HackerNews most popular stories from Feb 28, 2021 to Mar 07, 2021. In one blog post.
[0] How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
[1] It Can Happen to You
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/
[2] Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
https://palant.info/2020/05/04/are-xiaomi-browsers-spyware-yes-they-are…/
[3] Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
https://agfundernews.com/beyond-meat-signs-global-supply-deals-with-mcdonalds-yum-brands.html
[4] Flutter 2
https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-flutter-2.html
[5] Valve’s Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
https://boilingsteam.com/7000-windows-games-working-on-linux-with-proton/
[6] Git’s list of banned C functions
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
[7] “User engagement” is code for “addiction”
https://medium.com/swlh/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac
[8] Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_engine/
[9] The MIT Press launches Direct to Open
https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-direct-open
[10] US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
[11] Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts
https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account
[12] ‘Hovering ship’ photographed off Cornish coast by walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719
[13] NASA’s Perseverance rover sends stunning images
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-56238018
[14] Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
https://davidwalsh.name/touch-sudo
[15] 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
[16] Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
https://github.com/dolthub/dolt#dolt
[17] Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
https://github.com/nodegui/svelte-nodegui
[18] Open source projects should run office hours
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/19/office-hours/
[19] Killing TurboTax
https://kunle.app/feb-2021-how-to-dismantle-turbotax.html
[20] Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf
https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/issues/40
[21] The lessons of Fukushima – Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/06/nuclear-power-must-be-well-regulated-not-ditched
[22] Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
[23] jQuery 3.6.0
http://blog.jquery.com/2021/03/02/jquery-3-6-0-released/
[24] PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847412/d7826b1353e33734
[25] NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95
[26] 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say
[27] Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
[28] Google no longer wanted to sponsor the AI ethics conference
[29] Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1367250900041953280