92. 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

    569 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  93. Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network

    568 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  94. Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

    568 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  95. Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

    567 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  96. Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

    562 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  97. My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

    562 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  98. The Real Book

    562 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  99. Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

    561 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  100. How Doctors Die (2013)

    560 points • comment • apr 03, 2021