woid

top stories

Hacker News (Mar 2021)

  1. Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core

    215 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  2. The uninvited Internet of things

    215 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  3. The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out

    215 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  4. The sixtyforgan: Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb

    215 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  5. Raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame programming

    215 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  6. The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0

    214 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  7. Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly

    214 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  8. Robinhood is facing nearly 50 lawsuits over GameStop frenzy

    214 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  9. Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

    214 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  10. Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized

    214 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  11. An Introduction to Lockless Algorithms

    214 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  12. What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?

    214 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  13. Result from LHCb experiment challenges the Standard Model

    213 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  14. Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres

    213 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  15. Pockit Modular computing demo [video]

    213 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  16. Learning Without Burnout

    213 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  17. A warning about 5.12-rc1

    212 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  18. Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban

    212 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  19. All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty

    212 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  20. Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the Nürburgring, Has Died at 51

    211 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  21. A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions

    211 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  22. Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad

    211 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  23. Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)

    210 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  24. Benzene detected in hand sanitizers

    210 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  25. Apple M1 Microarchitecture Research

    210 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  26. Facebook and Twitter algorithms incentivize 'people to get enraged'

    209 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  27. You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure (2019)

    209 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  28. WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux

    209 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  29. Beverly Cleary has died

    209 points • comment • mar 26, 2021

  30. A brief history of router architecture

    209 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  31. See a Satellite Tonight

    208 points • comment • mar 30, 2021

  32. Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop

    208 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  33. Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets

    208 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  34. All Futurama Opening Quotes

    208 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  35. Show HN: Diahook – Webhooks as a Service

    208 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  36. GPT-3 tries pickup lines

    208 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  37. Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++

    207 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  38. Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?

    207 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  39. HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)

    207 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  40. Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL

    207 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  41. US Pipeline Caused Biggest Spill in Decades, We’re Just Hearing About It

    206 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  42. Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

    206 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  43. Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

    206 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  44. Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture

    205 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  45. A developers guide to HIPAA compliance

    205 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  46. Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home

    205 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  47. Mac SE/30 logicboard recreation

    205 points • comment • mar 18, 2021

  48. Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US

    205 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  49. Hitachi to buy GlobalLogic for $9.6B

    205 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  50. AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review

    205 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  51. Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux

    204 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  52. We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US

    204 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  53. The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015)

    204 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  54. Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after Fukushima

    204 points • comment • mar 11, 2021

  55. Encountering Thomas Sowell

    204 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  56. The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science

    203 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  57. India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders

    203 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  58. Build a Business, Not an Audience

    203 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  59. AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique

    202 points • comment • mar 04, 2021

  60. Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

    202 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  61. How I make graphics for retro systems and retro-styled games

    202 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  62. The ecosystem of the Go programming language

    202 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  63. Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewhere consider organizing

    202 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  64. Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma

    201 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  65. Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)

    201 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  66. Git email flow vs. GitHub flow

    201 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  67. Outgrowing Software

    201 points • comment • mar 19, 2021

  68. The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions

    201 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  69. A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children

    200 points • comment • mar 03, 2021

  70. Federal investigators blast Tesla, call for stricter safety standards

    200 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  71. AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Peru trials

    200 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  72. In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu

    199 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  73. Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with one weird trick

    199 points • comment • mar 25, 2021

  74. Why Learn Haskell? (2018)

    199 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  75. Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up

    199 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  76. Academic “ghost-writing”: the cheating scandal no one will discuss (2020)

    199 points • comment • mar 21, 2021

  77. Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs

    199 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  78. Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme

    198 points • comment • mar 14, 2021

  79. Understanding Coinbase

    198 points • comment • mar 13, 2021

  80. Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives

    198 points • comment • mar 16, 2021

  81. Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm

    197 points • comment • mar 31, 2021

  82. Show HN: PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way

    197 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  83. MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification

    197 points • comment • mar 22, 2021

  84. Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?

    197 points • comment • mar 06, 2021

  85. Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1996) [pdf]

    197 points • comment • mar 29, 2021

  86. Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)

    197 points • comment • mar 23, 2021

  87. Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (2019) [video]

    197 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  88. Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food

    196 points • comment • mar 15, 2021

  89. How to deal with difficult people on software projects

    196 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  90. Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM

    196 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  91. My Python testing style guide (2017)

    196 points • comment • mar 24, 2021

  92. Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works

    194 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  93. Ask HN: How to build empathy?

    194 points • comment • mar 20, 2021

  94. Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless

    194 points • comment • mar 08, 2021

  95. Ask HN: How do I learn drawing?

    194 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  96. Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust

    194 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  97. The Quirks of Gmail UI

    193 points • comment • mar 09, 2021

  98. Jello 3D Printer (2013)

    193 points • comment • mar 17, 2021

  99. Almost 40% of U.S. Consumers Trust Online Reviews Less Than They Did 5 Years Ago

    193 points • comment • mar 02, 2021

  100. Go+: Go designed for data science

    193 points • comment • mar 27, 2021