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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Namecheap just snaked another domain off me

    49 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  2. Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder

    49 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  3. Nickel: Cheap Configuration Language

    49 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  4. Maxwell’s gambling demon is smart enough to quit while it’s ahead

    49 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  5. Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers

    49 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  6. A Man Who Abandoned Value

    49 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  7. Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Asteroid Worth 70k Times the Global Economy

    49 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  8. $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

    49 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  9. Show HN: Soapbox – drop-in audio for casual conversation with strangers

    49 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  10. Show HN: Neonpad.io – A neon plain text editor

    49 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  11. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

    49 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  12. Procfs: Processes as Files (1984) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  13. Friends by Robin Dunbar review – how important are your pals?

    49 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

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

    49 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  15. Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars

    49 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  16. Plan 9 from Bell Labs

    49 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  17. Male genitals are shrinking because of phthalates, warns Dr Shanna Swan

    49 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  18. Failure Story of the Drunken Shotgun

    49 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  19. Rust support hits Linux-next

    49 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  20. S.F. pays $61k/year for one tent to shelter the homeless

    49 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

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

    49 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  22. The Mathematical Pranksters Behind Nicolas Bourbaki

    48 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  23. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots [pdf]

    48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  24. Is Reddit Censoring the Spectator?

    48 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  25. Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey

    48 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  26. Static website analytics with no JavaScript using GoAccess

    48 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  27. At Home with Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals (2020)

    48 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  28. Google pushed a bad Android WebView update that crashes apps including Gmail

    48 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  29. The Blockchain Is a Dark Forest

    48 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  30. Continuation on “Not This Lisp Again”

    48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  31. No Us Without You: elifdef and elifndef

    48 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  32. Ask HN: Is average code getting worse?

    48 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  33. IBM Is Destroying Red Hat and Red Hatters Are Leaving

    48 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  34. Archaeologists Solve Mystery of 5,600-Year-Old Skull Found in Italian Cave

    48 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  35. The U.S. government is begging you to destroy moss balls

    48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  36. Trader gets painted stones instead of $36M of copper

    48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  37. Google Must Face Suit over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing

    48 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  38. Show HN: Bookmark Knocking – Hidden Bookmarks Without a Browser Extension

    48 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  39. The Transformer Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem

    48 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  40. Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps

    48 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  41. The HK19 manual – A crowdsourced protest guide

    48 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  42. In Private Call, Texas Regulator Pledged to Protect Wall Street Blackout Profits

    48 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  43. ARK's New Space Exploration and Innovation ETF (ARKX) Launches Tomorrow

    48 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  44. The FSF unionised because of RMS

    47 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  45. Elements of Dance Etiquette (2005)

    47 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  46. John Cleese has an NFT bridge to sell you for $69.3M

    47 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  47. Wittgenstein’s Money

    47 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  48. Bats and the Origin of Outbreaks

    47 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Which books made you the most money?

    47 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  50. Show HN: I wrote a book about Elasticsearch

    47 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  51. Congress Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively

    47 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  52. Civilization game written in an Excel spreadsheet

    47 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  53. Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game

    47 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  54. Show HN: A GUI for Google App Engine

    47 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  55. Crispr and the Splice to Survive

    47 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  56. Proof-of-work should be banned

    47 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  57. Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review

    47 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  58. T-Mobile Is Taking All of Your Sweet, Sweet Data Unless You Tell It to Stop

    47 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  59. Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote (2007) [video]

    47 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  60. Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K

    47 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  61. Archaeologists Uncover a 1,300-Year-Old Skeleton of a Maya Diplomat

    46 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  62. Should never happen. If it does, call the developers

    46 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  63. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Was Way More Subversive Than You Realized (2019)

    46 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  64. Molar City

    46 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  65. Bitcoin may be optimally positioned to become preferred currency for world trade

    46 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  66. Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps

    46 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  67. Show HN: SpectaQL – auto-generate GraphQL API documentation

    46 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  68. Show HN: Recut, a native Mac app that automatically removes silence from videos

    46 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  69. What Philip Glass and J. S. Bach have in common (2018)

    46 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  70. “The ketamine blew my mind”: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?

    46 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  71. Ask HN: How to think about crypto lending?

    46 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  72. Popular flea collar linked to almost 1700 pet deaths. EPA has issued no warning

    46 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  73. Graphene ‘Nano-Origami’ Could Take Us Past the End of Moore’s Law

    46 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  74. The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking

    46 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  75. Rethinking the Progress Bar (2007) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  76. Reverse Wealth Transfer on Steroids

    46 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  77. Alsup says Apple owes California workers for bag check time

    46 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  78. US Mortality Monitoring – Deaths, Excess, Z-Scores, State Map

    46 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  79. Woolly Mammoth Revival

    46 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  80. VScode Pets

    46 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  81. Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is?

    46 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  82. Complex Mapping Visualizer

    46 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  83. Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism

    46 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  84. There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise

    46 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  85. Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life (2019)

    46 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  86. Algorithms don't cause filter bubbles, people do

    46 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  87. The world will only get weirder

    46 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  88. Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Edition

    46 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  89. Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming

    46 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  90. How NFT's reference the media you're “buying”

    46 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  91. Kubernetes State Checker

    46 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  92. Apache AGE: PostgreSQL-based graph database

    46 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  93. The Phantom Forests That Built Mesa Verde

    45 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  94. Frameworkless Movement

    45 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  95. Developing an underwater robot to save people from drowning

    45 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  96. Notes from a Year of Building Keyboards

    45 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  97. Russia slows Twitter's speed over failure to remove banned content

    45 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  98. The Commodore 64 Home Companion (1984) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  99. The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

    45 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  100. Clojure: Keyword argument functions now also accept maps

    45 points • comment • mar 19, 2021