top 50% 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

Military seizes control in Myanmar

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

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 183 comments

Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

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

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 63 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

AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching

https://boilingsteam.com/amd-vs-nvidia-are-linux-gamers-switching-yet/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 183 comments

The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon

https://www.spacex.com/updates/inspiration-4-mission/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 87 comments

F# is gaining independence from .NET

https://onurgumus.github.io/2021/01/31/What-the-F.html

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 173 comments

Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-myanmar-amid-apparent-military-uprising-JBZrmlB6

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 127 comments

Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989085

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 128 comments

The Focus to Say No (2011)

https://fs.blog/2011/09/steve-jobs-saying-no/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 70 comments

What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier

https://angelalashbrook.medium.com/whats-wrong-with-the-honeywell-humidifier-f165284aeaa4

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 293 comments

We Test PCIe 4.0 Storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD Benchmark Suite

https://www.anandtech.com/print/16458/2021-ssd-benchmark-suite

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 82 comments

Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55839655

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 171 comments

Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]

https://cs.rochester.edu/u/jzhou41/papers/freebsd_checkedc.pdf

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments

It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged

https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/02/01/it-feels-like-the-game-is-rigged/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 246 comments

Databricks is an RDBMS

https://fivetran.com/blog/databricks-is-an-rdbms

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 89 comments

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

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/01/how-red-hat-ported-openjdk-to-64-bit-arm-a-community-history/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

Never use MongoDB (2013)

http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 141 comments

Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

https://medium.com/brick-by-brick/7-bite-sized-tips-for-reliable-web-automation-and-scraping-selectors-2612bc4de2a1

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Deploy ML Models on a Budget

https://github.com/ebhy/budgetml

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Build a Raspberry Pi CM4 4-Bay NAS with Wiretrustee Carrier Board

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/01/build-a-raspberry-pi-cm4-4-bay-nas-with-wiretrustee-carrier-board/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 72 comments

Ford, Google form 'strategic partnership' on cloud services, Android

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2021/02/01/ford-google-form-six-year-strategic-partnership/4337504001/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989762

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 226 comments

Protonmail was down

https://protonstatus.com/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

A cloak-and-dagger tale behind an anticipated result in particle physics

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/cloak-and-dagger-tale-behind-year-s-most-anticipated-result-particle-physics

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Tamper-Evident Logs

https://transparency.dev/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 142 comments

Reinforcement Learning at Facebook

https://corecursive.com/061-reinforcement-learning/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

How Robinhood Misled the Poor and Rewarded the Rich

https://themeasureofaplan.com/robinhood/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 90 comments

Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 62 comments

How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction

https://www.newstatesman.com/yevgeny-zamyatin-we-dystopian-novel-review

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files

https://github.com/jotaen/klog

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Unbroken Enigma Message

https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020)

https://aeon.co/essays/what-complexity-science-says-about-what-makes-a-winning-team

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Using State Machines with React to Make a Confirmation Dialog (2020)

https://daveceddia.com/react-confirmation-modal-state-machine/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 64 comments

Secure your MQTT server with authentication and encryption

https://jurian.slui.mn/posts/smqttt-or-secure-mqtt-over-traefik/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Itanium: Mark Architecture as Orphaned

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228345bf98cd78f91d007478a51f9a471489e44a

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

How to write cuneiform

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/how-to-write-cuneiform/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015)

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/25/9200801/wingdings-font-history

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

KeePassXC 2.6.4 Released

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2021-01-31-2.6.4-released/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire departments

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22258856/amazon-ring-partners-police-fire-security-privacy-cameras

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Mainframe Programming vs. Cloud Computing

https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=18156250&cid=61014218

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines

https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-dangers-of-seeing-human-minds-as-predictive-machines

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 165 comments

Semgrep: JavaScript browser security concat bypass not detected

https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep/issues/2409

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Russian Pipeline Is Germany's Greatest Foreign Policy Embarrassment

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-price-too-high-russian-pipeline-is-germany-s-greatest-foreign-policy-embarrassment-a-0fcefa58-ca51-41ca-b480-98015203e9fa

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 94 comments

The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cosmological-constant-is-physics-most-embarrassing-problem/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 97 comments

How libraries decide which books to keep (2014)

https://medium.com/@fsgbooks/secrets-of-the-stacks-4ca8405f1e11

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

The Cult of Best Practice

https://domk.website/blog/2021-01-31-cult-of-best-practise.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments
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