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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Brazil’s mismanagement of Covid-19 threatens the world

    54 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  2. Graham Greene Against the World

    54 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  3. Asynchronous and “direct” IO support for PostgreSQL

    54 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  4. The reason the local mall is failing (2018)

    54 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  5. Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents

    54 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  6. Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

    54 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  7. The Database of Useful Biological Numbers

    54 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  8. Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive

    54 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  9. Turkey’s currency plunges after the head of the country’s central bank is fired

    54 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  10. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging?

    54 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  11. Replace the “among us” reference with “here”

    54 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  12. The Business of Scenery: Why America’s national parks need new management

    54 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  13. We are building a new systems programming language

    54 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  14. The Microwave Economy

    54 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  15. Is your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?

    54 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  16. Amiga Video Slot RGB to HDMI

    53 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  17. Best Practices for BI Dashboards

    53 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  18. San Jose electric light tower

    53 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  19. Nzyme v1.0.0: Free and Open WiFi Defense System

    53 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  20. What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?

    53 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  21. Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist

    53 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  22. The Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage (2017)

    53 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  23. How a Bad Random Number Generator Froze Sway (2020)

    53 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  24. FBI Warns That Deepfakes Will Be Used Increasingly in Foreign Influence Ops

    53 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  25. Domain/OS Design Principles (1989) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  26. Memory transferred between snails, challenging standard theory (2018)

    53 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  27. TinySeed raises $25M to back more bootstrapped startups

    53 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  28. Avi Wigderson and László Lovász Win the Abel Prize

    53 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  29. Finding a standard dataset format for machine learning (2020)

    53 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  30. Bassoonfluencers: The World of Instagram Practice Accounts

    53 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  31. India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders -source

    52 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  32. Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields

    52 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  33. Why Microsoft Wants Discord

    52 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  34. Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976) [video]

    52 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  35. Great SaaS Demos Enabled by DevOps Tools

    52 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  36. UiPath Inc S-1 SEC Form

    52 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  37. Show HN: LinkWall – Your Landing Page Linked to Social Activity

    52 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  38. The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere

    52 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  39. Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job

    52 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  40. Intel Rocket Lake (14nm) Review: Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K, Core i5-11600K

    52 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  41. Glenn Greenwald: Big media outlets are confirming each other's falsehoods

    52 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  42. CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses

    52 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  43. What I learnt shopping for decent computer speakers

    52 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  44. What remote work does to engineering productivity

    52 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  45. EU seeks to supercharge computer chip production

    52 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  46. Elizabeth Holmes trial delayed because she’s pregnant

    52 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  47. Accountancy Is the Priesthood of Modern Life (2020)

    52 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?

    52 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  49. Men Becoming Wolves

    52 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  50. Release of Oil 0.8.8

    52 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  51. Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police

    52 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  52. Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm

    52 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  53. Asymmetric Opportunities and the Cult of Optionality

    52 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  54. Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

    52 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  55. The Claude Glass Changed the Way People Saw Landscapes

    51 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Does anyone actually use the Pomodoro technique?

    51 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  57. Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlash grows

    51 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  58. How do you fund that game prototype?

    51 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  59. Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

    51 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  60. Shrinking Income Inequality

    51 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  61. Goldman Sold $10.5B of Stocks in Block-Trade Spree

    51 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  62. eOS DeGoogled Privacy Smartphone in the US Review

    51 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  63. Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe?

    51 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  64. The race to teach sign language to computers

    51 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  65. Smart METL airless metal bike tires use a “shape memory alloy” for deformation

    51 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  66. The fastest random-number generator ever built

    51 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  67. Fossil Fuel Apologists Crafted Lies Blaming Wind Power for Texas Blackouts

    51 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  68. Programmer's Competency Matrix for SDE hiring parameters

    51 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  69. B.C. gov refuses to register bizz in indigenous language due to charset issues

    51 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  70. Using 8-inch diskette drives with a PC

    51 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  71. Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter

    51 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  72. Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics (2018)

    51 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  73. Nordigen: Free banking data and premium insights

    51 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  74. “The ISO Central Secretariat does not provide free copies of standards”

    51 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  75. Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle

    51 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  76. Why Are Fewer Young Adults Having Casual Sex?

    51 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  77. Images of weapons before they obliterate targets

    50 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  78. Curl is 23 years old today

    50 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  79. Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's Return

    50 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  80. CEO Secrets: 'I employ 1,200 people and have no HR department'

    50 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  81. How to Compose Queries in Ecto (2019)

    50 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  82. Fibery – Yet Another Collaboration Tool

    50 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  83. Europe Does Well in Innovation

    50 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  84. Launch HN: Atrato (YC W21) – Credit Card Alternative for Latin America

    50 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  85. Neural networks for geophysicists and seismic data interpretation (2019)

    50 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  86. Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims

    50 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  87. The Swift Array Design (2014)

    50 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  88. Highlights from Git 2.31

    50 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  89. Launch HN: Procoto (YC W21) – Procurement SaaS for SMB

    50 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  90. George Bass has died

    50 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  91. Exporting image assets from ethereum smart contract with solidity

    50 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  92. Show HN: Gleek diagram maker – UML class, Sequence, ER diagrams, Flowcharts

    50 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  93. Accents, Dialects, and Discrimination

    50 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  94. Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory

    50 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  95. DC's Lost Radio Station Still Transmitting Inauguration Road Closures from 2013

    50 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  96. A Man Who Abandoned Value

    49 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  97. Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism, sexism

    49 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  98. Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses

    49 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  99. Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world’s largest market

    49 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  100. Women dominated beer brewing until they were accused of being witches

    49 points • comment • mar 09, 2021