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April 2017 Archive
1.
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award (news.mit.edu)
1735 points by melqdusy on Apr 4, 2017 | 287 comments
2.
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com)
1519 points by charlieirish on Apr 11, 2017 | 996 comments
3.
What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? (privacylog.blogspot.com)
1494 points by ivank on Apr 21, 2017 | 438 comments
4.
We’re dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)
1477 points by alex_hirner on Apr 12, 2017 | 584 comments
5.
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone (lyrebird.ai)
1401 points by adbrebs on Apr 24, 2017 | 298 comments
6.
Build Your Own Text Editor (viewsourcecode.org)
1275 points by matthewbauer on Apr 5, 2017 | 159 comments
7.
Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego (jacquesmattheij.com)
1264 points by jacquesm on Apr 29, 2017 | 211 comments
8.
How We Built r/Place (redditblog.com)
1152 points by dkasper on Apr 13, 2017 | 242 comments
9.
Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US (nytimes.com)
1124 points by throw9982 on Apr 18, 2017 | 258 comments
10.
A Competitive Programmer's Handbook (cses.fi)
1117 points by aaggarwal on Apr 14, 2017 | 157 comments
11.
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] (djm.cc)
1080 points by Pamar on Apr 20, 2017 | 189 comments
12.
USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources (usafacts.org)
1044 points by neuralFatigue on Apr 18, 2017 | 340 comments
13.
How SSH got port number 22 (ssh.com)
1034 points by kissgyorgy on Apr 23, 2017 | 207 comments
14.
An off-grid social network (staltz.com)
1031 points by staltz on Apr 6, 2017 | 366 comments
15.
IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe (indiehackers.com)
1000 points by ploggingdev on Apr 11, 2017 | 235 comments
16.
Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things (atlasobscura.com)
959 points by Hooke on Apr 1, 2017 | 322 comments
17.
The Mac Pro Lives (daringfireball.net)
877 points by neilprosser on Apr 4, 2017 | 801 comments
18.
PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer (groups.google.com)
854 points by wfunction on Apr 13, 2017 | 225 comments
19.
Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework (techcrunch.com)
851 points by apetresc on Apr 18, 2017 | 406 comments
20.
Wikipedia blocked in Turkey (turkeyblocks.org)
850 points by alansammarone on Apr 29, 2017 | 450 comments
21.
Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications (dave.cheney.net)
847 points by im_dario on Apr 11, 2017 | 521 comments
22.
Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
847 points by zabana on Apr 19, 2017 | 312 comments
23.
Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value (bloomberg.com)
846 points by ayanai on Apr 3, 2017 | 586 comments
24.
Bob Taylor Has Died (nytimes.com)
841 points by my_first_acct on Apr 14, 2017 | 84 comments
25.
The Boring Company [video] (boringcompany.com)
836 points by janvdberg on Apr 28, 2017 | 752 comments
26.
Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support (chromestatus.com)
834 points by vvoyer on Apr 12, 2017 | 154 comments
27.
Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account (reuters.com)
831 points by anigbrowl on Apr 6, 2017 | 493 comments
28.
Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser (wsj.com)
824 points by kristianc on Apr 19, 2017 | 487 comments
29.
I’m a freelance copywriter (getcoleman.com)
788 points by sigmundritz on Apr 1, 2017 | 113 comments
30.
Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app (airbnb.design)
787 points by pouwerkerk on Apr 25, 2017 | 95 comments