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Hacker News (Apr 2021)

  1. Java for Everything (2014)

    166 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

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

    166 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  3. Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate

    166 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  4. Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021

    165 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  5. Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation

    165 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  6. Larry Page's Comeback (2014)

    165 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  7. Jakub Konka Hired Full Time

    165 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  8. Ethereum: A Store of Value with Cash Flow [pdf]

    165 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  9. Foundations of Information

    165 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  10. How to do things safely in Bash (2018)

    165 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  11. Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland

    165 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  12. Health of the KDE Community

    165 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  13. Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi

    164 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  14. The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview with Adam Curtis (2018)

    164 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  15. Nobody cares about your clean code

    164 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  16. A reading list for new engineering managers

    163 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  17. What's in the Box?

    163 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  18. Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation

    163 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  19. How I made a profitable Vim course

    163 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  20. Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth

    163 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  21. The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)

    162 points • comment • apr 02, 2021

  22. Chinese technology company Huawei eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network KPN

    162 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  23. Netscape ISP Homepage

    162 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  24. Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces

    162 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  25. “Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading

    162 points • comment • apr 10, 2021

  26. Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn

    162 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  27. A majority of uninfected adults show pre-existing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

    162 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  28. How to Learn Unix Tools

    162 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  29. Marbles (2016)

    162 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  30. Porting Doom to the Fastly edge serverless platform

    161 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  31. How to find a job as Software Developer in Germany

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  32. Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships

    161 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  33. How to Read Books When You Have ADHD

    161 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  34. Film simulations from scratch using Python

    160 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  35. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

    160 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  36. I’m now in charge of Audacity [video]

    160 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  37. I Implemented /dev/printerfact in Rust

    160 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  38. Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations

    160 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  39. The anti-pattern of responsive design

    160 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  40. Minio Changes License to AGPL

    160 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  41. Seam carving (2020) [video]

    159 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  42. The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux

    159 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  43. Introduction to Pluto.jl

    159 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  44. Onboarding with an M1

    159 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  45. Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles

    159 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  46. Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection

    159 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  47. Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

    159 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  48. Berlin rent cap overturned by Germany's top court

    158 points • comment • apr 15, 2021

  49. Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds

    158 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  50. How much Polish is there in Yiddish and how much Yiddish is there in Polish?

    158 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  51. Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust

    158 points • comment • apr 06, 2021

  52. GNU lightning: generates assembly language code at run-time

    158 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  53. Word usage guidance and alternative terms

    158 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  54. U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist

    158 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  55. Silphium

    158 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  56. LLVM 12

    157 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  57. Why Hypercard had to die (2011)

    157 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  58. Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology

    157 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  59. FFmpeg Cheat Sheet

    157 points • comment • apr 24, 2021

  60. NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon

    157 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  61. Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation

    156 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  62. Some useful regular expressions for programmers

    156 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  63. Lisp and the Web: Creating Web Apps Through Lisp and GCE

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  64. Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech

    156 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  65. Turning an iPad Pro into a classic Macintosh

    155 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  66. Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests

    155 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  67. Stamping the joy out of collectors

    155 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  68. AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings

    154 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  69. Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)

    154 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  70. Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution

    154 points • comment • apr 22, 2021

  71. We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)

    154 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  72. Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension

    153 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  73. Excess Deaths in 2020

    153 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  74. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)

    153 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  75. Show HN: Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt

    153 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  76. Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research

    153 points • comment • apr 03, 2021

  77. U.S. government probes VPN hack within federal agencies, races to find clues

    152 points • comment • apr 29, 2021

  78. Git repository of Plan 9 History, from 1992 to 2015

    152 points • comment • apr 26, 2021

  79. Show HN: My cofounder and I created a social platform for investment ideas

    152 points • comment • apr 21, 2021

  80. China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet

    152 points • comment • apr 18, 2021

  81. Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

    152 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  82. Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions?

    152 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  83. Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit

    151 points • comment • apr 30, 2021

  84. Shadow Simulator – run real applications over a simulated Internet topology

    151 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  85. How to fight back against Google FLoC

    151 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  86. List of Emerging Technologies

    151 points • comment • apr 16, 2021

  87. A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron

    151 points • comment • apr 28, 2021

  88. Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (2012)

    151 points • comment • apr 17, 2021

  89. Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  90. Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000)

    150 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  91. Is content moderation a dead end?

    150 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  92. Lisp in Forth

    150 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  93. Game Engine: How I Implemented Skeletal Animation

    150 points • comment • apr 01, 2021

  94. Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

    150 points • comment • apr 09, 2021

  95. Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab

    150 points • comment • apr 23, 2021

  96. Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir

    150 points • comment • apr 08, 2021

  97. Include-what-you-use: A tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files

    150 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  98. Effective altruism is not effective

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  99. Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor

    149 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  100. Handles are the better pointers (2018)

    149 points • comment • apr 02, 2021