HackerNews most popular stories from Feb 14, 2021 to Feb 21, 2021. In one blog post.
[0] Before buying a NYT subscription, here’s what it’ll take to cancel it
[1] Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1362763793042972673
[2] Perseverance Rover lands on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
[3] Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26171008
[4] Citibank just got a $500M lesson in the importance of UI design
[5] Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
[6] “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
https://craigwritescode.medium.com/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac
[7] Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
[8] Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
https://alpercinar.com/open-cell-id/
[9] WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-idUSL4N2KP0XY
[10] Functorio
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/.
[11] ‘Sexual favours were the norm in music industry’
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56029660
[12] Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
[13] Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/
[14] How can you not be romantic about programming?
https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/09/08/how-can-you-not-be-romantic-about-programming/
[15] Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-court-document-claims-facebook-203236002.html
[16] United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
https://avherald.com/h?article=4e35503b&opt=0
[17] Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-safety-issues-in-open.html
[18] Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
[19] Monolith First
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
[20] Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow
https://games.greggman.com/game/done-with-stackoverflow/
[21] Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
[22] A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture
https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/a-dishonest-indifferent-and-toxic-culture-113339aa67e9
[23] How this Ends
https://avc.com/2021/02/how-this-ends/
[24] Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/
[25] Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/yestercode.html
[26] Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/google-trillion-parameter-ai/
[27] 31.2˝ Color EPaper Display
https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-color-epaper-display-sb1452-qab/
[28] Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
https://github.com/rand-net/khan-dl
[29] Fake Amazon reviews ‘being sold in bulk’ online
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472