top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-18

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5 years ago

1801 upvotes – 812 comments

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ

5 years ago

1663 upvotes – 495 comments

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/

5 years ago

1232 upvotes – 601 comments

Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders

https://www.starlink.com/

5 years ago

755 upvotes – 523 comments

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

5 years ago

635 upvotes – 313 comments

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362506126839848961

5 years ago

474 upvotes – 2 comments

Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 737 comments

Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-safety-issues-in-open.html

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 236 comments

Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

https://www.twilio.com/blog/zsh-tricks-to-blow-your-mind

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 209 comments

California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics

https://maps.org/news/media/8885-statement-california-state-legislator-introduces-bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelics

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 144 comments

Global debt soars to 356% of GDP

https://www.axios.com/global-debt-gdp-898959ed-f96a-4c4d-85a3-5d3cc419631f.html

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 440 comments

The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem

https://garrettbattaglia.com/post/texas-power/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 529 comments

Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

https://skyline.github.com/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 89 comments

Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish

https://lichess.org/blog/YCvy7xMAACIA8007/fat-fritz-2-is-a-rip-off

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 130 comments

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

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 659 comments

1977: Zork

https://if50.substack.com/p/1977-zork

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 91 comments

Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.14-released/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 51 comments

Vertical farming does not save space

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 441 comments

Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-multiple-jobs-idUSKBN2AH2PI

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 320 comments

Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery

https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 155 comments

The Fantasy of Opting Out

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 109 comments

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

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 92 comments

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

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 69 comments

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

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 80 comments

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

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 366 comments

Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now

http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 335 comments

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/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 278 comments

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/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 97 comments

Migrating to SQLAlchemy 2.0

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/changelog/migration_20.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 106 comments

Perseverance Rover lands on Mars

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 3 comments

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

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 45 comments

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/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 35 comments

Who did the Anglo-Saxons think they were?

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/who-did-the-anglo-saxons-think-they-were.htm

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 136 comments

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

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 147 comments

OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-draid-finally/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

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

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 145 comments

Browsers eating RAM

https://www.flotato.com/post/memory-chrome-safari-flotato

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 169 comments

Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/bruce-blackburn-dead.html

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 34 comments

Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

https://www.protocol.com/airbnb-new-tech-hub-atlanta

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 199 comments

Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep

https://jemma.dev/blog/gc-mark-and-sweep

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 15 comments

Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/handheld.html

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 149 comments

Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 161 comments

Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup

https://alistairb.dev/reflections-on-haskell-for-startup/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 101 comments

How ClickHouse saved our data (2020)

https://mux.com/blog/from-russia-with-love-how-clickhouse-saved-our-data/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

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/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 102 comments

How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)

https://www.drugchannels.net/2020/08/how-goodrx-profits-from-our-broken.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Coq 8.13

https://coq.inria.fr/news/coq-8-13-0-is-out.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler)

https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments

Cheap PCB story

https://github.com/hardenedlinux/cheap-pcb/blob/main/cheap-pcb-story.md

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Commandline Database Clients with Autocompletion and Syntax Highlighting

https://www.dbcli.com

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26183380

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 131 comments

Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179281

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 92 comments

Curl is C (2017)

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/27/curl-is-c/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 79 comments

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/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP

https://phel-lang.org/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments
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