top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-16

We Don’t Use Docker

https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html?m=1

4 years ago

529 upvotes – 537 comments

Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you

4 years ago

500 upvotes – 458 comments

Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477507

4 years ago

441 upvotes – 795 comments

Moore's Law for Everything

https://moores.samaltman.com/

4 years ago

419 upvotes – 533 comments

Java 16

http://jdk.java.net/16/

4 years ago

410 upvotes – 310 comments

In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/in-kernel-wireguard-is-on-its-way-to-freebsd-and-the-pfsense-router/

4 years ago

379 upvotes – 160 comments

Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

https://www.twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

4 years ago

374 upvotes – 239 comments

Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/brains-wiring-insulation-is-one-of-the-major-factors-of-age-related-brain-deterioration

4 years ago

368 upvotes – 221 comments

TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/chinas-tech-giants-test-way-around-apples-new-privacy-rules/

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 189 comments

One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden Building a Log Cabin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE

4 years ago

339 upvotes – 231 comments

Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

https://ochronus.online/the-5-common-mistakes-of-new-engineering-managers/

4 years ago

328 upvotes – 220 comments

Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub

https://github.blog/2021-03-16-improving-large-monorepo-performance-on-github/

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 132 comments

Docker Raises $23M

https://www.docker.com/press-release/Docker-Series-B

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 268 comments

How C++ Resolves a Function Call

https://preshing.com/20210315/how-cpp-resolves-a-function-call/

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 90 comments

Right to Repair Gaining Momentum

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vavw/half-the-country-is-now-considering-right-to-repair-laws

4 years ago

276 upvotes – 119 comments

Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own

https://gizmodo.com/cricut-now-wants-users-to-pay-extra-for-unlimited-use-o-1846477745

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 136 comments

Swift Evolution: Actors

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0306-actors.md

4 years ago

264 upvotes – 154 comments

Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-16-rockstar-pays-usd10-000-to-modder-who-fixed-grand-theft-auto-online-loading-times

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 98 comments

GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken

https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 313 comments

Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS

https://torrentfreak.com/adobe-goes-after-27-year-old-pirated-copy-of-acrobat-reader-1-0-for-ms-dos-210315/

4 years ago

255 upvotes – 121 comments

Phrack Magazine

http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn

http://sellff.com

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 184 comments

It's time to build: a New World's Fair

https://www.cameronwiese.com/blog/worlds-fair

4 years ago

243 upvotes – 225 comments

The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t

https://www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/

4 years ago

241 upvotes – 176 comments

The auction that set off the race for AI supremacy

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-auction-race-ai-supremacy-google-microsoft-baidu/

4 years ago

232 upvotes – 95 comments

How Amazon Crushes Unions

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-virginia.html

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 252 comments

Learning Without Burnout

https://junglecoder.com/blog/learning-without-burnout

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 94 comments

Encountering Thomas Sowell

https://lawliberty.org/encountering-thomas-sowell/

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 257 comments

Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/can-we-stop-pretending-sms-is-secure-now/

4 years ago

221 upvotes – 152 comments

Google Play store bans polyamory dating app

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vdpj/google-play-store-bans-polyamory-dating-app

4 years ago

212 upvotes – 169 comments

Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb-hdds

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 204 comments

Justice at Spotify

https://www.unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify

4 years ago

193 upvotes – 392 comments

Runj: Experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj#runj

4 years ago

192 upvotes – 13 comments

Migrating Millions of Concurrent WebSockets to Envoy

https://slack.engineering/migrating-millions-of-concurrent-websockets-to-envoy/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 55 comments

Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/03/16/introducing-the-wikimedia-enterprise-api/

4 years ago

175 upvotes – 85 comments

Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS

https://puri.sm/posts/why-librem-tunnel-is-leaving-ios/

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 269 comments

Show HN: O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible

https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope/blob/main/docs/storage-design.md

4 years ago

166 upvotes – 37 comments

The Y Combinator Experience – Remote Edition

https://magicbell.io/blog/the-ycombinator-experience-remote-edition

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

https://fixmyspeakers.com

4 years ago

148 upvotes – 73 comments

Electric car that charges itself

https://sonomotors.com/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 406 comments

Computer tool spots deepfakes via tiny reflections in the eyes

https://newatlas.com/computers/computer-tool-deepfakes-94-percent-accuracy/

4 years ago

142 upvotes – 91 comments

So You Want to Do an Infrastructure Package [pdf]

https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/levy-infastructure.pdf

4 years ago

140 upvotes – 173 comments

California Passes Regulation Banning "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law

https://gizmodo.com/california-passes-new-regulation-banning-dark-patterns-1846482961

4 years ago

139 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

https://about.cryptotask.org/

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 113 comments

Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/atlas--our-journey-from-a-python-monolith-to-a-managed-platform

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 207 comments

Moderation in Infrastructure

https://stratechery.com/2021/moderation-in-infrastructure/

4 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-news-uc-secures-landmark-open-access-deal-world-s-largest-scientific-publisher

4 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26478387

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 238 comments

Launch HN: Pry (YC W21) – Finance for Founders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479595

4 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

Gumroad raises $5M from Crowd SAFE in first 24 hours

https://republic.co/gumroad

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 70 comments

The Internet Archive on the future of the web

https://www.protocol.com/internet-archive-preserving-future

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report (2020) [pdf]

https://github.com/MengshiLi/openbsd-riscv-notes/raw/master/Porting_OpenBSD_to_RISCV_FinalReport.pdf

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 4 comments

A Discriminatory Algorithm Wrongly Accused Thousands of Families of Fraud

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgq35d/how-a-discriminatory-algorithm-wrongly-accused-thousands-of-families-of-fraud

4 years ago

92 upvotes – 55 comments

The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-human-brain-grew-result-extinction.html

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 100 comments

Buildroot – Making Embedded Linux Easy

https://buildroot.org/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)

https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Why COBOL Isn't the Problem

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2020/11/13/why-cobol-isnt-the-problem/

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 57 comments

Fun with Timers and Cpuid

https://cpufun.substack.com/p/fun-with-timers-and-cpuid

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments
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