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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore

    133 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  2. TikTok and the network effects of creativity

    133 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  3. Is This a Branch?

    133 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  4. An SQL Solution for Jupyter

    133 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  5. Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals

    133 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  6. A Sober Look at SPACs (2020)

    132 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  7. San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race

    132 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  8. How Covid brought the future back

    132 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  9. Threat Actors Now Target Docker via Container Escape Features

    132 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  10. Launch HN: Tint (YC W21) – Embed insurance into any product

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  11. A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR

    131 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  12. Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics

    131 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  13. In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

    131 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  14. Biden to sign order to build 'China-free' tech supply chain

    131 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  15. BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]

    131 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  16. S100 Computers

    131 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  17. WebAssembly

    130 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  18. Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute deal with government

    130 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  19. A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)

    130 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  20. A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias

    130 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  21. The Exclusive Website

    130 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  22. Never use MongoDB (2013)

    129 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  23. Flexible working shows 55% high performers compared to 36% for 40 hours/week

    129 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  24. Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks

    129 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  25. A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning

    129 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  26. Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii

    129 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  27. Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?

    129 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  28. GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires

    129 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  29. Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications

    129 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  30. The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia

    128 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  31. Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic

    128 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  32. Powerpaste, the hydrogen technology for small vehicles

    128 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  33. 1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011)

    128 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  34. Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You?

    128 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  35. The Mediocre Programmer

    127 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  36. AirPods as a Platform

    127 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  37. A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard

    127 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  38. Streams – The Definitive Guide

    127 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  39. Project Xanadu

    127 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  40. RetroForth 2021.1

    127 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  41. Show HN: Peer-to-Peer data transfer tool based on libp2p

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  42. US central bank payment system down for 'hours'

    127 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  43. Htmx 1.2.0 Release

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  44. Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic

    127 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  45. The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection

    127 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  46. RethinkDNS – monitor app activity, block ads and firewall apps on Android

    126 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  47. Beeple Mania

    126 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  48. Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers

    126 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  49. The Fed Is Down

    126 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  50. Listen to radio stations from around the world

    126 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  51. We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely

    126 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  52. Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years

    126 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  53. JIT-Compiling SQL Queries in PostgreSQL Using LLVM

    125 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  54. Compiler Class

    125 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  55. Open Source in the 5G Stack

    125 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  56. Opinion: We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

    125 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  57. 23andMe to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. to become publicly-traded company

    125 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  58. Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

    125 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  59. Fzf – the basics part 1 – layout

    125 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  60. Show HN: Weekend project, shows when the next season of your TV show premieres

    124 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  61. Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup

    124 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  62. Weave.jl – Scientific Reports Using Julia

    124 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  63. Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter

    124 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  64. Four Basic Truths of Macroeconomics

    124 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  65. Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data

    124 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  66. Fuzz me wrong – How QuickCheck destroyed my favourite theory

    124 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  67. Google suspends Terraria author's account; He cancels support for Google Stadia

    123 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  68. The GPL-Violations.org Project (2016)

    123 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  69. Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms

    123 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  70. Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes

    123 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  71. How ClickHouse saved our data (2020)

    123 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  72. Unsuck It (2010)

    123 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  73. 78rpm Records Digitized

    123 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  74. Griddy Is Shutting Down

    123 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  75. Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

    123 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  76. GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java

    123 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  77. How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)

    122 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  78. I built ByteDance's censorship machine

    122 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  79. 30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why

    122 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  80. Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels

    122 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  81. The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes

    122 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  82. Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say

    122 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  83. Mutation Driven Testing: When TDD Just Isn’t Good Enough

    122 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  84. Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform

    122 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  85. Interview Frustrations

    122 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  86. Texas Electric Bills Were $28B Higher Under Deregulation

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  87. L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash

    121 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  88. Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage

    121 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  89. Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  90. Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available

    121 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  91. Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants

    120 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  92. How We Test Concurrent Primitives in Kotlin Coroutines

    120 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  93. On Writing More

    120 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  94. SpaceX says Starlink now has over 10k users

    120 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  95. Ancient Babylonian Algorithms: The Earliest Programs

    120 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  96. Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet

    120 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  97. Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015)

    120 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  98. Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime

    120 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  99. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)

    119 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  100. Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued

    119 points • comment • feb 21, 2021