The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2022
We track 1,345 stories from April 2022, averaging 256 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 77 stories. Together they drew 229,665 comments, 171 per story on average.
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Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
bloomberg.com · zegl · 14 Apr 2022
2.7k pts
3.1k comments
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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
reuters.com · thm · 25 Apr 2022
2.5k pts
3.7k comments
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3
We lost 54k GitHub stars
httpie.io · todsacerdoti · 14 Apr 2022
1.9k pts
665 comments
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5
A few things to know before stealing my 914
hagerty.com · garrepi · 1 Apr 2022
1.5k pts
417 comments
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Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
healthcareitnews.com · dr_pardee · 27 Apr 2022
1.4k pts
1.3k comments
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One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
nrk.no · mmgu · 5 Apr 2022
1.3k pts
348 comments
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8
Inside the longest Atlassian outage
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · andyjohnson0 · 13 Apr 2022
1.2k pts
738 comments
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10
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
overengineer.dev · sneakymichael · 4 Apr 2022
1.1k pts
513 comments
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12
Bits of advice I wish I had known
kk.org · npalli · 28 Apr 2022
1.1k pts
634 comments
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13
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
techcrunch.com · spenvo · 18 Apr 2022
1k pts
237 comments
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16
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
freakingrectangle.wordpress.com · ewag · 15 Apr 2022
996 pts
543 comments
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17
Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
news.airbnb.com · mji · 29 Apr 2022
961 pts
716 comments
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18
Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
warp.dev · zachlloyd · 5 Apr 2022
946 pts
726 comments
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Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
ccleve · 4 Apr 2022
936 pts
417 comments
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HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
github.com · hrldcpr · 19 Apr 2022
921 pts
330 comments
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22
The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
quuxplusone.github.io · db48x · 17 Apr 2022
893 pts
448 comments
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23
Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
persepolis.getty.edu · avestura · 9 Apr 2022
879 pts
200 comments
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24
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
torrentfreak.com · TangerineDream · 15 Apr 2022
864 pts
446 comments
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25
De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
brave.com · w0ts0n · 19 Apr 2022
853 pts
336 comments
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26
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
twitter.com · manesioz · 8 Apr 2022
848 pts
394 comments
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Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
sec.gov · alexrustic · 5 Apr 2022
843 pts
1.4k comments
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28
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
nytimes.com · jbegley · 1 Apr 2022
841 pts
753 comments
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Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing
github.com · cgaebel · 22 Apr 2022
831 pts
140 comments
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30
Column – a chartered bank for developers
column.com · whockey · 21 Apr 2022
825 pts
282 comments
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31
Actual is going open-source
actualbudget.com · pbowyer · 29 Apr 2022
811 pts
318 comments
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32
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
slate.com · xweb · 18 Apr 2022
804 pts
394 comments
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33
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
bloomberg.com · thazework · 7 Apr 2022
790 pts
793 comments
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34
How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
covingtoninnovations.com · Secrethus · 17 Apr 2022
779 pts
153 comments
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35
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
lunduke.substack.com · marcobambini · 7 Apr 2022
768 pts
364 comments
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36
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
aeon.co · raattgift · 4 Apr 2022
765 pts
396 comments
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38
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
michael.stapelberg.ch · secure · 23 Apr 2022
753 pts
507 comments
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39
Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
slowsocial.us · CitrusFruits · 16 Apr 2022
752 pts
368 comments
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40
Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself
github.com · marcthe12 · 16 Apr 2022
752 pts
274 comments
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41
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
fasterthanli.me · 0xedb · 29 Apr 2022
748 pts
525 comments
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42
Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
axios.com · cwwc · 19 Apr 2022
743 pts
977 comments
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43
Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
geeky4qwerty · 2 Apr 2022
711 pts
813 comments
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44
No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
robkhenderson.substack.com · Bostonian · 24 Apr 2022
704 pts
1.1k comments
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45
Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
youtube.com · kibwen · 18 Apr 2022
699 pts
260 comments
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46
Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
theintercept.com · enraged_camel · 4 Apr 2022
693 pts
445 comments
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48
UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
citizenlab.ca · yablak · 18 Apr 2022
691 pts
353 comments
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49
What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · gregdoesit · 7 Apr 2022
685 pts
461 comments
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50
Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
halgir · 17 Apr 2022
685 pts
345 comments
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51
Van life (cancer edition) finale
imgur.com · BadCookie · 11 Apr 2022
678 pts
262 comments
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52
French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)
caranddriver.com · curmudgeon22 · 24 Apr 2022
675 pts
226 comments
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53
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
cnbc.com · grogu88 · 15 Apr 2022
669 pts
1.1k comments
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54
Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
twitter.com · keleftheriou · 23 Apr 2022
668 pts
410 comments
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55
A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says
nytimes.com · chrononaut · 21 Apr 2022
666 pts
436 comments
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57
Are you a baby? A litmus test
haleynahman.substack.com · mooreds · 4 Apr 2022
660 pts
309 comments
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58
U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
ionathan.ch · cbzbc · 13 Apr 2022
659 pts
295 comments
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59
Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
ns.nl · ar0 · 3 Apr 2022
651 pts
355 comments
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Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’
directorsblog.nih.gov · nihkolberg · 12 Apr 2022
651 pts
323 comments
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