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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

    537 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  2. Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software

    536 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  3. System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

    531 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  4. Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

    530 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  5. Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

    527 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  6. Making Vaccine

    525 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  7. New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies

    516 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  8. Disqus, a dark commenting system

    513 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  9. I heat my home by mining crypto currencies

    511 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  10. Don't Offer a Free Plan

    510 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  11. Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?

    510 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  12. FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

    503 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  13. The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets

    500 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  14. Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

    498 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  15. 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

    493 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  16. McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

    492 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  17. Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

    490 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  18. 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks

    489 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  19. Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

    489 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  20. YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

    489 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  21. Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs

    489 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  22. Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

    488 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  23. Building Rich Terminal Dashboards

    484 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  24. Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

    484 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  25. Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete

    482 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  26. Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm

    481 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  27. Visualization of 40M Cell Towers

    480 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  28. I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit

    479 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  29. SpaCy 3.0

    477 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  30. Native Mac APIs for Go

    477 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  31. DVD Laser Scanner Microscope

    476 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  32. US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins

    476 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  33. Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel

    476 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  34. Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools

    471 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  35. Go is not an easy language

    470 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  36. Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

    466 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  37. Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader

    466 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  38. “I will slaughter you”

    465 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  39. 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

    465 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  40. A solo journey to $100k in sales

    464 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  41. Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

    463 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  42. Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny

    461 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  43. A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher

    458 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  44. Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

    457 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  45. Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

    457 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  46. Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

    456 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  47. Blender 2.92

    455 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  48. SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

    453 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  49. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

    451 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  50. Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

    451 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  51. A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture

    445 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  52. NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed

    445 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  53. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

    441 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  54. Faster JavaScript Calls

    438 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  55. Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

    438 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  56. Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues

    437 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  57. Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

    437 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  58. What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it

    436 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  59. In Defense of Dumb TVs

    434 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  60. NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur

    429 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  61. Programming for Cats

    428 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  62. Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

    425 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  63. I Miss My Bar

    422 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  64. New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency

    421 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  65. Resources for chief technology officers, with the emphasis on startups

    421 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  66. GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3

    418 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  67. Self-organising textures from cellular automata

    415 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  68. 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories

    413 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  69. Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs

    412 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  70. Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims

    409 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  71. Silicon Valley’s Safe Space

    403 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  72. NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

    403 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  73. California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

    402 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  74. Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix

    401 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  75. Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game

    401 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  76. Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer

    400 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  77. Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

    399 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  78. Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

    398 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  79. Bluetooth Trackball Mark II

    397 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  80. Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]

    396 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  81. Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

    396 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  82. Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack

    395 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  83. I don't want to do front-end anymore

    394 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  84. Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs

    394 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  85. Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage

    393 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  86. TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)

    393 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  87. Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules

    393 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  88. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

    391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  89. We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus

    391 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  90. Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

    390 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  91. FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust

    390 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  92. Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc

    390 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  93. Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5

    387 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  94. Little League wants all your information

    386 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  95. Timezone Bullshit

    385 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  96. Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon

    384 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  97. A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

    382 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  98. I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website

    381 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  99. LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace

    381 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  100. Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries

    381 points • comment • feb 15, 2021