The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2017

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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award news.mit.edu · melqdusy · 4 Apr 2017

1.7k pts 287 comments

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Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) josephg.com · charlieirish · 11 Apr 2017

1.5k pts 996 comments

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What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? privacylog.blogspot.com · ivank · 21 Apr 2017

1.5k pts 438 comments

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We’re dropping Google Ads groundup.org.za · alex_hirner · 12 Apr 2017

1.5k pts 584 comments

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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone lyrebird.ai · adbrebs · 24 Apr 2017

1.4k pts 298 comments

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Build Your Own Text Editor viewsourcecode.org · matthewbauer · 5 Apr 2017

1.3k pts 159 comments

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Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 29 Apr 2017

1.3k pts 211 comments

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How We Built r/Place redditblog.com · dkasper · 13 Apr 2017

1.2k pts 242 comments

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Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US nytimes.com · throw9982 · 18 Apr 2017

1.1k pts 258 comments

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A Competitive Programmer's Handbook cses.fi · aaggarwal · 14 Apr 2017

1.1k pts 157 comments

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Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] djm.cc · Pamar · 20 Apr 2017

1.1k pts 189 comments

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USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources usafacts.org · neuralFatigue · 18 Apr 2017

1k pts 340 comments

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How SSH got port number 22 ssh.com · kissgyorgy · 23 Apr 2017

1k pts 207 comments

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An off-grid social network staltz.com · staltz · 6 Apr 2017

1k pts 366 comments

15

IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe indiehackers.com · ploggingdev · 11 Apr 2017

1k pts 235 comments

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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things atlasobscura.com · Hooke · 1 Apr 2017

959 pts 322 comments

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The Mac Pro Lives daringfireball.net · neilprosser · 4 Apr 2017

877 pts 801 comments

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PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer groups.google.com · wfunction · 13 Apr 2017

854 pts 225 comments

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Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework techcrunch.com · apetresc · 18 Apr 2017

851 pts 406 comments

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Wikipedia blocked in Turkey turkeyblocks.org · alansammarone · 29 Apr 2017

850 pts 450 comments

21

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications dave.cheney.net · darccio · 11 Apr 2017

847 pts 521 comments

22

Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers zabana · 19 Apr 2017

847 pts 312 comments

23

Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value bloomberg.com · ayanai · 3 Apr 2017

846 pts 586 comments

24

Bob Taylor Has Died nytimes.com · my_first_acct · 14 Apr 2017

841 pts 84 comments

25

The Boring Company [video] boringcompany.com · janvdberg · 28 Apr 2017

836 pts 752 comments

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Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support chromestatus.com · vvoyer · 12 Apr 2017

834 pts 154 comments

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Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account reuters.com · anigbrowl · 6 Apr 2017

831 pts 493 comments

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Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser wsj.com · kristianc · 19 Apr 2017

824 pts 487 comments

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I’m a freelance copywriter getcoleman.com · sigmundritz · 1 Apr 2017

788 pts 113 comments

30

Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app airbnb.design · pouwerkerk · 25 Apr 2017

787 pts 95 comments

31

A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu blog.dustinkirkland.com · dustinkirkland · 6 Apr 2017

786 pts 227 comments

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A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator blogs.msdn.microsoft.com · Doubleguitars · 18 Apr 2017

773 pts 231 comments

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Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue nytimes.com · schoen · 3 Apr 2017

769 pts 413 comments

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Semantic UI semantic-ui.com · jhund · 10 Apr 2017

768 pts 250 comments

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Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors wsws.org · troubleden · 19 Apr 2017

764 pts 265 comments

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If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it medium.com · iDemonix · 29 Apr 2017

762 pts 378 comments

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Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence insights.ubuntu.com · popey · 5 Apr 2017

756 pts 456 comments

38

Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone blog.google · kbyatnal · 11 Apr 2017

732 pts 143 comments

39

New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary nytlive.nytimes.com · mendelk · 7 Apr 2017

718 pts 524 comments

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Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid github.com · rendx · 26 Apr 2017

715 pts 182 comments

41

Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job 80000hours.org · robertwiblin · 25 Apr 2017

693 pts 246 comments

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India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste gatesnotes.com · gauMah · 26 Apr 2017

687 pts 281 comments

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Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system techcrunch.com · rbanffy · 3 Apr 2017

680 pts 402 comments

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Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons twitter.com · Yrlec · 8 Apr 2017

657 pts 297 comments

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Robert M. Pirsig has died npr.org · molecule · 24 Apr 2017

655 pts 261 comments

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How Bank of America Gave Away My Money soraven.com · alienchow · 6 Apr 2017

640 pts 250 comments

47

iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch community.garadget.com · ant6n · 4 Apr 2017

638 pts 436 comments

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Color Night Vision (2016) [video] kottke.org · Tomte · 7 Apr 2017

625 pts 156 comments

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System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house blog.system76.com · b01t · 20 Apr 2017

617 pts 323 comments

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Stupid security things troyhunt.com · troyhunt · 28 Apr 2017

609 pts 159 comments

51

Unsupervised sentiment neuron blog.openai.com · gdb · 6 Apr 2017

603 pts 126 comments

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Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start? ihoys · 5 Apr 2017

602 pts 248 comments

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Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution phys.org · fh973 · 24 Apr 2017

597 pts 308 comments

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Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters rockpapershotgun.com · danso · 4 Apr 2017

597 pts 273 comments

55

Jupyter Notebook 5.0 blog.jupyter.org · sornars · 4 Apr 2017

588 pts 110 comments

56

Introducing Increment stripe.com · sinak · 13 Apr 2017

574 pts 106 comments

57

How to Become Well-Connected firstround.com · rchen8 · 25 Apr 2017

573 pts 140 comments

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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS aws.amazon.com · jeffbarr · 19 Apr 2017

572 pts 182 comments

59

A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components github.com · lclarkmichalek · 20 Apr 2017

571 pts 305 comments

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Why Use Postgres? craigkerstiens.com · timf · 30 Apr 2017

568 pts 225 comments