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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Now Announcing: Makefile Support in Visual Studio Code

    8 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  2. The Magic Kernel Sharp – image resizing algorithm

    8 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  3. Facebook is said to be building a product to compete with Clubhouse

    8 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  4. Interest by subregion on Google Trends for Satoshi Nakamoto – 1/1/04 – 1/1/05

    8 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  5. Is remote learning causing a mental health crisis among teens and children?

    8 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  6. Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios

    8 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  7. A quant fund is looking to hire high-ranking Wall Street Bets members as traders

    8 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  8. Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism as an Insurgency

    8 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  9. The Universal Warrior, Part IIb: A Soldier’s Lot

    8 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  10. YouTube's 'dangerous' crackdown on independent journalists

    8 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  11. 43% of A360 attenders got Covid after attending an event

    8 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  12. A cool coding library I somehow overlooked – FSharpPlus

    8 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  13. Is it wrong to demand features in open-source projects?

    8 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  14. Facebook is finally banning vaccine misinformation

    8 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  15. “A helicopter running on fossil fuel spraying a chemical onto a wind turbin”

    8 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  16. Two variants have merged into heavily mutated coronavirus

    8 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  17. The superspreaders behind top Covid-19 conspiracy theories

    8 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  18. Why the Parler CEO was fired

    8 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  19. Ask HN: What (realistic) software tool do you need that doesn't exist

    8 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  20. San Francisco Sues San Francisco Unified School District over Failure to Reopen

    7 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  21. Asahi Linux submits a patch upstream

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  22. John McWhorter: The Neoracists

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  23. Decompilation of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  24. Nikola admits to making “inaccurate” statements under disgraced founder

    7 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  25. Ask HN: Has anyone made a web support chat based on Matrix?

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  26. Reverse engineering Emotet – Our approach to protect GRNET against the trojan

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  27. Asian countries are learning to cope with Chinese bullying

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  28. Scientists Discover Target for Stroke Therapy in Blood-Brain Barrier

    7 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  29. GameStop situation is a golden opportunity for decentralized exchanges

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  30. The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot

    7 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  31. Debunking “The Bit Short”

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  32. In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  33. Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  34. Ask HN: fsf.org and gnu.org are both down, anyone knows why?

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  35. Ask HN: Is the dev community too toxic toward aspiring developers?

    7 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  36. AMD’s Past and Future CPUs

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  37. EncroChat hack case: Data in transit is data at rest, rules UK Court of Appeal

    7 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  38. Myanmar coup feared as army detains Aung San Suu Kyi

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  39. Texans use 2021 Ford F-150 hybrid pickup trucks to power homes amid winter storm

    7 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  40. A proposal for Named tensor Notation

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  41. Who started modernity? Meet the Italian capitalist who launched our world

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  42. Show HN: Sponsorasong.com,Control your friend's Spotify, raise money for charity

    7 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  43. 'Smart’ TVs Track Everything You Watch

    7 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  44. Facebook's Working on a Smartwatch So It Can Hoover Up Your Health Data Too

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  45. The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (2014) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  46. Democratic senators' Act strips Section 230 immunity for ads and other content

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  47. Global Law Firm Jones Day Suffering Ransomware and Extortion Event

    7 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  48. Selling all my crypto because of an authoritarian government

    7 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  49. Simplex

    7 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  50. Apple Supplier Foxconn Says 'Limited Impact' Expected from Chip Shortage

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  51. 23andMe to Merge with Virgin Group’s VG Acquisition Corp

    7 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  52. Record Labels Blame YouTube for a Lot of Things but Continue to Upload Music

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  53. Remotion – Create motion graphics in React

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  54. Blizzard is using Visual Studio 2019 to debug Linux core dumps on WSL

    7 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  55. Critical Thinking May Not Be a Skill

    7 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  56. Reframing Imposter Syndrome

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  57. Emacs Lisp as a general purpose programming language? German air-traffic control

    7 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  58. NYTimes on Scott Alexander

    7 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  59. A Desktop Quantum Computer for Just $5k

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  60. GameStop Trader ‘Roaring Kitty’ and Former Employer May Face Regulatory Scrutiny

    7 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  61. Silicon Valley exodus: ‘We’re in real trouble’

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  62. Former moderator of TheDonald recalls forum's hate, racism and violent threats

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  63. Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas Dies of Covid

    7 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  64. Free Stuff Is All over Craigslist and Facebook, and It’s Getting Weirder

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  65. The Universal Warrior, Part III: The Cult of the Badass

    7 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  66. Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People

    7 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  67. Ask HN: Is anyone still using Gulp?

    7 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  68. Bitcoin reaches one trillion market capitalisation

    7 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  69. SuperbOwl

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

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

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  71. Machine vision for low-cost remote control of mosquitoes by power laser

    7 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  72. DIY DNA Sequencer (2019)

    7 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  73. Ask HN: What language would you code if you didn't need to make money?

    7 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  74. Curry-Howard Is a Scam

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  75. Former FBI Officials Tapped for Amazon’s Growing Security Apparatus

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  76. Ask HN: What is the best OS startup/bootup sound ever?

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  77. New changes to Twitter make it even worse for free software users

    7 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  78. Enclosure: Language-Based Restriction of Untrusted Libraries [pdf]

    7 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  79. Facebook intentionally overestimated audience reach numbers to advertisers

    7 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  80. First tyrannosaur embryo fossils revealed

    7 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  81. How to eat an elephant, one atomic concept at a time

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  82. Facebook will block Australian news publishers and Australian users from sharing

    7 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  83. WTF Is Design Thinking?

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  84. Starlink Is Open for Business

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  85. Red meat intake associated with risk of coronary heart disease in US men

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  86. Biden warns China will ‘eat our lunch’ if U.S. doesn’t move on infrastructure

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  87. Memgraph DB 1.3 release brings high availability replication (HA)

    7 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  88. Microsoft/DeleteMe

    7 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  89. The FBI and Its Fictional “Black Identity Extremism” Movement

    7 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  90. Conch shell in French museum found to be 17,000-year-old wind instrument

    7 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  91. Show HN: A Python Libary That Simplifies Data Validation

    7 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  92. Skeleton and Principles for a Maintainable Test Suite

    7 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  93. Browser Tracking Using Favicons

    7 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  94. How Clubhouse iOS app is Built and works?

    7 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  95. Scientists Have Taught Spinach to Send Emails

    7 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  96. Metaplane: “Is this dashboard broken again?”

    7 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  97. NYPD's robot dog is now trotting around in the Bronx

    7 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  98. JavaScript performance beyond bundle size

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  99. Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

    7 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  100. Blinded by the light: Chicago startup’s technology saves your eyes – and energy

    7 points • comment • feb 20, 2021