top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-17

Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

https://paygo.media/p/25171

5 years ago

825 upvotes – 806 comments

Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26171008

5 years ago

740 upvotes – 199 comments

Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-epic-games-antitrust/epic-games-takes-apple-fight-to-eu-antitrust-regulators-idUSKBN2AH0MO

5 years ago

656 upvotes – 1198 comments

Always Bet on Text (2014)

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

5 years ago

570 upvotes – 338 comments

Visualization of 40M Cell Towers

https://alpercinar.com/open-cell-id/

5 years ago

495 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

https://ray.so

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 123 comments

IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-catalog-to-be-discontinued

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 279 comments

Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 467 comments

'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56029660

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 573 comments

Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow

https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 214 comments

Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 123 comments

How this Ends

https://avc.com/2021/02/how-this-ends/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 411 comments

Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)

https://www.xissufotoday.space/2018/04/declassified-spacecrafts-and-orbital.html

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 97 comments

Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 324 comments

European Citizens' Initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance

https://reclaimyourface.eu/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 99 comments

Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/google-trillion-parameter-ai/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 75 comments

Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)

https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 46 comments

Python Programming and Numerical Methods: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

https://pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu/notebooks/Index.html

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 90 comments

The Need to Remove Bad Management

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/02/06/the-need-to-remove-bad-management/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 171 comments

Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js)

https://blitzjs.com/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 78 comments

Expanding our testing in San Francisco

https://blog.waymo.com/2021/02/expanding-our-testing-in-san-francisco.html

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 243 comments

Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership

https://codingsans.com/blog/leadership-soft-skills

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 128 comments

GitHub Deceased User Policy

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-deceased-user-policy

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 105 comments

31.2˝ Color EPaper Display

https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-color-epaper-display-sb1452-qab/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 241 comments

Pixar in a Box: the art of storytelling

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/hass-storytelling/storytelling-pixar-in-a-box

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 87 comments

WebKit Quirks

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 87 comments

UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secrecy-for-high-risk-tech-research-agency-aria-h72lql80k

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 196 comments

Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland

https://www.quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-public-domain-name-service-moves-to-switzerland-for-maximum-internet-privacy-protection/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 92 comments

Buying a Tesla car in Bitcoins cancels 4 times the CO2 savings for its lifetime

https://franck-leroy.medium.com/buying-a-tesla-in-bitcoins-cancels-4-times-the-co2-savings-for-its-whole-lifetime-c28b042e3b9a

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 113 comments

Command Line Shell for SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 59 comments

Zooko's Triangle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer

https://mcla.ug/blog/risc-v-cpu-part-1.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-operation/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 76 comments

RetroForth 2021.1

http://forthworks.com/retro

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 52 comments

‘Roaring Kitty’ Sued for Securities Fraud over GameStop Rise

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/QOOOYUT0AFB4

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 105 comments

Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime

https://dapr.io/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

Library Holdings from Tokyo Univ. Now Available Through the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/16/library-holdings-from-the-university-of-tokyo-now-available-through-the-internet-archive/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 7 comments

Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-isnt-just-a-process

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Coronavirus human challenge study gets green light in UK

https://www.politico.eu/article/worlds-first-coronavirus-human-challenge-study-gets-green-light-in-uk/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 186 comments

Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 170 comments

Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)

https://chrisjean.com/git-submodules-adding-using-removing-and-updating/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 94 comments

When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/when-did-privacy-issues-start-to

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 83 comments

What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020)

https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/emerging-global-order/1920-2020-what-the-history-of-world-war-1-can-teach-us-about-misjudging-tech-social-change/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 124 comments

Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-954.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Passwordless Logins with Yubikey

https://adl1995.github.io/passwordless-logins-with-yubikey.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 64 comments

Easy Forth: Learn forth with REPL in the browser

https://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

How I started believing in Cycle Time over Estimation

https://www.norberhuis.nl/how-i-started-believing-in-cycle-time-over-estimation/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: An Event Sourced Minesweeper

https://dfarr.github.io/minesweeper

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-industrys-first-high-bandwidth-memory-with-ai-processing-power

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

Launch HN: Worksphere (YC W21) – Manage flexible in-office or remote workspaces

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26167923

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

VSI OpenVMS v9.0-G Released (x86 port)

https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2021-02-12-v9-g-announcement/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Forth in Space Applications

https://www.forth.com/resources/space-applications/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments
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