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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. The imminent stable-version apocalypse

    108 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  2. The largest library of historical European martial arts books and manuscripts

    108 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  3. Start with a Niche

    108 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  4. Coca-Cola says 'Be Less White' learning plan was about workplace inclusion

    108 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  5. California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one

    107 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  6. Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

    107 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  7. Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching Is Added to Python

    107 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  8. The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use

    107 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  9. Apollo in Real Time – A journey through the Apollo missions

    107 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  10. Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping in a new place (2016)

    107 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  11. Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)

    107 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  12. The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)

    107 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  13. Modern software controls dependencies because it helps software authors

    107 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  14. Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17)

    107 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  15. Snyk: Find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies

    106 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  16. A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for you

    106 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  17. The unusual way I'm funding my open source work

    106 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  18. Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)

    106 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  19. NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

    106 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  20. Apple removes $1k featureless iPhone application (2008)

    106 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  21. Self-Directed Pandas Crash Course

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  22. A fake company to play around with spammers and you can use it too

    106 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  23. The Lisperati1000 Computer

    106 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  24. Show HN: git-peek – git repo to local editor instantly

    106 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  25. Cname / DNS based third party tracking

    105 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  26. Free Music for Your Videos

    105 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  27. Australia’s PM suggests Bing adequate if Google blocks searches

    105 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  28. Switching to Windows

    105 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  29. Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf]

    105 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  30. Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf]

    105 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  31. Unpacking Interview Questions

    105 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  32. See how 100 startups are running – MRR and Stats

    105 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  33. Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

    105 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  34. LibreSprite is an open source program for creating and animating your sprites

    105 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  35. 7.3 earthquake near Fukushima in Japan

    105 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  36. rpi-open-firmware: open-source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi

    105 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  37. Is soy a key driver of deforestation?

    105 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  38. Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for over $2.7B

    105 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  39. A mundane use of dependent types

    105 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  40. Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq

    104 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  41. When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?

    104 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  42. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  43. A cloak-and-dagger tale behind an anticipated result in particle physics

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  44. Tamper-Evident Logs

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  45. Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program

    104 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  46. Oil companies buying up EV charging networks: Shell acquires Ubitricity

    104 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  47. Hybrid supercapacitor offers NiMH energy density, charges much faster

    104 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  48. Protonmail was down

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  49. Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

    103 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  50. How to have better arguments online

    103 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  51. What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (2017)

    103 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  52. Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?

    103 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  53. Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated

    103 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  54. Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

    103 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  55. The World’s Fastest DES Cracker

    103 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  56. Reinforcement Learning at Facebook

    103 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  57. Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (2018)

    102 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  58. Stockfish developer statement on Fat Fritz 2

    102 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  59. Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?

    102 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  60. Balthazar Personal Computing Device, a 13” RISC-V laptop

    101 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  61. What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020)

    101 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  62. Ford Makes $29B Commitment to Electric and Self-Driving Cars

    101 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  63. Pretty Good Phone Privacy [pdf]

    101 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  64. The mathematics of shuffling

    101 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  65. How Early Megacities Emerged from the Jungles of Cambodia

    101 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  66. Launch HN: Chorus Meditation (YC W21) – Meditation for Non-Meditators

    101 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  67. Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65

    101 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  68. The days are long but the decades are short (2015)

    101 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  69. StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler)

    101 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  70. Show HN: "100 Page Python Intro" eBook

    101 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  71. Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)

    101 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  72. Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42k years ago, caused sudden climate change

    101 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  73. Can’t Get You Out of My Head [video]

    100 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  74. 2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]

    100 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  75. LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs

    100 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  76. Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries

    100 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  77. Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?

    99 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  78. Show HN: A browser extension to use picture-in-picture with any website

    99 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  79. Alpine.js Magic Helpers Library

    99 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  80. Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

    99 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  81. Deep Nose may one day be the best diagnostician in medicine

    99 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  82. Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C

    99 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  83. Easy Forth: Learn forth with REPL in the browser

    99 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  84. Cheap PCB story

    99 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  85. 100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder Based on 10-KA/Cm2 Niobium Process

    99 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  86. Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs

    99 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  87. Differentiation Under Integral Sign (2015) [pdf]

    99 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  88. Finite State Machines

    98 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  89. De Cecco reveals why there is a bucatini shortage in America

    98 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  90. Gam-COVID-Vac phase 3 trial results: 91·6% efficacy and well tolerated

    98 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  91. Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in QML

    98 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  92. Delicious back online in read-only mode

    98 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  93. Researchers propose that humidity from masks may lessen severity of Covid-19

    98 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  94. MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked

    98 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  95. Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position

    98 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  96. Tweak: An Efficient Hex Editor

    98 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  97. Tesla is shifting from nickel to iron cathode on standard range car's batteries

    98 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  98. Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible

    98 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  99. Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

    98 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  100. Wallenius Oceanbird: Wind-powered cargo vessel

    98 points • comment • feb 07, 2021