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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

    169 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  2. Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes

    169 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  3. How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?

    169 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  4. Perseverance Has Landed

    169 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  5. Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python

    169 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  6. Get a Life

    169 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  7. Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides

    169 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  8. Roaring Kitty to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers

    169 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  9. Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking

    169 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  10. The Relentless Jeff Bezos

    168 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  11. Bevy: A game engine built in Rust

    168 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  12. The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding

    168 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  13. A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system

    168 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  14. Pravetz Computers

    167 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  15. Show HN: Archivy – Extensible Self Hosted Knowledge Base – v1 Release

    167 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  16. Shopify employees accessed customer databases without authorization

    167 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  17. Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?

    166 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  18. NRA bankruptcy lets critics peer into gun lobby’s inner workings

    166 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  19. “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers

    166 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  20. The road to electric is filled with tiny cars

    166 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  21. How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be?

    166 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  22. Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

    166 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  23. Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime

    165 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  24. Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes

    165 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  25. The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)

    165 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  26. Coinbase is a decentralized company, with no headquarters

    165 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  27. Spanish crew shot an alternative Dracula after Bela Lugosi had gone to bed

    165 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  28. A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii

    165 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  29. Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

    165 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  30. OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally

    164 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  31. Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg

    164 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  32. Nyuzi – An Experimental Open-Source FPGA GPGPU Processor

    163 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  33. Performance Impact of Ad Blockers (2020)

    163 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  34. Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

    163 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  35. A Warning to Users of NurseryCam

    163 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  36. Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes

    163 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  37. 8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number

    163 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  38. Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect

    162 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  39. PureScript and Haskell

    162 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  40. OMU – “One Man Unix”

    162 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  41. Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]

    162 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  42. Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC

    162 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  43. Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent

    162 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  44. Leaving Mozilla

    162 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  45. The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019)

    162 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  46. Petabyte tape cartridges are coming

    162 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  47. The Pretty JSON Revolution

    161 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  48. Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?

    160 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  49. Before you buy a Soviet Camera

    160 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  50. Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo

    160 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  51. New model could explain old cholesterol mystery

    160 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  52. Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files Slapp Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

    160 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  53. EPA Takes Action to Protect Scientific Integrity

    160 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  54. Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)

    160 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  55. Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode

    159 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  56. How will 'chipageddon' affect you?

    159 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  57. Posix Threads Programming

    159 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  58. Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work

    159 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  59. WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy

    158 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  60. Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project

    158 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  61. Clubhouse’s Inevitability

    157 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  62. Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it

    157 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  63. How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't (2019)

    157 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  64. GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage

    157 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  65. A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator

    157 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  66. Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines

    156 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  67. You don't really need a virtualenv

    156 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  68. Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week

    156 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  69. The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes

    156 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  70. Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant

    156 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  71. Enzyme – High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM

    155 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  72. 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm

    155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  73. Show HN: 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python

    155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  74. Microsoft’s big win in quantum computing was an ‘error’ after all

    155 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  75. Tusk – Short-lived anonymous feedback

    155 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  76. New Bone Cell Type Identified

    154 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  77. Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident

    154 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  78. Datatype99: C99 with Sum Types, v0.1.0

    154 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  79. Mouse studies show gene therapy can cause big drop in latent herpes infections

    154 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  80. Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

    153 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  81. A Minimal Email Client

    153 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  82. Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch

    152 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  83. It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged

    152 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  84. Opinion: Don’t Stop at Big Tech–We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too

    152 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  85. Jacquard by Google

    152 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  86. Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)

    152 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  87. RNA Memory Hypothesis

    152 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  88. What's an SPF Record?

    152 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  89. Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features

    151 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  90. DVD-Drive Based Laser Scanning Microscope

    151 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  91. Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study

    151 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  92. Launch HN: Milk Video (YC W21) – Edit online event recordings quickly

    151 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  93. Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer

    151 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  94. U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'

    151 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  95. FPGA Developer Tutorials

    150 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  96. Coinbase mafia shows how tight a circle holds sway over Bitcoin

    150 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  97. Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

    150 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  98. A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’

    150 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  99. A Python interpreter rewritten in Rust, that can run pip

    150 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  100. Command Line Shell for SQLite

    150 points • comment • feb 17, 2021