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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks

    10 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  2. Let's talk about exploding offers

    10 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  3. New hire fixed a bug that's been bugging him as a user, then submitted notice

    10 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  4. Ask HN: VR Sickness

    10 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  5. Ask HN: How to spend Learning (L&D) Budget of USD 1000?

    10 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  6. pnrtscr.com, a modern jump scare (screamer)

    10 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  7. Diamond Batteries Are Forever

    10 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  8. Lip-Reading with Visemes and Machine Learning

    10 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  9. I will now ban all future contributions from your University

    10 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  10. Don’t Use ‘Else {}’ (2019)

    10 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  11. Archeologists unearth an ancient pharaonic city in Egypt

    10 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  12. Define-Curry

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  13. A message from Dan Kaminsky’s niece

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  14. It's time to say goodbye to the GPL

    10 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  15. Internal Report Shows How Facebook Failed to Prevent “Stop the Steal” Movement

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  16. Apple Rejecting Apps with Fingerprinting Enabled as iOS14 Privacy Enforcement

    10 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  17. Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla's greatest industry contribution

    10 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  18. Awesome-JIT – A curated list of JIT frameworks, libraries, software, resources

    10 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  19. NHS Covid-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

    10 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  20. Professor Carl Hart Wants to Change How We Think About Drugs

    10 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  21. T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap

    10 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  22. Allow arbitrary URLs, expect arbitrary code execution

    10 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  23. New U.S. military microchip implant detects Covid-19 in 5 minutes or less

    10 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  24. Ask HN: How would you make RSS feed readers better and increase adoption?

    10 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  25. Lost Painting Buried Under a Picasso Rediscovered, 3D Printed, and Tokenized

    10 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  26. The Dangerous Denial of Sex

    10 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  27. Certifying Multimedia News Content for Fake News Defense

    10 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  28. Virginia police officer fired after donating to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund

    10 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  29. Gran Turismo Is Now an Official Olympic Sport

    10 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  30. Principal–Agent Problem

    10 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  31. Tesla safety report claims to be 2x safer than other cars

    10 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  32. Show HN: Generate live charts from your live database

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  33. How I Use My Apple Watch as an Autism Aid

    10 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  34. Ask HN: What is a good way to build a web application in 2021

    10 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  35. Turks Suspect Big Crypto Losses as Thodex CEO Goes Missing

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  36. Google seemingly disables account because of Palestine drive folder

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  37. Should Stephen Hawking Have Won the Nobel Prize?

    10 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  38. Bad software sent postal workers to jail

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  39. Anthropomorphic Webcam

    10 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  40. We should challenge children’s simplistic moral beliefs

    10 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  41. FBI Releases Documents Regarding 2016 Murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  42. Tell HN: Billionaires have to suffer same web as us

    10 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  43. Why Is Everyone So Obsessed with Chrome?

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  44. The Only Floating Zip Code in the U.S. Delivers Mail to Ships in the Great Lakes

    10 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  45. Principles for 35 Years

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  46. Will you be heading back to the office? Should you?

    10 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  47. $5M/year VPN scam on the AppStore

    10 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  48. I coded a Binance trading bot that analyses news sentiment and places trades

    10 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  49. Ask HN: How to study programming language theory as a non CS student?

    10 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  50. Running every version of macOS simultaneously on a Hackintosh server

    10 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  51. Flower Summit 2021 (The Friendly Federated Learning Framework)

    10 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  52. Hotwire: Reactive Rails with no JavaScript? [deep dive into the HOTW frontend]

    10 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  53. Ask HN: Tech workers; what remarkably non-tech things do you enjoy doing?

    10 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  54. Confirmed, We Live in a Simulation

    10 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  55. Is this regulation a real threat against free speech?

    10 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  56. War Stories: Subnautica made players love being hunted by sea creatures (2019)

    10 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  57. Auth0 Is Down in US and Canada

    10 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  58. One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up from the Dirt

    10 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  59. A Novel Effort to See How Poverty Affects Young Brains

    10 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  60. Guide to Marking and Fencing in Mine Action Programmes (2008) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  61. GPL, LGPL, AGPL- which license to use? (2008)

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  62. Egypt Seizes Ever Given Ship in Suez Canal, Demands Compensation

    10 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  63. Axon: Deep Learning in Elixir

    10 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  64. Box It, Bag It, Wrap It: Medieval Books on the Go (2015)

    10 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  65. Clean Up the Web

    10 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  66. N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

    10 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  67. Cullen Hoback: “I’m the guy who made that QAnon series on HBO Max. AMA!”

    10 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  68. Wisdom of the Trivia Crowd: Means vs. Medians vs. Modes on 200k Responses

    10 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  69. Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed

    10 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  70. A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

    9 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  71. Homo erectus was basically a carnivore

    9 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  72. Shadow over Fedora 34: maintainer of Java packages quits with some choice words

    9 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  73. Remote exploitation of a man-in-the-disk vulnerability in WhatsApp

    9 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  74. Swedish carbon-fiber battery could revolutionize car design

    9 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  75. I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

    9 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  76. A Zero Trust terminal in the browser

    9 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  77. How to lose $8,000 in crypto in 15 minutes

    9 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  78. The day MicroStrategy first bought BTC was the last day gold was above $2000/oz

    9 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  79. Show HN: Realness online – I made a social network for intimate friend groups

    9 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  80. Psychedelic Experience May Not Be Required for Psilocybin’s Benefits

    9 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  81. What not to say to cancer patients

    9 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  82. Making a Lego Domino Machine [video]

    9 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  83. California's Failed Response to Covid

    9 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  84. Oracle Sells Repression in China

    9 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  85. Why Japan can't shake sexism

    9 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  86. The Key by Stack Overflow

    9 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  87. Casper Glow Teardown

    9 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  88. New 12.9-inch iPad Pro doesn’t support the previous Magic Keyboard

    9 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  89. Why am I getting “sorry” message on trying to submit Show HN?

    9 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  90. Super Crunch (1986)

    9 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  91. Rio artifacts may indicate Roman visit (1982)

    9 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  92. Facts every Web Dev should know before they Burn Out

    9 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  93. Apple Is an Accomplice to Fraud

    9 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  94. NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander

    9 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  95. Russian 'Lord of the Rings' TV Adaptation from 30 Years Ago Discovered

    9 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  96. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

    9 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  97. Ask HN: How do you grow a pod?

    9 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  98. Peter Warner, 90, Seafarer Who Discovered Shipwrecked Boys, Dies

    9 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  99. Google will be “modernizing” FeedBurner

    9 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  100. Paul McCartney and Kate Bush lead call for change to music streaming payments

    9 points • comment • apr 22, 2021