top 50% 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

Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/rocket-lab-unveils-plans-for-new-8-ton-class-reusable-rocket-for-mega-constellation-deployment/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 155 comments

Build a Business, Not an Audience

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/build_an_audience

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Learn Haskell? (2018)

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/why.html

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 113 comments

Why does an A note sound different across instruments?

https://omarshehata.me/notebook/exploring_sound

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

Spectre exploits in the "wild"

https://dustri.org/b/spectre-exploits-in-the-wild.html

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 53 comments

Wikinews mourns loss of volunteer John Shutt

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_mourns_loss_of_volunteer_John_Shutt

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 17 comments

JSON parser written in 6502 assembly language

https://github.com/ppelleti/json65

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 85 comments

Giving Ada a Chance

https://ajxs.me/blog/Giving_Ada_a_chance.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 254 comments

Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust

https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Nuclear Must Be Part Of The Energy Solution (2018)

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nuclear-power-must-be-part-of-the-energy-solution-environmentalists-climate

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 242 comments

Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims

http://reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AT1FE

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 268 comments

Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it

https://blog.jse.li/posts/ten-seconds/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

Demoscene the Amiga Years Volume 1

https://www.editions64k.fr/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914451

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

Ex-President Sarkozy Gets Jail Sentence for Corruption in France

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/europe/france-sarkozy-trial-guilty.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 48 comments

React Cosmos – Build UIs at Scale

https://reactcosmos.org/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304048

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 217 comments

Splitting the Ping

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ping-with-loss-latency-split

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

The small web is beautiful

https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 14 comments

Introducing dbt + Materialize

https://materialize.com/introducing-dbt-materialize/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Hong Kong has charged and jailed 47 pro-democracy candidates with subversion

https://twitter.com/antd/status/1365925580336558088

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Some Were Meant For C (2017) [pdf]

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 186 comments

OpenGL Superbible

https://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/books/SuperBible/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 56 comments

The Global Population Crisis That Never Was

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-global-population-crisis-that

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 272 comments

Applicative Parsing

https://jobjo.github.io/2019/05/19/applicative-parsing.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M

https://www.reuters.com/article/retail-trading-nfts/insight-how-a-10-second-video-clip-sold-for-6-6-million-idUKL8N2KV6X9

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 146 comments

Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302889

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

Mrcal – Camera Calibrations and More

http://mrcal.secretsauce.net/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Compass S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001563190/000119312521063859/d36119ds1.htm

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 93 comments

SolidRun 1U 2 node Arm Server

https://www.servethehome.com/solidrun-honeycomb-lx2-server-announced-1u-2-node-arm/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Reddit CEO: Platform doesn't plan to ban pornography

https://www.axios.com/reddit-ceo-pornography-axios-hbo-a16f347b-0da5-4368-97ec-a8d3cdfab064.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 125 comments

Launch HN: Corrily (YC W21) – Price Optimization for SaaS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302217

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 46 comments

75 Years Ago, 'War of the Worlds' Started a Panic. Or Did It? (2013)

https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

OneAPI – A cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model

https://www.oneapi.com

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304050

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 120 comments

GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xn0sd2x4nd7f

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Tesla voids warranty if you try to power your home with your car

https://electrek.co/2021/02/23/tesla-voids-your-warranty-power-your-home-with-electric-car-battery-pack/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 116 comments

Passion Not Required: It's OK to Only Program for a Paycheck

https://exceptionnotfound.net/passion-not-required-its-ok-to-only-program-for-a-paycheck/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extension

https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments
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