1209
415
Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/
5 years ago
1017
474
Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate
920
502
Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
https://tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter
552
252
DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/
550
370
SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
https://unixsheikh.com/articles/sqlite-the-only-database-you-will-ever-need-in-most-cases.html
529
819
Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825017
397
178
Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/100
375
234
TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tsmcs-q1-profit-rises-19-strong-chip-demand-2021-04-15
332
217
IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption
https://mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ban-encryption
320
266
The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-nations-corn-belt-has-lost-third-its-topsoil-180977485/
312
156
Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers [resolved]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815768
311
91
Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative
https://calendso.com
306
78
Mac Chimes of Death
https://512pixels.net/2021/04/mac-chimes-of-death/
304
315
Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139
294
118
Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
https://restofworld.org/2021/the-rise-and-fall-of-missed-calls-in-india/
282
150
PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues/2678
281
180
Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664
279
298
PHP in 2021
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2021
105
Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to
https://njms.ca/posts/ethical-anti-design.html
264
393
There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/nft-future-of-money.html
261
25
Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup
https://tinytools.directory/
240
163
Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox
https://hackaday.com/2021/04/14/morrowind-rebooted-the-original-xbox-without-you-ever-noticing/
238
Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/let-science-be-your-guide-for-the-perfect-labor-day-bbq/
213
Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged
https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund
208
Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-news/missing-hiker-mt-waterman-photo-search/2572468/
199
88
Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams
https://element.io/blog/ems-launches-bridging-for-microsoft-teams/
198
77
Codecov Bash Uploader compromised
https://about.codecov.io/security-update
192
84
SiFive Tapes Out First 5nm TSMC 32-bit RISC-V Chip with 7.2 Gbps HBM3
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openfive-tapes-out-5nm-risc-v-soc
190
170
France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/2021/04/14/france-cuts-two-nuclear-powered-submarines-in-half-to-make-one-new-one/
189
247
Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support
https://connectthewatts.com/2021/04/14/peloton-cuts-back-on-apple-watch-support/
174
52
How I made a profitable Vim course
https://www.slip.so/blog/how-I-made-10k-teaching-vim
167
85
The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux
https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux/
164
74
Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships
https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/
162
357
Berlin rent cap overturned by Germany's top court
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-rent-cap-overturned-by-germanys-top-court/a-57209268
43
Banner Ads Considered Harmful
https://www.gwern.net/Ads
92
A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note
https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057
148
179
Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?
https://vjpr.medium.com/dont-we-all-just-want-to-use-sql-on-the-frontend-6b9d38c08146
140
57
The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation
https://diataxis.fr/
139
66
Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
https://github.blog/2021-04-15-work-with-github-actions-in-your-terminal-with-github-cli/
81
Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/garry-kasparov-launches-a-community-first-chess-platform/
137
The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/the-looming-software-kill-switch-lurking-in-aging-playstation-hardware/
131
Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to-shareholders
126
23
Ghidra Analyzer for UEFI Firmware
https://github.com/DSecurity/efiSeek
119
58
wxWidgets 3.1.5
http://wxwidgets.org/news/2021/04/wxwidgets-3.1.5-released/
113
53
New GitHub themes for VS Code
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04-14-new-github-themes-for-vs-code/
112
102
Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum
https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/353
110
122
Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-fitness-plus-introduces-new-workouts-trainers-and-time-to-walk-guest/
107
DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends
https://devskiller.com/it-skills-report/#Twelve
106
132
Ask HN: My startup has more annual subscribers than monthly. What to make of it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821281
104
80
A Primer Through Golem
https://blog.golemproject.net/golem-primer/
103
60
The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s (2020)
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-duties-of-john-von-neumanns-assistant-in-the-1930s-8d08e538fe2b
98
“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
https://nautil.us/issue/99/universality/how-my-octopus-teacher-defied-convention
101
90
Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2021/04/the-government-of-canada-launches-consultation-on-a-modern-copyright-framework-for-online-intermediaries.html
100
67
Floor, Ceiling, Bracket
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/15/floor-ceiling-bracket/
123
Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomson-reuters-professional-website/reuters-website-goes-behind-paywall-in-new-strategy-idUSKBN2C21QU
97
33
Digital Audio 101: Playing Audio from a Microcontroller
https://blog.tarkalabs.com/digital-audio-101-playing-audio-from-a-microcontroller-5df1463616c
129
The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis Worse
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/4/12/the-american-jobs-plan-will-make-our-infrastructure-crisis-worse
76
7
Accurate, low-overhead per process bandwidth monitoring in 40 lines of bpftrace
https://www.gcardone.net/2020-07-31-per-process-bandwidth-monitoring-on-Linux-with-bpftrace/
75
34
A New Standard for Mobile App Security
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/a-new-standard-for-mobile-app-security.html
64
Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/man-who-fell-from-the-sky-airplane-stowaway-kenya-london
71
18
Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine writer, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/arts/frank-jacobs-dead.html
5
The sound of the feeling that cannot be spoken
https://granta.com/uwaa-fifty-sounds-polly-barton/
