top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-08

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661840402845696

5 years ago

2023 upvotes – 1174 comments

20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

5 years ago

1388 upvotes – 362 comments

Rust Foundation: Hello, World

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/

5 years ago

865 upvotes – 268 comments

Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2021/02/barcode-scanner-app-on-google-play-infects-10-million-users-with-one-update/

5 years ago

819 upvotes – 442 comments

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

5 years ago

807 upvotes – 199 comments

Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-may-accept-the-cryptocurrency-as-payment-in-the-future/

5 years ago

758 upvotes – 1297 comments

Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

https://clerk.dev/blog/all-of-user-management-not-just-authentication

5 years ago

582 upvotes – 223 comments

Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/pinellas-oldsmar-water-system-computer-intrustion/67-512b2bab-9f94-44d7-841e-5169fdb0a0bd

5 years ago

579 upvotes – 289 comments

Don't Offer a Free Plan

https://nofreeplan.com

5 years ago

540 upvotes – 221 comments

New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/#IC%203206

5 years ago

523 upvotes – 252 comments

I don't want to do front-end anymore

https://www.askonomm.com/blog/i-dont-want-to-do-frontend-anymore

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 402 comments

I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/08/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow/

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 286 comments

What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/how-newspapers-handle-corrections

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 252 comments

Reminder: Terraria Dev’s Google Story Is Not Unusual at All

https://codewriteplay.com/2021/02/08/reminder-terraria-devs-google-story-is-not-unusual-at-all/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 8 comments

State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/state-of-the-common-lisp-ecosystem-2020/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 133 comments

Elfstedentocht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 124 comments

South Africa suspends rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-suspends-rollout-of-oxford-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine/a-56491411

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 296 comments

Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time

https://brandur.org/fragments/graceful-degradation-time

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 181 comments

How to Kill a Unicorn

https://www.chrisfrantz.com/how-to-kill-a-unicorn/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 84 comments

Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

https://hbr.org/2021/02/dont-underestimate-the-power-of-a-walk

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 127 comments
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