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Top of Month - Feb 2021

1. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
   (28 Feb 2021 | 3883 points | Comments)

2. The Framework Laptop
   (25 Feb 2021 | 2563 points | Comments)

3. Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
   (8 Feb 2021 | 2023 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
   (26 Feb 2021 | 1998 points | Comments)

5. Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
   (2 Feb 2021 | 1941 points | Comments)

6. Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
   (18 Feb 2021 | 1801 points | Comments)

7. My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
   (24 Feb 2021 | 1723 points | Comments)

8. Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
   (9 Feb 2021 | 1692 points | Comments)

9. Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
   (20 Feb 2021 | 1669 points | Comments)

10. Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
    (18 Feb 2021 | 1663 points | Comments)

11. Total Cookie Protection
    (23 Feb 2021 | 1527 points | Comments)

12. Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
    (25 Feb 2021 | 1422 points | Comments)

13. 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
    (8 Feb 2021 | 1388 points | Comments)

14. Architecture.md
    (6 Feb 2021 | 1349 points | Comments)

15. VideoLAN is 20 years old today
    (1 Feb 2021 | 1337 points | Comments)

16. Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
    (18 Feb 2021 | 1232 points | Comments)

17. Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
    (19 Feb 2021 | 1185 points | Comments)

18. Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
    (4 Feb 2021 | 1171 points | Comments)

19. “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
    (12 Feb 2021 | 1168 points | Comments)

20. Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
    (19 Feb 2021 | 1113 points | Comments)

21. Daft Punk Break Up
    (22 Feb 2021 | 1108 points | Comments)

22. Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
    (10 Feb 2021 | 1107 points | Comments)

23. I Still Use RSS
    (3 Feb 2021 | 1033 points | Comments)

24. Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
    (2 Feb 2021 | 1009 points | Comments)

25. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
    (11 Feb 2021 | 993 points | Comments)

26. Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates
    (22 Feb 2021 | 987 points | Comments)

27. What I Worked On
    (16 Feb 2021 | 986 points | Comments)

28. Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
    (10 Feb 2021 | 982 points | Comments)

29. Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit
    (7 Feb 2021 | 981 points | Comments)

30. MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
    (11 Feb 2021 | 975 points | Comments)

31. Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters
    (9 Feb 2021 | 969 points | Comments)

32. Free for Developers
    (23 Feb 2021 | 967 points | Comments)

33. A visual guide to SSH tunnels
    (7 Feb 2021 | 963 points | Comments)

34. Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked
    (26 Feb 2021 | 927 points | Comments)

35. DigitalOcean S-1
    (25 Feb 2021 | 924 points | Comments)

36. OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
    (9 Feb 2021 | 880 points | Comments)

37. America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
    (11 Feb 2021 | 870 points | Comments)

38. Statement on New York Times Article
    (14 Feb 2021 | 866 points | Comments)

39. Rust Foundation: Hello, World
    (8 Feb 2021 | 865 points | Comments)

40. Homebrew 3.0
    (5 Feb 2021 | 859 points | Comments)

41. Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
    (17 Feb 2021 | 825 points | Comments)

42. Monolith First (2015)
    (19 Feb 2021 | 820 points | Comments)

43. Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
    (8 Feb 2021 | 819 points | Comments)

44. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
    (8 Feb 2021 | 807 points | Comments)

45. Computer Graphics from Scratch
    (3 Feb 2021 | 805 points | Comments)

46. Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test
    (11 Feb 2021 | 792 points | Comments)

47. 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
    (13 Feb 2021 | 789 points | Comments)

48. Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
    (25 Feb 2021 | 771 points | Comments)

49. Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
    (1 Feb 2021 | 761 points | Comments)

50. Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
    (8 Feb 2021 | 758 points | Comments)

51. Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
    (18 Feb 2021 | 755 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
    (17 Feb 2021 | 740 points | Comments)

53. “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
    (16 Feb 2021 | 737 points | Comments)

54. My product is my garden
    (3 Feb 2021 | 731 points | Comments)

55. United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
    (20 Feb 2021 | 723 points | Comments)

56. Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
    (13 Feb 2021 | 722 points | Comments)

57. Chick Corea has died
    (12 Feb 2021 | 704 points | Comments)

58. Why I Built Litestream
    (11 Feb 2021 | 703 points | Comments)

59. CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS
    (10 Feb 2021 | 700 points | Comments)

60. Functorio
    (16 Feb 2021 | 697 points | Comments)

61. M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time
    (23 Feb 2021 | 691 points | Comments)

62. Actually Portable Executables
    (28 Feb 2021 | 683 points | Comments)

63. Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
    (5 Feb 2021 | 679 points | Comments)

64. The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)
    (5 Feb 2021 | 674 points | Comments)

65. The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
    (24 Feb 2021 | 669 points | Comments)

66. Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
    (24 Feb 2021 | 668 points | Comments)

67. Coinbase S-1
    (25 Feb 2021 | 660 points | Comments)

68. Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
    (17 Feb 2021 | 656 points | Comments)

69. Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
    (1 Feb 2021 | 655 points | Comments)

70. Pattern matching accepted for Python
    (9 Feb 2021 | 654 points | Comments)

71. Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
    (26 Feb 2021 | 648 points | Comments)

72. Actually Portable Executable
    (26 Feb 2021 | 644 points | Comments)

73. Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
    (25 Feb 2021 | 640 points | Comments)

74. We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
    (22 Feb 2021 | 638 points | Comments)

75. A Framework for Writing Better Documentation
    (2 Feb 2021 | 637 points | Comments)

76. There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
    (18 Feb 2021 | 635 points | Comments)

77. Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems
    (24 Feb 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

78. Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
    (25 Feb 2021 | 624 points | Comments)

79. Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
    (10 Feb 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

80. Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
    (26 Feb 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

81. Lena
    (22 Feb 2021 | 620 points | Comments)

82. Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
    (19 Feb 2021 | 618 points | Comments)

83. What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
    (16 Feb 2021 | 617 points | Comments)

84. WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
    (19 Feb 2021 | 615 points | Comments)

85. Choose Boring Technology (2015)
    (21 Feb 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

86. A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
    (27 Feb 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

87. Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
    (9 Feb 2021 | 595 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
    (8 Feb 2021 | 582 points | Comments)

89. Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
    (8 Feb 2021 | 579 points | Comments)

90. The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition
    (5 Feb 2021 | 574 points | Comments)

91. Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex
    (26 Feb 2021 | 573 points | Comments)

92. The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
    (28 Feb 2021 | 572 points | Comments)

93. Always Bet on Text (2014)
    (17 Feb 2021 | 570 points | Comments)

94. Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
    (16 Feb 2021 | 569 points | Comments)

95. Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines
    (13 Feb 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

96. Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
    (23 Feb 2021 | 568 points | Comments)

97. “I will slaughter you”
    (19 Feb 2021 | 567 points | Comments)

98. Apache Arrow 3.0
    (3 Feb 2021 | 561 points | Comments)

99. How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
    (20 Feb 2021 | 552 points | Comments)

100. I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
     (2 Feb 2021 | 550 points | Comments)