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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019)

    83 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  2. The Buddhist history of moveable type before Gutenberg (2016)

    83 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  3. Deep learning model compression methods

    83 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  4. Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)

    83 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  5. Btrfs on Zoned Block Devices

    83 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  6. Perfectly Ordinary Stones, Carried for 1,300 Years (2014)

    83 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  7. Robinhood Files S-1

    83 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  8. Obsolete German Units of Measurement

    83 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  9. Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy

    83 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  10. Ink Traps and Pals

    83 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  11. How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)

    83 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  12. Non-profit legal entity for Mastodon being registered in Germany

    82 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  13. OpenSSH 8.6 Released

    82 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  14. Texas Senate passes bill aiming to counter federal subsidies for wind and solar

    82 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  15. Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  16. Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)

    82 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  17. Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman

    82 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  18. Let's Get Right to Repair Passed – Louis Rossmann

    82 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  19. Auth0 Down

    82 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  20. NFT Canon

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  21. Deprecated Grandparents of America

    82 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  22. The myth of excess vacant housing distracts from solutions

    82 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  23. A Hitchhiker's Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine (2018)

    82 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  24. Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

    81 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  25. Segcache: A memory-efficient and scalable key-value cache for small objects [pdf]

    81 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  26. European Urbanism and High-Speed Rail

    81 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  27. In Thailand, traditional cannabis cuisine is back on the menu

    81 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  28. The Browser – WorldWideWeb Next Application (2019)

    81 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  29. Princeton admits record-low 3.98% of applicants

    81 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  30. 2I/Borisov, the First Interstellar Comet to Have Visited Our Solar System

    81 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  31. TorBox v.0.4.0

    81 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  32. What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards?

    81 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  33. Early Lisp Part II

    81 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  34. Surround Sound in Headphones

    80 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  35. First-Class I/O

    80 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  36. StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery

    80 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  37. Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial

    80 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  38. iMac 24-inch

    80 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  39. Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/Month

    80 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  40. Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?

    80 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  41. ‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship

    80 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  42. Serbian freelancers protest new taxation law that threatens push into poverty

    80 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  43. Viewpoints Research Institute concluded its operations at the beginning of 2018

    80 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  44. Black Girls Code

    80 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  45. Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019

    80 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  46. Tech Tent: Bye-bye Silicon Valley, hello global workforce?

    80 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  47. A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  48. Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?

    79 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  49. USV Dumps 100% of Coinbase Stock

    79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  50. Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf]

    79 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  51. Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside Lua

    79 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  52. PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

    79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  53. Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge

    79 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  54. For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study

    79 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  55. The Pedal Movie

    79 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  56. It's Cold on Mars

    79 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  57. Two Years of Squash Merge (2019)

    79 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  58. FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio player (2018)

    79 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  59. Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure

    79 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  60. Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)

    78 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  61. Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date

    78 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  62. Medical Student banished from UVA campus for questioning Microaggressions

    78 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  63. Protocol – An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols

    78 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  64. Web developer's guide to AVIF images

    78 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  65. Metis and Bodybuilders

    78 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  66. Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'Asian' as adult content

    78 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  67. Simone Weil and the Need for Roots

    78 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  68. Am I Doctor Stallman?

    78 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  69. Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II

    78 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  70. How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019)

    78 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  71. Having fun with CP/M on a Z80 single-board computer

    78 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  72. US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults

    77 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  73. Facebook axes 16,000 groups for trading fake reviews after UK intervenes

    77 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  74. Can continuation passing style code perform well?

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  75. Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files

    77 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  76. From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile

    77 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  77. Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity

    77 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  78. Are Hackers the New Luddites?

    77 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  79. Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three

    77 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  80. Patent Troll Needs to Learn a Lesson: Cloudflare Wants to Destroy Another Troll

    77 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  81. Dvorak vs Colemak (2010-2020)

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  82. Snowden Dunks on 'The Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing Conference

    77 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  83. Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding

    77 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  84. Decompiling FlatBuffers case study: Facebook's GraphQL schema (2020)

    77 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  85. Alphabet First Quarter 2021 Results

    77 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  86. Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVb: Cloth Money

    77 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  87. The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  88. The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)

    77 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  89. Exercise may help slow cognitive decline in some people with Parkinson’s disease

    76 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  90. Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory

    76 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  91. Murex shell now supports mixing SQL and shell pipelines

    76 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  92. Drones Light Up Shanghai’s Sky with a QR Code

    76 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  93. Moving Forth (1993)

    76 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  94. Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery

    76 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  95. GitHub Collection: Made in India

    76 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  96. The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

    76 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  97. Joyce Project

    76 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  98. Police Data Accessibility Project

    76 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  99. College as a Marriage Market

    76 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  100. Write tasks not user stories – Linear Method

    76 points • comment • apr 14, 2021