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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  2. From First Principles: Why Scala?

    6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  3. Finland shows that education is best tool to fight ‘deepfakes’

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  4. How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing? [pdf]

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  5. 70% of top “civic” Facebook groups are toxic or violent, report finds

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  6. Microsoft's Junk Repo

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  7. DIP switches don't age well -- after years of nonuse, they fail open

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  8. Obesity may exacerbate the effects of Alzheimer’s disease

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  9. Popperian falsification enabled the rise of neoliberalism

    6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  10. Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use

    6 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  11. Esoteric Programming Languages – The Obscure and Unconventional

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  12. Facebook Restoring News to feeds in Australia

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  13. Effort

    6 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  14. Longest-serving juvenile ‘lifer,’ now 83, is finally free

    6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  15. Trust and the Viability of Cryptocurrency

    6 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  16. Shark Deaths Have Left a 'Gaping Hole' in Ocean Life, Chilling Report Shows

    6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  17. Apple Inc. settles logo dispute with Prepear

    6 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  18. Conventions of Safety (2019)

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  19. Show HN: Recursive – A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  20. Damn, this is lit – I Miss My Bar

    6 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  21. There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  22. Calls for Bank of America boycott grow after data given to FBI

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  23. LED Holographic Display

    6 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  24. Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  25. North Dakota Senate Rejects App Store Bill Apple Said Would “Destroy the iPhone”

    6 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  26. Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack

    6 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  27. Apple cracks down on apps with ‘irrationally high prices’ in response to scams

    6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  28. Baby food brands contain ‘dangerous’ toxic metals, US panel finds

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  29. Fact check: Are Covid-19 vaccines causing deaths?

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  30. France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  31. Just-World Hypothesis

    6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  32. Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  33. Ohyay – create any virtual space that you can imagine

    6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  34. Explaining the Great 2020 Homicide Spike

    6 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  35. Texas Crisis Exposes a Nation's Vulnerability to Climate Change

    6 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  36. On Being Present

    6 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  37. You can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films now

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  38. Mars Perseverance Livestream

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  39. Australian Greens political party request a publicly-owned search engine

    6 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  40. The Flying Saw (2009)

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  41. Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Issues Amber Alert for Victim of Horror Doll Chucky

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  42. Clubhouse, a Tiny Audio Chat App, Breaks Through

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  43. Scientist recruits albatrosses to pinpoint illegal fishing boats

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  44. Mistakes and Memes

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  45. Global Weather Disruption if Sahara Desert Covered in Solar Panels

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  46. A History of Videogames [pdf]

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  47. Intrepid Navigators: Migration’s demands on birds

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  48. Exposing sequential IDs is bad Here is how to avoid it

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  49. At Amazon, Pretending to Be Green Takes a Lot of Energy

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  50. Oregon Was Founded as a Racist Utopia

    6 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  51. School Board members caught on tape mocking parents who want school reopened

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  52. LibreSOC Still Striving to Produce Open-Source Hybrid CPU/GPU Built on OpenPOWER

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  53. Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores

    6 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  54. Apple Is the $2.3T Fortress That Tim Cook Built

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  55. Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  56. Camera to Cloud

    6 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  57. Old Organizers Collection

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  58. New Zealand's Path to Prosperity Began with Rejecting Democratic Socialism

    6 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  59. MariaDB 10.6.0 Release Notes

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  60. TimescaleDB 2.0 is now Generally Available

    6 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  61. Russia Refutes Criticisms of Its Missiles by Showing One Blowing Up a Hospital

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  62. Virologist: WHO Team Found No 'Credible Link' Between Wuhan Labs, Covid-19

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  63. Blue Sky Studios Shut Down

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  64. Elizabeth Holmes resists government efforts to detail her CEO lifestyle

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  65. WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  66. Intel Sapphire Rapids 10nm SuperFin Xeon Server CPU and Pinout Spied in Photos

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  67. Offline Speech Recognition in Flutter: No Siri, No Google, and No, It’s Not STT

    6 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  68. Sony winds down Japan Studio to focus on Astro’s Playroom team

    6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  69. Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  70. The VIP Party: Why the 1% Love ‘Ritualised Waste’

    6 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  71. Resolved: DNSSEC records still not passed to applications

    6 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  72. Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  73. Black America, 1895

    6 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  74. Media trust hits new low

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  75. Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans–‘We Need to Inflict Pain’

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  76. UAE Mars probe successfully enters Red Planet orbit

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  77. 2x Stronger Resin Prints with Electroplating [video]

    5 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  78. Why Nuclear Tanks Could Have Been the Ultimate Nuclear Nightmare

    5 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  79. Flim is a smart database of keyword-searchable movie screenshots

    5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  80. Heat Pumps: The Future of Home Heating

    5 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  81. Narrowest Commercial Building in the World

    5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  82. How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves

    5 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  83. Inflation Depends on Where You Look for It (Maybe Asset Prices))

    5 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  84. The /r/CryptoCurrency moderators just banned. Mass censorship and manipulation

    5 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  85. The Artist Disappears: Helen Frankenthaler’s Earthbound Genius

    5 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  86. Ford 'brilliantly' steals spotlight from GM Super Bowl ad in Twitter battle

    5 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  87. Is This the End of Tipping?

    5 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  88. Google is weighing an anti-tracking feature for Android, following Apple’s lead

    5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  89. Cosmologists Create 4000 Virtual Universes to Solve Big Bang Mystery

    5 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  90. Pablo Hasel protests: Thousands demand rapper's release in Spain

    5 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  91. What Anti-Tech Bias Looks Like

    5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  92. Glengarry Glen Ross: Working from Home Edition

    5 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  93. Facebook to reverse news ban, government to make amendments to media code

    5 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  94. PostgreSQL Database Security: Authentication

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  95. Tesla invest $1.5B in Bitcoin plans to accept BTC as payment

    5 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  96. Why is Gentoo adding an Escape to tmux attach

    5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  97. Raspberry Pi CM4 carrier has M.2 and GbE

    5 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  98. Why Brokers Had to Restrain Trading in GameStop Shares

    5 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  99. Is Taiwan a Ticking Time Bomb in the Semiconductor Supply Chain? – The Diplomat

    5 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  100. New Malware Hijacks Kubernetes Clusters to Mine Monero

    5 points • comment • feb 04, 2021