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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Etna is erupting

    36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  2. Python: Acceptance of Pattern Matching – PEP 634

    36 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  3. Protecting capital during a war

    36 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  4. Superintelligence

    36 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  5. Final Calvin and Hobbes Strip

    36 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  6. Show HN: Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language

    36 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  7. Who wants to live for ever? Ageing can be cured–and, in part, it soon will be

    36 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  8. Norway to Decriminalize Personal Drug Use in ‘Historic’ Shift

    36 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  9. A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin

    36 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  10. Drawing the Tube Map on a BBC Micro [video]

    36 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  11. Ketogenic diets inhibit mitochondrial biogenesis and induce cardiac fibrosis

    36 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  12. Fixing a Bricked SSD with JTAG

    36 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  13. Google's iOS apps release cycle before and after Apple privacy labels

    36 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  14. A coat check ticket, a magic spell

    36 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  15. WHO says countries should keep borders open despite coronavirus (2020)

    36 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  16. Avast sells its users data (2020)

    36 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  17. Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (PDF, 2005)

    36 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  18. Inline Caching: Quickening

    36 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  19. The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

    35 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  20. Scholar Edward Said longed to write novels, yet never succeeded

    35 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  21. Ent. An Entity Framework for Go

    35 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  22. PicoCAD

    35 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  23. Power Outages in the US

    35 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  24. How to Simulate I/O Faults at Runtime

    35 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  25. Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be Announced Today

    35 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  26. The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility (2009)

    35 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  27. Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage

    35 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  28. Is US Manufacturing the next tech boom?

    35 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  29. Amazon will pay nearly $62m over “outrageous” practice of pocketing driver tips

    35 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  30. Personal data of 1.4M Washington unemployment claimants exposed in hack

    35 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  31. Give Students User Freedom

    35 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  32. Show HN: NotionDog – The easiest way to build websites with nothing but Notion

    35 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  33. The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast

    35 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  34. Show HN: Osso – Open-source SAML SSO service

    35 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  35. $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

    35 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  36. Dropbox Passwords

    35 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  37. Rust: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative

    35 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  38. Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets

    35 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  39. Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon (2012)

    35 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  40. The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners

    35 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  41. Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Other Eugenics Proponents

    35 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  42. The KimKlone Microcomputer

    35 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  43. 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says 'prepare for inflation'

    35 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  44. Twitch, owned by Amazon, pulls Amazon’s anti-union ads

    34 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  45. Bitcoin is now worth $50k – and it's ruining the planet faster than ever

    34 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  46. Stop Nitpicking in Code Reviews

    34 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  47. We’re removing ads from Plato

    34 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  48. Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries

    34 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  49. Toyota to Debut Three New Electrified Vehicles for U.S. Market

    34 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  50. Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Threatening First Amendment

    34 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  51. Robinhood in a tough position as it faces a wave of lawsuits over GameStop saga

    34 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  52. Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  53. Mediocrity Is Now Mandatory

    34 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  54. India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police

    34 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  55. Superuser: 'Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?'

    34 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  56. Four books professional developers should read (and a few you don't need to)

    34 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  57. Reddit Down, HTTP 503

    34 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  58. An architectural overview for WebRTC – A protocol for implementing video calls

    34 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  59. Stop Being Proud of Complexity

    34 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  60. Making SoA Tollerable

    34 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  61. Ask HN: Which everyday skill is important to master as a software developer?

    34 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  62. HTML Boilerplates

    34 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  63. Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development

    34 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  64. The Missing Stakeholders

    34 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  65. Forgiveness: The Essential Virtue

    34 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  66. Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS

    34 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  67. Bitcoin Tumbles Below $50k as Caution About Rally Takes Hold

    34 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  68. Show HN: Svgasm – SVG animation from single GIF using tracer

    34 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  69. The Enduring Prose and Poetry of Clive James

    34 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  70. How Corporations Harvest Data

    34 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  71. How Korea Became a Forgotten War

    34 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  72. Peru’s Cloud Warriors

    33 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  73. Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century

    33 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  74. A Study of Eccentricity

    33 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  75. Customers want to know why Amazon removed Clarence Thomas documentary

    33 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  76. List of Leaf Vegetables

    33 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  77. How to spot a $5M/year scam on the App Store, in 5 minutes flat

    33 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  78. Parched oystermen, farmers face off in Supreme Court water war

    33 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  79. Experts versus Elites

    33 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  80. Ford cuts F-150 pickup truck production due to semiconductor chip shortage

    33 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  81. Simple way to share your terminal session on a call

    33 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  82. Yao: Extensible, Efficient Quantum Algorithm Design for Humans

    33 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  83. 1 in 3 Americans know someone who died from Covid-19

    33 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  84. Ahead of the Ripple (XRP) SEC Court Date, Flare Network Declares Its Support

    33 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  85. The strange story of “Extended Random”

    33 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  86. Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep

    33 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  87. ‘I Miss My Mom’: Kids of QAnons Are Trying to Deradicalize Their Parents

    33 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  88. Coding in Ada: Strings (IV) Unbounded to String

    33 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  89. It's ok to take a walk without headphones

    33 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  90. Apple subpoenas Valve as part of its legal battle with Epic

    33 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  91. Linux Sucks 2021 [video]

    33 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  92. One Obscure Word Captures Urban China’s Unhappiness

    33 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  93. Ask HN: Why are we expected to train Google's NN for free through captchas?

    33 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  94. It’s time for a new, progressive supply-side economics

    33 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  95. Google reportedly shut down its Stadia studios a week after praising them

    33 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  96. Covid-19 and the political economy of mass hysteria [pdf]

    33 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  97. How the US Legalized Corruption

    33 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  98. Analysis of 265,000 rows of SEC Short Fails-to-Deliver data on Game Stop

    33 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  99. Phantom Types in Gleam

    33 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  100. Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms

    33 points • comment • feb 08, 2021