797
424
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/
4 years ago
673
255
The “Granny Knot”
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
546
116
First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCqICI
532
136
Unsettling capital letters
https://art-by-kaine-shields.tumblr.com/post/643105913844154368/fun-fact-about-me-is-that-when-i-was-a-kid-id
515
119
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html
507
408
Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
https://truzzi.me/hire-me-pay-what-you-want-interesting-work/
467
216
Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8
451
188
Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
https://www.mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-python
410
201
Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_1C-3_23159_paper.pdf
401
214
Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/04/19/is-facebook-buying-off-the-new-york-times/
393
205
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
352
111
Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader
https://www.tnhh.net/posts/zenreader-4.7-in-rss-eink-reader.html
335
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
321
195
Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html
317
202
Firefox 88.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/
298
58
Open Source Goes to Mars
https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/
293
91
Open source “split-flap” mechanical display
https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap
267
43
Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization
https://symphony.iohk.io/en/
245
You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016)
https://zackkanter.com/2016/01/13/you-are-not-behind/
243
204
Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
https://autonews.io
232
263
Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2021/april/bank-of-england-statement-on-central-bank-digital-currency
224
Show HN: React Flow – library for creating node based editors and apps
https://github.com/wbkd/react-flow
222
84
Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering
https://fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io/JupyterNotes/piano.html
122
DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi
https://ruha.camera/
221
230
How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/
220
59
ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
https://archivebox.io/
208
138
Everyone Loves the $100M Deli
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-19/everyone-loves-the-100-million-new-jersey-deli-except-david-einhorn-knottrmb
Job board to work on problems like climate change and food insecurity
https://goodjobs.careers/
199
72
MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/mirkopc-full-featured-raspberry-pi-desktop-computer
198
Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
https://francoisbest.com/posts/2021/hashvatars?demo=Hello,%20Hacker%20News%21
196
63
This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display
https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1383865733063479304
191
Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/
186
169
The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/9/17544220/serial-experiments-lain-anime-20-years
170
38
Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU
https://lwn.net/Articles/851184/
74
What's in the Box?
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/whats-in-the-box
168
371
Word usage guidance and alternative terms
https://developers.google.com/style/word-list
156
19
Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor
https://starboard.gg/gz/open-source-observablehq-nfwK2VA
155
Prions
https://www.countere.com/home/prions-are-going-to-end-the-world
147
98
Start a Business from Plastic Waste
http://preciousplastic.com/
142
103
Proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624
141
129
On the bare necessity of psychological safety
https://medium.com/luminovo/on-the-bare-necessity-of-psychological-safety-bdb34e311b8c
105
Visual Studio 2022
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=232313
132
36
Curl those funny IPv4 addresses
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4-addresses/
124
Test for lists in Cython
https://github.com/00sapo/cython_list_test
133
Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI
https://www.humio.com/whats-new/blog/why-we-chose-elm-for-humio-s-web-ui
121
83
Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01024-9
56
Huawei ‘may have eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network’s calls’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/19/huawei-may-have-eavesdropped-on-dutch-mobile-networks-calls
52
PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
https://retroviator.com/2020/03/01/pidp-11/
Why Specifications Don't Compose
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/spec-composition/
110
53
Heating Water with Fire (2019)
https://www.homewoodstoves.co.nz/resources/heating-water-with-fire/
106
227
Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/19/apple-parler-return-app-store/
1
A practical guide on generating hellishly good ideas
https://www.sobieckipioneering.com/creativity-guide?ref=hackernews0419
AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-epyc-milan-breaks-cinebench-record-heres-a-10nm-ice-lake-xeon-comparison
48
India’s Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indians-who-cycled-around-the-world
101
45
J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA
https://j-core.org/
35
Cost Of Goods Sold
https://every.to/napkin-math/cogs-how-i-bankrupted-moviepass-09e6aa23-a102-40eb-92ff-3f920a291927
Patent Loving Judge Keeps Pissing Off Patent Appeals Court, Doesn't Seem to Care
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210409/00165046581/patent-loving-judge-keeps-pissing-off-patent-appeals-court-doesnt-seem-to-care-very-much.shtml
125
Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters
https://www.ft.com/content/cad45ac2-3778-4db6-a43c-96b83b195516
95
20
Cellular Automata (1983) [pdf]
https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/34/2020/07/cellular-automata.pdf
Tail latency might matter more than you think
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/04/19/latency.html
86
40
Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison