top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-15

SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 275 comments

Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-idUSKBN2AE0Q2

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 434 comments

Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 219 comments

Faster JavaScript Calls

https://v8.dev/blog/adaptor-frame

5 years ago

443 upvotes – 126 comments

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 378 comments

Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144432

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 157 comments

Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries

https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-unveils-new-remote-work-option-for-all-employees-2021-2

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 400 comments

Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-peer audio

https://sonobus.net/

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 88 comments

Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/otcc/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 124 comments

YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 259 comments

Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid

http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 570 comments

I Really Blew It (2020)

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/i-really-blew-it.html

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 340 comments

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 29 comments

Running Nomad for a Home Server

https://mrkaran.dev/posts/home-server-nomad/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 149 comments

Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/reasons-why-select-star-is-bad-for-sql-performance/

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 164 comments

Autopilot on Cars for $999

http://comma.ai

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 290 comments

How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 65 comments

The Therac-25 Incident

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 77 comments

Melting permafrost cause huge underground methane explosions in Siberia

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/scientists-call-for-urgent-increase-in-monitoring-potentially-explosive-permafrost-heave-mounds/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 53 comments
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