top 10 hacker news stories for 2021-01-03

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353

5 years ago

1793 upvotes – 891 comments

ECC matters

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647

5 years ago

1053 upvotes – 550 comments

Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/which-programs-are-fastest.html

5 years ago

696 upvotes – 428 comments

I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

https://samplesize.one/blog/posts/my_year_in_data/

5 years ago

690 upvotes – 308 comments

URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

https://ylukem.com/blog/url-shorteners-set-ad-tracking-cookies

5 years ago

497 upvotes – 202 comments

Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47444189/immediate-mode-gui-performance

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 97 comments

On Repl-Driven Programming

http://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 206 comments

The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious

https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 178 comments

How to Stop Endless Discussions

https://candost.blog/how-to-stop-endless-discussions/

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 88 comments

Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by UPenn

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 183 comments
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