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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python

    380 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  2. Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler

    379 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  3. Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-peer audio

    379 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  4. Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money

    377 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  5. Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

    377 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  6. IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run

    375 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  7. Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility

    374 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  8. NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy

    373 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  9. Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time

    371 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  10. How to Lose Money

    371 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  11. The Queen has more power over British law than we thought

    370 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  12. Web Scraping 101 with Python

    369 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  13. Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software

    369 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  14. 0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā

    369 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  15. An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space in PostgreSQL

    367 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  16. Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021

    367 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  17. Windows Refund Day (1999)

    367 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  18. 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?

    365 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  19. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform

    365 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  20. Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources

    363 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  21. My Third Year as a Solo Developer

    362 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  22. K-9 Mail is looking for funding

    361 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  23. A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

    361 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  24. I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

    361 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  25. Rust 1.50

    360 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  26. YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]

    357 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  27. Are You Trading or Gambling?

    355 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  28. The complexity that lives in the GUI

    355 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  29. “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?

    355 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  30. Abundant Capital

    355 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  31. Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia

    353 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  32. ISO 8601: a better date format

    352 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  33. 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'

    352 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  34. Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

    352 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  35. Short fat engineers are undervalued

    351 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  36. Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS

    350 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  37. Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service

    350 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  38. New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

    350 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  39. No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack

    350 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  40. Creeping as a Service

    349 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  41. José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]

    349 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  42. WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

    348 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  43. Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone

    346 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  44. M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode

    345 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  45. Solid Project: All of your data, under your control

    345 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  46. Learn Functional Programming Visually

    343 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  47. Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer

    342 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  48. Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment

    341 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  49. Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

    339 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  50. Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use

    339 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  51. Building an E-Ink Laptop

    339 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  52. Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm

    339 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  53. I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer

    338 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  54. GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions

    338 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  55. Changes to LastPass Free

    338 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  56. Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the Turkish government

    338 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  57. Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

    337 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  58. Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

    336 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  59. Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

    336 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  60. Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies

    335 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  61. Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died

    334 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  62. Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C

    333 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  63. Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit

    331 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  64. Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting

    329 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  65. State Partitioning

    329 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  66. Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)

    329 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  67. Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data

    327 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  68. FOSDEM 2021

    327 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  69. Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting and stock manipulation

    326 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  70. Complexity Explained

    324 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  71. Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow

    324 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  72. Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

    323 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  73. OpenStreetMap in Realtime

    323 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  74. What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

    322 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  75. An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013)

    320 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  76. Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm

    320 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  77. Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step

    319 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  78. What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies

    318 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  79. Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool

    318 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  80. The unusual ways Western parents raise children

    317 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  81. Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

    317 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  82. The modern packager’s security nightmare

    317 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  83. Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

    317 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  84. SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing

    317 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  85. California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics

    316 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  86. A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest

    315 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  87. I Really Blew It (2020)

    314 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  88. American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

    313 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  89. Hello system, a FreeBSD-based OS designed to resemble Mac

    313 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  90. Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid

    313 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  91. ‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos

    312 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  92. GoboLinux

    311 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  93. Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine

    311 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  94. Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

    310 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  95. SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity

    310 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  96. Why Is Esbuild Fast?

    310 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  97. Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices

    309 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  98. Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog

    309 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  99. AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review

    309 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  100. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

    308 points • comment • feb 07, 2021