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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support

    408 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

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

    408 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  3. Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous

    407 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  4. Julia 1.6 Highlights

    403 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  5. Numi – Calculator app for Mac

    403 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  6. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

    402 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  7. 68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News

    400 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  8. The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene (2019)

    400 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  9. PHP's Git server compromised, moving to GitHub

    397 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  10. The Last Message Sent on AIM

    396 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  11. How to Design Programs (2014)

    396 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  12. Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

    394 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  13. Java 16

    394 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  14. Groove Pizza

    394 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  15. FFMPEG from Zero to Hero

    393 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  16. ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts

    391 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  17. Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

    391 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  18. Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu

    390 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  19. In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click

    390 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  20. RegEx Crossword

    389 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  21. I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries

    389 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  22. Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

    389 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  23. Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION

    389 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  24. Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone

    388 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  25. A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

    388 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  26. Common Crawl

    386 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  27. Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched

    385 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  28. TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated

    382 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  29. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

    382 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  30. Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programming language

    382 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  31. We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR

    380 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  32. Webmention.io

    379 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  33. Based Cooking

    378 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  34. Kafka without ZooKeeper

    377 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  35. In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router

    376 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  36. Cancel We The Web? (2020)

    375 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  37. Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?

    374 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  38. UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews

    374 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  39. Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code

    373 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  40. CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebases

    373 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  41. Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web

    373 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  42. ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available

    372 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  43. Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

    371 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  44. Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing

    371 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  45. Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)

    371 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  46. The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator

    370 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  47. ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

    369 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  48. Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language

    368 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  49. Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers

    367 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  50. Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

    366 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  51. Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

    362 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  52. T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out

    362 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  53. USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)

    361 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  54. RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)

    359 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  55. “When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”

    359 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  56. netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go

    359 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  57. My self-study plan for electrical engineering

    358 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  58. PayPal launches crypto checkout service

    358 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  59. Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

    357 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  60. Gnome 40

    357 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  61. SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard

    357 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  62. The End of AMP?

    356 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  63. America’s bald eagle population continues to soar

    354 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  64. The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

    353 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  65. What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App

    353 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  66. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity

    353 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  67. Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

    351 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  68. Figma to React

    351 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  69. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

    351 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  70. Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration

    350 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  71. Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?

    350 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  72. Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work [pdf]

    349 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  73. Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more

    349 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  74. Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal

    349 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  75. TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround

    349 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  76. Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis

    349 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  77. U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit

    348 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  78. Let there be more biographies of failures

    347 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  79. Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts

    345 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  80. Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

    345 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  81. The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now

    345 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  82. Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome

    345 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  83. Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place

    344 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  84. Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate

    344 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  85. Ever Given Everywhere

    344 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  86. Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.

    343 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  87. Why in the world would you own bonds?

    343 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  88. The Sweden Solar System

    343 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  89. Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

    342 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  90. Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV

    341 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  91. Scientists create simple synthetic cell

    341 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  92. Super Resolution

    340 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  93. How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor

    339 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  94. Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative

    339 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  95. Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation

    338 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  96. Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding

    337 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  97. Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work

    336 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  98. Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

    333 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  99. React and D3.js

    332 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  100. Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

    332 points • comment • mar 07, 2021