top 20 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

DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/doj-lawyer-argues-us-can-kill-its-own-citizens-without-review-when-state-secrets-are-involved

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 203 comments

Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

https://www.engadget.com/apple-will-not-ban-mac-app-amphetamine-from-store-224919743.html

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 201 comments

Zig in 30 Minutes

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac104e50

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 158 comments

Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pune/one-nation-one-subscription-govt-draft-policy-7128799/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 64 comments

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-patent-hybrid-cpu-fpga-design-xilinx

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 155 comments

When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 1 comments

How to open a file in Emacs: a story about Lisp, technology, and human progress

https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 95 comments

Reviving Old X Code

https://keithp.com/blogs/kgames/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 55 comments

Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password

https://bytexd.com/look-up-unknown-phone-numbers/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 136 comments

Rust Design Patterns as a Book

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 48 comments
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