Hacker News on 1 February 2017

• GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
• An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
• Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
• Four Column ASCII
• The JVM is not that heavy
• Data Loss at GitLab
• 'Check Your Backups Work' Day
• Million requests per second with Python
• Unlearning descriptive statistics