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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat

    38 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  2. Perlis' Epigrams (1982)

    38 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  3. Michael Collins on Space Exploration (2019)

    38 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  4. Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2

    38 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  5. Prenatal phthalate exposure linked to altered information processing in infants

    38 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  6. The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers

    38 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  7. Making a Concave Mirror Using 15th Century Technology (2018)

    38 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  8. Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities

    38 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  9. Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

    38 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  10. Millions Are Tumbling Out of the Global Middle Class in Historic Setback

    38 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  11. Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases

    38 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  12. Ask HN: What is the secret to getting a product owner job as an engineer?

    38 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  13. A Tetris clone for refreshable Braille displays

    38 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  14. AMD Ryzen Processor Software Optimization [video]

    38 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  15. Yes, your boss can read your Gmail drafts

    38 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  16. Turkish police get their own attack helicopters

    38 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  17. Europe’s Super League scores an own goal

    38 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  18. Using asynchronous web APIs from WebAssembly

    38 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  19. The US Plans to Finally Standardize the Length of a Single Foot

    38 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  20. Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos

    38 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  21. FreeBSD 13 Released

    37 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  22. FDA slams “Real Water” linked to liver failure; water plant manager MIA

    37 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  23. Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?

    37 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  24. EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls

    37 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  25. Software and Copyright: It’s Complicated

    37 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  26. Poul-Hennings Random Outbursts

    37 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  27. Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans (2013) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  28. We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements

    37 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  29. Show HN: Lip Gloss is a CSS-like layout library for the terminal for Go

    37 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  30. YouTube took down Lex Fridman episode 127 with Joe Rogan

    37 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  31. Mastering Ownership in Rust

    37 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  32. Growing the Bytecode Alliance

    37 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  33. Facebook Is Not Necessary

    37 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  34. Do you want to use Functional Programming on 96KB RAMs device?

    37 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  35. Gʀᴀᴘʜɪᴄs Cᴏᴅᴇx -free online computer graphics rendering and ray tracing textbook

    37 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  36. 35% of Bitcoin mining is powered by one coal mine in China

    37 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  37. Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

    37 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  38. How to stop writing like you’re in college

    37 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  39. Supreme Court Asked to Compel Airing of Secret Intelligence Court’s Decisions

    37 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  40. Scientists pinpoint source of “impossible” EmDrive's thrust

    37 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  41. Intel seeks $10B in subsidies for European chip plant

    37 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  42. A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals

    37 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  43. Is Werewolf Killing the Conference Hackfest? (2007)

    37 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  44. My Famicase Exhibition 2021

    37 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  45. Ask HN: How Do You Optimize Your Intake of Information?

    37 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  46. LinkedIn removed a post criticising Indian Government's COVID handling

    37 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  47. The effects of solar flares on Earth's magnetosphere

    37 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  48. Branch Specialization

    37 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  49. Linear Algebra for Everyone

    37 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  50. Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (1999) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  51. Covid-19 vanishing in Israel as vaccinations kick-in

    36 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  52. Mac mini is now configurable with 10 Gigabit Ethernet

    36 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  53. Fitted Filtration Efficiency of Double Masking During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    36 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  54. Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at a time?

    36 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  55. Make Is Crap

    36 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career?

    36 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  57. Why Julia Is Turning Heads in 2021

    36 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  58. Spectrum Workers on Strike Build Their Own ISP

    36 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  59. Mohammed removed from new Dutch translation of Dante's Inferno (French)

    36 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  60. No Bank Account No Problem: The $100B+ Unbanked Market

    36 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  61. Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Scaling PostgreSQL

    36 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  62. Lambda School can't catch a break from upset students

    36 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  63. Immigration Policies an Ongoing Concern to AI Researchers

    36 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  64. US, Europe 'unrealistic' in fab expansion drive, says TSMC chair

    36 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  65. Convenience Is Destroying Us

    36 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  66. The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex

    36 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  67. Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation

    36 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  68. Simhashing (Hopefully) Made Simple (2012)

    36 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  69. Sat Nav CD (1986) [video]

    36 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  70. Confessions of an Overnight Millionaire

    36 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  71. PlutoCon 2021

    36 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  72. Without these lipid shells, there would be no mRNA vaccines for Covid-19

    36 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  73. The idea that everything is conscious is gaining academic credibility (2018)

    35 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  74. Leaked Video Shows Unidentified Objects Swarming Navy Warship

    35 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  75. Show HN: Engauge – Self-hosted, Single-binary Analytics

    35 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  76. RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel

    35 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  77. The Wright brothers: The O.G. startup founders?

    35 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  78. I wrote the world's worst text editor (2020)

    35 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  79. European court of human rights rules obligatory vaccination may be necessary

    35 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  80. Show HN: I built a tool to remove unwanted elements from photos

    35 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  81. An Indian technology reporter on how he witnessed the decline of democracy

    35 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  82. Your Product Sucks: Apple Music on macOS Review

    35 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  83. Buying an MP3 Player in 2018

    35 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  84. Chernobyl radiation effects have not been passed on to next generation

    35 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  85. How to Start a New Country

    35 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  86. Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list

    35 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  87. Apple reportedly expanding iMessage to compete with Facebook

    35 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  88. Nestlé threatened with cease-and-desist over alleged illegal water use

    35 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  89. TheOldNet Browser Proxy

    35 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  90. Capitol Records Building Morse Code (2018)

    35 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  91. Decline in Female Orgasms

    35 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  92. Learn Vim Progressively

    35 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  93. Prefix Trees in Action

    35 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  94. Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?

    35 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  95. Social Facilitation

    35 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  96. 98.css

    35 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  97. European Super League collapsing as all six English clubs withdraw

    34 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  98. The true cost of Britain’s addiction to factory-farmed chicken

    34 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  99. Star Trek and Design

    34 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  100. Ask HN: Best book for software engineers (besides the well-known ones)?

    34 points • comment • apr 16, 2021