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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children

    8 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  2. Simon’s Win32 Cheat Sheet (2016)

    8 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  3. Brainwaves and other strange sounds from Alvin Lucier’s lab (2014)

    8 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  4. LinuxCon Worldwide 2021 – Krazam

    8 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  5. LG officially shutting down worldwide mobile phone business

    8 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  6. How a Chinese Surveillance Broker became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year”

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  7. Washington state passes new capital gains tax

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  8. How to use GPT-3 recursively to solve general problems

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  9. Windows 10 Now Supports Linux GUI Applications

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  10. Show HN: How to debug Lambda functions with VS Code

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  11. Scott Galloway: This Is the Best Time to Start a Business

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  12. Jimmy Lai: The Hong Kong billionaire's last interview as a free man

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  13. LG to end loss-making smartphone business

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  14. NNG – nanomsg-NG (rewrite of nanomsg)

    7 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  15. ‘Freeze the keys’ key-locking mechanism aims to prevent suicide among veterans

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  16. Ask HN: Does a CFA Matter in FinTech?

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  17. Python 3.9.4

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  18. No one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  19. Only US member of WHO Wuhan lab investigation facilitated Wuhan lab funding

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  20. UVA microaggressions case shows just how schools abuse professionalism codes

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  21. Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  22. The Real Book

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  23. Ask HN: Any self-made software developers?

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  24. The Pandemic's Wrongest Man

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  25. Oracle VP doxes itercept journalist over reporting

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  26. Cancer Vaccine Shows Early Promise Across Tumor Types

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  27. Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4B as Platform Draws Creators, Fans

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  28. QuickLook for Windows – peek into a file's contents by pressing the Space key

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  29. Microsoft Reveals Truths About Working from Home

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  30. A Basecamp employee speaks out about yesterday’s policy change

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  31. SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  32. VPN by Google One: Technical Security and Privacy Assessment

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  33. Remote work could allow companies to shift RE expenses onto employees. [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  34. Google Argentina's domain name bought for £2

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  35. Dozens of viruses seem to use a different DNA base

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  36. Russia and Ukraine 'on doorstep of war with half a million troops on move'

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  37. Vietnam banned travel to fight Covid-19, defying experts. It worked

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  38. Revisiting the Dead

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  39. Homeless in the Shadow of Apple’s $5B Campus

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  40. Top-Left Lighting

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  41. Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material

    7 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  42. Try F# on WebAssembly

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  43. Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  44. TSMC tackles Taiwan drought with plant to reuse water for chips

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  45. US marks slowest population growth since the Depression

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  46. Renaissance Medallion Fund

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  47. Twitter confirms Spaces are coming to desktop web browsers

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  48. Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  49. 42 Companies Using Rust in Production

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  50. Rad Basic VB6 Clone Kickstarter

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  51. New KrebsOnSecurity Mobile-Friendly Site

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  52. A solid case for the next generation of batteries

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  53. How to find out which applications record you through your microphone or camera?

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  54. Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine linked to prion-based disease in vaccine recipients [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  55. Show HN: Tidbyt – A connected, programmable LED matrix display [KS]

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  56. Are our pets gobbling up the planet?

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  57. Really Google? Gaslighting me into thinking I searched it wrong?

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  58. Playstation Network Down

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  59. The fake innovation of gig companies

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  60. Foxconn reaches new deal with Wisconsin on scaled-back US plant

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  61. Cybersecurity in the Wake of the Oldsmar Breach

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  62. Ask HN: Why is stock market booming when the economy is struggling?

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  63. Who wins 6 GHz band: Wi-Fi or 5G NR-U

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  64. The Krakatoa Sunsets (2012)

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  65. The use of disembodied female-sounding voices in service industries

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  66. Microsoft Edge Adds a 'Kids Mode' Limiting Browsing to 70 Web Sites

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  67. Natural Conditions

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  68. Yasuke – The First African Samurai

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  69. Show HN: Emojilang = Emoji and Language Learning

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  70. Red Flags I Saw While Doing 60 Technical Interviews in 30 Days

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  71. No iOS user is ever allowed better than the lowest-common-denominator web

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  72. Men seen as financial providers in U.S., even as women’s contributions grow

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  73. The Supreme Court is scared to death by the case of the foul-mouthed cheerleader

    7 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  74. Jellyfish-Like Organisms Halt Two South Korean Nuclear Reactors

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  75. Arch Linux: Installation medium with installer

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  76. The humble shrub that’s predicting a terrible fire season

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  77. Covid pandemic over in Britain, say experts

    7 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  78. Hasbro Unveils $700 Self-Transforming Optimus Prime Robot

    7 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  79. Yahoo Answers Is Shutting Down

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  80. The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  81. Podcasting, RSS, Openness, and Choice

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  82. Sysdig Detects Lateral Movement Attacks Across Containers and Clouds

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  83. Apple Knowingly Sold 2016-17 MacBook Pro with 'Flexgate' Defect, Judge Says

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  84. Did China's former Premier just subtly criticize President Xi Jinping?

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  85. JCPenney Offloads $2.8B in Pension Liabilities

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  86. Apple targeted in $50M ransomware attack resulting in schematic leaks

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  87. Uploadgram – simple and fast file uploader that uses Telegram as file storage

    7 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  88. Romani Ite Domum

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  89. Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea

    7 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  90. China is banning one of the largest Bitcoin mining hubs

    7 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  91. What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  92. Bitcoin plunges to $52,000 in one hour

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  93. Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  94. Steven Crowder Has Been Banned from YouTube

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  95. Honeywell releases details of its ion trap quantum computer

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  96. American HS teacher is proud to have the Odissey removed from curriculum (2020)

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  97. Car Design History – A data visualization of Italian car design

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  98. GeForce GPU Passthrough for Windows Virtual Machine (Beta)

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  99. Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers

    7 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  100. Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2021