The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2017
We track 1,078 stories from April 2017, averaging 249 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 132,810 comments, 123 per story on average.
1
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
news.mit.edu · melqdusy · 4 Apr 2017
1.7k pts
287 comments
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2
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
josephg.com · charlieirish · 11 Apr 2017
1.5k pts
996 comments
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3
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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4
We’re dropping Google Ads
groundup.org.za · alex_hirner · 12 Apr 2017
1.5k pts
584 comments
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5
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
lyrebird.ai · adbrebs · 24 Apr 2017
1.4k pts
298 comments
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6
Build Your Own Text Editor
viewsourcecode.org · matthewbauer · 5 Apr 2017
1.3k pts
159 comments
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7
Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 29 Apr 2017
1.3k pts
211 comments
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9
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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10
A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
cses.fi · aaggarwal · 14 Apr 2017
1.1k pts
157 comments
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12
USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
usafacts.org · neuralFatigue · 18 Apr 2017
1k pts
340 comments
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15
IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
indiehackers.com · ploggingdev · 11 Apr 2017
1k pts
235 comments
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16
Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
atlasobscura.com · Hooke · 1 Apr 2017
959 pts
322 comments
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17
The Mac Pro Lives
daringfireball.net · neilprosser · 4 Apr 2017
877 pts
801 comments
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18
PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
groups.google.com · wfunction · 13 Apr 2017
854 pts
225 comments
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19
Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
techcrunch.com · apetresc · 18 Apr 2017
851 pts
406 comments
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20
Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
turkeyblocks.org · alansammarone · 29 Apr 2017
850 pts
450 comments
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21
Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
dave.cheney.net · darccio · 11 Apr 2017
847 pts
521 comments
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22
Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
zabana · 19 Apr 2017
847 pts
312 comments
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23
Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
bloomberg.com · ayanai · 3 Apr 2017
846 pts
586 comments
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25
The Boring Company [video]
boringcompany.com · janvdberg · 28 Apr 2017
836 pts
752 comments
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26
Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
chromestatus.com · vvoyer · 12 Apr 2017
834 pts
154 comments
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27
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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28
Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
wsj.com · kristianc · 19 Apr 2017
824 pts
487 comments
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29
I’m a freelance copywriter
getcoleman.com · sigmundritz · 1 Apr 2017
788 pts
113 comments
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30
Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app
airbnb.design · pouwerkerk · 25 Apr 2017
787 pts
95 comments
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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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32
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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33
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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35
Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
wsws.org · troubleden · 19 Apr 2017
764 pts
265 comments
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36
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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37
Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
insights.ubuntu.com · popey · 5 Apr 2017
756 pts
456 comments
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38
Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
blog.google · kbyatnal · 11 Apr 2017
732 pts
143 comments
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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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40
Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
github.com · rendx · 26 Apr 2017
715 pts
182 comments
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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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42
India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
gatesnotes.com · gauMah · 26 Apr 2017
687 pts
281 comments
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43
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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44
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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46
How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
soraven.com · alienchow · 6 Apr 2017
640 pts
250 comments
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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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48
Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
kottke.org · Tomte · 7 Apr 2017
625 pts
156 comments
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49
System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
blog.system76.com · b01t · 20 Apr 2017
617 pts
323 comments
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51
Unsupervised sentiment neuron
blog.openai.com · gdb · 6 Apr 2017
603 pts
126 comments
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52
Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
ihoys · 5 Apr 2017
602 pts
248 comments
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53
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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54
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
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57
How to Become Well-Connected
firstround.com · rchen8 · 25 Apr 2017
573 pts
140 comments
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58
CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
aws.amazon.com · jeffbarr · 19 Apr 2017
572 pts
182 comments
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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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