top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-04-19

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/

5 years ago

797 upvotes – 424 comments

The “Granny Knot”

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

5 years ago

673 upvotes – 255 comments

First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCqICI

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 116 comments

Unsettling capital letters

https://art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com/post/643105913844154368/fun-fact-about-me-is-that-when-i-was-a-kid-id

5 years ago

532 upvotes – 136 comments

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 119 comments

Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work

https://truzzi.me/hire-me-pay-what-you-want-interesting-work/

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 408 comments

Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 216 comments

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

https://www.mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-python

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 188 comments

Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_1C-3_23159_paper.pdf

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 201 comments

Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/04/19/is-facebook-buying-off-the-new-york-times/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 214 comments

Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proposed-acquisition-of-arm-limited-by-nvidia-corporation-public-interest-intervention

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 205 comments

Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader

https://www.tnhh.net/posts/zenreader-4.7-in-rss-eink-reader.html

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 111 comments

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 255 comments

Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist

https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 195 comments

Firefox 88.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 202 comments

Open Source Goes to Mars

https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 58 comments

Open source “split-flap” mechanical display

https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 91 comments

Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization

https://symphony.iohk.io/en/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 43 comments

You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)

https://zackkanter.com/2016/01/13/you-are-not-behind/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

https://autonews.io

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 204 comments
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