1801
812
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
https://imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t
5 years ago
1663
495
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
1232
601
Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-got-a-500-million-lesson-in-the-importance-of-ui-design/
755
523
Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
https://www.starlink.com/
635
313
There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
https://hunterwalk.medium.com/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-startup-within-a-big-company-c3003615f3bc
474
2
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed
https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362506126839848961
461
737
Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/
376
236
Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-safety-issues-in-open.html
348
209
Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
https://www.twilio.com/blog/zsh-tricks-to-blow-your-mind
329
144
California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
https://maps.org/news/media/8885-statement-california-state-legislator-introduces-bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelics
296
440
Global debt soars to 356% of GDP
https://www.axios.com/global-debt-gdp-898959ed-f96a-4c4d-85a3-5d3cc419631f.html
529
The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
https://garrettbattaglia.com/post/texas-power/
288
89
Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D
https://skyline.github.com/
285
130
Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish
https://lichess.org/blog/YCvy7xMAACIA8007/fat-fritz-2-is-a-rip-off
282
659
I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
http://m.nautil.us/issue/96/rewired/i-am-a-heroin-user-i-do-not-have-a-drug-problem
280
91
1977: Zork
https://if50.substack.com/p/1977-zork
51
Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM
https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.14-released/
277
441
Vertical farming does not save space
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html
256
320
Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-multiple-jobs-idUSKBN2AH2PI
249
155
Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery
https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
243
109
The Fantasy of Opting Out
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/
234
92
How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-exploration/nasa-designed-perseverance-helicopter-rover-fly-autonomously-mars
217
69
Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3177
211
80
Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8yvm/uber-shuts-down-app-that-lets-users-know-how-badly-theyve-been-cheated
208
366
Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble
https://nicolaborzi.medium.com/the-lawless-rollercoaster-of-bitcoin-enriches-few-investors-while-many-often-lose-everything-f9b4789444c2
202
335
Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now
http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx
278
New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing
https://tidbits.com/2021/02/17/new-model-m-is-an-american-made-keyboard-that-puts-a-spring-back-in-your-typing/
201
97
Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-elsevier-and-springer-nature-obtain-uk-isp-blocking-order-210218/
198
106
Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0
https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/changelog/migration_20.html
195
3
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/
189
45
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013)
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/functioning-mechanical-gears-seen-in-nature-for-the-first-time
180
35
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’
https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/facebook-knew-for-years-ad-reach-estimates-were-based-on-wrong-data-but-blocked-fixes-over-revenue-impact-per-court-filing/
174
136
Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were?
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/who-did-the-anglo-saxons-think-they-were.htm
165
147
Don’t format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode
https://giuliomagnifico.medium.com/dont-ever-format-a-drive-of-m1-macs-from-recovery-mode-38f8676f20cd
50
OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-draid-finally/
157
145
Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1346034/lithuania-plans-to-hold-evacuation-drills-after-belarus-launches-nuclear-plant
169
Browsers eating RAM
https://www.flotato.com/post/memory-chrome-safari-flotato
34
Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/bruce-blackburn-dead.html
140
199
Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
https://www.protocol.com/airbnb-new-tech-hub-atlanta
15
Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep
https://jemma.dev/blog/gc-mark-and-sweep
131
149
Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/handheld.html
161
Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/
129
101
Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup
https://alistairb.dev/reflections-on-haskell-for-startup/
128
52
How ClickHouse saved our data (2020)
https://mux.com/blog/from-russia-with-love-how-clickhouse-saved-our-data/
102
House Republicans propose nationwide ban on municipal broadband networks
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-broadband-competition-would-ban-city-run-networks-across-us/
126
65
How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)
https://www.drugchannels.net/2020/08/how-goodrx-profits-from-our-broken.html
116
41
Coq 8.13
https://coq.inria.fr/news/coq-8-13-0-is-out.html
StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler)
https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth
100
30
Cheap PCB story
https://github.com/hardenedlinux/cheap-pcb/blob/main/cheap-pcb-story.md
99
22
Commandline Database Clients with Autocompletion and Syntax Highlighting
https://www.dbcli.com
87
Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26183380
Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179281
85
79
Curl is C (2017)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/27/curl-is-c/
81
5
Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cripples hash rate of RTX-3060
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-launches-cmp-30hx-40hx-50hx-and-90hx-gpus-for-mining-cripples-hash-rate-of-rtx-3060/
Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP
https://phel-lang.org/
