top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-19

Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1362763793042972673

5 years ago

1185 upvotes – 283 comments

Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

https://tauri.studio/

5 years ago

1113 upvotes – 417 comments

Monolith First (2015)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

5 years ago

820 upvotes – 340 comments

Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-court-document-claims-facebook-203236002.html

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 213 comments

WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-idUSL4N2KP0XY

5 years ago

615 upvotes – 291 comments

“I will slaughter you”

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

5 years ago

567 upvotes – 242 comments

Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/yestercode.html

5 years ago

523 upvotes – 408 comments

12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks

https://suade.org/dev/12-requests-per-second-with-python/

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 237 comments

Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues

https://www.macleans.ca/society/science/scientists-mrna-covid-vaccines/

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 193 comments

I Miss My Bar

http://imissmybar.com/

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 448 comments

Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56123668

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 378 comments

Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS

https://ramble.pw/f/privacy/2387/brave-browser-leaks-your-tor-onion-service-requests-through

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 86 comments

Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

https://cockpit-project.org/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 126 comments

Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step

https://www.filfre.net/2021/02/ultima-viii-or-how-to-destroy-a-gaming-franchise-in-one-easy-step/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 215 comments

Margaret Mitchell fired from Google

https://www.axios.com/google-fires-another-ai-ethics-leader-6ef7dcd5-4583-4396-b5b3-129547ff3091.html

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 801 comments

BTC Endgame

https://github.com/mikekelly/btc-endgame

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 271 comments

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-announces-cryptocurrency-mining-processor-gpu-line

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 506 comments

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-be-productive-without-forcing-yourself

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 128 comments

A request for Pinboard old-timers

https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/XiK8ArVIT6uVItPGeH3lzA/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 172 comments

Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56133281

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 44 comments
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