1524
446
Why Lichess will always be free
https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-always-be-free.
4 years ago
763
277
The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/23/great-malaria-vaccine-news
753
464
Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
https://nofilmschool.com/apple-movie-buys
678
289
Get better at Googling
https://markodenic.com/use-google-like-a-pro/
604
918
Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/322120-apples-m1-positioning-mocks-every-x86-cpu-amd-and-intel-have-ever-launched
508
98
A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
https://protomaps.com/blog/new-way-to-make-maps/
507
171
Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
http://beej.us/guide/bgc/pdf/bgc_usl_c_1.pdf
496
191
Light Pollution Map
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
415
148
Cycles X
https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/
414
108
Lego Microscope
https://github.com/tobetz/LegoMicroscope
402
4
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357
363
327
Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56841946
314
284
UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/23/court-clears-39-post-office-staff-convicted-due-to-corrupt-data
307
366
Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912321
300
71
Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser
https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine
274
228
Mars sucks
https://www.marssucks.com/
81
The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/
225
72
Referees’ home-bias in football disappears without audience: study
https://runrepeat.com/refereeing-analysis-post-covid-soccer
216
632
Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4
https://abc7.com/volkswagen-id4-electric-suv-vehicles-volkswagon/10539182/
211
39
A curated list of Music DSP and audio programming resources
https://github.com/olilarkin/awesome-musicdsp
209
371
4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html
198
57
Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi
https://vizycam.com/
185
218
CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson vaccine
https://www.axios.com/cdc-panel-johnson-johnson-vaccine-pause-lift-dfc002cf-716c-465b-86db-861cb0f1b4a1.html
178
105
Wasm3 compiles itself (using LLVM/Clang compiled to WASM)
https://twitter.com/wasm3_engine/status/1384288567627640839
172
141
Minio Changes License to AGPL
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/069432566fcfac1f1053677cc925ddafd750730a
164
120
NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/
162
The culture war is killing us [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRHn_Dz_js
161
Some useful regular expressions for programmers
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/22/some-useful-regular-expressions-for-programmers/
152
231
Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab
https://newatlas.com/science/human-monkey-chimera-embryos/
150
49
Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/04/digging-for-performance-gold.html
119
'World’s most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-56818538
144
50
Using <details> for menus and dialogs (2019)
https://css-tricks.com/using-details-for-menus-and-dialogs-is-an-interesting-idea/
128
27
The Secret Life of Components: Springs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dethuGX2IGs
123
145
Suicide has become rarer during the pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/24/surprisingly-suicide-has-become-rarer-during-the-pandemic
149
Police search cryptocurrency trading firm after Turks say they were scammed
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-crypto-traders-file-complaints-after-access-accounts-frozen-lawyer-2021-04-22/
52
Semantic Satiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
110
63
A Better Model for Stacked Pull Requests
https://timothyandrew.dev/blog/git-stack/
97
28
Do you hate the Google's Chrome shortened address bar?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912317
96
82
IPv6 Fragmentation Loss
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2021-04/v6frag.html
38
Ask HN: How to Contact YouTube?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916096
87
20
A strange determinant – Timothy Gowers solves a problem [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjhpzEoXFs
58
Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google code?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/does-andy-warhol-get-same-copyright-treatment-as-google-code
84
116
Am I Doctor Stallman?
https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html
83
6
Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00971-7
18
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine (2018)
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8453/
260
Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/half-countrys-remaining-mall-based-department-stores-are-expected-shutter-by-2025/
Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4