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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor

    149 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  2. Handles are the better pointers (2018)

    149 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  3. The culture war is killing us [video]

    149 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  4. TLS Mastery

    148 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  5. 'World’s most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee

    148 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  6. How to write cold emails to investors

    148 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  7. Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors

    148 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  8. A Guide to Color from 1692

    148 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  9. Banner Ads Considered Harmful

    147 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  10. The Lost Apps of the 80s

    147 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  11. Show HN: Farolero – Common Lisp style-conditions and restarts for Clojure

    147 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  12. The joys of creating Xcode project files

    147 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  13. Software designers, not engineers: An interview from alternative universe

    147 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  14. Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++

    147 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  15. Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3

    147 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  16. Cheers to 10 Years

    146 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  17. Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink

    146 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  18. Sisters with Transistors

    146 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

    146 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  20. Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona

    146 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  21. Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins

    145 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  22. Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

    145 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  23. The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

    145 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  24. HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrategy shares

    145 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  25. Amp: Vi-like terminal editor written in Rust

    145 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  26. How a carnivorous mushroom poisons its prey

    145 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  27. Surprisingly little alcohol can affect heart rate variability

    144 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  28. Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content

    144 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  29. How the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records

    144 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  30. Start a Business from Plastic Waste

    144 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  31. Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?

    144 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  32. A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note

    143 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  33. The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7

    143 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  34. TailwindCSS JIT with arbitrary values

    143 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  35. WebOS OSE 2.10

    143 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  36. Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated

    143 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  37. Prions

    143 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  38. Amulet – a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash

    143 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  39. Git as a NoSql Database (2016)

    142 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  40. Et Tu, Procter and Gamble?

    142 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  41. Pihole-Antitelemetry

    142 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  42. Nbterm: Jupyter Notebooks in the Terminal

    142 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  43. Free Python Books

    142 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  44. Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences

    142 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  45. Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate

    141 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  46. 30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds

    141 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  47. 18yr old professional bowler converts 7-10 split on TV in first time in 30 years

    141 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  48. Quantum astronomy could create telescopes hundreds of kilometers wide

    141 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  49. NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight

    141 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  50. Eu_sst: 20% probability for large satellite collision

    141 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  51. Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  52. Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again

    140 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  53. On the Decline of Perl – external factors

    140 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  54. Vugu: Vue-like frontends in pure Go, HTML, and CSS

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  55. Clever Hack Finds Mystery CPU Instructions

    140 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  56. Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?

    140 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  57. Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal'

    140 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  58. On the bare necessity of psychological safety

    140 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  59. Am I FLoCed?

    140 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  60. Using <details> for menus and dialogs (2019)

    140 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  61. Exploring Databases Visually

    140 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  62. The United States needs to learn how to learn

    140 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  63. Hedy is a gradual programming language that helps kids to learn Python

    139 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  64. Pgvector – vector similarity search for Postgres

    139 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  65. Paternoster Lift

    139 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  66. The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf]

    139 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  67. The Web MiniDisc App (2020)

    139 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  68. A lot of free software is free as in piano

    139 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  69. Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication

    139 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  70. Credit Suisse Loses 4.7B

    139 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  71. JavaScript for Data Science

    139 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  72. Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types

    138 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  73. Geico data breach exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers

    138 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  74. Show HN: RentMyCPU – An open-source computational network

    138 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  75. IPython as a System Shell

    138 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  76. Intel Launches 10nm 'Ice Lake' Datacenter CPU with Up to 40 Cores

    138 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  77. Wat (2012) [video]

    138 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  78. Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)

    138 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  79. Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account

    138 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  80. CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving

    138 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  81. Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

    137 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  82. Don’t use environment variables for configuration

    137 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  83. Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

    137 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  84. A “deepfake” is at the center of a harassment case, but what if it’s not faked?

    137 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  85. KeyDB CEO Interview: Getting into YC with a Fork of Redis

    137 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  86. Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?

    136 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  87. Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small

    136 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  88. Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds

    136 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  89. Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels

    136 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  90. HPy: A better C API for Python?

    136 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  91. What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016)

    136 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  92. Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power

    136 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  93. Ten years of OP-1

    136 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  94. Animation of Electric Machines

    136 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  95. Petition to LG to open source their phones

    135 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  96. Weary of Work

    135 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  97. Sublime Text 4 – Build 4100 has native Apple Silicon support

    135 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  98. Linux Foundation’s demands to the University of Minnesota

    134 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  99. Teaching Machiavelli through his letters

    134 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  100. Why 11 days disappeared in 1752

    134 points • comment • apr 10, 2021