1160
258
Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/27/one-billion-certs.html
6 years ago
556
173
Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/
554
101
The Simpsons in CSS
https://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/
498
419
Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
400
50
Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/salon2020/
386
408
CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484903-cdc-declined-to-test-new-coronavirus-patient-for-days-california-hospital
378
334
Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200227_49/
194
Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/hasura-raises-9-9m-series-a-to-simplify-graphql-for-developers/
370
166
Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome
313
169
Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/googles-abandoned-android-authenticator-app/
297
280
Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
https://benhoyt.com/writings/dont-sanitize-do-escape/
291
165
GitHub was down
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q07bfjh7jf1t
284
130
The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/27/35-raspberry-pi-4-double-ram-2-GB/
275
49
John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCBCk4xVa0
261
341
The war on food waste is a waste of time
https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time
255
179
Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-android-new-features/
242
228
Undiscoverable UI Madness
https://birchtree.me/blog/undiscoverable-ui-madness/
236
94
A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-mom-broke-into-prison-wardens-computer/
234
220
Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/27/citroen-introduces-a-two-seat-ev-that-costs-e19-99-a-month/
215
74
Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement
213
65
Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline
https://github.com/san089/goodreads_etl_pipeline
206
25
Using BPF to Transform SSH Sessions into Structured Events
https://gravitational.com/blog/enhanced-session-recording/
137
Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/apple-wont-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-in-movies-says-knives-out-director.html
192
52
Spreadsheet Horror Stories
http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm
187
266
Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-moderators-purged/
183
112
Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433069
77
The Two Middle Classes
https://quillette.com/2020/02/27/the-two-middle-classes/
181
60
New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-container-distribution/
174
37
Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot
https://postgres.ai/blog/joe-0.5/
164
170
Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees
https://mashable.com/article/etsy-offsite-ads-program-sellers-backlash/
152
78
Assange Hearing Day 3
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-the-assange-hearing-day-3/
150
29
Show HN: Ecosim – A cellular ecosystem simulator toy for Linux written in C
https://github.com/connor-brooks/ecosim
147
54
Redecentralize.org
https://redecentralize.org/
146
162
Will VBA Die? (2019)
https://www.thespreadsheetguru.com/blog/are-vba-macros-dead
142
103
Unix as IDE (2012)
https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/
129
34
Measuring Latency in Linux (2014)
http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2014/02/18/clock-sources-in-linux/
26
Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley
https://johnlekberg.com/blog/2020-02-26-cli-stardew-sprinkler.html
128
189
U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/u-s-identifies-first-coronavirus-case-without-ties-to-outbreak
123
229
YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/first-amendment-doesnt-apply-on-youtube-judges-reject-prageru-lawsuit/
118
23
Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains
https://www.zmescience.com/science/honeybee-brains-alpha-waves/
48
Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/oracle-reveals-it-s-funding-dark-money-group-fighting-big-tech
117
92
Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
https://blog.archive.org/2020/02/24/love-zombies-thank-the-public-domain/
116
68
Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-02-27-base24/
114
45
Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21155707/google-earth-firefox-edge-opera-support-webassembly-code-update-web-release
Hidden Champions: Successful but little-known businesses
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/15/the-leadership-secrets-of-the-hidden-champions/
109
81
Launch HN: Probably Genetic (YC W19): At-home DNA testing for every gene
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436022
107
Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/technology/personaltech/ubereats-doordash-postmates-grubhub-review.html
104
Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan/japanese-woman-confirmed-as-coronavirus-case-for-second-time-weeks-after-initial-recovery-idUSKCN20L0BI
59
Why business is so difficult and unpredictable
https://www.younglingfeynman.com/essays/artofbusiness
93
35
Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/02/27/important-f8-2020-update/
21
Highlights from FPGA 2020
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/highlights-from-fpga-2020/
91
Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App
https://pep.dev/
90
I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices
https://ma.ttias.be/loophole-cookie-notices/
Ask HN: My web app was hacked today – Bad experiences and how to prevent them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429966
88
19
Japan to close schools nationwide to control spread of virus
https://apnews.com/c92ca9ae1c59079557e98275ff814c06
28
Facial recognition company Clearview’s client list stolen by “intruder”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-company-that-works-with-law-enforcement-says-entire-client-list-was-stolen
87
Galileo was right, but so were his critics (2015)
https://strangenotions.com/galileo-was-right-but-so-were-his-critics/
84
132
CDC: Possible ‘community spread’ coronavirus case in Bay Area
https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/new-coronavirus-case-with-unknown-origin-confirmed-in-northern-california-report-says/
9
The Awakening of Norman Rockwell
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/19/21052356/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with-saturday-evening-post
83
13
Network topology design at 27,000 km/hr
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/02/25/network-topology-design-at-27000-km-hr/
36
NIH trial of remdesivir for COVID-19 begins in hospitalized adults in Nebraska
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-remdesivir-treat-covid-19-begins
We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on Record
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/we-just-witnessed-the-fastest-stock-market-correction-on-record
75
16
SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-rajeev-misra-used-campaign-of-sabotage-to-hobble-internal-rivals-11582743294
Kubernetes Journey – How to setup the HAProxy Cluster with high availability
https://itnext.io/kubernetes-journey-up-and-running-out-of-the-cloud-how-to-setup-the-haproxy-cluster-with-high-ee5eb9a7f2e1
71
Artificial Intelligence as the year 2000 approaches (1992)
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1145/135226.135237
Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA