top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-09

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

https://github.com/conwnet/github1s

5 years ago

1692 upvotes – 214 comments

Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed

5 years ago

969 upvotes – 487 comments

OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-discovered-openstreetmap-is-the-freshest-map-for-rideshare-a7a41bf92ec

5 years ago

880 upvotes – 243 comments

Pattern matching accepted for Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/

5 years ago

654 upvotes – 518 comments

Algorithms by Jeff Erickson

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

5 years ago

595 upvotes – 152 comments

The Queen has more power over British law than we thought

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-power-british-law-queens-consent

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 577 comments

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform

https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 95 comments

José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/034-jose-valim-reveals-project-nx/

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 105 comments

Creeping as a Service

https://every.to/divinations/creeping-as-a-service-craas

5 years ago

358 upvotes – 138 comments

No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack

https://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 268 comments

Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)

https://www.economist.com/1843/2012/12/29/why-thinking-too-much-can-be-bad-for-you

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 252 comments

Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting

http://arkadia.xyz/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55998588

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 182 comments

Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55981600

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 252 comments

SDL Moves to GitHub

https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-moving-to-github/28700/5

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 266 comments

CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1359048125403590660

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 243 comments

Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39158/farmers-are-having-to-hack-their-own-tractors-just-to-make-repairs

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 151 comments

Haxe 4.2

https://community.haxe.org/t/haxe-4-2-0-is-released/2888

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 102 comments

Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020)

https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2020/11/haskell-bad-parts-2

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 170 comments

A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 275 comments
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