Hacker News on 3 January 2021

• Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
• ECC matters
• Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks
• I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
• URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
• Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later
• On Repl-Driven Programming
• The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious
• How to Stop Endless Discussions
• Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by UPenn