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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

    556 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  2. std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs

    555 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  3. Surprisingly Slow

    551 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  4. The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned

    550 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  5. A top-grossing scam on the App Store

    550 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  6. An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

    546 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  7. Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama

    544 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  8. Labor shortage or terrible jobs?

    543 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  9. Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

    542 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  10. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

    537 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

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

    536 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  12. I can only think that modern front end development has failed

    535 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  13. Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

    533 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  14. Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

    531 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  15. Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

    531 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  16. HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach

    530 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  17. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

    530 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  18. Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale

    529 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  19. Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data

    529 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  20. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

    523 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  21. DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome

    522 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  22. Zoom zero-day discovery

    520 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  23. SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases

    519 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  24. Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

    518 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  25. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

    516 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  26. Unsettling capital letters

    515 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  27. CSS Tips

    514 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  28. Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III

    507 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  29. Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t

    503 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  30. Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

    501 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  31. “Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”

    498 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  32. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

    498 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  33. QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta

    498 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  34. A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap

    498 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  35. System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

    493 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  36. Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home

    489 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  37. Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]

    487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  38. Light Pollution Map

    487 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  39. History of Techno

    486 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  40. The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

    486 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  41. An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel

    481 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

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

    478 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  43. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

    477 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  44. All C++20 core language features with examples

    476 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  45. Best practices for remote software engineering

    476 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  46. Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users

    475 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  47. Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript

    472 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  48. The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019)

    471 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  49. Eliminating Data Races in Firefox

    467 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  50. WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

    466 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  51. Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

    463 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  52. RMS addresses the free software community

    461 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  53. An Update on the UMN Affair

    458 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  54. Prince Philip has died

    457 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  55. The Ponzi Career

    456 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  56. Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs

    455 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  57. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

    454 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  58. Wuffs’ PNG image decoder

    453 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  59. US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

    452 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  60. Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

    450 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  61. Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

    449 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  62. Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

    449 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  63. School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

    447 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  64. My apartment was built on toxic waste

    445 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  65. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

    445 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  66. Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices

    443 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  67. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

    442 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

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

    442 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  69. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    439 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  70. Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail

    439 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  71. FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease

    436 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  72. U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees

    436 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  73. RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection

    431 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  74. Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]

    431 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  75. CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU

    424 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  76. Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)

    424 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  77. Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

    424 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  78. Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest

    423 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  79. Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

    421 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  80. U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

    420 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  81. Green vs. Brown Programming Languages

    420 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  82. Godot 3.3

    419 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  83. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

    419 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  84. Idempotence now prevents pain later

    419 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  85. 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work

    418 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  86. Show HN: My personal website is a shell

    415 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  87. Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard

    414 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  88. What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?

    414 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  89. FTP is 50 years old

    412 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  90. Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript

    411 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  91. Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public

    410 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  92. Ubuntu 21.04

    410 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  93. Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer

    410 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  94. QEMU 6.0

    409 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  95. New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses

    408 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  96. Best practices for writing SQL queries

    407 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  97. Cycles X

    406 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  98. Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

    405 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  99. Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died

    405 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  100. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

    405 points • comment • apr 01, 2021