top 50% 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

2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/gps-accuracy-impacting-devices.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

The Toyota Production System (2013)

https://blog.toyota.co.uk/toyota-production-system-glossary

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Encrypted Backup Shootout

https://acha.ninja/blog/encrypted_backup_shootout/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app

https://github.com/Ethereal-Developers-Inc/OpenScan

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 39 comments

A new release for GNU Octave

https://lwn.net/Articles/840050/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 97 comments

Dockerfile Best Practices

https://github.com/hexops/dockerfile

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Clojure? (2018)

https://briansunter.com/blog/why-clojure/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 216 comments

MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-172-performance-engineering-of-software-systems-fall-2018/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 41 comments

Tell HN: Please update your DNS records when abandoning servers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25621519

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 66 comments

Castlevania III Password Algorithm

https://meatfighter.com/castlevania3-password/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 31 comments

Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/italy-plans-install-floors-colosseum-1-180976635/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 176 comments

Working from Bed

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/style/working-from-bed.html

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 215 comments

GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces

http://ssalewski.de/gtkprogramming.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 75 comments

The Perfect Media Server

https://perfectmediaserver.com/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pluto-hud/id1544577573?mt=12

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 101 comments

Opensource your abandonware (2010)

http://pulkomandy.tk/_/_Development/_Opensource%20your%20abandonware

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

DNS Key Value Storage

https://dnskv.com/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

The Wire in HD (2014)

http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 120 comments

$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no strings attached

https://www.climategrants.earth/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism

https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67fx5bqrvno2lp452zifc

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 55 comments

Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser

https://github.com/victordibia/handtrack.js

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 30 comments

Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489890/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 132 comments

What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs

https://brandur.org/fragments/offset-pagination

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

E.O. Wilson on Becoming a Great Scientist

https://fs.blog/2015/12/e-o-wilson-how-science-works/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees

https://www.treecard.org/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 101 comments
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