top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-02-24

My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

https://daliaawad28.medium.com/my-experience-as-a-gazan-girl-getting-into-silicon-valley-companies-488062d769a1

5 years ago

1723 upvotes – 460 comments

The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-force-just-admitted-the-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-failed/

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 1017 comments

Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison

https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/ebd7fd65-988f-422a-93f5-b1fe5c3f29ce.html

5 years ago

668 upvotes – 382 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

https://andrewnc.github.io/blog/everyday_data_science.html

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 96 comments

Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

https://twitter.com/bill0004/status/1364407906192424964

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 308 comments

17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259640

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 274 comments

California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/california-can-enforce-net-neutrality-law-judge-rules-in-loss-for-isps/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 85 comments

LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace

https://aimgroup.com/2021/02/22/linkedin-building-gig-marketplace/

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 332 comments

Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer

https://blog.eyas.sh/2021/02/unity-for-engineers-pt11-development-process/

5 years ago

349 upvotes – 67 comments

Building an E-Ink Laptop

https://alexsoto.dev/building-an-e-ink-laptop.html

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 158 comments

The unusual ways Western parents raise children

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 645 comments

American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-pilot-reported-ufo-contact-over-new-mexico-on-sunday/

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 283 comments

State Partitioning

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/02/introducing-state-partitioning/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 95 comments

Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 172 comments

Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices

https://tailscale.com/blog/modules-monoliths-and-microservices/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 87 comments

Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/23/latest-firefox-release-includes-multiple-picture-in-picture-and-total-cookie-protection/

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 163 comments

How often should I rotate my SSH keys?

https://tailscale.com/blog/rotate-ssh-keys/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 169 comments

Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

https://www.quantamagazine.org/protons-antimatter-revealed-by-decades-old-experiment-20210224/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 73 comments

Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid-of-single-family-zoning-as-a-way-to-correct-the-arc-of-its-ugly-housing-history

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 419 comments

Show HN: CalcuLaTeX, a pretty-printing calculator language

https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 45 comments

GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editor

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 154 comments

Launch HN: Weweb.io (YC W21) – Create websites visually using JAMstack tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248123

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

AROS is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible desktop operating system

http://www.aros.org/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 84 comments

Coinbase is a decentralized company, with no headquarters

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-decentralized-company-with-no-headquarters-a9762c02546

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 188 comments

Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/14/national/hair-loss-researchers/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 229 comments

Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-vendor-proctorio-files-slapp-lawsuit-silence-critic

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

A Minimal Email Client

https://manuelmoreale.com/emails

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 81 comments

FPGA Developer Tutorials

https://www.fpgatutorial.com/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-asthma-treatment-idUKKBN2A92L0

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 63 comments

Launch HN: Milk Video (YC W21) – Edit online event recordings quickly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251322

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing

https://francoisbest.com/horcrux

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 40 comments

Stop Using Icon Fonts

https://www.irigoyen.dev/blog/2021/02/17/stop-using-icon-fonts

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 132 comments

OpenScan Offers 10-Micron 3D Scanning on a Raspberry Pi and HQ Camera Module

https://www.hackster.io/news/thomas-megel-s-openscan-offers-10-micron-3d-scanning-on-a-raspberry-pi-and-hq-camera-module-308a2540c5b8

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 26 comments

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (2005)

https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 34 comments

Coca-Cola says 'Be Less White' learning plan was about workplace inclusion

https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less-white-learning-plan-was-about-workplace-inclusion-1570875

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 196 comments

BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56098808

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

Texas Electric Bills Were $28B Higher Under Deregulation

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-electric-bills-were-28-billion-higher-under-deregulation-11614162780

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 153 comments

Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1NS

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 116 comments

The Fed Is Down

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AO2I1

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 74 comments

Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/technology/personaltech/new-generation-wi-fi-home-network.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 185 comments

US central bank payment system down for 'hours'

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56186658

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 177 comments

On Writing More

https://ava.substack.com/p/on-writing-more

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

How We Test Concurrent Primitives in Kotlin Coroutines

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/02/how-we-test-concurrent-primitives-in-kotlin-coroutines/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 5 comments

Nim versions 1.4.4 and 1.2.10

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/02/23/versions-144-and-1210-released.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 41 comments

Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/02/23/chicago-faces-135-increase-in-carjackings-so-legislator-seeks-to-ban-grand-theft-auto/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 137 comments

The Parachute Message

https://github.com/tanyafish/parachute

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 25 comments

Sponsored Top Sites

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in QML

https://www.kdab.com/3d-block-building-game/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/07/lisbons-startup-scene-rises-as-portugal-gears-up-to-be-a-european-tech-tiger/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 116 comments

Avoid Contentious Terms

https://www.jefftk.com/p/avoid-contentious-terms

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 124 comments

A battery invented 120 years before its time

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210223-the-battery-invented-120-years-too-soon

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

GameStop shares soar more than 100% amid executive shuffle

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/24/gamestop-shares-soar-more-than-80percent-in-late-afternoon-trading.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 84 comments

The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database

https://blog.min.io/the-trouble-with-cassandra-based-object-stores/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

Why trademark Open Source software

https://lightmeter.io/why-trademark-open-source-software/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

https://github.com/teal-language/tl

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Programming Book Profits (2008)

https://johnresig.com/blog/programming-book-profits/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Rust for web development: 2 years later

https://kerkour.com/blog/rust-for-web-development-2-years-later

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 99 comments
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