top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-03-31

Inside a viral website

https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website

5 years ago

787 upvotes – 294 comments

Signed Char Lotte

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/03/30/signed-char-lotte.html

5 years ago

677 upvotes – 79 comments

Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/master/gd/rust/

5 years ago

635 upvotes – 377 comments

Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/03/Cancer-diagnoses-implies-patients-wait-for-Medicare.html

5 years ago

563 upvotes – 528 comments

What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur

https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 241 comments

UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

https://github.com/akavel/up

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/03/30/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments/

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 277 comments

Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 118 comments

Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/1376942486594150405

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 478 comments

Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 596 comments

Sublime Text 4 [video]

https://vimeo.com/529550701

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 276 comments

Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647717

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 263 comments

Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app

https://github.com/thesimj/jBaseZ85/issues/1

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 156 comments

Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56587621

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 352 comments

Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI

https://blog.google/products/maps/redefining-what-map-can-be-new-information-and-ai

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 287 comments

BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56563449

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644616

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 109 comments

Tracing Paper (2020)

https://logicmag.io/security/tracing-paper/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 101 comments

The political case for a blanket cryptocurrency ban

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/banbitcoin.html

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 611 comments

The deck we used to raise our seed funding

https://airbyte.io/articles/our-story/the-deck-we-used-to-raise-our-seed-with-accel-in-13-days/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 122 comments

Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/stop-calling-everything-ai-machinelearning-pioneer-says

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 125 comments

Latest Mozilla VPN features

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/03/30/latest-mozilla-vpn-features-keep-your-data-safe/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 175 comments

Apple doesn't care about album cover art

https://guilhermesimoes.github.io/blog/apple-does-not-care-about-album-cover-art

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 251 comments

Libreboot – Defend Richard Stallman

https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 235 comments

Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-army/microsoft-wins-21-9-billion-contract-with-u-s-army-to-supply-augmented-reality-headsets-idUSKBN2BN36B

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 294 comments

Hitachi to buy GlobalLogic for $9.6B

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hitachi-globallogic/hitachi-to-buy-u-s-software-developer-globallogic-for-9-6-billion-idUSKBN2BN0ED

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 133 comments

Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm

https://medium.com/@vlapiner/spreadsheet-is-a-software-development-paradigm-70c871ff5f49

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 103 comments

Beach High School

http://www2.cruzio.com/~beachhi/graduation.html

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 68 comments

What Data Can’t Do

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/what-data-cant-do

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 101 comments

Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 108 comments

Incident: American B38M near Nassau on Mar 29th 2021, pitch trim issue/failure

http://avherald.com/h?article=4e52a7cb&opt=0

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 119 comments

Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in California

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-environment-idUSKBN2BN206

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 85 comments

OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OBS-Studio-Wayland-Ready

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

Taking on Google

https://inthegood.co/taking-on-google/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 88 comments

Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-a-new-class-of-digitally-delicate-primes-20210330/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Find people to play tabletop roleplaying games with

https://roleplayful.com/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 68 comments

The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)

https://medium.com/@ravenstine/the-curious-history-of-novamin-toothpaste-620c6bef8881

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

Fighting cryptojacking and doing good things with content security policies

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres-how-im-fighting-cryptojacking-and-doing-good-things-with-content-security-policies/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

Systemd 248

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/systemd/systemd/main/NEWS

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 234 comments

Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

https://threethingsdaily.xyz

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

Louis Rossmann crowdfunding initiative & investing 2 years for Right to Repair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIF3ZRpf0I

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 23 comments

Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google (2018) [pdf]

https://sback.it/publications/icse2018seip.pdf

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 45 comments

Baltimore plant ruins 15M Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines

https://www.axios.com/emergent-biosolutions-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-dfd781a8-d007-4354-910a-e30d5007839b.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 94 comments

Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 90 comments

Frink

https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

Fish Doorbell

https://dutchreview.com/news/fish-doorbell-utrecht/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Input: Customisable Fonts for Code

https://input.djr.com/preview/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

TLA+ Action Properties

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/action-properties/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

T cells recognize recent SARS-CoV-2 variants

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/t-cells-recognize-recent-sars-cov-2-variants

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/29/wet-country-wireless-how-the-british-weather-killed-a-billion-pound-tech-company/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

On getting poetry

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/4/on-getting-poetry

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 95 comments

Tools for Auditing CSS

https://css-tricks.com/tools-for-auditing-css/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Code Reading Club (2020)

https://www.felienne.com/archives/6472

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/the-collapse-of-puerto-ricos-iconic-telescope

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

Sublime Text 4

https://twitter.com/sublimehq/status/1377088860836913153

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook now lets users and pages turn off comments on their posts

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/31/facebook-turn-off-comments-on-post-limit-restrict-disable-comment-posts-moderation-control-tool

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

U.S. human rights report documents China's genocide in Xinjiang

https://www.axios.com/state-department-human-rights-report-china-genocide-760d4cb5-5b66-4533-9f64-a737ac5e2d02.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Deliveroo shares drop 30% on UK IPO listing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56578445

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 129 comments

Selection effects on dishonest behavior

http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200824b/jdm200824b.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

Backpropagation 101 (2020)

https://thinc.ai/docs/backprop101

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Is the “cult” of Y Combinator good or bad for Africa’s startup ecosystem?

https://disrupt-africa.com/2021/03/30/is-the-cult-of-y-combinator-a-good-or-bad-thing-for-africas-startup-ecosystem/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments
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