top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-03-15

Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-thanks-gta-online-player-who-fixed-poor-load-times-official-update-coming/

5 years ago

1032 upvotes – 321 comments

A hacker got all my texts for $16

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber

5 years ago

583 upvotes – 289 comments

HN was down

https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1371525940656803848

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 246 comments

Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust

https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 303 comments

The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 126 comments

Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

https://iism.org/article/so-why-are-software-engineers-better-ceos-60

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 357 comments

Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/14/mozilla-plans-to-remove-the-compact-density-option-from-firefoxs-customize-menu/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 469 comments

Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 216 comments

Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today

https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/03/15/magic-mushrooms-are-decriminalized-in-dc-as-of-today/

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 233 comments

Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/update-1-germany-to-halt-astrazeneca-vaccinations-health-ministry-idUSL8N2LD4T9

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 543 comments

Zoom Escaper: self-sabotage audio, making your presence unbearable to others

https://zoomescaper.com/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 127 comments

Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39427/heres-why-the-new-usps-mail-trucks-look-so-weird

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 377 comments

Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court

https://noyb.eu/en/facebooks-gdpr-bypass-reaches-austrian-supreme-court

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 107 comments

A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-a-salt-monopoly-could-spike-car

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 337 comments

Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon

https://www.wsj.com/articles/telegram-app-is-booming-but-needs-advertisersand-700-million-soon-11615806001

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 325 comments

Learn How to Tie Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 94 comments

Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core

https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-and-against-ubuntu-core

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 146 comments

India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-cryptocurrency-ban/india-to-propose-cryptocurrency-ban-penalising-miners-traders-source-idINKBN2B60QP

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 277 comments

Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)

http://philcrissman.net/posts/eulers-fizzbuzz/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 89 comments

HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 140 comments
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