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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges

    279 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  2. TTS: Text-to-Speech for All

    279 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  3. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work

    278 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  4. Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets

    278 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  5. TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

    278 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  6. Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface

    277 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  7. An HTTP server in a single .c file

    277 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  8. Non-Fungible Taylor Swift

    274 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  9. PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI

    274 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  10. Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses

    274 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  11. AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx

    273 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  12. How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client

    272 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  13. iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests

    271 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  14. Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views

    271 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  15. OpenTTD 1.11

    270 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  16. Great Bitter Lake Association, the Sort-of-Micronation Formed in the Suez Canal

    270 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  17. Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel

    269 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  18. Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since

    269 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  19. Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser

    268 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  20. Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors

    267 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  21. CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?

    267 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  22. PHP in 2021

    267 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  23. Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC

    267 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  24. Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)

    266 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  25. Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories

    266 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  26. Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies

    266 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  27. Replace Google Analytics with a shell script

    265 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  28. Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides

    265 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  29. Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again

    265 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  30. How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages

    265 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  31. ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite

    265 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  32. Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years

    264 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  33. What's Accenture? (2020)

    264 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  34. Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

    263 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  35. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners

    263 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  36. Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices

    263 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  37. MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

    263 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  38. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

    263 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  39. The Fourier transform is a neural network

    263 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  40. A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime

    262 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  41. Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to

    262 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  42. Things I learned while developing a billing system

    261 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  43. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    260 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  44. Apple AirDrop shares more than files

    260 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  45. Booking.com fined €475k for reporting data breach too late

    259 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  46. Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study

    259 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  47. Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment

    258 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  48. My Go executable files are still getting larger

    258 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  49. Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells

    258 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  50. A common mistake when NumPy’s RNG with PyTorch

    257 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  51. There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble

    257 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  52. Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

    257 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

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

    257 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  54. Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

    257 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  55. Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff

    257 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  56. Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification

    256 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  57. Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization

    256 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  58. Elixir GenServer Explained

    256 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  59. Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?

    256 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  60. Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle

    256 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  61. AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms

    256 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  62. Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory

    255 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  63. Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners

    255 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  64. Facebook Down?

    254 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  65. Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop

    254 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  66. Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    254 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  67. Rust in the Android Platform

    253 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  68. Cesium for Unreal Now Available

    253 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  69. Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)

    253 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  70. Elixir and Phoenix after two years

    252 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  71. Great Vowel Shift

    252 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  72. DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags

    252 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  73. A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs of capture

    252 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  74. Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned after hack

    250 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  75. The story BCG offered me $16k not to tell (2010)

    250 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  76. Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes

    250 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  77. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

    250 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  78. Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform

    249 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  79. GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy

    248 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  80. Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal

    248 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  81. How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide

    248 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  82. 99 bits of unsolicited advice

    248 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  83. PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL

    247 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  84. The real reason to end the death penalty

    246 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  85. The NoPhone

    246 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  86. Space Cloud: Open-Source Firebase and Heroku on Kubernetes

    245 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  87. The Decline of Heroku

    245 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  88. Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas

    244 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  89. Wix and Their Dirty Tricks

    244 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  90. Ory Keto, open source authorization server based on Google Zanzibar

    244 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  91. HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged

    243 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  92. We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure

    243 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  93. Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility

    243 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  94. Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it

    243 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  95. The latest DSM update makes btrfs drives unavailable on budget Synology models

    243 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  96. Apache Mesos to be moved to Attic

    243 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  97. How fit can you get from just walking?

    243 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  98. Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)

    242 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  99. Foundations of Databases (1995)

    242 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  100. Librem 14 begins shipping

    241 points • comment • apr 17, 2021