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Hacker News (Feb 2021)

  1. Choose Exciting Technology

    149 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  2. Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool

    149 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  3. Talent Is Largely a Myth

    149 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  4. Rare 'half-male, half-female' cardinal photographed in Pennsylvania

    148 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  5. Idioms for the D Programming Language

    148 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  6. Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)

    148 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  7. Zooko's Triangle

    148 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  8. Parler is back online after a month of downtime

    148 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  9. Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes

    148 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  10. Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]

    147 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  11. JSON with Commas and Comments

    147 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  12. Wayland on Wine: A First Update

    147 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  13. OpenScan Offers 10-Micron 3D Scanning on a Raspberry Pi and HQ Camera Module

    147 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  14. In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her

    147 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  15. Satellites Reveal Cause of Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams

    147 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  16. Block Profiling in Go

    146 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  17. The Phrase “Kilroy Was Here” (2017)

    146 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  18. Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships

    146 points • comment • feb 13, 2021

  19. Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU

    146 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  20. Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer

    146 points • comment • feb 17, 2021

  21. The Canary Chirps

    146 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  22. Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport

    145 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  23. Databricks is an RDBMS

    145 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  24. Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories

    145 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  25. Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse

    145 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  26. Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing

    145 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  27. Stop Using Icon Fonts

    145 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  28. Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar military

    144 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  29. A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020)

    144 points • comment • feb 27, 2021

  30. Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died

    144 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  31. Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript

    144 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  32. Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021

    144 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  33. Red Hat ported OpenJDK to 64-bit ARM: A community history

    144 points • comment • feb 01, 2021

  34. EteSync – Secure Data Sync

    143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  35. Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres

    143 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  36. UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

    143 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  37. Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website

    143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  38. People Keeping BlackBerry Alive

    143 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  39. Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?

    143 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  40. McCLIM – GUI toolkit for Common Lisp

    143 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  41. Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller

    143 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  42. Finally, a Private Stock Exchange

    143 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  43. Jet.jl: A WIP compile time type checker for Julia

    143 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  44. Reversible Computing

    143 points • comment • feb 28, 2021

  45. A Trip into FreeBSD

    143 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  46. US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review

    143 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  47. ANSI escape codes (2019)

    142 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  48. The Database Inside Your Codebase

    142 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  49. AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve

    142 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  50. How .NET container images are maintained

    141 points • comment • feb 12, 2021

  51. How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case

    141 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  52. Linux Logo (1996)

    141 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  53. Super Mario 64 Decompilation

    141 points • comment • feb 22, 2021

  54. IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months

    141 points • comment • feb 04, 2021

  55. A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B

    141 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  56. A Lisp REPL as my main shell

    141 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  57. Python Pattern Matching

    140 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  58. Resignation

    140 points • comment • feb 05, 2021

  59. What I Think of Bitcoin

    139 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  60. Organizations Using the D Language

    139 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  61. The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]

    139 points • comment • feb 15, 2021

  62. Looking at GSM security 30 years later

    139 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  63. Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right

    139 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  64. Garuda Linux

    138 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  65. Show HN: Screenstab – A tool to turn screenshots into image assets

    138 points • comment • feb 10, 2021

  66. Employee #1: Reddit (2016)

    138 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  67. HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world

    138 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  68. Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer

    138 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  69. Mt. Gox demise as told by a Bitcoin insider

    137 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  70. How my school gamed the stats

    137 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  71. Beam has raised $9.5M to reinvent the browser

    137 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  72. Photos from the Surface of Venus (1982)

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2021

  73. Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results

    137 points • comment • feb 11, 2021

  74. CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization

    136 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  75. Browsers eating RAM

    136 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  76. Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling

    136 points • comment • feb 09, 2021

  77. Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets

    136 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  78. AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

    136 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  79. Amazon insiders sound alarm over security

    136 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  80. Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation

    136 points • comment • feb 16, 2021

  81. Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

    136 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  82. A second look at "no code" tools (2019)

    136 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  83. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died

    136 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  84. Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot

    135 points • comment • feb 08, 2021

  85. Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with

    135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  86. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep

    135 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  87. Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)

    135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  88. Creators of ORCA and their works embracing tech minimalism and software freedom

    135 points • comment • feb 07, 2021

  89. Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (2005)

    135 points • comment • feb 24, 2021

  90. A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View

    135 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  91. Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

    135 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  92. Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?

    135 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  93. Is Google’s AI research about to implode?

    134 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  94. The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse

    134 points • comment • feb 14, 2021

  95. Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

    134 points • comment • feb 06, 2021

  96. Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product

    134 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  97. Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020)

    134 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  98. Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside

    133 points • comment • feb 20, 2021

  99. Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore

    133 points • comment • feb 26, 2021

  100. Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals

    133 points • comment • feb 19, 2021