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Top of Month - Mar 2021

1. GitHub, fuck your name change
   (17 Mar 2021 | 3353 points | Comments)

2. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
   (30 Mar 2021 | 1944 points | Comments)

3. It Can Happen to You
   (4 Mar 2021 | 1683 points | Comments)

4. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
   (11 Mar 2021 | 1683 points | Comments)

5. Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
   (7 Mar 2021 | 1461 points | Comments)

6. Is that ship still stuck?
   (25 Mar 2021 | 1453 points | Comments)

7. All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
   (25 Mar 2021 | 1345 points | Comments)

8. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
   (29 Mar 2021 | 1248 points | Comments)

9. Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
   (1 Mar 2021 | 1215 points | Comments)

10. Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
    (22 Mar 2021 | 1167 points | Comments)

11. Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
    (10 Mar 2021 | 1141 points | Comments)

12. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
    (20 Mar 2021 | 1107 points | Comments)

13. Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
    (2 Mar 2021 | 1105 points | Comments)

14. Click
    (19 Mar 2021 | 1100 points | Comments)

15. Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
    (29 Mar 2021 | 1068 points | Comments)

16. Audacity 3.0
    (17 Mar 2021 | 1065 points | Comments)

17. Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
    (22 Mar 2021 | 1064 points | Comments)

18. Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
    (23 Mar 2021 | 1055 points | Comments)

19. 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
    (5 Mar 2021 | 1038 points | Comments)

20. NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
    (3 Mar 2021 | 1032 points | Comments)

21. Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
    (15 Mar 2021 | 1032 points | Comments)

22. Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
    (13 Mar 2021 | 1012 points | Comments)

23. “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
    (8 Mar 2021 | 1010 points | Comments)

24. Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
    (28 Mar 2021 | 1005 points | Comments)

25. I want a computer that I own
    (9 Mar 2021 | 994 points | Comments)

26. SQLite is not a toy database
    (25 Mar 2021 | 986 points | Comments)

27. Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
    (22 Mar 2021 | 972 points | Comments)

28. Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
    (26 Mar 2021 | 957 points | Comments)

29. Charts.css
    (17 Mar 2021 | 935 points | Comments)

30. Louvre makes its entire collection available online
    (27 Mar 2021 | 932 points | Comments)

31. Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
    (3 Mar 2021 | 931 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go
    (24 Mar 2021 | 919 points | Comments)

33. Let’s fix font size
    (30 Mar 2021 | 918 points | Comments)

34. Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos
    (18 Mar 2021 | 905 points | Comments)

35. Killing TurboTax
    (3 Mar 2021 | 891 points | Comments)

36. The Deno Company
    (29 Mar 2021 | 883 points | Comments)

37. Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
    (4 Mar 2021 | 881 points | Comments)

38. Git's list of banned C functions
    (4 Mar 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

39. The Drivers Cooperative
    (26 Mar 2021 | 866 points | Comments)

40. Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
    (23 Mar 2021 | 865 points | Comments)

41. 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
    (30 Mar 2021 | 846 points | Comments)

42. HTTPWTF
    (4 Mar 2021 | 845 points | Comments)

43. Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
    (21 Mar 2021 | 844 points | Comments)

44. Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
    (21 Mar 2021 | 824 points | Comments)

45. Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
    (19 Mar 2021 | 823 points | Comments)

46. Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
    (30 Mar 2021 | 816 points | Comments)

47. Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
    (24 Mar 2021 | 815 points | Comments)

48. Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
    (8 Mar 2021 | 814 points | Comments)

49. Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
    (13 Mar 2021 | 802 points | Comments)

50. Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
    (5 Mar 2021 | 796 points | Comments)

51. On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
    (1 Mar 2021 | 792 points | Comments)

52. Flutter 2
    (3 Mar 2021 | 791 points | Comments)

53. Inside a viral website
    (31 Mar 2021 | 787 points | Comments)

54. Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp
    (19 Mar 2021 | 774 points | Comments)

55. NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
    (7 Mar 2021 | 772 points | Comments)

56. Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
    (6 Mar 2021 | 752 points | Comments)

57. Security.txt
    (14 Mar 2021 | 746 points | Comments)

58. ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’
    (3 Mar 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

59. Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
    (7 Mar 2021 | 743 points | Comments)

60. Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
    (22 Mar 2021 | 739 points | Comments)

61. How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
    (11 Mar 2021 | 734 points | Comments)

62. Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
    (23 Mar 2021 | 731 points | Comments)

63. RIP Google Reader
    (25 Mar 2021 | 729 points | Comments)

64. Permission.site
    (26 Mar 2021 | 728 points | Comments)

65. “User engagement” is code for “addiction”
    (4 Mar 2021 | 711 points | Comments)

66. Apt Encounters of the Third Kind
    (26 Mar 2021 | 701 points | Comments)

67. Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
    (29 Mar 2021 | 698 points | Comments)

68. Animated Engines
    (6 Mar 2021 | 696 points | Comments)

69. Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
    (18 Mar 2021 | 694 points | Comments)

70. Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (2016)
    (26 Mar 2021 | 691 points | Comments)

71. WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
    (18 Mar 2021 | 689 points | Comments)

72. The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
    (24 Mar 2021 | 686 points | Comments)

73. Signed Char Lotte
    (31 Mar 2021 | 677 points | Comments)

74. Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts
    (2 Mar 2021 | 676 points | Comments)

75. Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital
    (9 Mar 2021 | 676 points | Comments)

76. Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
    (3 Mar 2021 | 670 points | Comments)

77. Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
    (8 Mar 2021 | 663 points | Comments)

78. Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
    (17 Mar 2021 | 659 points | Comments)

79. Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
    (23 Mar 2021 | 659 points | Comments)

80. Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed
    (14 Mar 2021 | 658 points | Comments)

81. Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
    (18 Mar 2021 | 654 points | Comments)

82. -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
    (8 Mar 2021 | 646 points | Comments)

83. Write libraries instead of services, where possible
    (9 Mar 2021 | 635 points | Comments)

84. Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
    (31 Mar 2021 | 635 points | Comments)

85. Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
    (9 Mar 2021 | 634 points | Comments)

86. Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface
    (29 Mar 2021 | 634 points | Comments)

87. Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
    (14 Mar 2021 | 633 points | Comments)

88. Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
    (3 Mar 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

89. Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
    (22 Mar 2021 | 631 points | Comments)

90. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
    (5 Mar 2021 | 624 points | Comments)

91. Open source projects should run office hours
    (5 Mar 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

92. Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
    (7 Mar 2021 | 619 points | Comments)

93. Speed of Rust vs. C
    (13 Mar 2021 | 619 points | Comments)

94. 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
    (5 Mar 2021 | 616 points | Comments)

95. Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
    (12 Mar 2021 | 610 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: Video Game in a Font
    (17 Mar 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

97. Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
    (4 Mar 2021 | 604 points | Comments)

98. Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
    (10 Mar 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

99. Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
    (8 Mar 2021 | 590 points | Comments)

100. Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible
     (10 Mar 2021 | 590 points | Comments)