top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-10

Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49471&

5 years ago

1141 upvotes – 589 comments

Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work

https://theta.eu.org/2021/03/08/async-rust-2.html

5 years ago

603 upvotes – 482 comments

Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1369708900216270849

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 476 comments

We created a fake language to root out resume liars

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/

5 years ago

562 upvotes – 758 comments

U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent

https://fox8.com/news/u-s-senators-reintroduce-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 402 comments

Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died

https://netherlandsnewslive.com/inventor-of-cassette-tape-lou-ottens-passed-away-financial/107722/

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 168 comments

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407560

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 450 comments

netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go

https://tailscale.com/blog/netaddr-new-ip-type-for-go/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 95 comments

I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-commercials-content-store

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 473 comments

Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome

https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/zig-parser-combinators-and-why-theyre-awesome

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 131 comments

Hockey goalies are too big now

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/02/hockey-goalies-are-too-big-now/618021/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 264 comments

Launch HN: Remora (YC W21) – Carbon capture for semi trucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26412624

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 196 comments

I don't want to learn your query language (2018)

https://erikbern.com/2018/08/30/i-dont-want-to-learn-your-garbage-query-language.html

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 218 comments

Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO

https://github.com/authelia/authelia

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 92 comments

Decoded: GNU coreutils (2019)

http://maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 38 comments

What does any of this have to do with physics? (2016)

https://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-physics

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 170 comments

Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)

http://ehneilsen.net/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 78 comments

OctoPrint

https://octoprint.org/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 108 comments

A tactical guide to kickstarting a community

https://orbit.love/blog/a-tactical-guide-to-kickstarting-your-community/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 25 comments

UK 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 201 comments

Facebook and Twitter algorithms incentivize 'people to get enraged'

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/facebook-and-twitter-algorithms-incentivize-people-to-get-enraged-walter-isaacson-145710378.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 173 comments

Making an online multiplayer game with Godot and Nakama

https://heroiclabs.com/blog/announcements/godot-fishgame/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 22 comments

Japan to stage Tokyo Olympics without overseas spectators

https://japantoday.com/category/tokyo-2020-olympics/update1-japan-to-stage-tokyo-olympics-without-overseas-spectators

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 188 comments

Cloudflare, OKTA Hacked

https://twitter.com/nyancrimew/status/1369437256193343496

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787

https://theaircurrent.com/industry-strategy/emirates-tim-clark-says-boeing-not-getting-it-on-737-max-787/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 187 comments

Building a high-scale chat server on Cloud Run

https://ahmet.im/blog/cloud-run-chat-server/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 111 comments

Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, Scaling Plans, NFTs, etc.

https://tim.blog/2021/03/09/vitalik-buterin-naval-ravikant-transcript/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 133 comments

Minecraft vs. Roblox (2020)

https://www.codeadvantage.org/coding-for-kids-blog/minecraft-vs-roblox

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 125 comments

Staying Out of TTL Hell

http://calpaterson.com/ttl-hell.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged American tax

https://www.rt.com/usa/517663-youtube-taxes-nonamerican-creators/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 211 comments

Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m2391d/space_bar_does_not_work_on_youtube_search_at_the/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Fukushima radiation did not damage health of local people, UN says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/10/fukushima-meltdown-did-not-damage-health-un-japan

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-deathbed-perspective-considered-so-valuable

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 150 comments

Fuzzing Java in OSS-Fuzz

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/fuzzing-java-in-oss-fuzz.html

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 16 comments

Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux

https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/wayland

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 195 comments

The SQLite R*Tree Module

https://www.sqlite.org/rtree.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 15 comments

Delft café premieres with EEMCS blockchain euro

https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/delft-cafe-premieres-eemcs-blockchain-euro

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 63 comments

Launch HN: Haystack (YC W21) – Engineering analytics that don’t suck

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26413311

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks

https://www.worldofbs.com/why-documentation-sucks/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 91 comments

The security scanner that cried wolf

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-security-scanner/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

An S-100 80486 CPU Board

http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/80486%20Board/80486%20CPU%20Board.htm

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe

https://stripe.com/newsroom/stories/postmates

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-gigantic-jet-spied-black-hole.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

About the March 8 and 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/about-the-march-8-9-2021-verkada-camera-hack/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

What is life? Its vast diversity defies easy definition

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-life-its-vast-diversity-defies-easy-definition-20210309/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 99 comments

Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6192

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 74 comments

Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (2016)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181301

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 156 comments

WorkOS raises $15M to build “Stripe for enterprise-ready features”

https://medium.com/@grinich/workos-raises-15m-to-build-stripe-for-enterprise-ready-features-35040ee7f353

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (2000)

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/invitedtalks/sanchez_html/sanchez.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

Drivers new to level 2 driving assistance had lower awareness of on-road events

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39688/drivers-new-to-automated-assists-more-often-missed-a-giant-teddy-bear-speeding-past-them-study

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 93 comments

How to build a billion dollar audio app in a weekend

https://www.daily.co/blog/how-to-build-a-billion-dollar-audio-app-in-a-weekend/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Intel NUC as a back end for development

https://dimamoroz.com/2021/03/09/intel-nuc-for-development/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 87 comments

Go Developer Survey 2020 Results

https://blog.golang.org/survey2020-results

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments

Hackers, Mason Jars, and the Psychedelic Science of DIY Shrooms

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-mason-jars-psychedelic-science-diy-shrooms/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Changing the tires on a moving codebase

https://sedimental.org/tech_refresh.html

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 3 comments

Bats and the Origin of Outbreaks

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BATS/qzjpqglbxpx/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

GameStop drops by 40% in 25 minutes

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/10/gamestop-surges-40percent-then-wipes-out-gain-completely-and-is-halted-again.html

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 152 comments

Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-redesign-the-laptop-for-a-work-from-home-era-11615318285

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 190 comments
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