top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-12

Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone

https://bitwarden.com/products/send/

5 years ago

610 upvotes – 263 comments

The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram

https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 436 comments

What's New in SQLite 3.35

https://nalgeon.github.io/sqlite-3-35/

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 167 comments

Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

https://our.status.im/vitalik-escalates-eth-2-0-merge-as-miners-plan-a-51-attack/

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 518 comments

UK to depart from GDPR

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-to-depart-from-gdpr/5107685.article

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 634 comments

Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-satellite-japan-excl-idUSKBN2B41O1

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 270 comments

You can't censor away extremism or any other problem

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-cant-censor-away-extremism-or

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 789 comments

RegEx Crossword

http://jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword/

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 151 comments

Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/m2ypbx/has_y_combinator_lost_its_way_as_a_leading/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 318 comments

I Shipped, Therefore I Am

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/012-i-shipped-therefore-i-am

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 78 comments

M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/m2-on-raspberry-pi-tofu-compute-module-4-carrier-board

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 201 comments

The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-2-march-april/feature/demise-and-potential-revival-american-chestnut

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 86 comments

Adobe Photoshop ships on Macs with Apple Silicon

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/adobe-photoshop-ships-on-macs-with-apple-silicon-gains-speedier-selections-filters-and-performance-boosts.html#gs.vxmvhg

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 287 comments

A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 130 comments

Hospitals lift curtain on prices, reveals giant swings for hips, knees and more

https://www.medtechdive.com/news/hospitals-price-transparency-spotty-compliance-swings-price/596593/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 271 comments

On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)

https://blog.abevoelker.com/2019-03-06/on-the-death-of-my-familys-dairy-farm/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 331 comments

Spectre in JavaScript

https://leaky.page/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 85 comments

Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrgo-64ndnY

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 200 comments

How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-11/how-big-tech-is-importing-india-s-caste-legacy-to-silicon-valley

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 195 comments

Humble tokamak physicist owns generations of cosmological wankers

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/humble-tokamak-physicist-owns-generations-of-cosmological-wankers/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 127 comments

Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/self-supervised-learning-the-dark-matter-of-intelligence/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 74 comments

Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/1188

5 years ago

★ 3.9k Ruby
179 upvotes – 160 comments

Online Hacker Simulator

https://hacker-simulator.com/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 35 comments

How Git servers work, and how to keep yours secure

https://gemini.nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-03-07.gmi

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

Learn Go by writing tests – Hello, world (2018)

https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests/tree/master/hello-world

5 years ago

★ 23.6k Go MIT
159 upvotes – 39 comments

7-Zip developer releases the first official Linux version

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/7-zip-developer-releases-the-first-official-linux-version/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 7 comments

OVH CEO Octave Klaba apologizes and provides updates about SBG2

https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-en.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

SUSE targets pre-summer IPO

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2B12AD

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 103 comments

Fabbrica: A sans serif typeface with a utilitarian aesthetic

https://www.cinetype.com/fabbrica

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 82 comments

Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to GoogleDrive and Dropbox

https://diode.io/resources/download/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 85 comments

The Sovietization of the American Press

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-sovietization-of-the-american

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 78 comments

Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of widening digital divide

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56367719

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 122 comments

Binance investigated by CFTC over whether US residents trade on platform

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/binance-probed-by-cftc-over-whether-u-s-residents-made-trades-1.1576124

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 106 comments

Computational Algebraic Topology, lecture notes [pdf]

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nanda/cat/TDANotes.pdf

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

CA crews handle tricky fire at Tesla factory

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21214084/ca-crews-handle-tricky-fire-at-tesla-factory

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

Goroutines are not significantly lighter than threads

https://matklad.github.io//2021/03/12/goroutines-are-not-significantly-lighter-than-threads.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 112 comments

San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid (2012)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/san-franciscos-secret-dc-grid

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 103 comments

A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-concept-for-spectre.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

AFL++ Fuzzing Framework

https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

5 years ago

★ 6.4k C Apache-2.0
114 upvotes – 24 comments

“This Browser Is Lightning Fast”: Effects of Messaging on Perceived Performance [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06181

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments

GitHub was down

https://www.githubstatus.com/?t=81273987129387129837

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 82 comments

France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/france-grossly-underestimated-radioactive-fallout-atom-bomb-tests-study-finds

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

GPT-3 vs. 3M free-text trivia responses

https://www.watercoolertrivia.com/blog/gpt-3-vs-water-cooler-trivia-participants-a-human-vs-robot-showdown

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fitbit-is-doomed-why-everything-google-buys-turns-to-garbage/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Futuure – hash-certified public prediction store

https://futuu.re

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Vintage technology and why some people still use it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55808632

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 125 comments

Binance under CFTC investigation over trading activities: report

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98138/binance-us-investigation-report

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Myanmar coup: The shadowy business empire funding the Tatmadaw

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56133766

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Deutsche Märchen: German fairy tales [pdf]

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~udls/slides/2019-tim-deutsche_marchen.pdf

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt

https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 121 comments

GitHub's Web Component Collection

https://github.com/github/github-elements

5 years ago

★ 2.9k JavaScript MIT
76 upvotes – 66 comments

CBD reduces plaque, improves cognition in mouse model of Alzheimer’s

https://jagwire.augusta.edu/cbd-reduces-plaque-improves-cognition-in-model-of-familial-alzheimers/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

The KK Computer: A Radical 6502 Redesign (2018)

http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/KimKlone/Kimklone_short_summary.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

The making of Dark Castle (2018)

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/315720/The_making_of_Dark_Castle_An_excerpt_from_The_Secret_History_of_Mac_Gaming.php

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments
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