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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. GitHub, fuck your name change

    3301 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  2. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

    1932 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  3. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

    1673 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  4. It Can Happen to You

    1670 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  5. Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

    1456 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  6. Is that ship still stuck?

    1421 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  7. All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

    1324 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  8. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

    1244 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  9. Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

    1210 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  10. Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

    1149 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  11. Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

    1138 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  12. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

    1105 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  13. Click

    1077 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  14. Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

    1075 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  15. Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

    1065 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  16. Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

    1057 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  17. Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

    1041 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  18. Audacity 3.0

    1030 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  19. 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server

    1028 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  20. NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images

    1023 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  21. I want a computer that I own

    988 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  22. Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

    984 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  23. Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

    965 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  24. “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

    964 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  25. Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy

    962 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  26. SQLite is not a toy database

    961 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  27. Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up

    950 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  28. Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web

    933 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  29. Charts.css

    923 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  30. Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling

    922 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  31. Louvre makes its entire collection available online

    920 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  32. Let’s fix font size

    908 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  33. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

    903 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  34. Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos

    897 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  35. The Deno Company

    880 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  36. Killing TurboTax

    879 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  37. Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

    868 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  38. Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace

    859 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  39. Git's list of banned C functions

    856 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  40. The Drivers Cooperative

    853 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  41. HTTPWTF

    835 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  42. 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

    822 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  43. Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF

    820 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  44. Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe

    813 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  45. Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)

    806 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  46. Fuckin' user interface design, I swear

    805 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  47. Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

    787 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  48. Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

    784 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  49. Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

    782 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  50. Inside a viral website

    775 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  51. Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux

    772 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  52. Flutter 2

    763 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  53. NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

    761 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  54. On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

    760 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  55. Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp

    741 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  56. Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

    739 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  57. Security.txt

    737 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  58. Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun

    737 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  59. Crystal 1.0 – What to expect

    727 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  60. How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application

    725 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  61. ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’

    714 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  62. RIP Google Reader

    709 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  63. Permission.site

    708 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  64. Animated Engines

    690 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  65. “User engagement” is code for “addiction”

    688 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  66. The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher

    685 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  67. Apt Encounters of the Third Kind

    682 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  68. Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

    680 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  69. Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time

    678 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  70. Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (2016)

    671 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  71. WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

    669 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  72. Signed Char Lotte

    669 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  73. Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital

    669 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  74. Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing

    666 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  75. Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

    654 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  76. Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky

    652 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  77. Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed

    649 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  78. Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts

    647 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  79. -2000 Lines of Code

    644 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  80. Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

    635 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  81. Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

    634 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  82. Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]

    629 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  83. Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning

    629 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  84. Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

    628 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  85. Write libraries instead of services, where possible

    628 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  86. Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery

    626 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  87. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

    615 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  88. Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust

    614 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  89. Open source projects should run office hours

    610 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  90. Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies

    606 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  91. Speed of Rust vs. C

    605 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  92. 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

    603 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  93. Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone

    603 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  94. Show HN: Video Game in a Font

    598 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  95. Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

    594 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  96. Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work

    587 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  97. Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

    585 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  98. We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling

    578 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  99. Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you

    572 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  100. Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible

    566 points • comment • mar 10, 2021