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Hacker News (19 Apr 2021)

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

    783 points • 409 comments • apr 19, 2021

  2. The “Granny Knot”

    653 points • 243 comments • apr 19, 2021

  3. First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

    536 points • 114 comments • apr 19, 2021

  4. Unsettling capital letters

    515 points • 134 comments • apr 19, 2021

  5. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III

    507 points • 117 comments • apr 19, 2021

  6. Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work

    478 points • 399 comments • apr 19, 2021

  7. Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]

    442 points • 209 comments • apr 19, 2021

  8. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    439 points • 187 comments • apr 19, 2021

  9. Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

    403 points • 195 comments • apr 19, 2021

  10. Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

    390 points • 209 comments • apr 19, 2021