1252
180
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies
5 years ago
1049
393
Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
https://danfabulich.medium.com/never-run-google-ads-if-you-have-an-android-app-897a20604450
693
455
The health benefits of better air
https://dynomight.net/air/
647
484
Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/dominance-of-apple-and-google%E2%80%99s-app-stores-impacting-competition-and-consumers
584
325
The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
https://gammawire.com/the-number-of-cities-with-municipal-broadband-has-jumped-over-450-in-two-years/
578
294
Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
https://therecord.media/security-firm-kaspersky-believes-it-found-new-cia-malware/
555
212
GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04-27-github-pages-permissions-policy-interest-cohort-header-added-to-all-pages-sites/
538
219
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/
514
329
Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-04-28/google-is-saving-1-billion-per-year-as-a-result-of-employees-working-from-home
504
192
Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
https://www.tglyn.ch/blog/amstel_gold/
479
255
Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
https://projectifi.io/
407
229
Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
https://blog.cloudandtree.com/2021/04/the-other-dollar/
389
196
Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/27/1208
355
222
Why we switched from Webpack to Vite
https://blog.replit.com/vite
338
158
Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/cuomo-aides-nursing-home-deaths.html
289
220
TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M
https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1385365742506364929
282
252
What's Accenture? (2020)
https://retool.com/blog/whats-accenture
280
89
Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets
https://github.com/supabase/realtime
266
162
Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/04/vertical-turbines-far-more-efficient-in-large-scale-wind-farms/
234
116
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
224
165
Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/facebook-hides-posts-calling-for-pm-modis-resignation-in-india/
206
30
Show HN: Minimal 3D creative coding tool – control 8×8×8 dots with JavaScript
https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/
204
372
Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407939/fortnite-biggest-platform-revenue-playstation-not-ios-iphone
194
145
Where does a candle go when it burns?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/randall-munroe-candle-xkcd.html
193
34
What Really Happened at Basecamp
https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp
188
319
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
179
44
A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-immune-system-protects-the-brain-20210428/
176
64
Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob
https://benstoneonline.com/posts/microsoft-bob-easter-egg/
173
92
Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-28/facebook-instagram-teenager-tageted-advertising-alcohol-vaping/100097590
166
Film simulations from scratch using Python
https://kevinmartinjose.com/2021/04/27/film-simulations-from-scratch-using-python/
155
77
30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git
74
A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js.git
150
47
Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
https://mars26.com/
143
124
The United States needs to learn how to learn
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/
141
67
Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/28/ideal-divisors-when-a-division-compiles-down-to-just-a-multiplication/
137
38
Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968908
135
93
On UML
https://www.sicpers.info/2021/04/on-uml/
6
Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation
https://xenia.jp/updates/2021/04/27/leaving-no-pixel-behind-new-render-target-cache-3x3-resolution-scaling.html
134
84
Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rare-chunks-of-earths-mantle-found-exposed-in-maryland
128
65
SEC Director of Enforcement resigns after a few days on the job
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-75
126
49
Diving Deep on S3 Consistency
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2021/04/s3-strong-consistency.html
125
54
Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies
https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2021/04/better-drainage-of-brain-debris-improves-alzheimers-disease-therapies
195
Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android-eddy-cue-emails-apple-epic-deposition
121
42
A theory of how developers seek information
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/informationforaging.html
120
90
What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/books/book-sales-publishing-pandemic-coronavirus.html
115
53
Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egyptologists-uncover-rare-tombs-before-pharaohs-2021-04-28/
37
Facebook advertisers target children interested in smoking, alcohol, weight loss
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/28/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss
110
163
AI Dungeon will block certain words, review content flagged as inappropriate
https://latitude.io/blog/update-to-our-community-ai-test-april-2021/
75
Why AI is harder than we think
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871
101
46
‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/04/frenssh-as-it-was-spak.html
100
20
Ed Balls Day
https://johnager.co.uk/2021/04/28/ed-balls-day-2011/
99
60
Next.js 10.2
https://nextjs.org/10-2
98
DHH: Let It All Out
https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
97
26
Adam's Apples
http://adamapples.blogspot.com/
94
172
Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space
https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/netspace
83
7
GitHub Collection: Made in India
https://github.com/collections/made-in-india
81
13
Protocol – An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols
http://www.luismg.com/protocol/
