top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-16

What I Worked On

http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

5 years ago

986 upvotes – 398 comments

“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

https://craigwritescode.medium.com/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac

5 years ago

737 upvotes – 336 comments

Functorio

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/.

5 years ago

697 upvotes – 193 comments

What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php

5 years ago

617 upvotes – 1042 comments

Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472

5 years ago

569 upvotes – 416 comments

Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

5 years ago

542 upvotes – 342 comments

'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 376 comments

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards

https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/building-rich-terminal-dashboards/

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 120 comments

Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/#

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 214 comments

Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage

https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 111 comments

Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 111 comments

Windows Refund Day (1999)

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/#:~:text=For%20those%20who%20hadn%27t,with%20the%20machine%20they%20bought

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources

https://github.com/salesforce/endgame

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 93 comments

Changes to LastPass Free

https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/02/changes-to-lastpass-free/

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 414 comments

Why Is Esbuild Fast?

https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 166 comments

NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-exploration/nasa-perseverance-rover-landing-on-mars-overview

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 105 comments

Go 1.16 Release Notes

https://golang.org/doc/go1.16

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 143 comments

How They SRE

https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 98 comments

An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 116 comments

Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/bitcoin-btc-price-hits-50000-for-the-first-time.html

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 805 comments
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