The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2022

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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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We lost 54k GitHub stars httpie.io · todsacerdoti · 14 Apr 2022

1.9k pts 665 comments

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Dall-E 2 openai.com · yigitdemirag · 6 Apr 2022

1.8k pts 485 comments

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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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Inside the longest Atlassian outage newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · andyjohnson0 · 13 Apr 2022

1.2k pts 738 comments

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Jd code.jsoftware.com · tosh · 4 Apr 2022

1.2k pts 129 comments

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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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Etsy Strike etsystrike.org · KarlKemp · 11 Apr 2022

1.1k pts 554 comments

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Bits of advice I wish I had known kk.org · npalli · 28 Apr 2022

1.1k pts 634 comments

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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms techcrunch.com · spenvo · 18 Apr 2022

1k pts 237 comments

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Infinite Mac macos8.app · bookofjoe · 26 Apr 2022

1k pts 323 comments

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Framework Laptop Mainboard github.com · hecanjog · 19 Apr 2022

1k pts 250 comments

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When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code freakingrectangle.wordpress.com · ewag · 15 Apr 2022

996 pts 543 comments

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Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere news.airbnb.com · mji · 29 Apr 2022

961 pts 716 comments

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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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Heresy paulgraham.com · prtkgpt · 10 Apr 2022

929 pts 1.3k 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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The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten quuxplusone.github.io · db48x · 17 Apr 2022

893 pts 448 comments

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Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL persepolis.getty.edu · avestura · 9 Apr 2022

879 pts 200 comments

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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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De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy brave.com · w0ts0n · 19 Apr 2022

853 pts 336 comments

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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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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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Column – a chartered bank for developers column.com · whockey · 21 Apr 2022

825 pts 282 comments

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Actual is going open-source actualbudget.com · pbowyer · 29 Apr 2022

811 pts 318 comments

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TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing slate.com · xweb · 18 Apr 2022

804 pts 394 comments

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Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes bloomberg.com · thazework · 7 Apr 2022

790 pts 793 comments

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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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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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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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New(ish) command line tools jvns.ca · grappler · 12 Apr 2022

760 pts 244 comments

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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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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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Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself github.com · marcthe12 · 16 Apr 2022

752 pts 274 comments

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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang fasterthanli.me · 0xedb · 29 Apr 2022

748 pts 525 comments

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Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years axios.com · cwwc · 19 Apr 2022

743 pts 977 comments

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Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”? geeky4qwerty · 2 Apr 2022

711 pts 813 comments

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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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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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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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The next Google dkb.io · dbrereton · 5 Apr 2022

691 pts 542 comments

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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus citizenlab.ca · yablak · 18 Apr 2022

691 pts 353 comments

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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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Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest? halgir · 17 Apr 2022

685 pts 345 comments

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Van life (cancer edition) finale imgur.com · BadCookie · 11 Apr 2022

678 pts 262 comments

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French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020) caranddriver.com · curmudgeon22 · 24 Apr 2022

675 pts 226 comments

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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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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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A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says nytimes.com · chrononaut · 21 Apr 2022

666 pts 436 comments

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Ask HN: Share your personal site MaxLeiter · 6 Apr 2022

665 pts 1.4k comments

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Are you a baby? A litmus test haleynahman.substack.com · mooreds · 4 Apr 2022

660 pts 309 comments

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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow ionathan.ch · cbzbc · 13 Apr 2022

659 pts 295 comments

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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