top 50% 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

Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/scientists-identify-over-140000-virus-species-in-the-human-gut-half-of-which-are-new-to-science/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 87 comments

The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-unstoppable-momentum-of-outdated

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 132 comments

Best practices can slow your application down

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/03/best-practices-can-slow-your-application-down/?cb=1&_ga=2.145693744.523477250.1614802183-1247573525.1613934766

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 186 comments

Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 317 comments

Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03443

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 55 comments

Interview with Patrick Collison

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-patrick-collison-co-founder

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 53 comments

Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web

https://palant.info/2021/03/08/how-amazon-assistant-lets-amazon-track-your-every-move-on-the-web/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 63 comments

Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 116 comments

Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16533/intel-microsoft-darpa-to-build-silicon-for-fully-homomorphic-encryption-this-is-important

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 83 comments

The Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning

https://deeplearningmath.org/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 5 comments

Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be Level 2

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39647/tesla-admits-current-full-self-driving-beta-will-always-be-a-level-2-system-emails

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 186 comments

Launch HN: Bristle (YC W21) – At-home microbiome test to improve oral health

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386664

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 84 comments

Tripolar Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 134 comments

Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes

https://blog.waymo.com/2021/03/replaying-real-life.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 175 comments

On Being Blacklisted

https://aaronkunin.medium.com/on-being-blacklisted-dabb576cdc52

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 183 comments

Remote workstations for discerning artists

https://netflixtechblog.com/remote-workstations-for-the-discerning-artists-8155a8fbd190

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 68 comments

A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason

https://twitter.com/__ChrisR__/status/1368955992105484290

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 85 comments

Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-literally-dont-know-when-to-shut-up-or-keep-talking-science-confirms/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/talking-with-your-hands

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/spacex-plans-starlink-broadband-for-cars-boats-and-planes/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 127 comments

Does stress impact technical interview performance? (2020) [pdf]

http://www.chrisparnin.me/pdf/stress_FSE_20.pdf

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 136 comments

Julia: A Post-Mortem

https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/2021/03/07/julia-a-post-mortem/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 252 comments

SpaceX reveals the grand extent of its starport plans in South Texas

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/spacex-reveals-the-grand-extent-of-its-starport-plans-in-south-texas/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/pay-toilets-and-nyt-free-market.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Can you switch to a programming career despite nearing 40?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383366

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/ai-learns-individuals-attractive-faces/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 46 comments

Launch HN: Runops (YC W21) – A better cloud shell for production apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385434

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/a-basic-timeline-of-the-exchange-mass-hack/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/03/all-measures-short-of-cross-straits.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 188 comments

Instagram is killing my start up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386182

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 78 comments

Report: Tesla is building a giant 100 MW battery in Texas

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/report-tesla-is-secretly-building-a-giant-100-mw-battery-in-texas/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 101 comments

Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking (2020)

https://programming-journal.org/2020/4/4/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 24 comments

Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327224041/https://plus.google.com/100163791375010553991/posts/ghcXadTegWX

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments
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