585
85
Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-livebook?new=1
5 years ago
561
258
Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/18/proposal-treat-floc-as-a-security-concern/
422
278
Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855037
384
736
Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/04/18/2-men-dead-after-fiery-tesla-crash-in-spring-officials-say/
381
89
Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726
323
469
Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26850913
322
407
Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-mining-hash-rate-drops-as-blackouts-instituted-in-china-2021-04-16
281
46
Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges
https://gekkio.fi/blog/2021/power-consumption-of-game-boy-flash-cartridges/
275
105
Replace Google Analytics with a shell script
https://www.go350.com/posts/replace-google-analytics-with-a-shell-script/
262
273
How fit can you get from just walking?
https://www.gq.com/story/get-fit-from-just-walking
254
131
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
https://nltimes.nl/2021/04/17/huawei-able-eavesdrop-dutch-mobile-network-kpn-report
244
First steps with Rust
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/rust-first-steps/
102
Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-childrens-books-in-india
229
564
Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/04/10/small-cities-in-americas-mountain-west-are-booming
211
40
Chuck Geschke has died
https://apnews.com/article/business-john-warnock-san-francisco-b77f216f52d736a6b5a383a429208f51
202
127
Product-focused and sales-focused companies
https://itamargilad.com/product-led/
201
88
Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture
https://www.fastcompany.com/90622890/10-questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interview-that-will-really-expose-a-companys-culture
198
153
How Developers Choose Names
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487
186
66
Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS
https://jakedeichert.com/blog/reducing-rust-incremental-compilation-times-on-macos-by-70-percent/
172
251
Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-its-better-to-rent-than-to-own/618254
167
39
Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth
https://scitechdaily.com/need-a-new-tooth-drug-discovered-to-regenerate-lost-teeth/
162
93
China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet
https://www.justsecurity.org/75741/chinas-dystopian-new-ip-plan-shows-need-for-renewed-us-commitment-to-internet-governance/
159
35
Turning an iPad Pro into a classic Macintosh
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-pro-into-the-ultimate-classic-macintosh/
150
Show HN: Farolero – Common Lisp style-conditions and restarts for Clojure
https://github.com/IGJoshua/farolero
147
28
Wat (2012) [video]
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
142
112
Paternoster Lift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift
130
177
Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the internet
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8d9q/sex-workers-explain-why-the-safe-tech-act-will-break-the-internet
109
65
Show HN: hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions
https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/
108
Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/cf737f87-5e46-4433-aa4e-76891a1d2b99
23
The Lone Coder
https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/the-lone-coder-505212
97
26
Internal Consistency in Streaming Systems
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consistency-in-streaming-systems/
41
Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
https://aidmin.io
95
27
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/18/22390612/two-people-killed-fiery-tesla-crash-no-driver
94
PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/actionscript/articles/PLRM.pdf
92
25
Smartphones can detect solar storms
https://academictimes.com/smartphones-can-detect-huge-solar-storms/
91
61
The Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago
https://newrepublic.com/article/161808/ewing-annex-hotel-housing-crisis-chicago
87
101
Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_rms/
86
30
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine
83
72
Ask HN: How do you run better meetings?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26856387
80
114
Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-16/turkey-bans-cryptocurrency-payments-saying-risks-are-too-great
78
Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (2018)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/japan-hikikomori-isolation-society
76
10
Reverse-engineering a vintage comparator chip
http://www.righto.com/2021/04/reverse-engineering-vintage-comparator.html
75
20
The Curious Case of Port 0 (2019) [pdf]
http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/networking/networking2019/1570512603.pdf
71
69
A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-potato-battery-can-light-up-a-room-for-over-a-month-180948260/
34
Wikimedia: wprov
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Provenance