hackerNews

1

Total Cookie Protection (blog.mozilla.org)

1513 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022703 424 comments

2

M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time (linustechtips.com)

669 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022518 498 comments

11

NYAG Ends Virtual Currency Trading Platform Bitfinex’s Illegal Activities (ag.ny.gov)

551 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022500 484 comments

9

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores (twitter.com)

437 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022503 263 comments

7

Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer (mikkel.ca)

396 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022500 190 comments

2

LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace, taking on UpWork and Fiverr (aimgroup.com)

381 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022603 323 comments

5

10 Years of Open-Source Visualization – D3.js (observablehq.com)

363 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022518 51 comments

5

Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer (blog.eyas.sh)

340 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022521 64 comments

6

Building an E-Ink Laptop (alexsoto.dev)

338 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022521 153 comments

1

Firefox Introduces State Partitioning (hacks.mozilla.org)

329 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022603 93 comments

29

American Airlines Confirms: UFO Contact over New Mexico on Sunday (viewfromthewing.com)

311 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022421 230 comments

3

Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices (tailscale.com)

306 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022600 84 comments

14

You need to be able to run your system (catern.com)

281 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022500 152 comments

9

Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing (cheapskatesguide.org)

267 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022421 250 comments

8

Teaching Compilers Backward (blog.sigplan.org)

259 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022503 78 comments

8

Launch HN: GreaseBoss (YC W21) – Real-time system to manage industrial greasing (item?id=26240581)

245 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022603 144 comments

15

Letters from House Democrats to Cable Providers [pdf] (eshoo.house.gov)

242 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022503 543 comments

5

Architecture of the Playstation 2 (www.copetti.org)

240 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2022092800 0 comments

27

Noise Pollution Hurts the Heart (www.theatlantic.com)

237 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022421 254 comments

30

Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency (arstechnica.com)

231 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022500 140 comments

55

Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing (gridcoin.us)

226 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022503 132 comments

4

Mypyc: Compile type-annotated Python to C (github.com)

225 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022503 86 comments

8

Gridcoin: An open source cryptocurrency that rewards work performed on the BOINC (en.wikipedia.org)

220 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022415 115 comments

7

Two fighter pilots passed out over Nevada last year. Software saved them both (www.popsci.com)

211 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022600 158 comments

11

50 Years of Pascal (cacm.acm.org)

198 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022518 127 comments

14

Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated (https://doesnotexist.codes)

196 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022506 101 comments

9

Launch HN: Weweb.io (YC W21) – Create websites visually using JAMstack tools (item?id=26248123)

188 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022703 89 comments

36

Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does (arstechnica.com)

187 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 97 comments

14

Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders (techblog.geekyants.com)

169 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 47 comments

32

The Pretty JSON Revolution (www.ohler.com)

159 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022500 148 comments

38

GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage (www.stephendiehl.com)

151 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022506 156 comments

19

Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study (www.reuters.com)

149 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022521 60 comments

18

In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her (www.polygon.com)

144 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022418 108 comments

18

Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres (info.crunchydata.com)

142 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022515 19 comments

10

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died (www.nytimes.com)

135 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022503 29 comments

11

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (www.astro.princeton.edu)

135 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022506 32 comments

3

BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders (www.bbc.co.uk)

131 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022518 90 comments

18

A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard (morrick.me)

125 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022503 107 comments

19

Open Source in the 5G Stack (github.blog)

122 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022500 24 comments

28

Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones scrape for applicants (www.nytimes.com)

120 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 371 comments

20

Add experimental fuzz test support for Go 1.17 (github.com)

119 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 29 comments

26

On Writing More (ava.substack.com)

117 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022506 48 comments

20

Nim versions 1.4.4 and 1.2.10 released (nim-lang.org)

114 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022515 40 comments

42

Biden to sign order to build 'China-free' tech supply chain (asia.nikkei.com)

112 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022500 44 comments

26

Automatio – Visual Automated Extraction Tool (automatio.co)

109 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022503 29 comments

29

Firefox is reviving “Sponsored Tiles” (support.mozilla.org)

107 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022512 100 comments

67

See how 100 startups are running – MRR and Stats (https://openstartups.run)

105 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022406 32 comments

0

Is Google’s AI research about to implode? (soccermatics.medium.com)

99 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022400 82 comments

21

The birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf] (alain.colmerauer.free.fr)

96 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 37 comments

5

Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in QML (www.kdab.com)

94 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022509 17 comments

22

Show HN: Replace printf() with cool generic print, almost like Python/JS (github.com)

91 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022515 26 comments

16

When did generic grocery brands get so good looking? (eyeondesign.aiga.org)

91 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022515 134 comments

25

Avoid Contentious Terms (www.jefftk.com)

90 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022506 90 comments

27

Show HN: Generate a 3D model that looks like you and apply AR animation effects (www.youtube.com)

87 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022418 36 comments

85

Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently? (item?id=26237932)

