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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Inkscape Ray Tracing – an extension for Inkscape to draw optical diagrams

    263 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  2. Teaching Compilers Backward

    263 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  3. The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired

    262 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  4. The Dunant subsea cable

    261 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  5. Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

    261 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  6. Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons

    260 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  7. Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (2008)

    260 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  8. Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

    260 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  9. How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs

    260 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  10. FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

    259 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  11. A request for Pinboard old-timers

    259 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  12. The Need to Remove Bad Management

    259 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  13. How to be more productive without forcing yourself

    258 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  14. Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs

    258 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  15. AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers

    258 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  16. Show HN: Search inside YouTube videos using natural language queries

    258 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  17. Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto

    257 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  18. Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing

    257 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  19. Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js)

    257 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  20. The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

    256 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  21. Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)

    255 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  22. Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020)

    255 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  23. A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    255 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  24. How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size

    253 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  25. Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study

    253 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  26. Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?

    253 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  27. Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

    250 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  28. Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

    250 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  29. Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

    249 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  30. Foundational Distributed Systems Papers

    247 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  31. Drug decriminalization in Oregon begins today

    247 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  32. Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising

    247 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  33. Launch HN: GreaseBoss (YC W21) – Real-time system to manage industrial greasing

    247 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  34. Golang generics proposal has been accepted

    246 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  35. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach

    246 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  36. Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition

    246 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  37. Zine machine: a compact 3D-printed block printing press

    245 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  38. Expanding our testing in San Francisco

    245 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  39. It’s Time for Real Time Settlement

    245 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  40. Activists who embrace nuclear power

    244 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  41. An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi

    244 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  42. I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)

    243 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  43. Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery

    243 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  44. How Antidepressants Work, at Last?

    243 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  45. Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]

    242 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  46. Noise pollution hurts the heart

    242 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  47. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – 30th Anniversary Edition – Free Play Online

    241 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  48. Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust

    241 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  49. Autopilot on Cars for $999

    241 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  50. Bad TypeScript Habits

    240 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  51. The Fantasy of Opting Out

    240 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  52. ‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar

    240 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  53. Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API

    239 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  54. Not Lisp again (2009)

    239 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  55. Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like a Boss

    239 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  56. The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box fan

    239 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  57. GitHub Deceased User Policy

    239 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  58. Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web

    238 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  59. Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning

    238 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  60. A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

    237 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  61. Writing high performance F# code

    237 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  62. In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs

    237 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  63. Factorio Future Plans

    236 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  64. How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix

    236 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  65. Stop defacing quotes with brackets

    236 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  66. Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager

    235 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  67. 31.2˝ Color EPaper Display

    235 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  68. Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership

    235 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  69. Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling

    234 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  70. The Kotlin Foundation

    234 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  71. TransferWise changes name to Wise

    234 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  72. Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

    233 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  73. Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python

    233 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  74. 16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (2016)

    233 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  75. Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?

    233 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  76. Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

    233 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  77. The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently

    231 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  78. In-car touchscreens are dangerous

    231 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  79. Block Facebook Servers

    231 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  80. Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla

    230 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  81. Malware in open-source web extensions

    230 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  82. Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (1995) [pdf]

    230 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  83. The Therac-25 Incident

    228 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  84. Launch HN: H3X (YC W21) – High power density electric aircraft motors

    228 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  85. Mypyc: Compile type-annotated Python to C

    228 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  86. Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing

    227 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  87. Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ On 64 Cores

    227 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  88. Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest

    227 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  89. Rust Cookbook

    227 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  90. Modifying Telegram's “People Nearby” feature to pinpoint people's homes

    227 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  91. How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars

    227 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  92. Clubhouse Bio Generator

    226 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  93. Larry Flynt has died

    226 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  94. Show HN: Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking

    226 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  95. Show HN: "Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book

    226 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  96. ReactOS Updates

    225 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  97. Virginia lawmakers pass marijuana legalization bills

    223 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  98. Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

    223 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  99. Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

    223 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  100. Show HN: CalcuLaTeX, a pretty-printing calculator language

    223 points • comment • feb 24, 2021