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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. 53% of Canadians on the Brink of Insolvency

    56 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  2. Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%

    56 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  3. Silicon Valley’s Rape Problem

    55 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  4. Using a GPU Boosts Analytics Performance by 10 to 150 Times

    55 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  5. Album-a-Day (2001-2008)

    55 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  6. SpaceX has a green light from the FAA to fly Starship on Friday

    55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  7. Designing sockfuzzer, a network syscall fuzzer for XNU

    55 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  8. Build a giant live scrolling tickertape display

    55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  9. The Humble img Element and Core Web Vitals

    55 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  10. Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs

    55 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  11. By 2012, scientists will have announced a cure for breast cancer (2006)

    55 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  12. Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

    55 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  13. A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life

    55 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  14. Sir Douglas Nicholls

    55 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  15. Opening a malicious link on any device on your LAN can compromise an LG Smart TV

    55 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  16. News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up

    55 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  17. The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect

    55 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  18. India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

    55 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  19. Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web

    55 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  20. Battle of document info extraction services: GCP vs. AWS vs. Azure

    54 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  21. US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling

    54 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  22. Discovering Diverse Athletic Jumping Strategies

    54 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  23. Exfiltrate Files Using the DNS

    54 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  24. Apple Podcasts Subscriptions

    54 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  25. Scientists make further step towards understanding dark energy

    54 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  26. The Net interprets privacy as damage and routes around it

    54 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  27. More sleep or more exercise: the best time trade-offs for children’s health

    54 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  28. History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  29. Nassim Taleb says Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme and a failed currency

    54 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  30. Millions of Groundwater Wells Could Run Dry

    54 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  31. Saving Lebanon’s streets: the engineer with a sustainable fix

    54 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  32. “No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landmark Homelessness Ruling

    54 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  33. Connectors That Changed the World

    54 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  34. Show HN: sheet2dict – simple Python XLSX/CSV reader/to dictionary converter

    54 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  35. NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures

    54 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  36. Oatly: The New Coke

    54 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  37. A smartphone with a fluid lens

    54 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  38. Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android

    54 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  39. Reasons to upgrade from Java 8

    54 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  40. A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  41. Type-safe generic data structures in C

    54 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  42. US West prepares for possible first water shortage declaration

    54 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  43. The Road from Rome

    54 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  44. Renaming Coq

    54 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  45. Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  46. Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon’s dragnet

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  47. Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  48. Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  49. A library of formalised undecidable problems in Coq

    53 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  50. State in Haskell (1995) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  51. SmartFarm device to harvest air moisture for self-sustaining urban farming

    53 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  52. Supreme Court sides with developers in Google vs. Oracle

    53 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  53. The Expansion of the Universe

    53 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  54. Game Engine Black Books Update

    53 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  55. The Leitmotifs of Wagner's Ring

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  56. What Kind of Genius Makes a Traceable, Illicit Payment on Cash App?

    53 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  57. Morpheus Turns a CPU into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  58. Apple’s Quiet War on Independent Repairmen

    53 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  59. What are the chances of a third world war? [pdf]

    52 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  60. Nuclear fusion plan at former Aberthaw Power Station

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  61. Gandi.net Major Outage

    52 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  62. How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  63. The Slackware Way (2012)

    52 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  64. U.S. calls for pause on Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine

    52 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  65. Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (1977)

    52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  66. New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  67. Feasibility of stealthily introducing vulnerabilities in open source software [pdf]

    52 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  68. Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

    52 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  69. European Union allowing the use of deepfakes

    52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  70. Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines

    52 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  71. What Doomed a Sprawling City Near St. Louis 1k Years Ago?

    52 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  72. A Guide To Becoming a Reader (and reading 30 books in a year)

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  73. The Mythology of Red Bull

    52 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  74. Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison?

    52 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  75. RetroBridgeBBS: An internet bridge BBS to transfer files to your retro computers

    52 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  76. Cloudflare Images

    52 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  77. Milman Parry, who changed the way scholars think about Homer

    52 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  78. Put macOS on the iPad, You Cowards

    52 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  79. Comparative unsafety

    51 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  80. Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't

    51 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  81. Coding Qualitative Data

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  82. Cicoparser: Full game reverse engineering [video]

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  83. Microsoft revokes MVP status of dev who complained about request to promote

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  84. An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online

    51 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  85. Samsung's Lee family to pay over $10.8B inheritence tax

    51 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  86. Rediscovering Hamming Code

    51 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  87. Researchers estimate the richest 1% dodge taxes on over a fifth of their income

    51 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  88. Dating Sites Are Not Built for Men

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  89. When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding rather than subtracting

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  90. NASA Found Another Way Into Nuclear Fusion (2020)

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  91. Several US utilities back out of deal to build novel nuclear power plant (2020)

    51 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  92. The bacterial 'homing missiles' that scientists want to harness

    51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  93. Chronology of the Liberation

    51 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  94. Kubernetes 1.21 Is Live

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  95. Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine

    51 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  96. Shit User Story

    51 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  97. Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  98. FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks

    50 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  99. Systemd Inhibitor Locks Deep Dive

    50 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  100. Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communication

    50 points • comment • apr 24, 2021