80 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022406 61 comments

16

Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod (chadaustin.me)

80 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022506 56 comments

10

RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi (github.com)

78 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022506 50 comments

79

Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins (www.reuters.com)

77 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022412 107 comments

18

Dairy Made from Grass in a Fermentor (thosevegancowboys.com)

76 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022500 45 comments

22

Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker (github.com)

74 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022509 35 comments

28

How should economists think about biodiversity? (www.economist.com)

72 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022509 56 comments

0

Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS (www.nature.com)

68 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022403 53 comments

55

Whole school board resigns in shame after forgetting their WebEx call was public (www.theverge.com)

65 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022415 15 comments

15

Practical typewriting: By the all-finger method (1894) (babel.hathitrust.org)

64 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022415 20 comments

45

Ghost Kitchens Took over America's Restaurants (marker.medium.com)

62 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022506 55 comments

33

Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter? (www.bbc.com)

60 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022506 81 comments

0

I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine (www.protocol.com)

57 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 3 comments

56

USPS Selects Oshkosh Defense for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Fleet (oshkoshcorp.com)

54 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022509 62 comments

23

Commodore History Part 1: The Commodore Pet (www.the8bitguy.com)

53 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022421 23 comments

70

IPv8: Authenticated Private P2P Communication (github.com)

51 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022412 26 comments

33

Xmr.to shuts down Monero exchange service (xmr.to)

50 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022418 39 comments

24

Launch HN: Abacum (YC W21) – Easy collaboration and reporting for finance teams (item?id=26236910)

49 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022503 23 comments

44

Google struggles to fix its new Stadia game after shutting down own studios (www.theverge.com)

48 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022412 8 comments

56

Who cares about the Ivy League? (noahpinion.substack.com)

47 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022418 110 comments

41

NASA's Space Launch System: is cancellation too good? (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

46 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022506 12 comments

27

An ancient Greek approach to risk and the lessons it can offer the modern world (theconversation.com)

45 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022506 16 comments

21

An introduction to Programming with ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC [pdf] (buraphakit.sourceforge.io)

43 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022515 19 comments

26

FAA Statement on Pratt and Whitney Engine Emergency Airworthiness Directive (www.faa.gov)

43 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022503 44 comments

31

A new take on remote/hybrid standups (www.rally.video)

40 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022500 13 comments

31

Cproxy: Per app transparent proxy built on Linux cgroup net_cls (github.com)

39 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022515 15 comments

0

Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media Harassment (www.npr.org)

36 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 4 comments

58

The Kafka API is great; now let's make it fast (vectorized.io)

35 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022500 0 comments

21

The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners (www.nature.com)

35 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022515 25 comments

0

Britain stole $45T from India (2018) (www.aljazeera.com)

34 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 30 comments

42

Show HN: NotionDog – The easiest way to build websites with nothing but Notion (https://notion.dog)

34 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022506 3 comments

26

Scholar Edward Said longed to write novels, yet never succeeded (www.theguardian.com)

33 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022503 2 comments

42

Stop Nitpicking in Code Reviews (blog.danlew.net)

32 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022500 27 comments

25

Ffmpeg Used by the Next-Generation Imaging System for Mars Exploration (link.springer.com)

31 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022703 14 comments

42

The Feynman Learning Technique (fs.blog)

30 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022418 2 comments

40

Standard ECMA-4 Flow Charts, 2nd Edition (1966) [pdf] (www.ecma-international.org)

28 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022418 7 comments

59

Ask HN: How do you watch for health emergencies for elder family members? (item?id=26242702)

28 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022415 14 comments

73

Ask HN: Any startups solving for software engineering hiring? (item?id=26236973)

27 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022406 29 comments

0

I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever (taibbi.substack.com)

27 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022415 4 comments

38

The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits (lareviewofbooks.org)

26 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022500 14 comments

58

Stanford study into “Zoom Fatigue” explains why video chats are so tiring (newatlas.com)

26 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022421 4 comments

41

Saving the World with Bayesian Modeling (www.pymc-labs.io)

25 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022409 3 comments

0

The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium (reason.com)

25 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 14 comments

36

Dreamcast Architecture: A Practical Analysis (www.copetti.org)

23 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022500 6 comments

0

Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather (www.propublica.org)

22 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022403 0 comments

81

Apple Bought Another Company Every 3 to 4 Weeks for Last 6 Years, Tim Cook Says (gizmodo.com)

21 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022418 0 comments

75

The Bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down (arstechnica.com)

18 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022406 4 comments

65

NumPy 1.20 has been released (lwn.net)

18 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022500 4 comments

0

The next generation of VR on Playstation (blog.playstation.com)

16 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022403 9 comments

75

“Mark Changed the Rules” Facebook Went Easy on Alex Jones and Right-Wing Figures (www.buzzfeednews.com)

16 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022415 4 comments

32

Tweaking Corn Kernels with Crispr (phys.org)

