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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Ligeti Stratos – First Open Source Microlight Aircraft (2013)

    79 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  2. Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire departments

    79 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  3. EyeDraw – Draw with your eyes using computer vision

    79 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  4. Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack

    79 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  5. B8ta closing another San Francisco store after armed robbery

    79 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  6. HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

    79 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  7. Enable hibernation when Lockdown is enabled

    79 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  8. Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention

    79 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  9. Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?

    79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  10. Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (1999)

    79 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  11. The most important part of modern government is database management

    79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  12. Show HN: Pageturner – a community for building a reading habit

    79 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  13. Google hasn’t updated their iOS apps for 2 months to avoid new privacy labels

    79 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  14. Fully convolutional naturalistic video reconstruction from brain activity

    79 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  15. Squad: Forth on Chip-8

    79 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  16. Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy

    79 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  17. Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing

    79 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  18. Google Cloud lost $5.6B in 2020

    79 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  19. Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers

    78 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  20. Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’

    78 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  21. RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi

    78 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  22. Mainframe Programming vs. Cloud Computing

    78 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  23. Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal

    78 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  24. Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)

    78 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  25. Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power

    77 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  26. Dairy Made from Grass in a Fermentor

    77 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  27. Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP

    77 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  28. Semgrep: JavaScript browser security concat bypass not detected

    77 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  29. Iamlive – Generate an IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring

    77 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  30. Curl is C (2017)

    77 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  31. You cannot contact Google Cloud support team if you are locked out your account

    77 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  32. Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins

    77 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  33. Arb: Efficient Arbitrary-Precision Midpoint-Radius Interval Arithmetic (2016)

    77 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  34. Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin

    77 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  35. WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Privacy Policy Changes

    77 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  36. Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk

    77 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  37. The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem

    77 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  38. Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review

    76 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  39. Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers?

    76 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  40. 1921 Duesenberg Model A Belonged to the Same Family for Almost a Century

    76 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  41. Launch HN: Worksphere (YC W21) – Manage flexible in-office or remote workspaces

    76 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  42. What Inception Net Doesn't See

    76 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  43. When Everyone’s a Genius: A Few Thoughts on Speculation

    76 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  44. How libraries decide which books to keep (2014)

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  45. Ex NSA person subverting cryptography joins AWS as Director of Applied Crypto

    76 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  46. On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  47. Early Illustrations of the Nervous System

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  48. The evidence linking nitrates and nitrites to cancer

    75 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  49. Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's auction

    75 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  50. Python Cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

    75 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  51. Illegal involuntary sterilisations in California’s women’s prisons

    75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  52. The Art of Picking Intel Registers (2003)

    75 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  53. Immersive Linear Algebra

    75 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  54. The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  55. Why trademark Open Source software

    75 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  56. Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams

    75 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  57. Locating Humans with DNS

    75 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  58. Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable

    75 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  59. Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app

    75 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  60. Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

    75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  61. What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption

    75 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  62. Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

    75 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  63. Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings

    75 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  64. Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent

    75 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  65. The divide between political parties is smaller than we think (2020)

    74 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  66. I Love Coding on Linux

    74 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  67. Improving texture atlas allocation in WebRender

    74 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  68. Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  69. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? (2018)

    74 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  70. Slide Rules

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  71. Argdown – a simple syntax for complex argumentation

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  72. Why LuaJIT's interpreter is written in assembly

    74 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  73. Show HN: One thousand in – I've built an IPO “FOMO” web app

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  74. Killer Whales: 'Transient' Orcas Are Thriving

    74 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  75. How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your Applications

    74 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  76. Robinhood CEO, Reddit Co-Founder and Others Testify on GameStop Stock

    74 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  77. Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

    74 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  78. The APL Orchard

    74 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  79. A Grand Anticlimax: The New York Times on Scott Alexander

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  80. The frame rate of the universe (2009)

    74 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  81. The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court

    74 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  82. The Shannon Limit (2010)

    73 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  83. Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020)

    73 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  84. The Bombard Story

    73 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  85. Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study

    73 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  86. Fast character case conversion, or how to really compress sparse arrays

    73 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  87. Programming Book Profits (2008)

    73 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  88. Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals [pdf]

    73 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  89. mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C)

    73 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  90. Ask HN: Always on low power home server

    73 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  91. Online glassboard (like Lightboard) but using just free software

    73 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  92. The Cult of Best Practice

    73 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  93. Guthib

    73 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  94. How the Brain Responds to Beauty

    73 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  95. What is an NFT from an artist’s perspective?

    72 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  96. Introduction to the 'Why use F#' series (2012)

    72 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  97. Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  98. Science of Aging Is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute

    72 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  99. How and why I stopped buying new laptops

    72 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  100. Launch HN: Taste (YC W21) – Recreate nice restaurant experiences at home

    72 points • comment • feb 10, 2021