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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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