16 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022506 0 comments

79

US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain (asia.nikkei.com)

16 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022500 5 comments

54

Show HN: GPT-3 resources, examples, and use cases (gpt3demo.com)

15 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022412 2 comments

86

Python Developers Survey 2020 Results (www.jetbrains.com)

15 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022418 0 comments

0

Why an Animated Flying Cat with a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600k (www.nytimes.com)

13 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022400 6 comments

62

Show HN: Flowdash – Build internal tools for your team’s manual workflows (flowdash.com)

13 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022415 0 comments

89

Deprecated Is Now Deprecated (developer.android.com)

13 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022412 3 comments

41

How to Resolve Technical Debt: The Agile Root of Your Problem (2018) (www.compuware.com)

13 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022500 0 comments

40

The Romantic Reputation of John Keats (www.historytoday.com)

13 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022500 14 comments

0

S.F. school board pauses renaming process for 44 schools after coming under fire (www.sfchronicle.com)

12 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022421 0 comments

40

Prehistoric Arrow Bonanza at Langfonne (2020) (secretsoftheice.com)

11 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022418 0 comments

63

Web API Controversy (webapicontroversy.com)

11 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022412 5 comments

0

Apple M1 Macs appear to be chewing through their SSDs (www.pcgamer.com)

11 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 4 comments

70

Codecademy Built a $50m Business (twitter.com)

10 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

Inside the Cryptocurrency Casino (www.currentaffairs.org)

10 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 0 comments

0

Physicist thrashes simulation theory, says it's basically a religion (futurism.com)

10 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 0 comments

77

IBM 1401's implemented pounds, shillings, and pence conversion math in hardware (twitter.com)

10 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022418 0 comments

69

The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans like here on Earth (phys.org)

9 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022403 0 comments

80

China's spyware copy-pasted the NSA's spyware from 2017 (www.reuters.com)

9 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

LinkedIn Is Down (item?id=26241669)

9 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 10 comments

0

The Meaninglessness of the National Debt (greyenlightenment.com)

9 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 3 comments

61

Show HN: SinglePageCloud – one page showing all your EC2 instances globally (https://www.singlepagecloud.com)

9 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022415 0 comments

39

Nondestructive Testing (www.aviationpros.com)

9 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022421 0 comments

0

1 in 3 Americans know someone who died from Covid-19 (www.axios.com)

8 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022400 0 comments

58

Show HN: MobX-Style Observables in Svelte (github.com)

8 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022403 2 comments

0

LinkedIn confirms service is down (twitter.com)

8 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 0 comments

0

Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios (slate.com)

8 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022412 0 comments

0

Smart Contracts Are Useless (medium.com)

8 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022418 5 comments

76

JavaScript performance beyond bundle size (nolanlawson.com)

7 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021030106 0 comments

0

Mars Perseverance Rover Pattern (twitter.com)

7 points first seen 2021022415 last seen 2021022415 0 comments

0

Minix: Intel's hidden in-chip operating system with security flaws (www.zdnet.com)

7 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022421 0 comments

0

Clubhouse is siphoning people’s contacts (twitter.com)

6 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

App trackers sell your location data to the government (www.vox.com)

6 points first seen 2021022421 last seen 2021022421 0 comments

0

The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes (www.tomtunguz.com)

5 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022400 0 comments

0

An incomplete list of complaints about real code (rachelbythebay.com)

5 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 0 comments

0

E Ink, Wacom and Linfiny Announce Next-Generation Digital ENote Solutions (www.businesswire.com)

5 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

Amazon Kneels Before the Mob (www.nationalreview.com)

5 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022412 0 comments

0

Octopuses Have a Secret Sense to Keep Their 8 Arms Out of Trouble (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2021022403 last seen 2021022403 0 comments

0

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 (blogs.oracle.com)

4 points first seen 2021022406 last seen 2021022406 0 comments

71

Smart-imports: automatic Mypy-friendly library imports (github.com)

4 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022412 2 comments

0

Thought Space vs. Reality – Hypothesize Less, Validate More (suketk.com)

4 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

He Used Solitary Confinement to Learn Math, Solving Hardest Equations (www.popularmechanics.com)

4 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

0

Tell me why this a terrible idea [RYO Password Manager] (item?id=26243943)

4 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022412 0 comments

0

Buffett FAQ: A compendium of Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett (http://buffettfaq.com)

4 points first seen 2021022412 last seen 2021022412 0 comments

81

Facebook v Australia: Who blinked first? (www.bbc.com)

4 points first seen 2021022418 last seen 2021022421 2 comments

0

Ross Ulbricht: Five Keys to Inner Strength from Five Years in Prison (2019) (bitcoinmagazine.com)

3 points first seen 2021022409 last seen 2021022409 0 comments

16

Mechanical Engineer to build advanced bio-automation at Volta (YC W19) (www.workatastartup.com)

0 points first seen 2021022400 last seen 2021022403 0 comments