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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Big Tech deplatforming should be disturbing for everyone, regardless of politics

    23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  2. Citibank can't get back $500M it wired by mistake, judge rules

    23 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  3. 10k Salesforce Employees Never Have to Buy Lunch Downtown Again

    23 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  4. Should individuals who already had a SARS-CoV-2 infection receive 1 or 2 shots? [pdf]

    23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  5. Twitter considering subscription fees to ensure 'revenue durability'

    23 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  6. Fry’s Electronics going out of business

    23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  7. Ask HN: What's your best advice for someone turning 30 today?

    23 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  8. Apple Bought Another Company Every 3 to 4 Weeks for Last 6 Years, Tim Cook Says

    23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  9. AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip

    23 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  10. Show HN: GitHub Repo to Local Editor In Less Than 1 Second

    23 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  11. $5,152 Power Bill? Texas’ Winter Storm Hell Only Gets Worse

    23 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  12. We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  13. Clubhouse Is Suggesting Users Invite Their Drug Dealers and Therapists

    23 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  14. Ask HN: What are some hobbies for a 72-year-old retiree? Maybe OSS?

    23 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  15. 90-year-old man takes out $10K ads to tell AT&T CEO about slow network

    23 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  16. Is Requiring a College Degree Discrimination? Yes, It Is

    23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  17. Reducing Real-Time Query Latency with an HTAP Database

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  18. Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans

    23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  19. Tom Stoppard’s Double Life

    23 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  20. Scaling TypeScript Compilation (2020)

    23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  21. Ask HN: Which smartwatch is the best in self-hacking/quantified self?

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  22. Elon Musk puts up $100M for global carbon reduction competition

    23 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  23. The SEC calls, DeFi Money Market shuts down – it begins

    23 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  24. Coronavirus Mutants Are Spreading Fast

    23 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  25. Atlassian Acquires Chartio

    23 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  26. Canada designates the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity

    23 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  27. The hypocrisy of social media companies acting as “fact-checkers”

    23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  28. Show HN: Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered)

    23 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  29. Meditations on Moloch (2014)

    23 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  30. Sailor survives for 14 hours in Pacific Ocean by clinging to abandoned buoy

    23 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  31. Chicken Bit

    23 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  32. CartaX

    23 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  33. Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?

    23 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  34. Three thylacines (Tasmanian wolves) have apparently been photographed alive

    23 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  35. US Senator introduces ‘baby bonds’ bill to give newborns a $1K savings account

    23 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  36. Cryptocurrency Is Gambling

    23 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  37. NumPy 1.20 has been released

    23 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  38. Maryland becomes first state in the nation to tax digital advertising

    23 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  39. Short sellers are the only sheriff in town in a rigged market

    23 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  40. Charter of the National Association of Wheeled Bin Washers

    23 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  41. Surge Pricing, Artificial Intelligence, and Responsibility

    22 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  42. Stripe Canceled My Account Today

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  43. Common libraries and data structures for C

    22 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  44. The Other Woman

    22 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  45. SEC Hunts for Fraud in Social-Media Posts That Drove Up GameStop

    22 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  46. LLVM Meets Code Property Graphs

    22 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  47. Pfizer seeks to store vaccine at higher temperatures, easing logistics

    22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  48. Review of the Mustang Mach E

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  49. The Origin of the “MIT License”

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  50. Nvidia made $5B during a GPU shortage and expects to do it again in Q1

    22 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  51. Covid-19: World's first human trials given green light in UK

    22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  52. Sinovac Announces Phase III Results of Its Covid-19 Vaccine

    22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  53. Don't add custom system calls to Linux

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  54. Prince Hall, American Revolutionary

    22 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  55. Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather

    22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  56. So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  57. The American-Dream-as-a-Service

    22 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  58. CEO Secrets: 'My billion pound company has no HR department'

    22 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  59. HiRISE captured this image of Perseverance during landing from over 700 km away

    22 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  60. Rowan Atkinson: cancel culture is 'medieval mob looking for someone to burn'

    22 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  61. Woman who received $9,300 electric bill sues wholesale electric provider

    22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  62. California law would give wronged workers a way out of NDAs

    22 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  63. HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006)

    22 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  64. John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied

    22 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  65. German City Builds Solar Power Sleeping Pods to Keep Its Homeless Warm

    22 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  66. Electricity needed to mine Bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries'

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  67. US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain

    22 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  68. Bitcoin tumbles 17% as doubts grow over valuations

    22 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  69. France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

    22 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  70. Playing GTA3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2

    22 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  71. Facebook's New Privacy Pop Up Shows the Company Just Doesn't Get It

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  72. Scala 3.0.0-RC1 – first release candidate is here

    22 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  73. His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752

    22 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  74. The GameStop Rally Exposed the Perils of ‘Meme Populism’

    22 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  75. Cable Bacteria

    22 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  76. Robert’s Rules Suck: Why We Can’t Make Change Until We Change the System

    22 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  77. Severely ill Covid-19 patients fully recovered after treatment with cancer drug

    21 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  78. GNU Artanis-0.5 Released

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  79. Deep Learning for Expressive Piano Performances

    21 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  80. Employee Surveillance Is Rising to New Dystopian Heights

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  81. Show HN: A review of books and tutorials on Apache Kafka

    21 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  82. Goldeneye 007’s lost Xbox 360 remaster has leaked–as a full-game speedrun

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  83. Show HN: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false negatives

    21 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  84. Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN

    21 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  85. Invoke is Too High Level (2018)

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  86. A man who printed the world of plants

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  87. Unfinished Metropolis: once and future Berlin (2020)

    21 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  88. Facebook Reported 20M Instances of Child Sexual Abuse in 2020

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  89. The spot price for electricity in Texas is currently about $9000 per MW-hr

    21 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  90. Oral Ketamine Experiment Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Two-Thirds of Patients

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  91. XSS Attack Examples and Mitigations

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  92. 28-year-old turned his college side hustle into a $1.3B startup

    21 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  93. Apple asking developers to return DTK Mac mini, offers $200 credit

    21 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  94. Apple Surpassed Samsung as Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter

    21 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  95. Why do we value gold?

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  96. Laver's Law Revisited: A Data-Driven Investigation of Fashion Trends

    21 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  97. Chrome's proxy prefetch proposal: Privacy, Security and broader web implications

    21 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  98. Feynman's Integral Trick

    21 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  99. Croatia's first official 'digital nomad' as country introduces special visa

    21 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  100. Berkeley moves to replace police with unarmed civilians for traffic stops

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2021