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Hacker News (Feb 2021)
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Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose
537 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software
536 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code
531 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
530 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
527 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Making Vaccine
525 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
516 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Disqus, a dark commenting system
513 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
511 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Don't Offer a Free Plan
510 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
510 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
503 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
500 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager
498 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
493 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source
492 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]
490 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks
489 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
489 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
489 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
489 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
488 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
484 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
484 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete
482 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
481 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
480 points • comment • feb 17, 2021
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I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
479 points • comment • feb 02, 2021
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SpaCy 3.0
477 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Native Mac APIs for Go
477 points • comment • feb 04, 2021
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DVD Laser Scanner Microscope
476 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
476 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
476 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
471 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Go is not an easy language
470 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
466 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
466 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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“I will slaughter you”
465 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
465 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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A solo journey to $100k in sales
464 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
463 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
461 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher
458 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Fry's Electronics is closing all stores
457 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine
457 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
456 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Blender 2.92
455 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president
453 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
451 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
451 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture
445 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed
445 points • comment • feb 18, 2021
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LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
441 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Faster JavaScript Calls
438 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
438 points • comment • feb 22, 2021
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Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues
437 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes
437 points • comment • feb 01, 2021
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What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
436 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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In Defense of Dumb TVs
434 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
429 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Programming for Cats
428 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
425 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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I Miss My Bar
422 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
421 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups
421 points • comment • feb 27, 2021
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GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
418 points • comment • feb 14, 2021
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Self-organising textures from cellular automata
415 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
413 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
412 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
409 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
403 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew
403 points • comment • feb 06, 2021
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California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs
402 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
401 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game
401 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
400 points • comment • feb 23, 2021
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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
399 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers
398 points • comment • feb 15, 2021
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Bluetooth Trackball Mark II
397 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]
396 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
396 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack
395 points • comment • feb 25, 2021
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I don't want to do front-end anymore
394 points • comment • feb 08, 2021
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Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
394 points • comment • feb 13, 2021
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Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
393 points • comment • feb 16, 2021
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TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
393 points • comment • feb 11, 2021
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Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules
393 points • comment • feb 19, 2021
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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)
391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021
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Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites
390 points • comment • feb 21, 2021
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FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust
390 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc
390 points • comment • feb 26, 2021
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Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5
387 points • comment • feb 12, 2021
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Little League wants all your information
386 points • comment • feb 28, 2021
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Timezone Bullshit
385 points • comment • feb 10, 2021
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Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon
384 points • comment • feb 07, 2021
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A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
382 points • comment • feb 03, 2021
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I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website
381 points • comment • feb 05, 2021
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LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace
381 points • comment • feb 24, 2021
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Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
381 points • comment • feb 15, 2021