top 50% 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

Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12338

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 213 comments

Gab Has Been Breached

https://www.troyhunt.com/gab-has-been-breached/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 175 comments

Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL

https://age.apache.org/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 45 comments

AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 77 comments

We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/coronavirus-baby-bust.html

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 444 comments

TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RMr9lzlgrReruoosnoHLIZ0hHbqJT5Kq7hZmcG6_uqg/mobilebasic#heading=h.xehsiu9i1mw1

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 112 comments

Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56281726

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 111 comments

Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/03/push-back-emplace-back/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 140 comments

A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2szQ

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 70 comments

India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws will harm the internet

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/03/02/indias-new-intermediary-liability-and-digital-media-regulations-will-harm-the-open-internet/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 109 comments

Twin sisters worth millions thanks to female gamers

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56261671

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 165 comments

Voith Schneider Propeller

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

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 30 comments

Joan Fons hired to work on Godot's rendering

https://godotengine.org/article/joan-fons-hired-work-godot-rendering

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 37 comments

Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250713-understanding-deep-learning-still-requires-rethinking-generalization/fulltext

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 40 comments

Iceberg simulator – draw an iceberg and see how it floats and melts

https://engaging-data.com/iceberger-remixed/?h=

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 33 comments

Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/business/media/tidal-square-jay-z-dorsey.html

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 152 comments

Turntable.fm is back from the dead – and now there are two

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313793/turntable-fm-return-two-versions-original

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 34 comments

Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 69 comments

Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast

https://shopify.engineering/shipping-data-products-fast

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

Compensation as a Reflection of Values

https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-values/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 92 comments

Why Read Classic Books?

https://literaryforge.blog/2021/03/03/why-read-classic-books/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 113 comments

Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files and the runtime

https://ffri.github.io/ProjectChampollion/part1/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

The Importance of Learning CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/the-importance-of-learning-css/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343950

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

Repl.it didn't have “cancel” button for subscriptions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343268

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Consciousness Is Just a Feeling

https://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/consciousness-is-just-a-feeling

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 266 comments

Norwegian Won’t Fly the Boeing 737 Max Again

https://simpleflying.com/norwegian-drops-737-max/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

A reminder that you should double-check the licenses for software you use

https://github.com/katharostech/ldtk-rs/blob/master/LICENSE.md

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 95 comments

Launch HN: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in stocks you believe in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26342977

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 130 comments

OpenHaystack: Tracking Personal 'AirTags' via Apple's Find My Network

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/eu-right-repair-technology-decade-b1809408.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release

https://practicalpython.yasoob.me

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments
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