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April 2021 discussion archive

Browse 161 retained Hacker News discussion records from April 2021, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”30 Apr 2021 · 1,366 points · 1,965 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. It's your device, you should be able to repair it30 Apr 2021 · 707 points · 553 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint30 Apr 2021 · 684 points · 809 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Internal Combustion Engine30 Apr 2021 · 2,333 points · 392 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards30 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 434 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic29 Apr 2021 · 726 points · 765 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Yayagram29 Apr 2021 · 1,265 points · 175 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. Simplifier29 Apr 2021 · 291 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views29 Apr 2021 · 281 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since29 Apr 2021 · 286 points · 308 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died28 Apr 2021 · 1,252 points · 180 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years28 Apr 2021 · 584 points · 325 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware28 Apr 2021 · 578 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. What's Accenture? (2020)28 Apr 2021 · 282 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets28 Apr 2021 · 280 points · 89 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M28 Apr 2021 · 289 points · 220 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads28 Apr 2021 · 1,049 points · 393 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. The health benefits of better air28 Apr 2021 · 693 points · 455 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers28 Apr 2021 · 647 points · 484 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community27 Apr 2021 · 626 points · 705 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Elixir GenServer Explained27 Apr 2021 · 272 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams27 Apr 2021 · 604 points · 113 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Google have declared Droidscript is malware27 Apr 2021 · 1,176 points · 647 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. My Current HTML Boilerplate27 Apr 2021 · 1,194 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke26 Apr 2021 · 659 points · 375 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-1926 Apr 2021 · 831 points · 491 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Changes at Basecamp26 Apr 2021 · 883 points · 792 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster26 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?26 Apr 2021 · 280 points · 344 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers26 Apr 2021 · 684 points · 464 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Apple commits $430B in US investments over five years26 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis26 Apr 2021 · 592 points · 408 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government26 Apr 2021 · 279 points · 241 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Has UML died without anyone noticing?25 Apr 2021 · 656 points · 586 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos25 Apr 2021 · 684 points · 388 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel25 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 573 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C25 Apr 2021 · 586 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners25 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 26 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)25 Apr 2021 · 915 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Dan Kaminsky has died24 Apr 2021 · 1,414 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 2024 Apr 2021 · 578 points · 238 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth24 Apr 2021 · 277 points · 125 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories24 Apr 2021 · 268 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered23 Apr 2021 · 763 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies23 Apr 2021 · 753 points · 464 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Get better at Googling23 Apr 2021 · 678 points · 289 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Mars sucks23 Apr 2021 · 274 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Why Lichess will always be free23 Apr 2021 · 1,524 points · 446 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model23 Apr 2021 · 604 points · 918 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors22 Apr 2021 · 273 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years22 Apr 2021 · 931 points · 406 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool22 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd22 Apr 2021 · 913 points · 520 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research21 Apr 2021 · 645 points · 316 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux21 Apr 2021 · 668 points · 346 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer21 Apr 2021 · 1,897 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research21 Apr 2021 · 1,883 points · 8 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”21 Apr 2021 · 3,025 points · 1,912 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube20 Apr 2021 · 604 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv320 Apr 2021 · 710 points · 559 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft20 Apr 2021 · 576 points · 510 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Apple Introduces AirTag20 Apr 2021 · 947 points · 923 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music20 Apr 2021 · 1,109 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices20 Apr 2021 · 270 points · 331 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address20 Apr 2021 · 695 points · 450 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. The “Granny Knot”19 Apr 2021 · 673 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)19 Apr 2021 · 797 points · 424 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges18 Apr 2021 · 281 points · 46 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern18 Apr 2021 · 561 points · 258 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir18 Apr 2021 · 585 points · 85 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Replace Google Analytics with a shell script18 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit17 Apr 2021 · 1,245 points · 656 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. Regulators urge safety recall of Peloton treadmill after child dies17 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 341 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC17 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 125 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)17 Apr 2021 · 286 points · 132 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room17 Apr 2021 · 590 points · 239 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work16 Apr 2021 · 286 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon16 Apr 2021 · 658 points · 343 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Nobody is joining Google's FLoC16 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 173 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)16 Apr 2021 · 286 points · 187 