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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. The Big Idea from Bill Gates’s New Climate Book

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  2. Show HN: Constexpr.js

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  3. Sentiment Analysis for Trading with Reddit Text Data

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  4. The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans like here on Earth

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  5. A Surprising Security Vulnerability on the Google Search Results Page

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  6. The mathematics of speeding

    9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  7. Dirty gold is infiltrating world markets under faked brands (2019)

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  8. Fed outage shuts down US payment systems for more than an hour

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  9. What WebRTC Means for You

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  10. Nike's new sneaker innovation? No hands required

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  11. Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  12. Chamath Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health gets notice of SEC investigation

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  13. China's Vanishing Muslims: Undercover in the most dystopian place in the world

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  14. Apple positioned to offer cryptocurrencies: RBC report

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  15. Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures?

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  16. Angkor Wat not enough? Theme park planned near site of ancient Cambodian temple

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  17. Despite 2018 promises, John Deer won't provide repair info/equipment to farmers

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  18. Clubhouse is siphoning people’s contacts

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  19. Palantir: Unlocked and Almost Loaded

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  20. Apple requests return of Apple Silicon DTK, offers $200 credit

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  21. New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  22. Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  23. Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  24. Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: “We need to inflict pain”

    9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  25. What Are Magazines Good For?

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  26. Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S.

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  27. High-performance computers are under siege by a newly discovered backdoor

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  28. Bitcoin’s value just passed $1T

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  29. We Destroy Things

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  30. Top banks join Linux and open-source patent protection group

    9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  31. Hackers steal gift cards using artificial intelligence

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  32. FAA - Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Boeing 777 with PW4000 engines

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  33. We’ll likely have a 3rd Covid vaccine soon; J&J vaccine clears last hurdle

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  34. How to Simulate I/O Faults at Runtime

    9 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  35. Honey bee hives decrease wild bee abundance, fruit count on farms

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  36. Green Thumb Scores the First U.S. Pot IPO

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  37. COVID Tracking Project is shutting down

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  38. Cancel The New York Times

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  39. Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  40. 100M Edits to OpenStreetMap

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  41. Nobody’s Autobiography: Janet Malcolm examines Stein and Toklas in her new book

    9 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  42. Hacker tries to poison water supply of Florida city

    9 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  43. Boeing 757 bound for Seattle makes emergency landing

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  44. E-Prime English

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  45. Scott Alexander's email shows staunch support for scientific-racism a.k.a. “HBD”

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  46. UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'

    9 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  47. Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  48. Why Amazon Is Flooding the Country with $15 Minimum Wage Ads

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  49. Citibank just got a $500M lesson in the importance of UI design

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  50. Pfizer Covid vaccine 94% effective, study of 1.2m people finds

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  51. Facebook Considers Facial Recognition for Upcoming Smart Glasses

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  52. Fun with a Functional Programming Interview Question

    9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  53. Mars Rover Footage Compiled into an Astonishing 4K Video

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  54. Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It happened, and with bad BIOS

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  55. Fitness Camera: Turn Your Phone's Camera into a Fitness Tracker

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  56. Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Is this simple landing page clear enough?

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  58. Humidifier: Healthy or Harmful?

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  59. Show HN: Block Out – Line and Block Puzzle Game

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  60. Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s the Fix

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  61. Show HN: DeKarmaHN, a Chrome extension to hide karma and more

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  62. My attempt on functional programming in PHP

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  63. What a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about AI

    9 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  64. Lake Tahoe Property Sells for $1.6M in Bitcoins

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  65. Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  66. Down the Gopher Hole (2007)

    9 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  67. Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone'

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  68. JavaScript performance beyond bundle size

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  69. I used GPT-3 to generate some cocktails, they turned out pretty good

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  70. SEO Forecasting in Google Sheets

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  71. Show HN: An interactive map of the 1M most-assigned books in college syllabi

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  72. Mass Layoffs Said to Hit Terrafugia Weeks After Its Flying Car Was FAA-Approved

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  73. Forcing Foreign Money Out Is Academic’s Fix for Canadian Housing

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  74. Why I was wrong to be optimistic about robots

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  75. Our new social network is adding over 1000 new users per day

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  76. Bitcoin’s price rises to $50k as mainstream institutions hop on

    9 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  77. Why Diaspora does not support ActivityPub (2019)

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  78. Waze CEO on Leaving Google: ‘I Was Just Worn Down by the Nature of the Beast’

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  79. Bill Gates on the Climate Crisis

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  80. “Don't fall for quantum hype” video by Sabine Hossenfelder

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  81. A diet of U.S. MREs alters gut microbiota composition

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  82. Ask HN: Any companies that pay in BTC?

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  83. Ask HN: How do you find personal tech blogs?

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  84. King James Programming

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  85. AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  86. Ask HN: Are You Familiar with SPACs?

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  87. CrewLink: Open-source Among Us proximity chat

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  88. Show HN: A new(?) approach for your bookmarks

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  89. Man plans becoming an Uber Eats driver to get paid to pick up his own McDonald’s

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  90. A new way to visualize General Relativity

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  91. Metaplane – “Is this dashboard broken again?”

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  92. App trackers sell your location data to the government

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  93. Who makes those scam popups?

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  94. Self-Organising Textures: Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  95. South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine

    9 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  96. Wun Tarnip Pleese

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  97. The SPAC Bubble Is About to Burst

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  98. Hunter S. Thompson's Irreverent Eulogy for Nixon (1964)

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  99. Native Linux game Valheim sells 1M units in its first week

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  100. NYT reporter Donald McNeil Jr ousted after using n-word with students

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2021