top 50% 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

The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

http://www.dreambank.net/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 163 comments

How Antidepressants Work, at Last?

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/19/how-antidepressants-work-at-last

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 170 comments

Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/02/18/election.html

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 183 comments

OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstreetmap-charts-a-controversial-new-direction

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 181 comments

Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet

https://medium.com/i-wanna-know/why-birds-dont-get-cold-feet-515487d50ed5

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 108 comments

Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing

https://www.axios.com/coinbase-valued-100-billion-direct-listing-9b43e316-7ff7-4f6a-a1db-4dc2481a93ee.html

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 288 comments

Things you should do now (2011)

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/things_you_should_do_now/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 110 comments

F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework

https://nasa.github.io/fprime/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 37 comments

Diablo II: Resurrected

https://diablo2.blizzard.com/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 190 comments

Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26195057

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Checked C

https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 133 comments

Radio Amateur Copies Signal from Mars-Orbiting Satellite

http://www.arrl.org/news/british-columbia-radio-amateur-copies-signal-from-mars-orbiting-satellite

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 37 comments

The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/digital-humans

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192817

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 133 comments

Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)

https://msirringhaus.github.io/Where-everything-went-wrong/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 199 comments

I built ByteDance's censorship machine

https://www.protocol.com/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine-2650611161

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 98 comments

Wayland on Wine: A First Update

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wayland-on-wine-an-exciting-first-update.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 103 comments

Photos from the Surface of Venus (1982)

https://twitter.com/barry/status/1362520729305112576

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals

https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/02/19/parallel-curves.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 12 comments

Streams – The Definitive Guide

https://web.dev/streams/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 6 comments

We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely

https://1d.works/how-we-started-operating-our-cnc-machines-remotely/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

https://restofworld.org/2021/how-koo-became-a-right-wing-darling-in-india/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 192 comments

Mars Photo Booth

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/photo-booth/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 35 comments

Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211368120300978?dgcid=author

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Stockfish developer statement on Fat Fritz 2

https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/643239805544792064/statement-on-fat-fritz-2

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 1 comments

Google’s Margaret Mitchell Has Been Fired

https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1362885356127801345

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)

https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/raiders

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Has Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa?

https://www.statista.com/chart/13907/babies-named-alexa/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 143 comments

Nyan Cat on the Blockchain

https://foundation.app/NyanCat/nyan-cat-219

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 93 comments

The Consoles of My Life

https://microship.com/consoles/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

The Adams Event

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/ancient-relic-points-turning-point-earths-history-42000-years-ago

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Launch HN: HiGeorge (YC W21) – Real-time data visualizations for public datasets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194440

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments
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