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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Launch HN: HiGeorge (YC W21) – Real-time data visualizations for public datasets

    89 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  2. 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter [pdf]

    89 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  3. The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing

    88 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  4. Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

    88 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  5. Bird watching goes both ways

    88 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  6. Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?

    88 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  7. Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban

    88 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  8. r/wallstreetbets is being taken over. Mods, comments and posts are being removed

    87 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  9. Itanium: Mark Architecture as Orphaned

    87 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  10. An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]

    87 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  11. Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes

    87 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  12. Secure your MQTT server with authentication and encryption

    87 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  13. Before You Memo()

    87 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  14. TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks: Round 20

    87 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  15. Show HN: Straw.Page – Extremely simple website builder

    87 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  16. Technology Without Industry

    87 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  17. How to Write Readable Code

    87 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  18. Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

    87 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  19. Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool

    87 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  20. The Crypto-Chernobyl

    87 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  21. Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

    86 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  22. Signal's TLS Proxy Failed to Be Probing Resistant

    86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  23. Script Lisp

    86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  24. Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) (2018)

    86 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  25. Notion is experiencing a DNS issue

    86 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  26. Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking

    86 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  27. The Great SameSite Confusion

    86 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  28. Len Sassaman and Satoshi

    86 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  29. Fnt: apt for fonts

    86 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  30. Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM

    85 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  31. Why It Matters Whether Hashed Passwords Are Personal Information Under U.S. Law

    85 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  32. A closer look at Raspberry Pi RP2040 Programmable IOs

    85 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  33. How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation

    85 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  34. Typing, RSI, and what I do differently

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  35. SnowFS – a fast, scalable version control file storage for graphic files

    85 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  36. How Robinhood Misled the Poor and Rewarded the Rich

    85 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  37. What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020)

    85 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  38. Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

    84 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  39. Effective Property-Based Testing

    84 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  40. Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod

    84 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  41. Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL

    84 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  42. The Adams Event

    84 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  43. Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell

    84 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  44. UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit

    84 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  45. Web Spectrogram using your Mic

    84 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  46. Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info

    84 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  47. SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit

    83 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  48. Show HN: Doppler Share – Share one-off secrets with end-to-end encryption

    83 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  49. Applied Compositional Thinking for Engineers

    83 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  50. Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”

    83 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  51. Why we are still using PBKDF2-SHA256 despite being aware of its limitations

    83 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  52. Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently?

    83 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  53. Cosmopolitan Libc: your build-once run-anywhere C library

    83 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  54. KeePassXC 2.6.4 Released

    83 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  55. Show HN: Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum

    83 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  56. What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies?

    83 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  57. Deepfake Voice Technology: The Good. The Bad. The Future

    82 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  58. NSan: a floating-point numerical sanitizer

    82 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  59. Sequoia Capital says it was hacked

    82 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  60. Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo

    82 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  61. A Beginner's Guide to NFTs

    82 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  62. How to write cuneiform

    82 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  63. Show HN: An Event Sourced Minesweeper

    82 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  64. Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers into Brutal 'Megacycle' Shifts

    82 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  65. The Reshaped Mac Experience

    82 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  66. M1 Air with Thermal Pad Mod

    82 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  67. A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens

    82 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  68. The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database

    82 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  69. Front-of-the-Front-End and Back-of-the-Front-End Web Development

    82 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  70. Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature

    82 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  71. The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing

    82 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  72. The Misguided Mythology of Ayrton Senna

    82 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  73. Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released

    81 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  74. Clj-3DF: Clojure(Script) Client for Declarative Dataflow

    81 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  75. Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

    81 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  76. Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

    81 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  77. Photographer Sues Kat Von D over Miles Davis Tattoo

    81 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  78. GameStop shares soar more than 100% amid executive shuffle

    81 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  79. A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies

    81 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  80. Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015)

    81 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  81. Kea parrots perform domain-general statistical inference

    81 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  82. Interactive Data Visualisation with Rust

    81 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  83. In their own words: Trinity at 75 – The First Nuclear Bomb

    81 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  84. Van Gogh hiding at the back of a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing

    80 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  85. Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  86. Boeing 757 cargo door opens after takeoff

    80 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  87. Bangui magnetic anomaly

    80 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  88. The GameStop Mess Exposes the Naked Short Selling Scam – The American Prospect

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  89. Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

    80 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  90. Launch HN: Insight (YC W19) – an iOS browser with easy-to-make extensions

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  91. Zio: Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala

    80 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  92. You Shall Not Pass

    80 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  93. Automatic differentiation does incur truncation errors (kinda)

    80 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  94. The Art of Negativity

    80 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  95. The Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger

    80 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  96. Restoring Nominet’s Purpose

    80 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  97. Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cripples hash rate of RTX-3060

    80 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  98. Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics'

    80 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  99. I am releasing all my recent eBooks for FREE

    80 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  100. Arithmetic dynamics combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems

    80 points • comment • feb 27, 2021