The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2021

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GitHub, fuck your name change mooseyanon.medium.com · leontrolski · 17 Mar 2021

3.4k pts 2k comments

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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” krebsonsecurity.com · picture · 30 Mar 2021

1.9k pts 785 comments

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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service tinyprojects.dev · tinyprojects · 11 Mar 2021

1.7k pts 612 comments

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It Can Happen to You mattkeeter.com · mooreds · 4 Mar 2021

1.7k pts 403 comments

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Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch text.npr.org · everybodyknows · 7 Mar 2021

1.5k pts 298 comments

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Is that ship still stuck? istheshipstillstuck.com · ColinWright · 25 Mar 2021

1.5k pts 1.2k comments

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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk brianschrader.com · sonicrocketman · 25 Mar 2021

1.3k pts 696 comments

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Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] github.com · aty268 · 29 Mar 2021

1.2k pts 367 comments

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Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020) palant.info · autoditype · 1 Mar 2021

1.2k pts 487 comments

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Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed eu.usatoday.com · ruaraidh · 22 Mar 2021

1.2k pts 985 comments

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Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building travaux.ovh.net · finniananderson · 10 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 589 comments

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Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net · quakeguy · 20 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 136 comments

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Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut agfundernews.com · adrian_mrd · 2 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 910 comments

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Click clickclickclick.click · st_goliath · 19 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 243 comments

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Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated reuters.com · WJW · 29 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 569 comments

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Audacity 3.0 audacityteam.org · app4soft · 17 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 219 comments

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Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook twitter.com · celsoazevedo · 22 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 516 comments

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Suez canal blocked by a massive ship twitter.com · tilolebo · 23 Mar 2021

1.1k pts 427 comments

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30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server krebsonsecurity.com · picture · 5 Mar 2021

1k pts 437 comments

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NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images bbc.com · astdb · 3 Mar 2021

1k pts 347 comments

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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming pcgamer.com · mmhsieh · 15 Mar 2021

1k pts 321 comments

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Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer roy.marples.name · elvis70 · 13 Mar 2021

1k pts 221 comments

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“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” twitter.com · linksbro · 8 Mar 2021

1k pts 312 comments

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Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up femfosec.com · femfosec · 28 Mar 2021

1k pts 1.4k comments

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I want a computer that I own misc-stuff.terraaeon.com · bezelbuttons · 9 Mar 2021

994 pts 655 comments

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SQLite is not a toy database antonz.org · nalgeon · 25 Mar 2021

986 pts 354 comments

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Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy blog.mozilla.org · twapi · 22 Mar 2021

972 pts 251 comments

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Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web knuckleheads.club · skinkestek · 26 Mar 2021

957 pts 346 comments

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Charts.css chartscss.org · pspeter3 · 17 Mar 2021

935 pts 141 comments

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Louvre makes its entire collection available online collections.louvre.fr · colinprince · 27 Mar 2021

932 pts 205 comments

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Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling theregister.com · samizdis · 3 Mar 2021

931 pts 411 comments

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Show HN: I wrote a book about Go practical-go-lessons.com · maximilienandi · 24 Mar 2021

919 pts 157 comments

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Let’s fix font size tonsky.me · rhabarba · 30 Mar 2021

918 pts 347 comments

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Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos 3b1b.github.io · vermilingua · 18 Mar 2021

905 pts 75 comments

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Killing TurboTax kunle.app · kunle · 3 Mar 2021

891 pts 662 comments

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The Deno Company deno.com · elisee · 29 Mar 2021

883 pts 431 comments

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Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay wsj.com · undefined1 · 4 Mar 2021

881 pts 2.2k comments

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Git's list of banned C functions github.com · muds · 4 Mar 2021

876 pts 613 comments

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The Drivers Cooperative drivers.coop · pasquinelli · 26 Mar 2021

866 pts 319 comments

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace bell-labs.com · __d · 23 Mar 2021

865 pts 261 comments

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'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter bbc.com · alexrustic · 30 Mar 2021

846 pts 405 comments

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HTTPWTF httptoolkit.tech · pimterry · 4 Mar 2021

845 pts 138 comments

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Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF techrights.org · wrycoder · 21 Mar 2021

844 pts 856 comments

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Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) training.kalzumeus.com · mooreds · 21 Mar 2021

824 pts 269 comments

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Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe twitter.com · tosh · 19 Mar 2021

823 pts 199 comments

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Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS therecord.media · gormandizer · 30 Mar 2021

816 pts 442 comments

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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store github.com · URfejk · 24 Mar 2021

815 pts 363 comments

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Fuckin' user interface design, I swear blog.plover.com · luu · 8 Mar 2021

814 pts 498 comments

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Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative baserow.io · punnerud · 13 Mar 2021

802 pts 224 comments

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Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux boilingsteam.com · ekianjo · 5 Mar 2021

796 pts 327 comments

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On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't residentcontrarian.substack.com · maxwelljoslyn · 1 Mar 2021

792 pts 884 comments

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Flutter 2 developers.googleblog.com · wstrange · 3 Mar 2021

791 pts 754 comments

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Inside a viral website notfunatparties.substack.com · panic · 31 Mar 2021

787 pts 294 comments

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Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp mothership.sg · amrrs · 19 Mar 2021

774 pts 495 comments

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NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap seths.blog · josephscott · 7 Mar 2021

772 pts 752 comments

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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge github.com · crazypython · 6 Mar 2021

752 pts 176 comments

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Security.txt securitytxt.org · tosh · 14 Mar 2021

746 pts 165 comments

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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun kevinlynagh.com · iansinnott · 7 Mar 2021

743 pts 387 comments

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ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’ torrentfreak.com · input_sh · 3 Mar 2021

743 pts 296 comments

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Crystal 1.0 – What to expect crystal-lang.org · mfkp · 22 Mar 2021

739 pts 340 comments