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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. A hacker got all my texts for $16

    563 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  2. The absolute worst scenario happened

    560 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  3. Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

    559 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  4. Speed Is the Killer Feature

    559 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  5. The S in IoT is for Security

    558 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  6. Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation

    557 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  7. We created a fake language to root out resume liars

    557 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  8. Voltswagen of America

    556 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  9. GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models

    554 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  10. The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram

    553 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  11. Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

    549 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  12. New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations

    546 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  13. I made an eInk newspaper

    544 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  14. Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

    543 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  15. Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study

    542 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  16. Internet Archive Infrastructure

    534 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  17. Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site

    532 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  18. Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

    531 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  19. Nyxt Browser

    529 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  20. Bring Your Own Client

    522 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  21. Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

    521 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  22. Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

    521 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  23. FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage

    521 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  24. Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

    520 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  25. Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine

    517 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  26. Zero Data App

    516 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  27. We Don’t Use Docker

    512 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  28. The MIT Press launches Direct to Open

    509 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  29. The Kilobyte’s Gambit

    508 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  30. Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

    502 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  31. US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up

    499 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  32. Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year

    498 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  33. Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes

    497 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  34. In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

    497 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  35. Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics

    496 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  36. Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf

    496 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  37. Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?

    495 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  38. Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k

    494 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  39. Debian Running on Rust Coreutils

    486 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  40. Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)

    486 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  41. Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

    486 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  42. Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust

    485 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  43. Do you really want Linux phones

    484 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  44. UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

    480 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  45. U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent

    479 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  46. What's New in SQLite 3.35

    478 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  47. Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland

    473 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  48. EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

    471 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  49. Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python

    469 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  50. Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

    467 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  51. Generate Flowcharts from Text

    467 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  52. Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

    466 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  53. Write Simply

    464 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  54. 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

    463 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  55. Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

    463 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  56. Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

    460 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  57. HN was down

    458 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  58. Text to Image Generation

    458 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  59. Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board

    457 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  60. The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

    453 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  61. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

    453 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  62. Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System

    452 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  63. CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

    450 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  64. My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card

    448 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  65. Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore

    446 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  66. What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur

    446 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  67. Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

    445 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  68. PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

    444 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  69. I tracked down my impostor

    444 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  70. Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen

    441 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  71. Addiction to Outrage (2020)

    438 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  72. Docker for Mac M1 RC

    437 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  73. Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?

    435 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  74. SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme

    434 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  75. The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

    433 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  76. Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

    431 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  77. UK to depart from GDPR

    431 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  78. John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

    430 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  79. 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

    430 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  80. U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years

    430 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  81. Early-Retirement Update

    428 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  82. Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

    428 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  83. Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern

    427 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  84. Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

    423 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  85. Bitcoin Is Time

    421 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  86. Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

    421 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  87. The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption

    420 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  88. Emoji Under the Hood

    419 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  89. M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

    419 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  90. MIPS Becomes RISC-V

    418 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  91. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison

    417 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  92. Excel Never Dies

    415 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  93. Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died

    413 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  94. Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode

    412 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  95. Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust

    411 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  96. How can you tell if someone is lying?

    410 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  97. I Like That the Boat Is Stuck

    410 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  98. You can't censor away extremism or any other problem

    409 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  99. Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City

    409 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  100. DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results

    408 points • comment • mar 04, 2021