top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-21

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

http://boringtechnology.club/

5 years ago

603 upvotes – 361 comments

Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

https://css-tricks.com/mistakes-ive-made-as-an-engineering-manager/

5 years ago

516 upvotes – 189 comments

YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/youtube-ai-blocked-chess-channel-after-confusing-black-and-white-for-racist-slurs-3454316.html

5 years ago

514 upvotes – 537 comments

A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture

https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/a-dishonest-indifferent-and-toxic-culture-113339aa67e9

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 187 comments

Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

https://github.com/qeeqbox/social-analyzer

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 142 comments

Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C

https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 142 comments

Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 288 comments

Commenting vs. Making

https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/commenting-vs-making

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 96 comments

The Beirut Bank Job (2017)

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/6/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 43 comments

Activists who embrace nuclear power

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 586 comments

Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/904-Please-do-not-put-IP-addresses-into-DNS-MX-records.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 176 comments

Passerine: A small extensible language designed for concise expression

http://passerine.io

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 111 comments

Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39309/the-apparent-hackers-behind-kias-ransomware-attack-are-demanding-millions-in-bitcoin

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 281 comments

Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210212-silent-running-the-sci-fi-that-predicted-modern-crises

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

https://tinyads.io

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 78 comments

Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)

http://www.cs.uni.edu/%7Ewallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-21T09_53_29.htm

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 76 comments

Formalising Mathematics: An Introduction

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/formalising-mathematics-an-introduction/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 116 comments

When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)

https://www.politico.eu/article/this-is-what-happens-when-bitcoin-miners-take-over-your-town/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 475 comments

Cross-Database Queries in SQLite

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/21/cross-database-queries/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 78 comments

Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jHnFBHrwiNb5xvLBM/second-citizenships-residencies-and-or-temporary-relocation

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 296 comments
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