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1.SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president (reuters.com)
471 points by andrewinardeer on Feb 15, 2021 | 275 comments
2.Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine (reuters.com)
469 points by lazycrazyowl on Feb 15, 2021 | 434 comments
3.Faster JavaScript Calls (v8.dev)
443 points by feross on Feb 15, 2021 | 126 comments
4.Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp (github.com/thegrims)
465 points by aidangrimshaw on Feb 15, 2021 | 219 comments
5.Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com)
404 points by tusharchoudhary on Feb 15, 2021 | 378 comments
6.Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (bellard.org)
381 points by ducktective on Feb 15, 2021 | 124 comments
7.Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid (ercot.com)
324 points by tomrod on Feb 15, 2021 | 570 comments
8.I Really Blew It (2020) (erasmatazz.com)
318 points by webmaven on Feb 15, 2021 | 340 comments
9.Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
544 points by remolacha on Feb 14, 2021 | 276 comments
10.How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs (bloomberg.com)
264 points by wallflower on Feb 14, 2021 | 316 comments
11.OWASP Cheat Sheet Series (owasp.org)
301 points by tilt on Feb 15, 2021 | 29 comments
12.Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers
401 points by jsantos511 on Feb 15, 2021 | 157 comments
13.Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning? (betterdatascience.com)
168 points by syntaxing on Feb 15, 2021 | 150 comments
14.Sourcetrail: Free and open-source interactive source explorer (github.com/coatisoftware)
224 points by yagizdegirmenci on Feb 14, 2021 | 23 comments
15.Media files extracted from North Korea's Red Star OS (github.com/blackotton)
200 points by da_big_ghey on Feb 15, 2021 | 94 comments
16.How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix (matrix.org)
239 points by Arathorn on Feb 15, 2021 | 65 comments
17.Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes (utk.edu)
174 points by jermaustin1 on Feb 15, 2021 | 90 comments
18.Running Nomad for a Home Server (mrkaran.dev)
278 points by elliebike on Feb 15, 2021 | 149 comments
19.I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile (lucas03.com)
184 points by lucas03 on Feb 14, 2021 | 64 comments
20.A Warning to Users of NurseryCam (cybergibbons.com)
167 points by carwyn on Feb 14, 2021 | 72 comments
21.Launch HN: Pyroscope (YC W21) – Continuous profiling software
102 points by petethepig on Feb 15, 2021 | 29 comments
22.Melting permafrost cause huge underground methane explosions in Siberia (siberiantimes.com)
208 points by dmitriy_ko on Feb 15, 2021 | 53 comments
23.Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020) (tanelpoder.com)
259 points by wheresvic4 on Feb 15, 2021 | 164 comments
24.Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories (inklestudios.com)
147 points by josefslerka on Feb 15, 2021 | 15 comments
25.Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries (businessinsider.com)
399 points by ivanche on Feb 15, 2021 | 400 comments
26.The Therac-25 Incident (thedailywtf.com)
235 points by dagurp on Feb 15, 2021 | 77 comments
27.Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power (cjr.org)
196 points by apsec112 on Feb 14, 2021 | 178 comments
28.What ever happened to scandium bike frames? (2016) (bikeblogordie.com)
118 points by dfgdghdf on Feb 14, 2021 | 106 comments
29.The Origin of Robot Arm Programming Languages (rodneybrooks.com)
74 points by nabla9 on Feb 14, 2021 | 19 comments
30.Show HN: Simple tool for creating and organizing daily notes on the command line (github.com/dkaslovsky)
74 points by dankco on Feb 13, 2021 | 30 comments

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