top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-03-04

It Can Happen to You

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/

5 years ago

1683 upvotes – 403 comments

Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201

5 years ago

881 upvotes – 2211 comments

Git's list of banned C functions

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

5 years ago

876 upvotes – 613 comments

HTTPWTF

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/http-wtf/

5 years ago

845 upvotes – 138 comments

“User engagement” is code for “addiction”

https://medium.com/swlh/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac

5 years ago

711 upvotes – 266 comments

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 349 comments

Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208514

5 years ago

558 upvotes – 348 comments

US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22312065/fcc-highspeed-broadband-service-ajit-pai-bennet-angus-king-rob-portman

5 years ago

540 upvotes – 249 comments

Female Founder Secrets: Fertility

https://femfosec.com/fertility/

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 732 comments

Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345235

5 years ago

449 upvotes – 695 comments

100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/100mbps-uploads-and-downloads-should-be-us-broadband-standard-senators-say/

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 238 comments

DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/non-javascript/

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 97 comments

Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/06/nuclear-power-must-be-well-regulated-not-ditched

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 463 comments

How to Operate an Airport in Antarctica

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/troll-research-station-how-to-operate-an-airport-in-antarctica/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 68 comments

Myths about how the brain works

https://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/that-is-not-how-your-brain-works

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 123 comments

Bitsquatting Windows.com

https://remyhax.xyz/posts/bitsquatting-windows/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 79 comments

Goat Ops

http://www.goatops.com/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 80 comments

Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629619302701

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 416 comments

Lion: A formally verified, 5-stage pipeline RISC-V core

https://github.com/standardsemiconductor/lion

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 81 comments

An Introduction to Lockless Algorithms

https://lwn.net/Articles/844224/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 39 comments
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