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1. Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020) (palant.info)
1215 points by autoditype on March 1, 2021 | 487 comments
2. Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf (github.com/biojppm)
510 points by JdeBP on March 1, 2021 | 160 comments
3. Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate (cnx-software.com)
348 points by homarp on March 1, 2021 | 198 comments
4. Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac (davidwalsh.name)
510 points by syck on March 1, 2021 | 214 comments
5. Generate Flowcharts from Text (flowchart.fun)
484 points by tonerow on March 1, 2021 | 132 comments
6. On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't (residentcontrarian.substack.com)
792 points by maxwelljoslyn on March 1, 2021 | 884 comments
7. The Hijacking of Perl.com (perl.com)
298 points by leejo on March 1, 2021 | 107 comments
8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
361 points by whoishiring on March 1, 2021 | 961 comments
9. The Last Message Sent on AIM (justanman.org)
409 points by luu on March 1, 2021 | 208 comments
10. Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed (fs.blog)
233 points by feross on March 1, 2021 | 123 comments
11. Foundational Distributed Systems Papers (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
253 points by mastabadtomm on Feb 28, 2021 | 13 comments
12. Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket (rocketlabusa.com)
226 points by james_pm on March 1, 2021 | 155 comments
13. JSON parser written in 6502 assembly language (github.com/ppelleti)
188 points by lifthrasiir on March 1, 2021 | 85 comments
14. OMU – “One Man Unix” (pix.net)
165 points by marcodiego on Feb 28, 2021 | 57 comments
15. Why does an A note sound different across instruments? (omarshehata.me)
196 points by OmarShehata on March 1, 2021 | 106 comments
16. 152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan (github.com/wasm3)
252 points by tambourine_man on March 1, 2021 | 52 comments
17. Demoscene the Amiga Years Volume 1 (editions64k.fr)
139 points by doener on March 1, 2021 | 45 comments
18. Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust (github.com/bastion-rs)
174 points by ibraheemdev on March 1, 2021 | 41 comments
19. Cname / DNS based third party tracking (arxiv.org)
108 points by chdlr on Feb 28, 2021 | 47 comments
20. Wikinews mourns loss of volunteer John Shutt (wikinews.org)
193 points by slondr on March 1, 2021 | 17 comments
21. I built a 5K iMac Display (twitter.com/phillipcaudell)
260 points by dsr12 on March 1, 2021 | 127 comments
22. Launch HN: Corrily (YC W21) – Price Optimization for SaaS
80 points by abelr on March 1, 2021 | 46 comments
23. Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it (jse.li)
148 points by eat_veggies on March 1, 2021 | 47 comments
24. Spectre exploits in the "wild" (dustri.org)
193 points by todsacerdoti on March 1, 2021 | 53 comments
25. Show HN: QueryCal – calculate metrics from your calendars using SQL (querycal.com)
75 points by bradleyjkemp on Feb 28, 2021 | 13 comments
26. Meltano: ELT for the DataOps era (meltano.com)
112 points by bargavas on Feb 27, 2021 | 33 comments
27. The missing continent it took 375 years to find (bbc.com)
98 points by Anon84 on Feb 27, 2021 | 22 comments
28. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear' (bbc.com)
396 points by undefined1 on March 1, 2021 | 641 comments
29. Before you buy a Soviet Camera (kosmofoto.com)
162 points by brudgers on Feb 28, 2021 | 65 comments
30. OpenGL Superbible (opengl.org)
98 points by fctorial on March 1, 2021 | 56 comments

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