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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure

    222 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  2. Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records

    221 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  3. (Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography

    221 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  4. Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp

    221 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  5. Passerine: A small extensible language designed for concise expression

    221 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  6. Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to DataDog

    221 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  7. Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's ball and how far he hit it

    220 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  8. Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps

    220 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  9. AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

    220 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  10. EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants

    219 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  11. The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon

    219 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  12. AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching

    219 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  13. I paid for Spotify playlist placements so you don’t have to

    218 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  14. Sourcetrail: Free and open-source interactive source explorer

    218 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  15. Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project

    218 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  16. The World’s Aging Dams

    218 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  17. Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features

    217 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  18. Police misconduct settlements

    217 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  19. TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe

    217 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  20. Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

    217 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  21. Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

    216 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  22. RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)

    216 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  23. Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing

    216 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  24. Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role

    215 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  25. Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019) [pdf]

    215 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  26. Ask HN: What entry-level telescope should I choose?

    215 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  27. Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams

    214 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  28. GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages

    213 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  29. State of Independent SaaS 2021

    213 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  30. Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises

    213 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  31. GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editor

    213 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  32. Godot Shaders: View and Share Shaders for Godot

    213 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  33. Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal

    212 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  34. In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software

    212 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  35. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)

    212 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  36. Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages

    211 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  37. CodeMirror 6

    211 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  38. SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    211 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  39. Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input

    210 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  40. Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API

    210 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  41. An Interview with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan on the Delhi HC Case

    210 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  42. SolarWind, enough with the password already

    209 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  43. Fictional Cryptocurrencies

    209 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  44. Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python

    209 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  45. UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus

    208 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  46. Preparing to Issue 200M Certificates in 24 Hours

    208 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  47. Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)

    207 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  48. India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark

    207 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  49. Academic media censorship conference censored by YouTube?

    207 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  50. Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs

    207 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  51. Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study

    205 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  52. Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

    205 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  53. Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble

    205 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  54. Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

    205 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  55. Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

    205 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  56. “WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”

    204 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  57. Frontex Files

    204 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  58. Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

    204 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  59. Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing

    204 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  60. Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions

    204 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  61. Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them

    203 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  62. Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet

    203 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  63. Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?

    203 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  64. Melting permafrost cause huge underground methane explosions in Siberia

    202 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  65. Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

    202 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  66. Foldable Words

    202 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  67. Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning

    201 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  68. Nextcloud Hub 21

    201 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  69. Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction

    201 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  70. Pine64 Februrary Update: Show and Tell

    201 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  71. Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation

    201 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  72. F# is gaining independence from .NET

    201 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  73. Notes on My Chemotherapy

    201 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  74. Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly

    200 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  75. Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)

    200 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  76. OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction

    200 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  77. External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs

    199 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  78. Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery

    199 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  79. Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?

    199 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  80. Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

    199 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  81. Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia

    199 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  82. Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python

    199 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  83. WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem

    198 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  84. The endless browser wars

    198 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  85. When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)

    198 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  86. 50 Years of Pascal

    198 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  87. The curious case of the handlebar bag scam

    198 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  88. Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B

    198 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  89. Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

    197 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  90. Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now

    197 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  91. Semiconductors Demand 30% Above Supply, 20% Year-on-Year Growth

    197 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  92. Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

    197 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  93. New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing

    197 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  94. Monkey.org

    196 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  95. Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated

    196 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  96. Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order

    196 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  97. Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles

    196 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  98. The computers rejecting job applications

    196 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  99. If any Ubuntu maintainers are listening: PLEASE STOP DOING THIS

    196 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  100. How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series

    196 points • comment • feb 03, 2021