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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Interstellar Comet Borisov So Pristine, Probably Not Been Close to a Star Before

    6 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  2. China’s Bad Bank: Inside the Huarong Debt Debacle

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  3. A review of research trials finds they are rigged to exaggerate AI performance

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  4. The Failure of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse Than We Knew

    6 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  5. Missing Arctic ice fueled the “Beast of the East” winter storm

    6 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  6. Porting VaccinateCA to Django

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  7. New Oklahoma Bill Gives Motorists Immunity for Hitting Protesters

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  8. Off-Season: The New Jersey Photographs of Tyler Haughey

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  9. FSF board frequently asked questions (FAQ)

    6 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  10. I, Pencil [pdf]

    6 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  11. Retraining brain to ride cycle backwards

    6 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  12. Venezuela Moves Closer to Dollarization with New Bank Rules

    6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  13. Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  14. Gaming with 1 Horsepower of Rumble Feedback

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  15. Loongson unveils LoongArch CPU architecture for processors made in China

    6 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  16. A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  17. What's next for encryption if the RSA algorithm is broken?

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  18. The Cult of Weldon Kees (1997)

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  19. Why did Microsoft remove the "Download ZIP" link from GitHub repository pages

    6 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  20. Tiny newfound 'Unicorn' is closest known black hole to Earth

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  21. Learning Mesh-Based Simulation with Graph Networks – OpenReview

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  22. Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used by Cops

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  23. Brain on code: Researchers decipher neural mechanics of computer programming

    6 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

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

    6 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  25. LG to Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide

    6 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  26. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  27. The Gas Industry Is Paying Instagram Influencers to Gush over Gas Stoves

    6 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  28. Tense exchange aboard SpaceX craft records ‘possible close call’

    6 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  29. A simple pitch deck is a successful pitch deck

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  30. Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable

    5 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  31. X10 Home Automation

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  32. China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  33. Covid vaccine passports: Health experts are deeply concerned

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  34. J&J Covid-19 vaccine under EU review over blood clots, AstraZeneca probe grows

    5 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  35. Itch.io coming to Epic Games Store, along with other PC apps

    5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  36. What Should Be Done to Curb Big Tech?

    5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  37. Is Substack Worth $650M?

    5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  38. The $1B Russian cyber company that the US says hacks for Moscow

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  39. Dan Kaminsky once found a flaw in DNS that would have destroyed the internet

    5 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  40. Traditional female free diving in Japan

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  41. MobileCoin, advised early on by Moxie Marlinspike, has raised venture funding

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  42. 33% of Basecamp employees have now quit

    5 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  43. Node.js v16 is coming and it ships with a fat binary for macOS

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  44. Languages of New York City – Interactive Map

    5 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  45. Your Brain on Tetris

    5 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  46. Remove carbon from the atmosphere through reforestation

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  47. I studied the fonts of the top websites. Here's what I learned

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  48. Tinker with userscripts, if you are new to JavaScript

    5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  49. NSA: Russian Hackers Exploiting VPN Vulnerabilities – Patch Immediately

    5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  50. Ingenuity helicopter failed to lift off from Martian surface for its 4th flight

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  51. Amazon AWS Snowmobile

    5 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  52. Babel alternative in TypeScript that's 2x faster than esbuild

    5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  53. Algorithms were under fire at a Senate hearing on social media

    5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  54. The IRS Wants Help Hacking Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  55. The mechanism that likely generates white dwarf magnetic fields

    5 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  56. Scaling Kubernetes with Assurance at Pinterest

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  57. Is Musical Notation Turing-Complete?

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  58. Bellingcat launders intelligence agencies talking points to media

    5 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  59. Guide to Connection Management in Postgres

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  60. Tool Links Email Addresses to Facebook Accounts in Bulk

    5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  61. Is the Secret to Saving Old Websites Simplifying Digital Preservation?

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  62. Etsy shut down our shop, with no notice, warning, or reason

    5 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  63. Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt–including against scary variant

    5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  64. One in three survivors of severe Covid diagnosed with mental health condition

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  65. Cede and Company

    5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  66. Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, and GraphQL

    5 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  67. Intel's Eight-Core H45 Tiger Lake CPUs Are Just Weeks Away from Launch

    5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  68. Building Ikigai, My Award-Winning Wooden PC Mod

    5 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  69. Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  70. I land a meeting with any target customer I want

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  71. 2020 Police Brutality Data Sites Gallery

    5 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  72. Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress

    5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  73. How NASA Keeps Earth's Germs from Reaching Mars (2020)

    5 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  74. Researchers Tried to Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel

    5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  75. QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q’s identity was right there all along

    5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  76. Landauer's Principle

    5 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  77. Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  78. Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175M IP addresses to obscure company

    5 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  79. Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy

    5 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  80. Discord, Rife with Violent Extremist Content, Cracks Down on Erotic Furry Art

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  81. The true story of how the FBI cracked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

    5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  82. Goldman Sachs is close to offering Bitcoin to its wealth management clients

    5 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  83. Personal Digital Habitats

    5 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  84. Show HN: I Made a Raft Implementation and CLI Visualization in Rust

    5 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  85. Improbable Worlds’ dream of revolutionising gaming is fading

    5 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  86. Userscript which highlights those who have signed the RMS Support letter

    5 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  87. Shanghai security files expose China's surveillance state, monitoring of Uyghurs

    5 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  88. EU in vaccine passport talks with US but not UK

    5 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  89. YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread Covid-19 misinfo

    5 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  90. The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500k Off the Meme

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  91. Chinese provinces fall into line on super tall buildings ban

    5 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  92. The Mundell Difference

    5 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Have you tried any virtual coworking tool?

    5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  94. Study links certain forms of email incivility to insomnia

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  95. Ask HN: What is your favorite daily-use object?

    5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  96. Show HN: Presentador – The Opinionated Presentation App

    5 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  97. Ask HN: Bitcoin is an environmental disaster. How/when can it be stopped?

    5 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  98. How I built a daily journaling habit after years of trying

    5 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  99. Macintosh 68K War Stories (2019)

    5 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  100. Digidog, a robotic dog used by the police, stirs privacy concerns

    5 points • comment • apr 14, 2021