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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Transhumanism: What's the Plan? (2020)

    59 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  2. How did things get this bad? The Axioms of linking (2019)

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  3. Modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053) will lead to terrestrial cooling

    59 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  4. It's time to port your extension to Firefox

    59 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  5. Show HN: Bestsnip – Draw animations online with automatic inbetweening

    59 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  6. Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

    59 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  7. Sort by controversial a.k.a. Shiri’s scissor (2018)

    59 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  8. Just Launch the Damn Thing

    59 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  9. French ferry firm opens new post-Brexit routes bypassing UK

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  10. Parallel Shells with Xargs

    58 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  11. What is the case against F#? (2009)

    58 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  12. DigitalOcean user portal loads twenty third-party trackers

    58 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  13. “I am dying of a broken heart” (2018)

    58 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  14. Why is America getting a new $100B nuclear weapon?

    58 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  15. How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World

    58 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  16. Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness

    58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  17. Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' colors and shapes

    58 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  18. Abcjs Music Editor/Player

    58 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  19. Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up]

    58 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  20. Pi from High School Maths

    58 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  21. Dear Email Industry, We've Got a GDPR Problem

    58 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  22. The US government is inviting inflation

    58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  23. Rethinking the IDE for the 2020s

    58 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  24. Spy pixels in emails have become endemic (BBC)

    58 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  25. Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning

    58 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  26. The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means

    58 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  27. Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin

    58 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  28. “Steven, Bill Gates called. Call him back.”

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  29. Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 50B

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  30. CSI-MURDER: Prevent WiFi CSI from being used to survey environment

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  31. Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby?

    57 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  32. First vaccine to immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  33. Companies must stop requiring people to link their phone numbers

    57 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  34. Super fast super property access

    57 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  35. Entire school board resigns after accidental public livestream

    57 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  36. When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

    57 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  37. Show HN: Archive as you browse, store locally and/or share with others via IPFS

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  38. Female Fund Manager Opposes Gender Quotas for Startup Boards (no paywall)

    57 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  39. Facebook is gambling Australia can't do without it. What if we prove them wrong

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  40. Linux touchpad like a Mac update: Firefox gesture support live in nightly

    57 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  41. How to issue a central bank digital currency

    57 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  42. Screenshots from Developers: 2002 vs. 2015

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  43. Flash Loans Are Providing Instant Cash to Crypto Speculators

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  44. Quantitative Economics with Julia

    57 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  45. The Chinese Businessman Paradox (2018)

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  46. Amazon documents reveal company's strategy to dodge India's regulators

    57 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  47. Digging Deeper Into Holocaust History

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  48. First time Microsoft 'acknowledged' wine (2005)

    57 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  49. People-Shaped White Rocks

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  50. 2020 at OCamlPro

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  51. Using ES Modules in Node.js: A Practical Guide (Part 1)

    56 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  52. Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (2015)

    56 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  53. Don't Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  54. Verbz: Voice-based messaging

    56 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  55. How we develop FDA-compliant machine learning algorithms

    56 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  56. Pennsylvania town coal mine has been on fire since 1962

    56 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  57. NASA's Space Launch System: is cancellation too good?

    56 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  58. Plant Blindness

    56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  59. First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium

    56 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  60. Building in Public Definite Guide: Use Transparency to Win

    56 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  61. Void Linux Switching Back to OpenSSL

    56 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  62. The Pac-Man Dossier

    56 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  63. Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text-based web browsers?

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  64. The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  65. Deleting Facebook

    56 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  66. Precisely: Better assertions for Python tests

    56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  67. The Road to Utopia: A manifesto for reclaiming a humanist future (2020)

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  68. Flowrite: Turn short lists of facts into well-written emails

    56 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  69. Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?

    56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  70. Apple Platform Security February 2021

    56 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  71. Launch HN: Polytomic (YC W20) – Get internal data to your business teams

    56 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  72. Despite a steadily slipping market share, Firefox is snappy and feature-forward

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  73. Alice 4 FPGA Rasterizer (Open Hardware Video Card Related)

    55 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  74. U.S. life expectancy falls by a full year

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  75. Stadia Developers Can't Fix the Bugs in Their Own Game Because Google Fired Them

    55 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  76. The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)

    55 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  77. Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android

    55 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  78. Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

    55 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  79. Alex Cabal: Standard Ebooks

    55 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  80. Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?

    55 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  81. Enabling Rich Statistical Analyses with Differential Privacy

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  82. Frustrated with Parler deplatforming, I am building a service no one can silence

    55 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  83. The Kernel Programming Language (2010)

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  84. Fastcheck: Property based testing for JavaScript and TypeScript

    55 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  85. A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighborhood

    55 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  86. UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  87. Gemini Earn

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  88. How to design a motherboard for your electronics project

    55 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  89. The Rules of Margin Collapse

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  90. Ytmdl-web – download music from YouTube with metadata

    55 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  91. Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  92. Ohmygit – An open source game about learning Git

    55 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  93. Commodore History Part 1: The Commodore Pet

    55 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  94. In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  95. Show HN: A simple website for my JavaScript bundler

    55 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  96. Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Have Time to Be CEO of Amazon

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  97. Show HN: Dato.rss – RSS Search

    54 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  98. Not the Onion: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube

    54 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  99. Rich countries block India, South Africa's bid to ban Covid vaccine patents

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  100. New malware nicknamed “Silver Sparrow,” specifically targets Apple M1 chips

    54 points • comment • feb 23, 2021