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Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Google suffers from a digital petro curse

    243 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  2. How to Study Mathematics (2017)

    243 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  3. Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines

    242 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  4. Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

    242 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  5. Data Transfer Project by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.

    242 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  6. Emacs 27.2

    242 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  7. Kalman Filter

    242 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  8. Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)

    241 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  9. Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their influence

    241 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  10. Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency

    240 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  11. DARPA now has AI-controlled F-16s working as a team in virtual dogfights

    240 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  12. Show HN: I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn

    240 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  13. Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)

    239 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  14. Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free

    239 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  15. It's time to build: a New World's Fair

    239 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  16. Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory

    239 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  17. Latest Mozilla VPN features

    239 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  18. Over twenty subreddits have gone private

    239 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  19. We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud

    238 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  20. FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max

    238 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  21. Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

    238 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  22. Lion: A formally verified, 5-stage pipeline RISC-V core

    237 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  23. CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

    237 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  24. The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science

    237 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  25. U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case

    236 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  26. EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

    235 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  27. Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon

    235 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  28. Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

    235 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  29. The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t

    234 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  30. Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper

    233 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  31. Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage

    233 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  32. An update on Android's audio latency

    233 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  33. On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)

    233 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  34. Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

    232 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  35. `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)

    232 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  36. Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

    232 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  37. UK 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer

    232 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  38. Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study

    231 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  39. SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks

    231 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  40. Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

    231 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  41. I don't care about cookies

    231 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  42. Open Source Security Foundation

    231 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  43. RSS as a Facebook alternative

    230 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  44. The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free

    230 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  45. Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times

    230 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  46. Data Science in Julia for Hackers

    230 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  47. How to Criticize Computer Scientists (2001)

    230 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  48. FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

    230 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  49. Which color scale to use when visualizing data

    229 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  50. The auction that set off the race for AI supremacy

    229 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  51. Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders

    229 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  52. SQLAlchemy 1.4

    229 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  53. Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf

    229 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  54. Scientist behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's next target is cancer

    229 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  55. The Actual OSI Model

    229 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  56. Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

    229 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  57. Bitwarden_rs: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

    228 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  58. Differential Datalog

    227 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  59. Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote

    227 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  60. Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory

    227 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  61. Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed

    227 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  62. Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode

    227 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  63. TLA+

    226 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  64. Open source Heroku Like Platform on premises

    226 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  65. Spectre in JavaScript

    226 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  66. Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem”

    226 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  67. Learn How to Tie Knots

    226 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  68. A curated list of .NET performance resources

    226 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  69. Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product

    226 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  70. Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows

    226 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  71. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format

    226 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  72. 400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (2016)

    226 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  73. Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name

    225 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  74. Avoid Consumer Routers

    225 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  75. Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket

    224 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  76. Hit Japanese app Crabhouse forced to change name on iOS

    224 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  77. Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)

    223 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  78. && operator chains (and ||, possibly) generates unoptimizable LLVM IR

    223 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  79. The Infinite Drum Machine

    223 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  80. BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

    222 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  81. How Amazon Crushes Unions

    222 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  82. Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco

    222 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  83. Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy

    222 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  84. Apple doesn't care about album cover art

    222 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  85. Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

    221 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  86. Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com

    221 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  87. Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]

    221 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  88. Drinking strong coffee before exercising increases fat-burning, new study finds

    220 points • comment • mar 28, 2021

  89. All my career rejections

    219 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  90. A tactical guide to kickstarting a community

    219 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  91. Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography

    219 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  92. Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface

    218 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018

    218 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  94. Multithreading for Game Engines

    217 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  95. Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

    217 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  96. Neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants after infection, vaccination

    217 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  97. Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision

    217 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  98. Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)

    216 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  99. French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers

    216 points • comment • mar 27, 2021

  100. High schooler invented color-changing sutures to detect infection

    216 points • comment • mar 28, 2021