top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-03-02

Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/2/26/21153525/firefox-dns-encryption-amazon-go-browsing-shopping-privacy

6 years ago

854 upvotes – 330 comments

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN

https://www.wired.com/story/wireguard-gives-linux-faster-secure-vpn/

6 years ago

741 upvotes – 295 comments

Windows93

https://www.windows93.net/

6 years ago

630 upvotes – 232 comments

Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence

https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-have-i-been-pwned-and-its-ongoing-independence/

6 years ago

532 upvotes – 97 comments

LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/

6 years ago

401 upvotes – 321 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465476

6 years ago

400 upvotes – 771 comments

Payment Request API

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 115 comments

Little known features of iTerm2

https://banga.github.io/blog/2020/03/02/little-known-features-of-iterm2.html

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 154 comments

Rust Ownership Rules

https://www.geekabyte.io/2020/02/rust-ownership-rules.html

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 170 comments

Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)

https://imgur.com/a/9FMo38g

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 135 comments

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 175 comments

Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3372/no-facebooks-not-telling-you-everything

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 84 comments

Jack Welch has died

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-welch-legendary-ceo-of-general-electric-dies-at-age-84-11583158270

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 228 comments

Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling

https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/qjde3p/coke-and-pepsi-are-getting-sued-for-lying-about-recycling

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 170 comments

Pizza Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 223 comments

Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)

https://mattslifebytes.com/2020/02/29/remote-access-to-production-infrastructure-death-to-the-vpn/?hn=1

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 117 comments

Fork() can fail: this is important (2014)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 117 comments

A new Go API for Protocol Buffers

https://blog.golang.org/a-new-go-api-for-protocol-buffers

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 97 comments

When Bloom filters don't bloom

https://blog.cloudflare.com/when-bloom-filters-dont-bloom/

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 73 comments

Waymo raises first external investment round

https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-investment.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 150 comments
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