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1. What I Worked On (paulgraham.com)
986 points by tosh on Feb 16, 2021 | 398 comments
2. “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” (craigwritescode.medium.com)
737 points by wilsocr88 on Feb 16, 2021 | 336 comments
3. Functorio (bartoszmilewski.com)
697 points by ibobev on Feb 16, 2021 | 193 comments
4. Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online (bbc.com)
569 points by _wldu on Feb 16, 2021 | 416 comments
5. Many small queries are efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)
542 points by ArtTimeInvestor on Feb 16, 2021 | 342 comments
6. Building Rich Terminal Dashboards (willmcgugan.com)
499 points by lumpa on Feb 16, 2021 | 120 comments
7. Windows Refund Day (1999) (merlins.org)
370 points by ransom_rs on Feb 16, 2021 | 136 comments
8. Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-peer audio (sonobus.net)
388 points by Eduard on Feb 15, 2021 | 88 comments
9. Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage (github.com/apankrat)
400 points by synergy20 on Feb 16, 2021 | 111 comments
10. Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources (github.com/salesforce)
368 points by kmcquade on Feb 16, 2021 | 93 comments
11. Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time (randomascii.wordpress.com)
376 points by ingve on Feb 16, 2021 | 111 comments
12. NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week (ieee.org)
300 points by quercusa on Feb 16, 2021 | 105 comments
13. 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens (sciencealert.com)
502 points by samizdis on Feb 16, 2021 | 376 comments
14. Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC) (jam.systems)
317 points by tosh on Feb 14, 2021 | 66 comments
15. Why Is Esbuild Fast? (esbuild.github.io)
320 points by mef on Feb 16, 2021 | 166 comments
16. Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python (medium.com/workpath-thewaywework)
205 points by OKRHero on Feb 16, 2021 | 222 comments
17. How They SRE (github.com/upgundecha)
275 points by zdw on Feb 16, 2021 | 98 comments
18. Clubhouse Bio Generator (perchance.org)
231 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 16, 2021 | 97 comments
19. Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC (cnx-software.com)
164 points by stambros on Feb 16, 2021 | 73 comments
20. Typing Is Hard (3fx.ch)
190 points by pansa2 on Feb 15, 2021 | 130 comments
21. Organizations Using the D Language (dlang.org)
144 points by crazypython on Feb 16, 2021 | 127 comments
22. Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation (aymericbeaumet.com)
142 points by aymericbeaumet on Feb 16, 2021 | 68 comments
23. Is This a Branch? (bartwronski.com)
136 points by wheresvic4 on Feb 15, 2021 | 74 comments
24. The Database Inside Your Codebase (feifan.blog)
145 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 16, 2021 | 84 comments
25. The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection (lanet.lv)
133 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 16, 2021 | 40 comments
26. TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe (reuters.com)
220 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 16, 2021 | 172 comments
27. Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data
125 points by 0xferruccio on Feb 16, 2021 | 47 comments
28. FPGA NTP Server (wand.net.nz)
124 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 16, 2021 | 67 comments
29. Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up] (bloomberg.com)
402 points by kenneth on Feb 16, 2021 | 214 comments
30. The Making of Lemmings (2015) (readonlymemory.vg)
121 points by tosh on Feb 14, 2021 | 30 comments

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