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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. IBM 1401's implemented pounds, shillings, and pence conversion math in hardware

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  2. Scientists may have finally figured out a way to reverse aging in the brain

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  3. I discovered FaaS and what it changed for me

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  4. Sauna bathing may prevent dementia (a study of 14k Finnish adults)

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  5. Colin Kaepernick Targets a Socially-Driven Billion-Dollar Company with New SPAC

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  6. California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  7. NASA's Mars Parachute Had a Hidden Code. Meet the People Who Cracked It

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  8. Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  9. The Worst Bug in Amazon's History

    12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  10. Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer

    12 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  11. Google Analytics is being shimmed by Firefox

    12 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  12. It’s All Rigged

    12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  13. Essential Japanese: The Mental Model [pdf]

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  14. Recursive Islands and Lakes

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  15. H.R.127 – Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  16. Covid/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    12 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  17. A Guide to NFTs, and How They Are About to Revolutionize Pretty Much Everything

    12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  18. Mount Sinai study finds Apple Watch can predict Covid-19 diagnosis before test

    12 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  19. Explosiv, a JSX static site generator (not React, just JSX)

    12 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  20. Tell HN: I just plugged in 3 USB2.0 ports correctly the first time

    12 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  21. Hackers can trick a Tesla into accelerating by 50 miles per hour

    12 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  22. The Protestant impact on literacy and education

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  23. Squawking bird blows the whistle on fake video trying to tilt Ecuador election

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  24. Covid/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  25. Could this be Satoshi Nakamoto's Twitter account?

    12 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  26. Hedge funds emerge mostly unscathed from Reddit trader drama

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  27. Reddit Day Traders Lost Wall Street Battle

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  28. Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkish government to censor

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  29. MDMA proves a promising alcoholism treatment in world-first trial

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  30. Factcheckers, media worry about Clubhouse

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  31. Unauthorized RCE in VMware VCenter

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  32. Association of Daily Wear of Eyeglasses with Susceptibility to Covid Infection

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  33. Many engineers are unprepared for the autonomy and freedom they demand

    12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  34. Geant4: A Simulation Toolkit

    12 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  35. The ATF is giving out machine guns, whether you want one or not

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  36. India Should Buy Bitcoin

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  37. You Don’t Want an Apple Car

    12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  38. Fix Fast for finding and fixing regressions

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  39. Show HN: Jiga 3D CAD viewer for Gmail – view CAD files directly in Gmail browser

    12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  40. Star Lifting

    12 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  41. Thieves Nationwide Are Swiping Catalytic Converters

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  42. The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  43. How did India go from 90k cases per day to just over 10k

    12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  44. Every Big Vehicle Should Look Like the Weird New USPS Truck

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  45. Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  46. The Elon Musk Twitter scam is out of control

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  47. Research Study: What happens when software developers are (un)happy (PDF)

    12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  48. Can We Break the 2nm Barrier in Silicon Fabrication?

    12 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  49. The Pyramid Principle

    12 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  50. Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  51. SEC reportedly probing whether fraudulent social media posts boosted GameStop

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  52. Tesla bows to pressure from NHTSA, issues recall for Models S and X

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  53. Book Review: Why We're Polarized

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  54. LSD Lets the Brain 'Free Itself' from Divisions Dictated by Anatomy

    12 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  55. Wayland has serious accessibility issues, low priority fixes

    12 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  56. Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers

    12 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Anybody want to work on something together?

    12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  58. The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  59. Not-a-Boring Competition

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  60. HelloSystem Wants to Be the “macOS of BSDs” with a Polished Desktop Experience

    12 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  61. The Fed's system that allows banks to send money back and forth is down

    12 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  62. Texas Supreme Court Justice Probes Section 230 Immunity

    12 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  63. Containerize all the things with Ubuntu Core 20

    12 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  64. The ‘stonk’ bubble poses significant global risks

    12 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  65. Plants smell explosives and send emails

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  66. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

    12 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  67. Comma AI, open source, less then 10M funding and profitable

    12 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  68. Clubhouse confirms data spillage of its audio streams

    12 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  69. Show HN: FlowTrack – Increase Sales with Automation. Design Automate Engage Sell

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  70. What's the Future of Microsoft SQL Server?

    12 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  71. Alexey Navalny was sent to prison by Putin for 2.6 years

    12 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  72. Retro DOS Games on Kubernetes

    12 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  73. Ask HN: Why is Wayland is discussed as replacement rather than alternative?

    12 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  74. Anti-Solar Panels May Generate Power at Night Soon

    12 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  75. Coup Underway in Myanmar; Aung San Suu Kyi arrested in early AM raids

    12 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  76. Ask HN: Why are we still so bad a weather forecasting?

    12 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  77. ‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying

    12 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  78. Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists

    11 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  79. Part 2 – Looking at GSM 30 years later

    11 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  80. The Pentagon Turns on Wall Street

    11 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  81. Ask HN: How often do You write a comment/reply to this forum but not submit it?

    11 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  82. Zen 4 rumor bulldozer smashes Zen 3 with alleged and25% IPC uplift,+40% total

    11 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  83. How does Boston compare to SV and what do MIT and Stanford have to do with it?

    11 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  84. There’s One Big Problem with Electric Cars They’re Still Cars

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  85. Reddit Down

    11 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  86. What American Values?

    11 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  87. NASA’s Perseverance Has Landed

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  88. What’s Missing in the Electric-Vehicle Revolution: Enough Places to Plug In

    11 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  89. UK and California variants of coronavirus combined into a heavily mutated hybrid

    11 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  90. 100M Edits to OpenStreetMap

    11 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  91. Before Christianity, Judaism and Islam, There Was Zoroastrianism

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  92. Ask HN: How does a private, nearly-inactive Twitter account get suspended?

    11 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  93. Show HN: 95 people voted for me to make this voting platform

    11 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  94. Tesla PG&E Megapack 182.5 MW Battery Storage Installation Makes Progress

    11 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  95. Griddy Barred from Texas Power Market for Payment Breach

    11 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  96. Ask HN: My school is making me use ExamSoft, how do I preserve my privacy?

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  97. Toyota Broke Its Just-in-Time Rule Just in Time for the Chip Shortage

    11 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  98. GitHub Actions Is Down

    11 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  99. Intel benchmarks say Apple's M1 isn't faster

    11 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  100. 3D printed house in 48 hours

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2021