2023
1174
Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661840402845696
5 years ago
1388
362
20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741
865
268
Rust Foundation: Hello, World
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
819
442
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/
807
199
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
758
1297
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/
582
223
Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
https://clerk.dev/blog/all-of-user-management-not-just-authentication
579
289
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
540
221
Don't Offer a Free Plan
https://nofreeplan.com
523
252
New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies
https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/#IC%203206
419
402
I don't want to do front-end anymore
https://www.askonomm.com/blog/i-dont-want-to-do-frontend-anymore
354
286
I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/08/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow/
333
What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes
https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/how-newspapers-handle-corrections
316
8
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/
311
133
State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/state-of-the-common-lisp-ecosystem-2020/
295
124
Elfstedentocht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht
294
296
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
291
181
Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
https://brandur.org/fragments/graceful-degradation-time
272
84
How to Kill a Unicorn
https://www.chrisfrantz.com/how-to-kill-a-unicorn/
245
127
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk
https://hbr.org/2021/02/dont-underestimate-the-power-of-a-walk
242
201
Stop defacing quotes with brackets
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/stop-defacing-quotes-with-brackets.html
234
92
Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest
https://blog.roboflow.com/mountain-dew-contest-computer-vision/
232
33
Show HN: "Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book
https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484264270
228
60
If any Ubuntu maintainers are listening: PLEASE STOP DOING THIS
https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/e8393c372
224
149
Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/stop-swiss-cheesing-your-calendar
214
93
GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/th4mgzt9y25t
198
251
The computers rejecting job applications
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55932977
190
53
Launch HN: Infracost (YC W21) – open-source cloud cost estimator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588
102
Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019)
https://josh.works/shell-script-basics-change-mac-address
184
138
A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-gorilla-who-was-brought-up-as-a-boy-in-an-english-village-6e3cdac33c63
177
120
Requests dropped when using Cloudflare’s free tier for a commercial project
https://pawelurbanek.com/cloudflare-free-plan
171
459
The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02585-6
161
50
Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/02/gradient-descent-models-are-kernel.html
157
119
Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/77065.html
156
65
Tusk – Short-lived anonymous feedback
https://tusk.page
78
What's an SPF Record?
https://blog.ohmysmtp.com/blog/whats-an-spf-record/
146
107
Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2021/02/05/decentralized-finance-on-blockchain-and-smart-contract-based-financial-markets
142
40
Looking at GSM security 30 years later
https://harrisonsand.com/gsm-security/
59
Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/320750
77
The Exclusive Website
https://exclusive.website/
67
Show HN: Weekend project, shows when the next season of your TV show premieres
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066346
126
3
Google suspends Terraria author's account; He cancels support for Google Stadia
https://twitter.com/demilogic/status/1358661840402845696
128
Robinhood sued by family of 20-year old trader who committed suicide
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/robinhood-sued-by-family-of-alex-kearns-20-year-old-trader-who-killed-himself-.html
Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-from-linux-to-bsd.html
31
Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go
https://github.com/goccy/go-json
112
100
An Atonement of Nano
https://www.noa-s.org/nano.html
111
51
Launch HN: Jiga (YC W21) – Faster custom parts for hardware products
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066276
109
70
The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)
https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/
108
23
The imminent stable-version apocalypse
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/845120/0b7608296003edfc/
106
44
LibreSprite is an open source program for creating and animating your sprites
https://libresprite.github.io/
104
72
The days are long but the decades are short (2015)
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short
100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder Based on 10-KA/Cm2 Niobium Process
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5682059
97
Long Hundred
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred
94
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-harvard-astronomer-alien-vessel-paid.html
27
Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-cancels-google-stadia-port-after-youtube-account-ban
