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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)

    308 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  2. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

    308 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  3. Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available

    307 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  4. OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware

    305 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  5. Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)

    304 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  6. Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)

    304 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  7. Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

    303 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  8. Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide

    302 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  9. Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust

    302 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  10. State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020

    302 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  11. Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills

    302 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  12. An interactive guide to CSS transitions

    302 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  13. Rust const generics MVP hits beta

    302 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  14. The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology

    300 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  15. Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes

    300 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  16. SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak

    299 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  17. New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag

    299 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  18. Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem

    299 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  19. Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021

    297 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  20. NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week

    297 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  21. How this Ends

    297 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  22. Reminder: Terraria Dev’s Google Story Is Not Unusual at All

    296 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  23. The war on disinformation is a war on dissent

    295 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  24. Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD

    295 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  25. Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

    295 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  26. Commenting vs. Making

    294 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  27. Map of my personal data infrastructure

    294 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  28. The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem

    293 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  29. OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

    293 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  30. Elfstedentocht

    293 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  31. How to Destroy the Earth (2006)

    292 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  32. Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

    291 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  33. Global debt soars to 356% of GDP

    291 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  34. Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood

    290 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  35. Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System

    290 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  36. South Africa suspends rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

    288 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  37. How to lower the price of plant-based meat

    287 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  38. Firefox 86.0

    287 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  39. Mold: A Modern Linker

    287 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  40. Parler CEO says he was fired by board

    286 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  41. How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)

    286 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  42. US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing

    286 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  43. You need to be able to run your system

    285 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  44. Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore

    285 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  45. Military seizes control in Myanmar

    285 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  46. Architecture of the Playstation 2

    285 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  47. Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)

    284 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  48. Go 1.16 Release Notes

    284 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  49. Best practices for REST API design (2020)

    283 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  50. Margaret Mitchell fired from Google

    283 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  51. Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

    283 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  52. SDL Moves to GitHub

    283 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  53. DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training

    283 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  54. How often should I rotate my SSH keys?

    283 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  55. Peter Naur's view of programming

    282 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  56. Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips

    282 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  57. BTC Endgame

    281 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  58. Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

    280 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  59. Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

    280 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  60. Rust-Analyzer Architecture

    279 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  61. From First Principles: Why Scala?

    279 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  62. Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'

    279 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  63. What Is Huffman Coding?

    278 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  64. RIP Flynn.io

    278 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  65. Goodbye YC

    277 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  66. gemini:// space

    276 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  67. Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM

    276 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  68. Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time

    276 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  69. I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem

    275 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  70. The Beirut Bank Job (2017)

    275 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  71. Haxe 4.2

    275 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  72. IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources

    274 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  73. 20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown

    274 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  74. Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy

    274 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  75. 1977: Zork

    274 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  76. Racket v8.0

    273 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  77. Covid vaccination linked to 'substantial reduction' in hospital admissions

    273 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  78. Pattern Generator – Create Seamless, Royalty-Free Patterns

    272 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  79. My Life in E-Ink

    272 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  80. Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

    272 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  81. Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing

    272 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  82. Running Nomad for a Home Server

    271 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  83. An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later

    270 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  84. The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook

    270 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  85. Write a Shell in C

    270 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  86. CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

    270 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  87. Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish

    269 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  88. Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it

    269 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  89. Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming

    269 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  90. Vertical farming does not save space

    268 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  91. Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)

    268 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  92. Quitting Twitter

    267 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  93. Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer

    267 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  94. How to Kill a Unicorn

    266 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  95. Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

    266 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  96. How They SRE

    266 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  97. Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

    266 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  98. On navigating a large codebase

    265 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  99. Me and ADHD

    265 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  100. European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance

    263 points • comment • feb 17, 2021