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium16 Apr 2021 · 575 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel16 Apr 2021 · 628 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network16 Apr 2021 · 586 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI15 Apr 2021 · 282 points · 150 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. PHP in 202115 Apr 2021 · 279 points · 298 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress15 Apr 2021 · 1,017 points · 474 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years15 Apr 2021 · 1,209 points · 415 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter15 Apr 2021 · 920 points · 502 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)15 Apr 2021 · 281 points · 180 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser14 Apr 2021 · 281 points · 104 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Coinbase from YC to DPO14 Apr 2021 · 714 points · 846 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. Our plans for PeerTube v414 Apr 2021 · 291 points · 157 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Show HN: Lofi.cafe14 Apr 2021 · 1,192 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore14 Apr 2021 · 284 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability14 Apr 2021 · 801 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office14 Apr 2021 · 946 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Deno 1.913 Apr 2021 · 670 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite13 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 151 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. A top-grossing scam on the App Store13 Apr 2021 · 572 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. TTS: Text-to-Speech for All13 Apr 2021 · 282 points · 51 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Just Be Rich13 Apr 2021 · 1,875 points · 1,084 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee12 Apr 2021 · 817 points · 587 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Building React and Vue Support for Tailwind UI12 Apr 2021 · 286 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. How People Get Rich Now12 Apr 2021 · 779 points · 903 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana12 Apr 2021 · 706 points · 424 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Facebook's 'Clear History' Tool Doesn't Clear Shit (2020)12 Apr 2021 · 287 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Use console.log() like a pro (2020)12 Apr 2021 · 700 points · 148 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Non-Fungible Taylor Swift12 Apr 2021 · 277 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B12 Apr 2021 · 658 points · 397 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime12 Apr 2021 · 274 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses10 Apr 2021 · 280 points · 160 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox09 Apr 2021 · 1,595 points · 509 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes09 Apr 2021 · 279 points · 335 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama09 Apr 2021 · 566 points · 1,219 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out09 Apr 2021 · 592 points · 618 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning09 Apr 2021 · 288 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Embrace the Grind09 Apr 2021 · 1,167 points · 310 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree09 Apr 2021 · 657 points · 328 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Docker without Docker09 Apr 2021 · 689 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Monkey MindPong08 Apr 2021 · 678 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas08 Apr 2021 · 272 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup08 Apr 2021 · 1,330 points · 320 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. The Real Book08 Apr 2021 · 575 points · 140 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak08 Apr 2021 · 667 points · 298 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet08 Apr 2021 · 565 points · 279 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx08 Apr 2021 · 275 points · 93 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests07 Apr 2021 · 273 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again07 Apr 2021 · 272 points · 194 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Screw it, I’ll host it myself07 Apr 2021 · 1,019 points · 476 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Et Tu, Signal?07 Apr 2021 · 880 points · 443 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?07 Apr 2021 · 2,022 points · 1,091 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list06 Apr 2021 · 1,206 points · 487 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client06 Apr 2021 · 284 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. I hope work from home continues06 Apr 2021 · 682 points · 601 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Programming is hard06 Apr 2021 · 597 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned06 Apr 2021 · 565 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k06 Apr 2021 · 847 points · 106 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages06 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 50 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (2019)05 Apr 2021 · 269 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Things I learned while developing a billing system05 Apr 2021 · 273 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 202105 Apr 2021 · 585 points · 367 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides05 Apr 2021 · 273 points · 486 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Writing tools I learned from The Economist05 Apr 2021 · 633 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]05 Apr 2021 · 4,103 points · 932 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds05 Apr 2021 · 713 points · 380 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business05 Apr 2021 · 620 points · 683 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity04 Apr 2021 · 609 points · 312 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Show HN: PDFs from HTML04 Apr 2021 · 742 points · 265 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials04 Apr 2021 · 664 points · 256 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface04 Apr 2021 · 284 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. How Doctors Die (2013)03 Apr 2021 · 589 points · 319 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades03 Apr 2021 · 643 points · 412 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online03 Apr 2021 · 1,296 points · 496 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong02 Apr 2021 · 986 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Microsoft Coffee02 Apr 2021 · 1,558 points · 371 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. An HTTP server in a single .c file02 Apr 2021 · 283 points · 98 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. The Norway Problem02 Apr 2021 · 656 points · 325 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem02 Apr 2021 · 711 points · 201 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters02 Apr 2021 · 727 points · 165 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. OpenTTD 1.1101 Apr 2021 · 276 points · 58 commentsPartial reading withheld
  161. Great Bitter Lake Association, the Sort-of-Micronation Formed in the Suez Canal01 Apr 2021 · 284 points · 57 commentsPartial reading withheld