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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Librem 14 begins shipping

    241 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  2. Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

    241 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  3. Noise in Creative Coding

    241 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  4. Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats

    241 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  5. When 70M people visit your joke site

    240 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  6. A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals

    240 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  7. The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

    240 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  8. Red and blue functions are a good thing

    240 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  9. In Support of Richard Stallman

    240 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  10. Update on campaign targeting security researchers

    240 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  11. French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights

    240 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  12. Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)

    239 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  13. Terraform 0.15 General Availability

    239 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  14. The war against money-laundering is being lost

    239 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  15. Ask HN: What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?

    239 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  16. Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool

    238 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  17. Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook

    238 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  18. Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)

    238 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  19. Why Rust strings seem hard

    237 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  20. Bernie Madoff has died

    237 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  21. Old Book Illustrations

    237 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  22. Starting a new digital identity

    237 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  23. Mars sucks

    236 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  24. Inside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

    236 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  25. Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec

    236 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  26. Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)

    236 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  27. The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

    235 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  28. Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud

    235 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  29. Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck

    235 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  30. You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)

    234 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  31. MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning

    234 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  32. Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?

    234 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  33. Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

    234 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  34. Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox

    234 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  35. Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India

    233 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  36. FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

    233 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  37. MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

    233 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  38. Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

    232 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  39. Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

    232 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  40. Staying awake to treat depression (2018)

    232 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  41. The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army

    232 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  42. Show HN: Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals

    232 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  43. Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?

    232 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  44. Inheritance was invented as a performance hack

    232 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  45. First steps with Rust

    231 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  46. NSFW Server Designation

    231 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  47. Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function

    231 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  48. Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency

    230 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  49. WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

    229 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  50. Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42

    229 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  51. I booked my cheapest one-month trip

    229 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  52. Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months

    228 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  53. Forced unemployment and second-class status: Google's data center contractors

    228 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  54. The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

    227 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  55. Lambda School lays off 65 employees

    227 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  56. A practical guide to reducing loneliness

    226 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  57. CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming

    226 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  58. Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption

    226 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  59. A brief history of Rust at Facebook

    226 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  60. Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

    226 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  61. Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network

    225 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  62. When real world mapping meets Tolkien

    225 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  63. Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions

    224 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  64. EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

    224 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  65. Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts

    224 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  66. Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data

    224 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  67. Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit

    224 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  68. Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study

    224 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  69. Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash

    224 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  70. GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure

    223 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  71. KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

    223 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  72. Tales from Prediction Markets

    223 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  73. Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water

    223 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  74. Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming

    222 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  75. Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes

    222 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  76. Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them

    222 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  77. Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5

    222 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  78. Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones

    221 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  79. GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem

    220 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  80. My experience releasing failed SaaS products

    220 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  81. Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved

    220 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  82. OpenFlights – airport and airline data

    220 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  83. Hunting down the stuck BGP routes

    219 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  84. Show your costs to boost sales

    219 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  85. Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

    219 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  86. Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries

    219 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  87. The NCAA Erased My Career

    219 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  88. Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering

    218 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  89. Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods

    218 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  90. Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid

    218 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  91. Hacking a $200 Under Desk Exercise Bike

    217 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  92. Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya Vaccine

    217 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  93. Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average

    216 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  94. YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers

    216 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  95. What defines a great company culture?

    216 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  96. The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm

    216 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  97. Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision

    216 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  98. Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor

    215 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  99. Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago

    215 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  100. Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

    215 points • comment • apr 16, 2021