top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-07

Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721951

5 years ago

2022 upvotes – 1091 comments

Screw it, I’ll host it myself

https://www.markozivanovic.com/screw-it-ill-host-it-myself/

5 years ago

1019 upvotes – 476 comments

Et Tu, Signal?

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html

5 years ago

880 upvotes – 443 comments

Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/particle-mystery-deepens-physicists-confirm-muon-more-magnetic-predicted

5 years ago

560 upvotes – 292 comments

Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 753 comments

All C++20 core language features with examples

https://oleksandrkvl.github.io/2021/04/02/cpp-20-overview.html

5 years ago

483 upvotes – 419 comments

34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 327 comments

FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/30/fda-approves-first-test-of-crispr-to-correct-genetic-defect-causing-sickle-cell-disease/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 132 comments

Idempotence now prevents pain later

https://ericlathrop.com/2021/04/idempotence-now-prevents-pain-later/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 127 comments

Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/wtf-signal-adds-cryptocurrency-support.html

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 249 comments

Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitch-moderation/twitch-will-ban-users-for-severe-misconduct-that-occurs-away-from-its-site-idUSKBN2BU2QJ

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 974 comments

Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-data-leak/facebook-does-not-plan-to-notify-half-billion-users-affected-by-data-leak-idUSKBN2BU2ZY

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 93 comments

7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 382 comments

BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution

https://google.github.io/security-research/pocs/linux/bleedingtooth/writeup.html

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 103 comments

After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 158 comments

Dynamicland

https://dynamicland.org/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 112 comments

iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests

https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/issues/1245

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 107 comments

Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 194 comments

Wix and Their Dirty Tricks

https://ma.tt/2021/04/wix-dirty-tricks/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 83 comments

The NoPhone

https://www.thenophone.com

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 145 comments
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