HackerNews most popular stories from Feb 07, 2021 to Feb 14, 2021. In one blog post.
[0] 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741
[1] MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
[2] OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-discovered-openstreetmap-is-the-freshest-map-for-rideshare-a7a41bf92ec
[3] Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
[4] Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters
[5] TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
[6] Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina
https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons
[7] Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer’s Google account gets locked
https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661842147692549
[8] Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
[9] Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/
[10] “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216
[11] Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16483/samsung-in-the-usa-a-17-billion-usd-fab-by-late-2023
[12] CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS
https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu/
[13] Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
[14] 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
[15] Pattern matching accepted for Python
https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/
[16] Kubernetes Failure Stories
[17] Viral ‘I’m not a cat’ filter is decades-old software
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56010156
[18] Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
https://clerk.dev/blog/all-of-user-management-not-just-authentication
[19] LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
https://every.to/divinations/linkedins-alternate-universe-21780381
[20] Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
[21] Rust Foundation: Hello, World
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
[22] Don’t Offer a Free Plan
[23] I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/08/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow/
[24] Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
[25] Amsterdam displaces London as Europe’s top stocks centre after Brexit
[26] Creeping as a Service
https://every.to/divinations/creeping-as-a-service-craas
[27] Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone
[28] Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than concrete
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-environment-recycling-idUSKBN2A211N