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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

    3816 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  2. The Framework Laptop

    2557 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  3. Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

    1982 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  4. Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

    1969 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  5. Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

    1926 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  6. Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it

    1724 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  7. My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

    1711 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  8. Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]

    1661 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  9. Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

    1658 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  10. Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water

    1656 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  11. Total Cookie Protection

    1519 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  12. Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

    1384 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  13. 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower

    1377 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  14. Architecture.md

    1323 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  15. VideoLAN is 20 years old today

    1309 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  16. Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August

    1225 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  17. Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

    1164 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  18. Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

    1132 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  19. “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

    1117 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  20. Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

    1103 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  21. Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

    1092 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  22. Daft Punk Break Up

    1081 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  23. I Still Use RSS

    1020 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  24. Getting better at Linux with mini-projects

    991 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  25. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

    981 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  26. MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies

    972 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  27. Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

    971 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  28. Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

    971 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  29. What I Worked On

    960 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  30. Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

    957 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  31. Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

    937 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  32. A visual guide to SSH tunnels

    932 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  33. Free for Developers

    917 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  34. DigitalOcean S-1

    910 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  35. Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked

    896 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  36. OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

    869 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  37. Homebrew 3.0

    841 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  38. Rust Foundation: Hello, World

    827 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  39. America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

    824 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  40. Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update

    812 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  41. Monolith First (2015)

    808 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  42. Computer Graphics from Scratch

    793 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  43. Statement on New York Times Article

    791 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  44. Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

    784 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  45. Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

    770 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  46. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)

    764 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  47. Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast

    761 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  48. Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

    753 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  49. 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

    750 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  50. Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders

    739 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  51. Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

    725 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  52. “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

    723 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  53. United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine

    719 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  54. My product is my garden

    716 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  55. Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

    705 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  56. Chick Corea has died

    704 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  57. Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

    703 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  58. CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

    693 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  59. Functorio

    689 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  60. Why I Built Litestream

    685 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  61. M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time

    674 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  62. The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)

    665 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  63. Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison

    662 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  64. Actually Portable Executables

    659 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  65. Coinbase S-1

    652 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  66. Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

    652 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  67. The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

    651 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  68. Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus

    648 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  69. Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers

    645 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  70. Pattern matching accepted for Python

    644 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  71. We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

    634 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  72. There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”

    629 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  73. Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

    626 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  74. Actually Portable Executable

    622 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  75. Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

    622 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  76. A Framework for Writing Better Documentation

    620 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  77. Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules

    618 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  78. What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

    610 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  79. Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

    609 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  80. Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

    603 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  81. Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

    599 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  82. WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

    597 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  83. Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

    593 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  84. Lena

    590 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  85. Choose Boring Technology (2015)

    587 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  86. Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says

    576 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  87. Algorithms by Jeff Erickson

    576 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  88. Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

    570 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  89. The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly

    566 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  90. Always Bet on Text (2014)

    565 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  91. A Vim Guide for Advanced Users

    564 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  92. Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex

    557 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  93. The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition

    556 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  94. Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers

    556 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  95. Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online

    554 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  96. How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

    545 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  97. Apache Arrow 3.0

    545 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  98. Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines

    541 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  99. Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone

    540 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  100. Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

    537 points • comment • feb 03, 2021