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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers

    134 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  2. Links are not buttons (2013)

    134 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  3. Developers on what makes their games ‘hand-drawn’

    134 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  4. Teaching Machiavelli through his letters

    134 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  5. First C compiler ported to GCC

    134 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  6. Jurigged – Hot code reloading for Python

    134 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  7. SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme

    133 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  8. Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]

    133 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  9. The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

    133 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  10. We scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis

    133 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  11. A Ceph war story

    133 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  12. The Culture of Whales

    132 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  13. Update on Git.php.net Incident

    132 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  14. The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats

    132 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  15. Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML

    132 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  16. A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations

    132 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  17. EU Commission to end AstraZeneca and J&J vaccine contracts at expiry

    132 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  18. Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?

    132 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  19. A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1

    132 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  20. My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers

    132 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  21. Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

    131 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  22. Proofs, Computability, Undecidability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus [pdf]

    131 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  23. Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals

    131 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  24. 1983: Suspended

    131 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  25. Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]

    131 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  26. Muon G-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles

    131 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  27. FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision

    131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  28. The Crow Whisperer: What happens when we talk to animals?

    131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  29. How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)

    131 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  30. Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive

    131 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  31. US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer

    130 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  32. Nano 5.7

    130 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  33. Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (2015)

    130 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  34. Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019)

    130 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  35. Against Alcohol

    130 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  36. Traversing nested data-structures in various languages

    130 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  37. Evolution of Random Number Generators

    129 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  38. Why the United States has the best research universities

    129 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  39. Common interface for Linux NIC statistics

    129 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  40. The art of taking down patent trolls

    129 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  41. IBM COBOL for Linux on x86

    129 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  42. Interfaces and Protocols in Python

    129 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  43. The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation

    129 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  44. Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study

    129 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  45. Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery

    129 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  46. Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals

    129 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  47. A second Bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies

    129 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  48. Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]

    128 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  49. Why American construction costs are so high (2019)

    128 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  50. Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?

    128 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  51. Scalability, but at What Cost [pdf]

    128 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  52. Orbital Mechanics – How do rockets get to where they're headed?

    128 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  53. Gisgraphy – open-source geocoder based on open data

    128 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  54. The Economist's Style Guide [pdf]

    128 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  55. How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me

    128 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  56. The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science

    128 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  57. The ransomware surge

    128 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  58. SolarBatteryBitcoin

    128 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  59. Curl those funny IPv4 addresses

    128 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  60. Visual Studio 2022

    127 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  61. API versioning has no “right way” (2017)

    127 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  62. On UML

    127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  63. 50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power

    127 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  64. Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation

    127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  65. The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)

    127 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  66. Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident

    127 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  67. A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)

    127 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  68. Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code

    126 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  69. Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe

    126 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  70. The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware

    126 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  71. lscpu + neofetch = cpufetch

    126 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  72. Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way

    126 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  73. Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

    126 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  74. Apple 2001

    126 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  75. Goblins: A transactional, distributed actor model environment

    126 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  76. Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the internet

    125 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  77. My Son, the Organ Donor

    125 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  78. Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

    125 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  79. The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]

    125 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  80. Someone in the Kalahari Collected Crystals 105,000 Years Ago

    125 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  81. Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc

    124 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  82. SIMD for C++ Developers [pdf]

    124 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  83. Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

    124 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  84. What’s the origin of the phrase “big data doesn’t fit in excel”?

    124 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  85. Figma: Changes to free plan after April 21, 2021

    124 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  86. Ghidra Analyzer for UEFI Firmware

    124 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  87. The Discipline of DE (1978) [video]

    124 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  88. NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)

    124 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  89. IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1

    124 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  90. Phoebus Cartel

    124 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  91. Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired

    124 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  92. Test for lists in Cython

    124 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  93. Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders

    123 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  94. SEC Director of Enforcement resigns after a few days on the job

    123 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  95. Dflat: SQLite FlatBuffers

    123 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  96. Starlink Ground Station Map

    123 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  97. China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline

    123 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  98. 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)

    123 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  99. A record label bringing Iranian music to the world

    123 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  100. Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak

    123 points • comment • apr 16, 2021