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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. 800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices

    111 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  2. Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'

    111 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  3. What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols

    111 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  4. Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive

    111 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  5. Ask HN: How to Speak Confidently?

    111 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  6. Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns

    111 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  7. IndieWeb: A people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”

    110 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  8. Go HTTPS Servers with TLS

    110 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  9. Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties

    110 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  10. Conversations at Home ‘Stirring Up Hatred’ Now a Criminal Offence in Scotland

    110 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  11. Running code within another process's address space

    110 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  12. Why Specifications Don't Compose

    110 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  13. Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

    110 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  14. Tree.h in OpenBSD: dependency-free intrusive binary tree (2002)

    110 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  15. SixtyFPS v0.0.6 GUI Toolkit: Now with IDE Support

    109 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  16. The Human Eye Webcam [video]

    109 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  17. Show HN: Litmaps – Visual Research Discovery Tool

    109 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  18. The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box

    108 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  19. Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69

    108 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  20. Flight incident: Passengers titled ‘Miss’ counted as children [pdf]

    108 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  21. On Being an Outsider

    108 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  22. Linux kernel incorrect computation of branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler

    108 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  23. Atomic structure of a glass imaged at last

    108 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  24. The Tarnished Moon

    108 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  25. Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?

    108 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  26. Summary of C/C++ integer rules

    108 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  27. A Universal I/O Abstraction for C++ (2020)

    108 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  28. Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)

    107 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  29. Azimuth unlocked iPhone at center of legal battle between the FBI and Apple

    107 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  30. Which type of exercise is best for the brain? (2016)

    107 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  31. A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests

    107 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  32. Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

    107 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  33. The Origins of the Wirecard Scandal

    107 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  34. Writing Your First Kernel Module (2019)

    107 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  35. Heating Water with Fire (2019)

    107 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  36. PSD is not my favourite file format

    107 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  37. B. Traven

    107 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  38. Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%

    107 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  39. AI Dungeon will block certain words, review content flagged as inappropriate

    107 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  40. Show HN: Easy cloud instance comparison (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Alibaba and more)

    107 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  41. Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf]

    106 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  42. Mars helicopter “Ingenuity” has been dropped to the surface

    106 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  43. Why you should NOT use NativeScript

    106 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  44. New Horizons now 50AUs from the sun, shoots starfield containing Voyager 1

    106 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  45. Facebook advertisers target children interested in smoking, alcohol, weight loss

    106 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  46. Write Your First Quantum Program (Common Lisp)

    106 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  47. I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD

    106 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  48. Private Home Directories for Ubuntu 21.04

    106 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  49. Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  50. Show HN: hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions

    106 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  51. New GitHub themes for VS Code

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  52. 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature

    106 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  53. IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”

    106 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  54. A Brief F# Exploration

    105 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  55. Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files

    105 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  56. And the winner is…who cares?

    105 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  57. A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech

    105 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  58. Windows 10 taskbar is now pushing Microsoft Edge web apps

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  59. On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018)

    105 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  60. The Edges of Our Universe

    105 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  61. Silicon Valley Is Flooding into a Reluctant Austin

    105 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  62. Epic Games certificate expiration incident report

    105 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  63. Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale

    105 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  64. New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  65. Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  66. The Lone Coder

    104 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  67. Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  68. Cognicull: Knowledge base for mathematics, natural science and engineering

    104 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  69. The End of the Road

    104 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  70. Big Book of Amiga Hardware

    104 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  71. Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0

    104 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  72. FDA approves new ADHD drug for children

    104 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  73. Show HN: Remove background from image using machine learning

    104 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  74. Print Debugging Should Go Away

    103 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  75. Rust is for Professionals

    103 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  76. Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time

    103 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  77. The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

    103 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  78. Show HN: An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog

    103 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  79. DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

    103 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  80. Evaluating Search Algorithms

    103 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  81. Inside The MTA’s Money Room

    103 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  82. You can now turn on Nvidia's excellent noise cancellation with any GeForce GPU

    102 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  83. Avoiding Leetcode Anxiety

    102 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  84. Show HN: Human Lambdas – Create Human in the Loop queues and outsource them

    102 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  85. Washington state approves capital gains tax

    102 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  86. Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

    102 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  87. Things I was asked to do while job hunting

    102 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  88. The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s (2020)

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  89. I won’t review or write for Elsevier and other commercial scientific journals

    102 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  90. A Primer Through Golem

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  91. Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup

    102 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  92. Ultiboberon – Oberon on bare metal Raspberry Pi

    101 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  93. RFC8962: Establishing the Protocol Police

    101 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  94. Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators

    101 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  95. Show HN: Databunker – a GDPR compliant, secure storage for personal data (PII)

    101 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  96. Zorin OS 16

    101 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  97. Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets (2016)

    101 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  98. Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful

    101 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  99. LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down

    101 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  100. “My Octopus Teacher” defied convention

    101 points • comment • apr 15, 2021