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Top of Month - Apr 2021

1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
   (5 Apr 2021 | 4103 points | Comments)

2. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
   (21 Apr 2021 | 3025 points | Comments)

3. Internal Combustion Engine
   (30 Apr 2021 | 2333 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
   (7 Apr 2021 | 2022 points | Comments)

5. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
   (21 Apr 2021 | 1897 points | Comments)

6. Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research
   (21 Apr 2021 | 1883 points | Comments)

7. Just Be Rich
   (13 Apr 2021 | 1875 points | Comments)

8. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
   (9 Apr 2021 | 1595 points | Comments)

9. Microsoft Coffee
   (2 Apr 2021 | 1558 points | Comments)

10. Why Lichess will always be free
    (23 Apr 2021 | 1524 points | Comments)

11. Dan Kaminsky has died
    (24 Apr 2021 | 1414 points | Comments)

12. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
    (30 Apr 2021 | 1366 points | Comments)

13. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
    (8 Apr 2021 | 1330 points | Comments)

14. 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
    (3 Apr 2021 | 1296 points | Comments)

15. Yayagram
    (29 Apr 2021 | 1265 points | Comments)

16. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
    (28 Apr 2021 | 1252 points | Comments)

17. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
    (17 Apr 2021 | 1245 points | Comments)

18. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
    (15 Apr 2021 | 1209 points | Comments)

19. I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list
    (6 Apr 2021 | 1206 points | Comments)

20. My Current HTML Boilerplate
    (27 Apr 2021 | 1194 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: Lofi.cafe
    (14 Apr 2021 | 1192 points | Comments)

22. Google have declared Droidscript is malware
    (27 Apr 2021 | 1176 points | Comments)

23. Embrace the Grind
    (9 Apr 2021 | 1167 points | Comments)

24. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
    (20 Apr 2021 | 1109 points | Comments)

25. Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
    (28 Apr 2021 | 1049 points | Comments)

26. Screw it, I’ll host it myself
    (7 Apr 2021 | 1019 points | Comments)

27. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
    (15 Apr 2021 | 1017 points | Comments)

28. Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
    (2 Apr 2021 | 986 points | Comments)

29. Apple Introduces AirTag
    (20 Apr 2021 | 947 points | Comments)

30. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
    (14 Apr 2021 | 946 points | Comments)

31. Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
    (22 Apr 2021 | 931 points | Comments)

32. Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
    (15 Apr 2021 | 920 points | Comments)

33. Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
    (25 Apr 2021 | 915 points | Comments)

34. EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
    (22 Apr 2021 | 913 points | Comments)

35. Changes at Basecamp
    (26 Apr 2021 | 883 points | Comments)

36. Et Tu, Signal?
    (7 Apr 2021 | 880 points | Comments)

37. Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
    (6 Apr 2021 | 847 points | Comments)

38. Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
    (26 Apr 2021 | 831 points | Comments)

39. Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
    (12 Apr 2021 | 817 points | Comments)

40. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability
    (14 Apr 2021 | 801 points | Comments)

41. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
    (19 Apr 2021 | 797 points | Comments)

42. How People Get Rich Now
    (12 Apr 2021 | 779 points | Comments)

43. The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
    (23 Apr 2021 | 763 points | Comments)

44. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
    (23 Apr 2021 | 753 points | Comments)

45. Show HN: PDFs from HTML
    (4 Apr 2021 | 742 points | Comments)

46. Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
    (2 Apr 2021 | 727 points | Comments)

47. Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
    (29 Apr 2021 | 726 points | Comments)

48. Coinbase from YC to DPO
    (14 Apr 2021 | 714 points | Comments)

49. Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
    (5 Apr 2021 | 713 points | Comments)

50. This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
    (2 Apr 2021 | 711 points | Comments)

51. Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
    (20 Apr 2021 | 710 points | Comments)

52. It's your device, you should be able to repair it
    (30 Apr 2021 | 707 points | Comments)

53. OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
    (12 Apr 2021 | 706 points | Comments)

54. Use console.log() like a pro (2020)
    (12 Apr 2021 | 700 points | Comments)

55. IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
    (20 Apr 2021 | 695 points | Comments)

56. The health benefits of better air
    (28 Apr 2021 | 693 points | Comments)

57. Docker without Docker
    (9 Apr 2021 | 689 points | Comments)

58. Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
    (25 Apr 2021 | 684 points | Comments)

59. Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
    (26 Apr 2021 | 684 points | Comments)

60. EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
    (30 Apr 2021 | 684 points | Comments)

61. I hope work from home continues
    (6 Apr 2021 | 682 points | Comments)

62. Monkey MindPong
    (8 Apr 2021 | 678 points | Comments)

63. Get better at Googling
    (23 Apr 2021 | 678 points | Comments)

64. The “Granny Knot”
    (19 Apr 2021 | 673 points | Comments)

65. Deno 1.9
    (13 Apr 2021 | 670 points | Comments)

66. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
    (21 Apr 2021 | 668 points | Comments)

67. Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
    (8 Apr 2021 | 667 points | Comments)

68. New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
    (4 Apr 2021 | 664 points | Comments)

69. Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
    (26 Apr 2021 | 659 points | Comments)

70. Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
    (12 Apr 2021 | 658 points | Comments)

71. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
    (16 Apr 2021 | 658 points | Comments)

72. Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
    (9 Apr 2021 | 657 points | Comments)

73. The Norway Problem
    (2 Apr 2021 | 656 points | Comments)

74. Has UML died without anyone noticing?
    (25 Apr 2021 | 656 points | Comments)

75. Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
    (28 Apr 2021 | 647 points | Comments)

76. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
    (21 Apr 2021 | 645 points | Comments)

77. Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
    (3 Apr 2021 | 643 points | Comments)

78. Writing tools I learned from The Economist
    (5 Apr 2021 | 633 points | Comments)

79. Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
    (16 Apr 2021 | 628 points | Comments)

80. My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
    (27 Apr 2021 | 626 points | Comments)

81. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
    (5 Apr 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

82. Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
    (4 Apr 2021 | 609 points | Comments)

83. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
    (20 Apr 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

84. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
    (23 Apr 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

85. Swimlanes.io – generated editable sequence diagrams
    (27 Apr 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

86. Programming is hard
    (6 Apr 2021 | 597 points | Comments)

87. Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out
    (9 Apr 2021 | 592 points | Comments)

88. We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
    (26 Apr 2021 | 592 points | Comments)

89. 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
    (17 Apr 2021 | 590 points | Comments)

90. How Doctors Die (2013)
    (3 Apr 2021 | 589 points | Comments)

91. Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
    (16 Apr 2021 | 586 points | Comments)

92. Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
    (25 Apr 2021 | 586 points | Comments)

93. Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
    (5 Apr 2021 | 585 points | Comments)

94. Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir
    (18 Apr 2021 | 585 points | Comments)

95. The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
    (28 Apr 2021 | 584 points | Comments)

96. Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20
    (24 Apr 2021 | 578 points | Comments)

97. Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
    (28 Apr 2021 | 578 points | Comments)

98. Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
    (20 Apr 2021 | 576 points | Comments)

99. The Real Book
    (8 Apr 2021 | 575 points | Comments)

100. Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
     (16 Apr 2021 | 575 points | Comments)