top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-01

VideoLAN is 20 years old today

https://www.videolan.org/press/videolan-20.html

5 years ago

1337 upvotes – 316 comments

Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1356011069395755009

5 years ago

761 upvotes – 320 comments

Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus

https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-shuts-down-internal-studios-changing-bus-1846146761

5 years ago

655 upvotes – 813 comments

FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

5 years ago

508 upvotes – 151 comments

SpaCy 3.0

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.0.0

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989764

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 1046 comments

Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

https://www.axios.com/facebook-notification-apple-privacy-changes-39092ba5-25e4-4e83-87ff-81967733f919.html

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 328 comments

My Third Year as a Solo Developer

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-3/

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 102 comments

An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space in PostgreSQL

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unused-index-size

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 78 comments

A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

https://www.wired.com/story/a-25-year-old-bet-comes-due-has-tech-destroyed-society/

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 434 comments

Solid Project: All of your data, under your control

https://solidproject.org/

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 118 comments

Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting and stock manipulation

http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.html

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 389 comments

Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991485

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 114 comments

Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021

https://slack.engineering/slacks-outage-on-january-4th-2021/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25987664

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 63 comments

Military seizes control in Myanmar

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55882489

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 183 comments

gemini:// space

https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/geminispace/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 170 comments

Me and ADHD

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/adhd-me-ish-verduzco/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 446 comments

Drug decriminalization in Oregon begins today

https://drugpolicy.org/press-release/2021/02/drug-decriminalization-oregon-officially-begins-today

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 230 comments

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 484 comments
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