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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. CC Academy (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to the 3rd cohort of ML/FE/UX folks

    19 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  2. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?

    19 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  3. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (2012)

    19 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  4. Medieval Minims: The hidden meaning of a medieval pen-twister

    19 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  5. Roaring Kitty sued for securities fraud over GME rise

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  6. Open source decentralized social network, like Twitter. Developed with WebRTC

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  7. Russia reports first human cases of H5N8 bird flu

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  8. Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data

    18 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  9. GKE Autopilot

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  10. SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801 (In mice)

    18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  11. Valentina Tereshkova, Russian Pilot Cosmonaut (2010)

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  12. French Silk Sample Book (ca. 1900)

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  13. Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking?

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  14. Robinhood: US family sue trading app over son's suicide

    18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  15. Good Design for a Real Problem (2006)

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  16. BitcoinPaperWallet ‘Back Door’ Responsible for Millions in Missing Funds

    18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  17. Video – Corruption Is Legal in America

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  18. Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

    18 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  19. Legal Design, a designer’s perspective on this new practice

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  20. TikTok Influencer ‘Isodope’ Is Stanning for Nuclear Energy (2020)

    18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  21. Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid

    18 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  22. Firefox is reviving “Sponsored Tiles”

    18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  23. Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally generated plants

    18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  24. How to Effectively Manage an Existing Engineering Team

    18 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  25. The Wadley Loop (2019)

    18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  26. Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer

    18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  27. GameStop Short Squeeze: The Media Has It Wrong

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  28. Firefox Compact Mode Might Get Removed

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  29. I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)

    18 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  30. Born to Be Posthumous (2018)

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  31. Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks

    18 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  32. Throwing away 8 years of work

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  33. A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials encryption

    18 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  34. Bitcoin Ownership Is Not Highly Concentrated. But Whales Are Accumulating

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  35. Show HN: Check if my startup ideas have legs

    18 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  36. Tabletop Audio – Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  37. Police seize $60M of Bitcoin from fraudster, but he won’t provide the key

    18 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  38. The next generation of VR on Playstation

    18 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  39. Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)

    18 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  40. Police using DRM algorithms to stop videos of them being posted

    18 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  41. Reasoning about Taxes

    18 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  42. Journalists Worried About People Having Conversations

    18 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  43. How We ”Email” Hardware to Space (2014)

    18 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  44. Show HN: Turn scripts into fine-tuned voices via Wiki markups

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  45. Spot's Got an Arm

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  46. The Polaris Laptop from Tuxedo Computers: Another Linux Friendly Option

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  47. Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  48. Man charged in Capitol riot worked for FBI, lawyer says

    18 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  49. Show HN: Guesbook for my static site using GitHub Gist and Netlify Functions

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  50. Despite Scanning Millions of Faces, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports

    18 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  51. Linux 5.11 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  52. Horror stories and Texas’ power grid Fundamentals Training Manual

    18 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  53. Texas inmates stuck with clogged toilets, freezing cells

    18 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  54. AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  55. Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  56. mRNA Vaccine

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  57. Automated release process for (Lerna) monorepo

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  58. Making glasses that hide your face from cameras

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  59. RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail

    17 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  60. U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’

    17 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  61. Facebook bans news in Australia as fight with government escalates

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  62. Physicist thrashes simulation theory, says it's basically a religion

    17 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  63. Hosting Apps with Always On

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  64. NASA JPL releases onboard video of Mars Descent and Landing

    17 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  65. Comparing ahash to other hashing algorithms

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  66. Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Imaginary Property Rules

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  67. Bladeless Wind Turbines

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  68. SaaS metrics: why activation rate is so important

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  69. London Finance Takes Another Hit as Carbon Market Goes to EU

    17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  70. An analysis of 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot

    17 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  71. The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney

    17 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  72. Xiaomi is undercutting the whole tech industry. And it’s working

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  73. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Scheme-JS Comparison Edition

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  74. Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox

    17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  75. Falling sperm counts could threaten the human race

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  76. Show HN: I Made a Chat Server

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  77. Can we please discuss Big Tech's suppression of oppressive regimes?

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  78. Criminals laundered $2.8B in 2019 using crypto exchanges

    17 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  79. Bank of Canada Deputy Says Crypto Boom Is `Speculative Mania`

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  80. Facebook has banned Facebook's own Facebook page in Australia

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  81. Python/cryptography – Dependency on rust removes support for number of platforms

    17 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  82. Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-256

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  83. Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. (2018)

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  84. Apple cracks down on ‘irrationally high prices’ as App Store scams are exposed

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  85. The case for opsimaths

    17 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  86. Jim Keller on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  87. Tangram Vision: Why We're Choosing Rust as a Startup

    17 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  88. BioNTech/Pfizer sought 54.08 Euro per vaccine dose from EU (de)

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  89. The Next Evolution of Data Catalogs: Data Discovery Platforms

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  90. Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  91. How the rich got richer: Reddit trading frenzy benefited Wall Street elite

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  92. Black coffee can be good for your heart, studies show

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  93. APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability score to comply with French law

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  94. Filecoin Now Has a Global Capacity of 2.5B Gigabytes

    17 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  95. The psychology behind going viral

    17 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  96. Elon Musk triggered a $1.2B dollar short-squeeze on Bitcoin

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  97. Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  98. Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  99. Open Problems in Distributed Computing (2006) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  100. In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2021