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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Book Review: “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends”

    15 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  2. Should I be wearing two masks?

    15 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  3. Tech Censorship Is Accelerating

    15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  4. Bill Gates all but admits that he was shorting Tesla (TSLA)

    15 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  5. Amazon’s Lack of Public Disclosure on SolarWinds Hack Angers Lawmakers

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  6. iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop

    15 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  7. Query Optimization in Postgres with pg_stat_statements

    15 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  8. List of Helicopter Prison Escapes

    15 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  9. Twitter reveals 'Super Follow' paid service, new groups feature, more

    15 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  10. The Great Suspender Chrome ext has been flagged

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  11. Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

    15 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  12. The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist v1.1

    15 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  13. Ask HN: Software and programming languages on the Mars Perseverance mission

    15 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  14. China's spyware copy-pasted the NSA's spyware from 2017

    15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  15. Is it just me that feels stuck in annual SaaS Contracts?

    15 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  16. She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it

    15 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  17. AAA survey finds 86% of drivers afraid to ride in automated vehicles

    15 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  18. Microsoft Slips It In

    15 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  19. The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago

    15 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  20. PEP 634, pattern matching, was merged into CPython today

    15 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  21. Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) (2006)

    15 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  22. U.K. and Ireland Celebrate 50 Years Since 'Decimal Day'

    15 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  23. Teach Music, Not Coding, According to MIT

    15 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  24. Google fires second AI ethics researcher following internal investigation

    15 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  25. NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost

    15 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  26. The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  27. VLC 4.0 sneak peek–a look at its work-in-progress new interface

    15 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  28. Ask HN: Decade-long plan to FIRE starting just under age 40?

    15 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  29. Finesse: Using LD_PRELOAD for high performance kernel bypass FUSE [pdf]

    15 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  30. So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  31. The billionaire takeover of civil society

    15 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  32. Inside the Cryptocurrency Casino

    15 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  33. Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian]

    15 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  34. What's behind those$15,000 electricity bills in Texas

    15 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  35. Python 3.10.0a5 is now available

    15 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  36. US carries out air strike targeting ‘Iranian-backed’ militia in Syria

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  37. Instacart Is Punishing Its Gig Workers for Orders They Can't Deliver

    14 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  38. Single Board Computer thoughts and Amiga stuff

    14 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  39. Web API Controversy

    14 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  40. The Wall Street Gambling Is Coming from Inside the House (Look at SPACs.)

    14 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  41. Twitter thinks ads about climate change are bad. Big Oil's disinfo is fine

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  42. Google's Stadia Problem

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  43. Don't start a business. Work on a side project instead

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  44. Facebook will start showing some of its users less political content

    14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  45. Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five deaths globally

    14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  46. High-performance computers are under siege by a new backdoor called Kobalos

    14 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  47. McKinsey Is an MBA Case Study in Crisis as Kevin Sneader Looks Set to Exit

    14 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  48. The insane engineering of the Perseverance rover [video]

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  49. Ask HN: How do you invest your money? Is it too late for small time investors?

    14 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  50. 195 gigapixel 360-degree panorama of Shanghai

    14 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  51. Modern Electrics: Electric Discharges Producing Artistic Photographs (1909)

    14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  52. Manhattan Office Supply Hits Record High with Skyscrapers Empty

    14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  53. Bitcoin Market Cap Hits $1T

    14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  54. Bitcoin Is a Useless Currency

    14 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  55. Imec Demonstrates Capacitor-Less IGZO-Based DRAM Cell with 400s Retention Time

    14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  56. Angry customers show up at Robinhood’s headquarters in the wake of trading chaos

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  57. A collection of cast-iron doorstops

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  58. Border agents can search phones freely under new circuit court ruling

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  59. Ask HN: Why so many big companies become greedy when they grow?

    14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  60. The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  61. Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service Drizly for $1.1B

    14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  62. Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet – video explainer [video]

    14 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  63. Scrapped GoldenEye 007 game 'remaster' leaks online

    14 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  64. Microsoft Excel is now Turing-complete

    14 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  65. Resume review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  66. Smart Contracts Are Useless

    14 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  67. People Are Worried About Payment for Order Flow

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  68. For the Love of All That's Holy, Use CCL to Control Complexity in Your Systems

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  69. Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars?

    14 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  70. EToro secretly setted SL for GameStop holders

    14 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  71. Undici – an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js

    14 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  72. Ex-Stadia developers dish on Google’s mismanagement and poor communication

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  73. Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  74. “Reasoning about code” is a scam

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  75. Nick Huber Has a Message for Entrepreneurs: Ignore Silicon Valley

    14 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  76. Private Click Measurement, PCM

    14 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  77. The Age of Steam

    14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  78. Robert L. Herbert, 91, Dies; Saw Impressionism with a Fresh Eye

    14 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  79. Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

    14 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  80. GPT-3 Meets Figma

    14 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  81. The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades

    14 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  82. Doctor who treated Navalny after poisoning dies

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  83. Team building with “I dare you” challenge

    14 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  84. Stompenberg FX: Testing guitar effects pedal remotely

    14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  85. Are Disagreements Honest? (2004) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  86. Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  87. Celebrating 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany

    14 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  88. Census: The Rise of Operational Analytics

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  89. Rick Perry says Texans would rather be without power over more federal oversight

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  90. Google Search Hiding News Results for Timnit Gebru

    14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  91. The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open-Source Project

    14 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  92. 1980's Japan

    14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  93. 'People should be alarmed': air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers

    14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  94. Machines, Minds, and Madness: Review of “The Cybernetic Brain” (2011)

    14 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  95. The Consequences of Moving from Industrial to Financial Capitalism

    14 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  96. Launching OSV – Better vulnerability triage for open source

    14 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  97. In Iran, power outages reveal the secret business of Chinese Bitcoin farms

    14 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  98. Twitter suspends over 500 accounts in India after government warning

    14 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  99. Why France’s new 'repairability index’ is a big deal

    14 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  100. A Primer on Analog Computing

    14 points • comment • feb 11, 2021