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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan each year

    187 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  2. Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources

    187 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  3. France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one

    187 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  4. Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture

    187 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  5. Arabian Nights

    186 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  6. .NET for Beginners (2020)

    186 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  7. QNAP ships NAS backup software with hidden credentials

    185 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  8. Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (2018)

    185 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  9. Where does a candle go when it burns?

    185 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  10. Update on beta testing payments in Signal

    185 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  11. Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client

    185 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  12. Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux

    185 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  13. SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

    185 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  14. How Developers Choose Names

    184 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  15. CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson vaccine

    184 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  16. Why machine learning struggles with causality

    184 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  17. How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?

    184 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  18. Tesla admits its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system

    184 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  19. Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support

    183 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  20. Playing the Open Source Game

    183 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  21. Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS

    183 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  22. Against Hickelism

    183 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  23. Wuffs the Language

    183 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  24. Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request

    182 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  25. Show HN: I made a tool to communicate data using the PC speaker

    182 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  26. The Intelligent Timing Lock

    182 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  27. Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)

    182 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  28. Codecov Bash Uploader compromised

    182 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  29. End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices

    182 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  30. A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

    182 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  31. Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money

    182 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  32. VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust

    182 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  33. Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

    182 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  34. Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

    181 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  35. Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports

    181 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  36. The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

    181 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  37. Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes

    180 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  38. Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition

    180 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  39. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

    180 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  40. Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself

    180 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  41. Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving

    179 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  42. Show HN: Kaboom.js is a zero-dependency declarative JavaScript game library

    179 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  43. Hopfield Networks Is All You Need

    179 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  44. Pitching your early stage startup

    179 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  45. Awesome-Selfhosted

    179 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  46. Online text to diagram tools (2020)

    179 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  47. The TTY Demystified (2008)

    179 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  48. Bertrand Russell Is the Pope (2010)

    179 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  49. Windows Terminal Quake Mode

    178 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  50. Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes

    177 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  51. Inside PayPal (2010)

    177 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  52. To upgrade the SSD in a Mac Pro, you need a second Mac computer

    177 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  53. Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?

    177 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  54. Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL database

    177 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  55. The Slander Industry

    177 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  56. GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors

    177 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  57. Show HN: Encore – Go framework for building distributed systems

    177 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  58. Tesla Q1 2021 Results

    176 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  59. AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible to Spectre-Like Vulnerability

    176 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  60. Wasm3 compiles itself (using LLVM/Clang compiled to WASM)

    176 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  61. ClojureScript 1.10.844

    176 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  62. MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple

    175 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  63. ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC

    175 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  64. Clubhouse Payments

    175 points • comment • apr 05, 2021

  65. Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends

    175 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  66. What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t

    174 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  67. OpenBSD adds support for Coordinated Mars Time

    174 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  68. Plant UML – Open-source UML Tool

    174 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  69. Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results

    173 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  70. Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps

    172 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  71. The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years

    172 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  72. Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob

    172 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  73. Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises

    172 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  74. A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain

    172 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  75. The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go

    171 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  76. A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019)

    171 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  77. Florida state of emergency with millions of gallons of “radioactive wastewater”

    171 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  78. Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool

    171 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  79. Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill

    170 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  80. Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

    170 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  81. What's going on here, with this human?

    170 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  82. Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone

    170 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  83. Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

    169 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  84. Parser Combinators in Elixir

    169 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  85. Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature

    169 points • comment • apr 11, 2021

  86. I refuse to stand by while my students are indoctrinated

    169 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  87. Show HN: Personal Data Management Dashboard

    169 points • comment • apr 12, 2021

  88. Why UML “Really” Died

    168 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  89. OpenAstroTracker: 3D printed, open source star tracker

    168 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  90. I forgot about print style sheets (2016)

    168 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  91. Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020)

    168 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  92. The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming

    168 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  93. Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU

    168 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  94. Mal – Make a Lisp

    167 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  95. Space Jam 2

    167 points • comment • apr 04, 2021

  96. Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine

    167 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  97. Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

    166 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  98. Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate

    166 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  99. Zoomable lens without any moving parts

    166 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  100. Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house

    166 points • comment • apr 18, 2021