top 50% 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

The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions

https://fs.blog/2021/03/ooda-loop/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 93 comments

AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 103 comments

Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PX0BV9hGZY

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 37 comments

Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468204

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 127 comments

When Should I Interrupt Someone?

https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/03/15/when-should-i-interrupt-someone/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 91 comments

2D Graphics on Modern GPU (2019)

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2019/05/08/modern-2d.html

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 87 comments

It’s time to stop using SMS for security

https://lucky225.medium.com/its-time-to-stop-using-sms-for-anything-203c41361c80

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 147 comments

REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC

https://www.danhacks.com/software/grpc-rest-graphql.html

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 163 comments

Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 141 comments

X0.at: upload files from cURL

https://x0.at/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 89 comments

How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language

https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-arm64-assembly-language/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 37 comments

Learnimprov – Just the first improv game site

https://www.learnimprov.com/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3s-15th-birthday-it-is-still-day-1-after-5475-days-100-trillion-objects/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 77 comments

Al Jaffee turns 100

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/03/13/al-jaffee-100-mad-magazine/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

Scrollycoding – A new way to write code walkthroughs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O2b7vfk-mo

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 23 comments

gRPC Is Easy to Misconfigure

https://www.evanjones.ca/grpc-is-tricky.html

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 44 comments

JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site

https://netbanking.hdfcbank.com/jsdir/RS_01_eng.js

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 156 comments

Sd: My Script Directory

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/sd-my-script-directory/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 21 comments

5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468248

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 206 comments

Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

https://status.gitlab.com/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 87 comments

Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100% solar heat and electricity supply

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590174519300157

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 232 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/15/tim-berners-lee-we-need-social-networks-where-bad-things-happen-less

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: Create your own cellular automata

http://aperocky.com/cellular-automata/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270527-wooden-floors-rotted-by-fungi-generate-electricity-when-walked-on/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Create your own Codecademy-style lessons

https://codeamigo.dev

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

Vienna has a 100-year history of building public housing for all (2018)

https://thetyee.ca/Solutions/2018/06/06/Vienna-Housing-Affordability-Case-Cracked/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 106 comments

Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics Without Vector Supervision

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02798

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Azure Active Directory down

https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1371544292502564866

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56370510

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/weleakinfo-leaked-customer-payment-info/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments
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