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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Astronomers detect a black hole on the move

    94 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  2. U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time

    94 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  3. DoD is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals

    94 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  4. Show HN: Create your own Codecademy-style lessons

    94 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  5. 6502 SpASM (6502 Spreadsheet Assembler and Linker)

    94 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  6. Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (2013)

    94 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  7. Organizations announced for Google Summer of Code 2021

    94 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  8. CFTC charges two individuals with multi-million digital asset pump-and-dump

    94 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  9. What Is the “Mffam” Policy?

    94 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  10. How to Build a Community: Starting with “Why?”

    94 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  11. Extreme weather events of 535–536

    93 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  12. GIMP PyDev

    93 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  13. Kanji Club: Search Kanji by Parts with Instant Feedback

    93 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  14. VUW Accidentally Wipes Desktop Computers

    93 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  15. Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?

    93 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  16. You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)

    93 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  17. OpenGL Superbible

    93 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  18. Conflicted Capital

    92 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  19. WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed German communications laws

    92 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  20. The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    92 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  21. Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020)

    92 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  22. Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users

    92 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  23. Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)

    92 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  24. Phthalates Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce

    92 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  25. Catastrophic Cancellation (2020)

    92 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  26. Mexico's Decision to Ban Glyphosate Has Rocked the Agribusiness World

    92 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  27. Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

    92 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  28. Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans

    92 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  29. Did the black death rampage across the world a century earlier than we thought?

    92 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  30. Kroki – Generate Diagrams from GraphViz, Mermaid, PlantUML, Vega, Vega-Lite

    92 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  31. Pulling Bits from ROM Silicon Die Images: Unknown Architecture

    92 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  32. Tony Hsieh bankrolled his followers, who enabled his risky lifestyle

    92 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  33. SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (2019)

    92 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  34. Launch HN: Runops (YC W21) – A better cloud shell for production apps

    92 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  35. Parkinson's gene may impair how new neurons are made throughout our lifetime

    92 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  36. BitClout, a social network with big backers and vocal critics

    91 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  37. An argument that nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse

    91 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  38. Supreme Court expands meaning of 'seizure' under 4th Amendment

    91 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  39. Applicative Parsing

    91 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  40. Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019)

    91 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  41. Show HN: Mito – Write Python/Pandas faster by editing a spreadsheet, in Jupyter

    91 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  42. Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes

    91 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  43. Banned Seuss

    91 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  44. Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

    91 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  45. Google Cloud Networking reporting issues

    91 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  46. Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report (2020) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  47. Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)

    90 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  48. Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods

    90 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  49. Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe

    90 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  50. Tips for Individual and Group Brainstorming

    90 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  51. The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it

    90 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  52. Apple is removing Rosetta from Macs during updates in certain countries

    90 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  53. Japanese man leaves horrible job, gets horrible letter from the company

    90 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  54. What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?

    90 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  55. ImHUI: Imgui-style library for the web using actual HTML output

    90 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  56. FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

    89 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  57. A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning

    89 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  58. Programming quotes

    89 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  59. Show HN: Futuure – hash-certified public prediction store

    89 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  60. A Discriminatory Algorithm Wrongly Accused Thousands of Families of Fraud

    89 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  61. Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?

    89 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  62. The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer

    89 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  63. The Global Population Crisis That Never Was

    89 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  64. How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

    89 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  65. Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

    89 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  66. Atari 800XL PCB Remake

    89 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  67. NASA completes engine test firing of moon rocket on 2nd try

    89 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  68. Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors

    89 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  69. Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century

    89 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  70. Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams

    88 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  71. Is autism the legacy of humans evolving the ability to innovate?

    88 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  72. Why Do We Call These “DuPont” Connectors?

    88 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  73. Honest Microservices

    88 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  74. Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

    88 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  75. Apple users group meeting with Steve Wozniak (1978) [audio]

    88 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  76. GNU Autotools: A Tutorial [pdf]

    88 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  77. Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics Without Vector Supervision

    88 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  78. The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper

    88 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  79. On getting poetry

    88 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  80. One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser

    88 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  81. YouTube Shadow Banned Us WTF Happened?

    88 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  82. The Internet Archive on the future of the web

    88 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  83. The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)

    88 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  84. Designing a Programming Language (2015)

    88 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  85. Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is their response

    88 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  86. Congress demands tech CEOs to censor the Internet

    88 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  87. Hong Kong has charged and jailed 47 pro-democracy candidates with subversion

    88 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  88. Cherokee Numerals

    88 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  89. Tools for Auditing CSS

    87 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  90. Mindsets to Avoid as a Senior Software Developer

    87 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  91. Netlify Status – CDN Issues

    87 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  92. Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas

    87 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  93. Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect

    87 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  94. Code Reading Club (2020)

    87 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  95. Mrcal – Camera Calibrations and More

    87 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  96. WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

    87 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  97. Correct Git commits with git-autofixup

    87 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  98. Greenwald: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists

    86 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  99. AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)

    86 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  100. Ideas to improve the user and developer experiences of databases

    86 points • comment • mar 09, 2021