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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Get Started With Freelancing: A Beginners Guide for Software Developers

    24 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  2. Mars helicopter flight scheduled for Monday 6:15 AM ET

    24 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  3. How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres? (2019)

    24 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  4. China’s digital yuan displaces the dollar

    23 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  5. Recording of the week: An interview with Ravi Shankar

    23 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  6. I Am Sophie Zhang, Whistleblower at FB. AMA

    23 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  7. Urwid - Console user interface library for Python

    23 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  8. UK government considers space-based solar power for 24/7 Solar Generation

    23 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  9. Snorkel AI scores $35M Series B to automate data labeling in machine learning

    23 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  10. As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time

    23 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  11. OpenGL Back End for MXNet/TVM

    23 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  12. Firefox changing its tab design

    23 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  13. Nadine Strossen and Hannah Wolfman-Jones Rebut Accusations Against Stallman

    23 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  14. Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?

    23 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  15. Steve Klabnik: “I am at a breaking point and so here it is.”

    23 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  16. How large is Rupert Murdoch's reach through News Corp in Australian media

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  17. Sims 2 Dev Thread

    23 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  18. Show HN: Social media where you get paid for being helpful

    23 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  19. CEO of $2B Startup Ousted for Taking LSD at Work

    23 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  20. Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes

    23 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  21. Writing Makefiles for Python Projects

    23 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  22. World's largest beaver dam shows up on satellite images

    23 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  23. What should we agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  24. Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Mac

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  25. Jack Dorsey claims Bitcoin incentivizes renewable energy

    23 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  26. Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Challenges NASA over SpaceX Moon Lander Deal

    23 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  27. Adobe Charges an Early Cancellation Fee

    23 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  28. Tether (USDT) is launching on Coinbase Pro

    23 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  29. US regulators warn Peloton users to stop using treadmill after child death

    23 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  30. It’s official: Vaccinated people don’t transmit Covid-19

    23 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  31. Most Innovation Never Happens

    23 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  32. Patreon: Some Tough News to Share

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  33. Big money bought the forests. Small timber communities are paying the price

    23 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  34. Spain is forcing phone makers to give you an extra year of warranty

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  35. MSFT is building a new app store for Windows 10 in major revitalization effort

    23 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  36. Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the nation’s biggest investment fraud, dies at 82

    23 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  37. Internal Combustion Engine

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  38. Make an Interactive Sculpture with Twilio Autopilot and Airtable

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  39. Help users log in across affiliated sites on Chrome

    23 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  40. Statement from UMN CS&E on Linux Kernel Research

    23 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  41. Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture

    23 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  42. Supreme Court wary of giving schools broad authority over off-campus speech

    23 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  43. Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate

    23 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  44. Texas Enabled the Worst Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Recent U.S. History

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  45. Out of a heap of broken images, Chernobyl seeks World Heritage status

    23 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  46. Minty-Fresh: Using a Menthol-Like Compound to Activate Plant Immune Mechanisms

    23 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  47. Show HN: Find your next job board job with jobboardjobboard.com

    23 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  48. LibreDNS – public encrypted DoT, DoH, Adblock anti censorship services

    23 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  49. Bitcoin hits new all-time high above $63,000 ahead of Coinbase debut

    22 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  50. A Distinctly American Problem, Police Killings, Needs Systematic Investigation

    22 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  51. Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, but Not White Supremacists

    22 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  52. A Dementia-Like Illness Has Sickened over 40 People in Canada

    22 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  53. In Response to “Euler's FizzBuzz”

    22 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  54. Elixir Is Safe

    22 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  55. India protests US Navy ship’s transit through its waters without consent

    22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  56. Is an Activist’s Pricey House News? Facebook Alone Decides

    22 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  57. Do you need a 12MP photo of a goat?

    22 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  58. Ubuntu 21.04 Is Here

    22 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  59. Q Accidentally Outed Himself, but QAnon Followers Don’t Care

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  60. The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan Stalin Did (2013)

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  61. Federal government considering ID verification for social media accounts

    22 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  62. WeWork will accept crypto as payment, hold digital currency on its balance sheet

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  63. Java early stage draft: Functional transformation of immutable objects

    22 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  64. The Acrobatic Grace of Cary Grant

    22 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  65. Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants

    22 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  66. Peter Singer Is Committed to Controversial Ideas

    22 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  67. We made our music visualizer 73% faster by compiling to WASM in the browser

    22 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  68. How Not to Run a Vulnerability Disclosure Program

    22 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  69. I Don’t Want Xcode on the iPad

    22 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  70. Microsoft releases a cyberattack simulator – Shall we play a game?

    22 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  71. Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral (2017)

    22 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  72. Hardware Failure on EC2

    22 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  73. The reason some London Tube stations have extra doors – human hair

    22 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  74. YouTube CEO Wins ‘Free Expression Award’ Sponsored by YouTube

    22 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  75. Astronomical Algorithms (1999)

    22 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  76. Playing the Open Source Game

    22 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  77. Bcachefs

    22 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  78. Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  79. EU to charge Apple with anticompetitive behavior this week

    22 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  80. Design Practices for Human Scale Online Games (2018)

    22 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  81. TIL you can make a C++ object smaller by adding a field

    22 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  82. The European System of Monopoly

    22 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  83. Fedora Linux 34

    22 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  84. Intel Videos Explain the Basics of Modern CPU Architectures Sans Marketing Fluff

    22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  85. MasterCard Rewrites Rules for Banks Backing Pornography Sellers

    22 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  86. Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate

    22 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  87. Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

    22 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  88. Please stop sharing lines of code on medium.com

    22 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  89. xkcd #2456: Types of Scientific Paper

    22 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  90. BitClout is a scam, change my mind

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  91. Overlay Fact Sheet

    22 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  92. UK reports 25 fresh cases of thrombosis associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine

    22 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  93. Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic

    22 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  94. Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

    22 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  95. Show HN: Netty-rs – Rust library to easily write server/client network protocols

    22 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  96. Tanenbaum: “I thought making systems reliable would be important”

    22 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  97. Take sheep across Southwark Bridge

    22 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  98. ‘The crate escape’: Irishmen who helped mail friend home from Australia sought

    22 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  99. Ask HN: Moving to US from Argentina for college. Any advice for a newcomer?

    22 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  100. The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s La Vie électrique (1890)

    22 points • comment • apr 26, 2021