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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

    328 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  2. I'd like to review your README

    326 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  3. 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

    325 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  4. Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available

    325 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  5. Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]

    323 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  6. Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?

    323 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  7. Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic

    323 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  8. My simple GitHub project went viral

    323 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  9. My collection of machine learning paper notes

    322 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  10. BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution

    322 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  11. Kelly Criterion

    322 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  12. Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable

    321 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  13. YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute

    321 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  14. Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems

    319 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  15. Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)

    319 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  16. Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll

    317 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  17. How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

    317 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  18. The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband

    317 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  19. Calibre – E-Book Management

    316 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  20. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

    315 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  21. Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)

    314 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  22. Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

    312 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  23. The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil

    312 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  24. The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world

    312 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  25. Pulumi 3.0

    312 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  26. Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

    312 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  27. Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China

    311 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  28. FreeBSD 13.0

    311 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  29. Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist

    311 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  30. Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

    310 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  31. Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

    309 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  32. LineageOS 18.1

    309 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  33. Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?

    308 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  34. A house 3D printed from raw earth

    308 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  35. Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months

    308 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  36. QEMU Internals

    307 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  37. IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials

    307 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  38. Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent

    307 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  39. UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’

    307 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  40. The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing

    306 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  41. Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation

    306 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  42. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

    306 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  43. Firefox 88.0

    304 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  44. A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

    304 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  45. Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris

    304 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  46. The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

    303 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  47. Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?

    303 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  48. Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands

    303 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  49. Show HN: Verilog2factorio

    302 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  50. IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption

    302 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  51. $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved

    302 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  52. Mac Chimes of Death

    301 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  53. Node.js 16 Available Now

    301 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  54. New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity

    301 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  55. Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees

    300 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  56. India’s second wave

    300 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  57. The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple

    300 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  58. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

    299 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  59. Securing a Postgres Database

    299 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  60. Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative

    298 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  61. “I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies

    297 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  62. Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hub

    296 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  63. Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

    296 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  64. How Facebook encodes videos

    296 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  65. 2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics

    295 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  66. Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore

    295 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  67. “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

    295 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  68. Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia

    295 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  69. All-new iMac features the M1 chip

    295 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  70. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

    295 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  71. Scaling monorepo maintenance

    293 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  72. Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser

    293 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  73. Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free

    293 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  74. TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

    292 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  75. Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers

    292 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  76. Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India

    291 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  77. You might as well timestamp it

    291 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  78. Dynamicland

    291 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  79. The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

    290 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  80. Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

    290 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  81. ShipMap

    290 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  82. Making Librem 5 Apps [video]

    290 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  83. Open Source Goes to Mars

    290 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  84. Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images

    289 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  85. Computer Science from the Bottom Up

    289 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  86. The first 18 months of a startup

    289 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  87. Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

    289 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  88. Open source “split-flap” mechanical display

    288 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  89. A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC

    287 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  90. ‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock the world

    286 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  91. Building React and Vue Support for Tailwind UI

    285 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  92. Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning

    284 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  93. Simplifier

    284 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  94. Our plans for PeerTube v4

    283 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  95. China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

    283 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  96. Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore

    282 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  97. Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)

    281 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  98. Psilocybin 'promising' for depression

    281 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  99. A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)

    281 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  100. Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (2020)

    280 points • comment • apr 12, 2021