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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

3883

2

It Can Happen to You

1683

3

Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

1215

4

Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

1105

5

NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images

1032

6

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling

931

7

Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked

927

8

Killing TurboTax

891

9

Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

881

10

Git's list of banned C functions

876

Top Ask HN

1

Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?

449

2

Who is hiring? (March 2021)

361

3

Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)

122

4

How to stay focused and motivated working from home?

114

5

Always on low power home server

98

6

Which books made you the most money?

89

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2021)

76

8

Is average code getting worse?

68

9

IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe?

63

10

Are you on a technical specialist career path, what does it look like?

56

Top Show HN

1

Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

1998

2

Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix

412

3

A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm

327

4

Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it

148

5

Interactive real-time chemistry and fluids: water electrolysis

99

6

Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage

98

7

Doppler Share – Share one-off secrets with end-to-end encryption

90

8

Practical Python Projects book release

88

9

A network of weather stations to help prevent pesticide spray drift

83

10

Fast Rolling Quantiles for Python

79

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up

540

2

100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

447

3

‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos

326

4

AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship

293

5

Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked

281

6

Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

280

7

Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech

173

8

Turntable.fm is back from the dead – and now there are two

162

9

Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380

155

10

A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020)

148

News [?]

1

NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images

1032

2

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling

931

3

Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

881

4

Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing

670

5

Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

632

6

Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules

623

7

Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex

573

8

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

396

9

Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched

396

10

Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

312

Scientific publications [?]

1

Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch

302

2

Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++

218

3

Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S.

178

4

The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion

115

5

Cname / DNS based third party tracking

108

6

Catfish Charlie, the CIA’s Robotic Spy

48

7

Optimal boarding method for airline passengers (2008)

41

8

SpaceX's Starship prototype lands – but then explodes

20

9

Geoff Hinton 2021 – How to represent part-whole hierarchies in a neural network

8

10

How to represent part-whole hierarchies in a neural network by Geoffrey Hinton

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

457

2

Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

273

3

An Introduction to Lockless Algorithms

226

4

India’s new intermediary liability and digital media laws will harm the internet

172

5

Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo

168

6

Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

161

7

Mindsets to Avoid as a Senior Software Developer

93

8

Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers

86

9

Google Ads: Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web

78

10

Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression

64

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

604

2

Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 1998 G3 iMac

124

3

The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing

89

4

Apple Clarifies That Missed Apple Card Payments Don't Affect Apple ID

34

5

Apple wont hold your Apple ID hostage due to missed Apple Card payments

33

6

Rosetta May Be Removed from M1 Macs in Some Regions on macOS 11.3

32

7

Ultrasound triggers brain's waste disposal system in Alzheimer's patients

27

8

Upcoming macOS 11.3 update may remove Rosetta 2 in some regions – AppleInsider

22

9

Apple Faces Another iPhone Lawsuit over 'Programmed Obsolescence'

21

10

iPhone 13 to Include 1TB Storage Option, Lidar Across Board, Say Wedbush Analyst

21

FAANG+ [?]

1

How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success

182

2

Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain

72

3

Hafnium targeting Exchange Servers with 0-day Exploits

5

4

Microsoft Mesh – Here can be anywhere

5

5

Hafnium Targeting MS Exchange Servers (Patch Now)

4

6

New Zealand students prototype their own Samoan language app with iPad

4

7

Apple Hearing Study shares new insights on hearing health

4

8

Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain

4

9

Amazon Location Service

3

10

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’

743

2

Internet Archive Infrastructure

542

3

The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

467

4

Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)

301

5

In-car touchscreens are dangerous

249

6

TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

199

7

Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)

182

8

The Web’s Missing Interoperability

142

9

Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics'

87

10

The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing

85

Science News [?]

1

Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal

288

2

Myths about how the brain works

284

3

Every $1 of BTC value responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in US

245

4

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory

235

5

A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children

209

6

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

188

7

The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

187

8

Consciousness Is Just a Feeling

110

9

Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020)

96

10

Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

90

Social [?]

1

Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

648

2

If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts

337

3

Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]

282

4

I built a 5K iMac Display

260

5

3500 packages uploaded to PyPI, pointing to a malicious URL

257

6

Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem”

236

7

Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit

195

8

A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics [video]

174

9

Hong Kong has charged and jailed 47 pro-democracy candidates with subversion

107

10

A mundane use of dependent types

107

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Git's list of banned C functions

876

2

Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf

510

3

Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

499

4

Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups

446

5

Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc

405

6

Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programming language

395

7

Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

386

8

285

9

280

10

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice

265

Wikipedia [?]

1

Voith Schneider Propeller

169

2

Reversible Computing

149

3

The Boston Camera

132

4

Crypto-Anarchism

74

5

42

6

Kaktovik numerals – A base-20 number system that is visually easy too

39

7

Father of the PDP-1: The TX-0, Transistorized EXperimental Computer Zero (1956)

30

8

21

9

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

18

10

17

Blogs [?]

1

“User engagement” is code for “addiction”

711

2

Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

210

3

Accelerator vs. Startup Studio

93

4

Building a Design System at a Startup

77

5

The End of Indie

77

6

.badass Domains

32

7

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

26

8

Playing with symmetric encryption algorithms in Ruby

22

9

Why Swift reference types are bad for iOS app startup time

21

10

What makes Apache Kafka fast (2020)

18

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are Ring 0 and Ring 3 in the context of operating systems?

10

2

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

5

3

PHP static analysis producing different results on sequential runs on same code

4

4

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()? (2012)

4

5

Generate a random point within a circle (uniformly)

3

6

Is a GUID unique 100% of the time?

3

7

How do I query a SQLite db in go?

1

Substack [?]

1

On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

792

2

Are You Trading or Gambling?

372

3

Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019)

198

4

The Global Population Crisis That Never Was

93

5

There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math

66

6

Transhumanism: What's the Plan? (2020)

60

7

Why You Should Take Any Vaccine

46

8

The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked

45

9

Principles of a Good Product Roadmap

38

10

We should pay politicians more

34