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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

    2960 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  2. Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

    1659 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  3. John Perry Barlow has died

    1474 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  4. Signal Foundation

    1307 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  5. Email is your electronic memory

    1240 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  6. Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

    1168 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  7. AMP for email is a terrible idea

    1131 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  8. Ask HN: What has HN given you?

    1080 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  9. OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble

    1027 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  10. Let's Learn About Waveforms

    969 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  11. Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

    963 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  12. JupyterLab is ready for users

    945 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  13. Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice

    933 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  14. Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud

    908 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  15. Let’s talk about usernames

    886 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  16. Show HN: Hacker News Classics

    855 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  17. "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

    836 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  18. The Business of SaaS

    821 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  19. Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

    804 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  20. VLC 3.0 release

    786 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  21. How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?

    783 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  22. Who Killed the Junior Developer?

    769 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  23. Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties

    765 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  24. How poverty changes your mindset

    765 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  25. Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

    759 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  26. Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)

    748 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  27. Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?

    747 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  28. Modern CSS Explained

    740 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  29. U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice

    731 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  30. Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

    728 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  31. Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

    700 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  32. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine

    683 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  33. Pricing low-touch SaaS

    649 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  34. How to Study Mathematics (2017)

    646 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  35. Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

    642 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  36. Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

    639 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  37. German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

    636 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  38. After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat

    625 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  39. A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

    619 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  40. Dropbox S-1

    617 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  41. Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS

    595 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  42. Show HN: A CSS Keylogger

    561 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  43. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

    558 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  44. Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

    555 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  45. Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement

    553 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  46. The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books

    551 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  47. The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble

    545 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  48. I don’t understand Graph Theory

    545 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  49. Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year

    540 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  50. What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

    535 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  51. Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

    534 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  52. Do not use NPM 5.7

    533 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  53. Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

    529 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  54. The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

    527 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  55. The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

    519 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  56. Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

    517 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  57. How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

    513 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  58. My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition

    509 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  59. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    507 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  60. Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites

    507 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  61. The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps

    507 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  62. What I wish I knew when I became CTO

    506 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  63. Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

    501 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  64. Rust 1.24

    494 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  65. Science’s Pirate Queen

    494 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  66. Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native

    494 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  67. India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds

    485 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  68. Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS

    481 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  69. The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes

    475 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  70. Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)

    472 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  71. Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things

    468 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  72. A surprisingly potent technique can boost short and long-term recall

    467 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  73. Why Toys?

    464 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  74. Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines

    463 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  75. Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans

    454 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  76. Spotify Form F-1

    453 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  77. Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell

    453 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  78. Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

    452 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  79. Mozilla Re-Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

    451 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  80. NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python

    451 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  81. John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google

    450 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  82. Learning to program is getting harder

    449 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  83. CSS Grid for UI Layouts

    449 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  84. Crushed wood is stronger than steel

    448 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  85. Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude

    446 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  86. I've never felt less in control of my own hardware

    445 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  87. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

    440 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  88. 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

    437 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  89. In web design, everything easy is hard again

    434 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  90. Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

    433 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  91. MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired

    432 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  92. Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

    427 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  93. Intel made smart glasses that look normal

    425 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  94. What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

    422 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  95. How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

    421 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  96. Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts

    415 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  97. Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest'

    414 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  98. Planet Shadertoy

    413 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  99. How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

    413 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  100. Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court

    412 points • comment • feb 16, 2018