top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-03-01

Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

https://palant.info/2020/05/04/are-xiaomi-browsers-spyware-yes-they-are.../

5 years ago

1215 upvotes – 487 comments

On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-the-experience-of-being-poor-ish

5 years ago

792 upvotes – 884 comments

Internet Archive Infrastructure

https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation

5 years ago

542 upvotes – 108 comments

Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf

https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/issues/40

5 years ago

510 upvotes – 160 comments

Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

https://davidwalsh.name/touch-sudo

5 years ago

510 upvotes – 214 comments

Generate Flowcharts from Text

https://flowchart.fun/

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 132 comments

The Last Message Sent on AIM

https://justanman.org/posts/the-last-message-sent-on-aim/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 208 comments

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56208347

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 641 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304051

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 960 comments

Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/28/lyra-audio-codec-enables-3-kbps-bitrate-for-high-quality-voice-calls/

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 198 comments

NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 479 comments

If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts

https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/1366467736931606528

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 217 comments

Low Earth Orbit Visualization

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 93 comments

The Hijacking of Perl.com

https://www.perl.com/article/the-hijacking-of-perl-com/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 107 comments

Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 756 comments

Fish Shell 3.2

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.2.0

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 128 comments

Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web

https://orbitdb.org/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 79 comments

I built a 5K iMac Display

https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/1352692104707919872

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 127 comments

152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan

https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/releases/tag/v0.4.8

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 52 comments

Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed

https://fs.blog/2021/03/thinking-rate-fixed/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 123 comments
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