top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-03-08

“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1368637789248626699

5 years ago

1010 upvotes – 312 comments

Fuckin' user interface design, I swear

https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui.html

5 years ago

814 upvotes – 498 comments

Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

5 years ago

663 upvotes – 665 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 256 comments

Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

https://www.technologyelevation.com/2021/03/bill-gates-says-that-bitcoin-is-bad-for.html

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 801 comments

Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/inflation-2021-malnutrition-and-hunger-fears-rise-as-food-prices-soar-globally

5 years ago

514 upvotes – 570 comments

Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2B015M

5 years ago

432 upvotes – 439 comments

Excel Never Dies

https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 300 comments

MIPS Becomes RISC-V

https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-risc-v/

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 215 comments

Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

http://avinayak.github.io/algorithms/programming/2021/02/19/finding-mona-lisa-in-the-game-of-life.html

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 57 comments

The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1747061

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 308 comments

When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/when-did-writing-in-major-newspapers

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 295 comments

Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer

https://betterprogramming.pub/4-times-i-felt-discriminated-against-for-being-a-female-developer-b9579f696a5

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 432 comments

Why I did not go to jail (2014)

https://a16z.com/2014/02/06/why-i-did-not-go-to-jail/

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 142 comments

When the prison banned board games, we played chess in our minds

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/02/11/when-the-prison-banned-board-games-we-played-chess-in-our-minds

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 250 comments

Game Theory (2007)

https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 43 comments

Google suffers from a digital petro curse

https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petro-curse-908e919a

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26391254

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 378 comments

FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

https://email.faircode.eu/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 117 comments

TLA+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 69 comments
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