top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-26

Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html

5 years ago

1998 upvotes – 249 comments

Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/judge-in-google-case-disturbed-that-even-incognito-users-are-tracked-1.1569065

5 years ago

927 upvotes – 353 comments

Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

5 years ago

648 upvotes – 235 comments

Actually Portable Executable

https://justine.lol/ape.html

5 years ago

644 upvotes – 162 comments

Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971367875/why-is-facebook-launching-an-all-out-war-on-apples-upcoming-iphone-update?t=1614351654558

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 706 comments

Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/25/google_kubernetes_autopilot/

5 years ago

573 upvotes – 432 comments

Blender 2.92

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-92/

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 168 comments

In Defense of Dumb TVs

https://frame.work/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 377 comments

Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix

https://hummingbard.com/hummingbard/introducing-hummingbard

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 83 comments

Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc

https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 51 comments

Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money

https://offgridpermaculture.com/Finding_Land/Free_Land___Living_Off_Grid_With_No_Money.html

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 212 comments

ISO 8601: a better date format

https://kirby.kevinson.org/blog/iso-8601-the-better-date-format/

5 years ago

367 upvotes – 424 comments

‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos

https://gizmodo.com/deep-nostalgia-can-turn-old-photos-of-your-relatives-1846363190

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 93 comments

SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-35

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 212 comments

Rust const generics MVP hits beta

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/02/26/const-generics-mvp-beta.html

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 84 comments

Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/business/japan-anime.html

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 394 comments

An interactive guide to CSS transitions

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/css-transitions/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 40 comments

US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56213528

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 216 comments

Firefox 86.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 181 comments

How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size

https://eng.uber.com/how-uber-deals-with-large-ios-app-size/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 202 comments

In-car touchscreens are dangerous

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39304/why-im-done-pretending-touchscreen-infotainment-isnt-a-stupid-hazardous-fad

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 275 comments

Zine machine: a compact 3D-printed block printing press

https://hibred.pmvabf.org/zine-machine

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 63 comments

The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box fan

https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 141 comments

The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently

https://aliabdaal.com/read-more-effectively/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 176 comments

Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages

https://blog.earthly.dev/intercal-yaml-and-other-horrible-programming-languages/

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 170 comments

WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem

https://stuker.com/2021/whatsapp-and-most-alternatives-share-the-same-problem/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 190 comments

GNU poke 1.0

http://www.jemarch.net/poke-1.0-relnotes.html

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 38 comments

Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ls7ft8/protest_note_about_user_privacy_changes_by_reddit/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 137 comments

The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-covid-zoom-boom-is-reshaping-sign-language/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 178 comments

TLD Graveyard

https://dzdb.caida.org/tlds/graveyard

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 145 comments

Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100612035120/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432386.aspx

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 158 comments

Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 112 comments

How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/02/26/ask-ethan-how-prepared-are-we-for-the-next-giant-solar-flare/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 141 comments

Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/the-fox-is-still-in-the-firefox-logo/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 101 comments

PureScript and Haskell

https://blog.drewolson.org/purescript-and-haskell

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 60 comments

Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/software-engineering-laws.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 71 comments

Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021

https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/updating-101-basic-computer-games-for-2021/7927/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 65 comments

Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bexx/dr-ganja-death-penalty-weed-medical-marijuana

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 114 comments

1,000 True Fans (2008)

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 64 comments

Being on Call

https://tyler.kim/being-on-call

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 134 comments

Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible

https://blog.aadilali.com/posts/personal-finance.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 177 comments

Tesla is shifting from nickel to iron cathode on standard range car's batteries

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1365055830085763081

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 141 comments

Tweak: An Efficient Hex Editor

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

An early look at VLC 4.0

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/vlc-4-preview.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Interactive real-time chemistry and fluids: water electrolysis

https://cselab.github.io/aphros/wasm/electrochem.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage

https://github.com/irevenko/tsukae

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Cosmopolitan Libc: your build-once run-anywhere C library

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/fleets-radar-satellites-are-measuring-movements-earth-never

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Doppler Share – Share one-off secrets with end-to-end encryption

https://share.doppler.com

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-pricing-index

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 163 comments

Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847257/e5e4e1731c6d5b52/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 96 comments

Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers?

https://news.itsfoss.com/is-google-locking-down-chrome/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

The GameStop Mess Exposes the Naked Short Selling Scam – The American Prospect

https://prospect.org/power/gamestop-mess-exposes-the-naked-short-selling-scam/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 73 comments

Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free

https://www.sidefx.com/community/houdini-engine-for-unreal-and-unity/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Illegal involuntary sterilisations in California’s women’s prisons

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1364922685013295105

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Launch HN: Insight (YC W19) – an iOS browser with easy-to-make extensions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26276179

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

http://philogb.github.io/page/myriahedral/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments
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