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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations

    404 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  2. Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

    403 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  3. Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]

    402 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  4. Semgrep: Semantic grep for code

    402 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  5. A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

    401 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  6. Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?

    401 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  7. New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity

    399 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  8. Technologies I thought my son would never use

    398 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  9. Pass: The standard Unix password manager

    398 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  10. Lego Microscope

    398 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  11. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    397 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  12. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    396 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  13. Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

    396 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  14. Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released

    396 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  15. Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant

    396 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  16. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

    394 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  17. Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?

    392 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  18. Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

    390 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?

    390 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  20. Why has no one made a better Goodreads

    390 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  21. Django 3.2

    390 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  22. My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission

    388 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  23. Setting up Starlink

    388 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  24. You Don't Need a GUI

    387 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  25. How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection

    386 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  26. A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

    385 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  27. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system

    385 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  28. Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails

    384 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  29. How to make a Python package in 2021

    384 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  30. Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief for the Law

    381 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  31. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better wine performance

    381 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  32. Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository

    381 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  33. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

    379 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  34. Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

    379 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  35. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

    377 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  36. Have I Been Facebooked?

    377 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  37. Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site

    376 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  38. Move Slow and Make Things

    376 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  39. Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices

    376 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  40. Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server

    375 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  41. TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022

    375 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  42. Anxiety is in your body, not your mind

    373 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  43. Is It Pokemon or Big Data?

    373 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  44. Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure

    372 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  45. Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

    371 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  46. Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving

    371 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  47. Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second flight

    369 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  48. Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken

    369 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  49. 1Password Secrets Automation

    368 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  50. Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)

    364 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  51. Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’

    362 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  52. Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2015)

    361 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  53. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

    360 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  54. Brave disables Chromium FLoC features

    359 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  55. Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage

    358 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  56. Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas

    358 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  57. Rust Language Cheat Sheet

    357 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  58. Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division

    356 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  59. Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic (2020)

    355 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  60. Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)

    354 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  61. Security Breach at US Universities

    354 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  62. Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]

    354 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  63. Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners

    353 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  64. Squarespace S1

    352 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  65. AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea

    352 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  66. FFmpeg 4.4

    350 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  67. The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC

    349 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  68. DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected

    349 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  69. GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds

    348 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  70. iPad Pro M1

    348 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  71. New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different

    348 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  72. Surface Laptop 4

    347 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  73. Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript

    347 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  74. Java Is Underhyped

    347 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  75. Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader

    347 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  76. I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

    346 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  77. macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass

    346 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  78. Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative

    346 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  79. CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified

    345 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  80. Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range

    344 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  81. MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project

    343 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  82. .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

    342 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  83. Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

    339 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  84. Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020

    338 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  85. Why we switched from Webpack to Vite

    337 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  86. Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

    337 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  87. Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?

    336 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  88. How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real?

    335 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  89. Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"

    335 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  90. Every Noise at Once

    335 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  91. The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging

    334 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  92. Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language

    334 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  93. 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight

    333 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  94. Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities

    332 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  95. FLoC Away from Chrome

    332 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  96. Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers

    331 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  97. AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years

    331 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  98. Facebook slow to address political manipulation in poor, small countries

    330 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  99. Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard

    329 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  100. Internet Search Tips

    329 points • comment • apr 17, 2021