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1. MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies (reuters.com)
975 points by ArtTimeInvestor on Feb 11, 2021 | 875 comments
2. Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test (cbc.ca)
792 points by walterbell on Feb 11, 2021 | 587 comments
3. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020) (beej.us)
993 points by ColinWright on Feb 11, 2021 | 165 comments
4. Why I Built Litestream (litestream.io)
703 points by benbjohnson on Feb 11, 2021 | 176 comments
5. Kubernetes Failure Stories (k8s.af)
545 points by jakozaur on Feb 11, 2021 | 192 comments
6. System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code (github.com/system76)
536 points by nitinreddy88 on Feb 11, 2021 | 325 comments
7. LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe (every.to/divinations)
448 points by Benlights on Feb 10, 2021 | 291 comments
8. Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia (googlesource.com)
197 points by lyssue on Feb 11, 2021 | 144 comments
9. Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine (podman.io)
321 points by lobo_tuerto on Feb 11, 2021 | 241 comments
10. What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies (conradakunga.com)
329 points by kaboro on Feb 11, 2021 | 163 comments
11. Idioms for the D Programming Language (p0nce.github.io)
158 points by crazypython on Feb 11, 2021 | 81 comments
12. Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment (themouseless.dev)
353 points by thanato0s on Feb 10, 2021 | 217 comments
13. From First Principles: Why Scala? (lihaoyi.com)
286 points by lihaoyi on Feb 11, 2021 | 329 comments
14. Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available (spencerdailey.com)
323 points by spenvo on Feb 10, 2021 | 171 comments
15. Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster? (fastruby.io)
216 points by stanislavb on Feb 10, 2021 | 171 comments
16. Do Things that Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)
177 points by panphora on Feb 10, 2021 | 31 comments
17. Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly (q42.nl)
210 points by jasperk on Feb 9, 2021 | 66 comments
18. Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it
278 points by santah on Feb 11, 2021 | 88 comments
19. Pravetz Computers (wikipedia.org)
171 points by incomplete on Feb 11, 2021 | 50 comments
20. Launch HN: Chorus Meditation (YC W21) – Meditation for Non-Meditators
103 points by aliabramovitz on Feb 11, 2021 | 104 comments
21. Rust 1.50 (rust-lang.org)
378 points by _xrjp on Feb 11, 2021 | 139 comments
22. How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? (justine.lol)
171 points by jart on Feb 11, 2021 | 67 comments
23. Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention (arxiv.org)
85 points by tmfi on Feb 11, 2021 | 2 comments
24. Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit (reuters.com)
345 points by Someone on Feb 11, 2021 | 300 comments
25. Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993) (latimes.com)
155 points by donohoe on Feb 11, 2021 | 100 comments
26. Launch HN: Cord (YC W21) – training data toolbox for computer vision
64 points by ulrikhansen54 on Feb 11, 2021 | 25 comments
27. WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com/satwikkansal)
359 points by srathi on Feb 11, 2021 | 162 comments
28. Employee #1: Reddit (2016) (blog.ycombinator.com)
144 points by bemmu on Feb 11, 2021 | 111 comments
29. Larry Flynt has died (bbc.com)
235 points by SirLJ on Feb 11, 2021 | 144 comments
30. TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) (propublica.org)
410 points by paulpauper on Feb 11, 2021 | 306 comments

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