top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-03-25

Is that ship still stuck?

https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

4 years ago

1453 upvotes – 1237 comments

All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/

4 years ago

1345 upvotes – 696 comments

SQLite is not a toy database

https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

4 years ago

986 upvotes – 354 comments

RIP Google Reader

https://www.ripgooglereader.com/

4 years ago

729 upvotes – 408 comments

Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you

https://blog.rize.io/blog/phones-and-apps-reduce-your-ability-to-focus-even-when-they-dont-distract-you

4 years ago

585 upvotes – 219 comments

Do you really want Linux phones

https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/

4 years ago

511 upvotes – 562 comments

Julia 1.6 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2021/03/julia-1.6-highlights/

4 years ago

410 upvotes – 214 comments

Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code

https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/

4 years ago

381 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

https://themes.vscode.one

4 years ago

375 upvotes – 104 comments

Rust 1.51

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/03/25/Rust-1.51.0.html

4 years ago

332 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenSSL Security Advisory

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

4 years ago

329 upvotes – 141 comments

Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-lawyers-sheepskin-anti-fraud-device-hundreds.html

4 years ago

317 upvotes – 76 comments

Funds for Open Source

https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/

4 years ago

282 upvotes – 190 comments

Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c

4 years ago

278 upvotes – 109 comments

Fossil Chat

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/chat.md

4 years ago

260 upvotes – 162 comments

Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 225 comments

CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers

https://www.coscreen.co/

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 92 comments

Emacs 27.2

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-03/msg00008.html

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 111 comments

Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)

https://copyconstruct.medium.com/socat-29453e9fc8a6

4 years ago

230 upvotes – 65 comments

Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks

4 years ago

209 upvotes – 278 comments
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