top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-03

NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-56238018

5 years ago

1032 upvotes – 347 comments

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_engine/

5 years ago

931 upvotes – 411 comments

Killing TurboTax

https://kunle.app/feb-2021-how-to-dismantle-turbotax.html

5 years ago

891 upvotes – 662 comments

Flutter 2

https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-flutter-2.html

5 years ago

791 upvotes – 754 comments

ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’

https://torrentfreak.com/icann-refuses-to-accredit-pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-due-to-his-background-210303/

5 years ago

743 upvotes – 296 comments

Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-stop-selling-ads-based-on-your-specific-web-browsing-11614780021

5 years ago

670 upvotes – 321 comments

Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/okta-is-buying-security-rival-auth0-for-6point5-billion-stock-falls.html

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 315 comments

The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39537/the-air-force-needs-to-reverse-engineer-parts-of-its-own-stealth-bomber

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 250 comments

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847412/d7826b1353e33734

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 200 comments

M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

https://jott.live/markdown/m1_webgpu_perf

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 470 comments

Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programming language

https://github.com/microsoft/power-fx

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 189 comments

Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/commit/b872229427dddb9b749f46af597e85e25cf2955a

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 493 comments

Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more

https://deno.land/posts/v1.8

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 134 comments

Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal

https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 62 comments

Icons – Google Fonts

https://fonts.google.com/icons

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 186 comments

DJI FPV

https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 158 comments

Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)

https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridiculous-lost-sales-they-dont-exist-says-minecraft-creator-110303/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 242 comments

AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship

https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/ai-ethics-research-conference-suspends-google-sponsorship/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 255 comments

Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors

https://sweis.medium.com/did-schnorr-destroy-rsa-show-me-the-factors-dcb1bb980ab0

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 207 comments

Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1367250900041953280

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 192 comments

Möbius Printing Helper

https://shreevatsa.net/mobius-print/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/back-popular-demand-google-cloud-products-4-words-or-less-2021-edition

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 106 comments

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice

https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 143 comments

The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-03/pay-for-twitter-super-follows-you-can-thank-google-and-facebook

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 128 comments

Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem”

https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/1367115794363088897

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 72 comments

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory

https://www.quantamagazine.org/emily-riehl-conducts-the-mathematical-orchestra-from-the-middle-20200902/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 82 comments

Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly

https://localpdf.tech/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 59 comments

Robinhood is facing nearly 50 lawsuits over GameStop frenzy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/business/robinhood-gamestop.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 158 comments

A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children

https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 100 comments

Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

https://investor.okta.com/news-releases/news-release-details/okta-signs-definitive-agreement-acquire-auth0-provide-customer

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 1 comments

Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models

https://www.foundingfuel.com/article/gigerenzers-simple-rules/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/how-our-aws-rust-team-will-contribute-to-rusts-future-successes/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 76 comments

Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/silicon-valley-stays-on-top-as-tech-salaries-climb-across-us

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 258 comments

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 61 comments

Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/03/brave-is-launching-its-own-search-engine-with-the-help-of-ex-cliqz-devs-and-tech/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 59 comments

Launch HN: Axiom (YC W21) – No-code browser automation a.k.a. RPA for everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327717

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 77 comments

Alamo Drafthouse Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/report-alamo-drafthouse-files-for-bankruptcy-will-close-some-theaters/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 121 comments

On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CCS.pdf

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 221 comments

China's scheme to transfer Uighurs into work

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56250915

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 57 comments

What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (2008)

https://denisegaskins.com/2008/07/28/whats-wrong-with-repeated-addition/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 417 comments

Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide analyses of 475K people

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 265 comments

fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37583

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 74 comments

The Boston Camera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Camera

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes

http://www.randomservices.org/random/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 13 comments

End to End Encrypted, Private Search

https://private.sh

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 101 comments

Why northern Europe is so indebted

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-northern-europe-is-so-indebted/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 185 comments

Python 3.10.0a6 is available, now with 100% more pattern matching

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VGZDQ5TFMSWEQZS6HNDLDJQ7GAASGUUB/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 79 comments

PayPal Bids $500M to Acquire Crypto Startup Curv

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/paypal-bids-500-million-to-acquire-crypto-startup-curv-report/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 153 comments

Amazon Workers’ Union Drive Reaches Far Beyond Alabama

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/business/amazon-union-bessemer-alabama.html

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 94 comments

Toyota Develops Packaged Fuel Cell System Module for Hydrogen Utilization

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/34799439.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 135 comments

A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager

https://mikedebo.com/work/2021/03/02/terse-guide-on-hiring-an-engineering-manager/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 50 comments

Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

https://blog.earthly.dev/using-apple-silicon-m1-as-a-cloud-engineer-two-months-in/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 96 comments

ImHUI: Imgui-style library for the web using actual HTML output

https://games.greggman.com/game/imhui-first-thoughts/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple is removing Rosetta from Macs during updates in certain countries

https://twitter.com/SteveMoser/status/1366904041243041794

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google

https://brave.com/brave-search/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Germanium transistors: logic circuits in the IBM 1401 computer

https://www.righto.com/2021/03/germanium-transistors-logic-circuits-in.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 55 comments

Architecture of Consoles

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Microdosing study shows the placebo effect of taking psychelics

https://www.ft.com/content/cd3c7752-3ee7-43c0-bb85-0a2ad2998503

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 112 comments

Coinbase Is a $100B Crypto Cult

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-02/coinbase-ipo-coin-the-crypto-exchange-is-a-100-billion-cult

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 92 comments

Why are fewer young adults having casual sex?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023121996854

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 249 comments
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