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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Ask HN: How do you teach you kids about computers and coding?

    97 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  2. Amazon Aurora Postgres: First Thoughts

    97 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  3. Capsule networks can overcome some shortcomings of CNNs

    97 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  4. Futures of distributions

    97 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  5. The Curiously Elastic Limits of Endurance

    97 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  6. Bitcoin drops below $9000 on Coinbase

    96 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  7. Ancient kids’ toys have been hiding in the archaeological record

    96 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  8. Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands

    96 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  9. Why I Collapsed on the Job

    96 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  10. Tether says its cryptocurrency is worth $2B–but its audit failed

    96 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  11. Deep CNNs for Image Classification: A Comprehensive Review

    96 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  12. Defending your app from copies and clones

    96 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  13. FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis

    96 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  14. Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters (2008)

    96 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  15. Researchers giving psilocybin to religious leaders (2017)

    96 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  16. MIT IQ: The MIT Intelligence Quest

    96 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  17. Ask HN: Simple tools/hack for small project management

    96 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  18. The Y Combinator (2008)

    96 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  19. In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Market Value

    96 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  20. An Artist’s Mission to Illustrate All the World’s Mythical Beasts

    96 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  21. What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications

    95 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  22. Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

    95 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  23. Latex-mimosis: A minimal and modern template for your thesis

    95 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  24. Application Security in a DevOps Environment

    95 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  25. Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course

    95 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  26. MeltdownPrime, SpectrePrime: Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols

    95 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  27. Image2Mesh: Single Image 3D Reconstruction

    95 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  28. Slack is not for me

    94 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  29. Why Were Early Psychedelicists so Weird?

    94 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  30. Secure APIs Deployed to Kubernetes with OAuth2 Using JWT Tokens Leased by Vault

    94 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  31. Show HN: A Punny 3D Interactive Valentine's Card

    94 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  32. Salon Magazine Mines Monero on Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker

    94 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  33. State of the 10x Programmer in 2018

    94 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  34. Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services

    94 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  35. Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker

    94 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  36. Heisenbug

    94 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  37. Stanford, USC, Duke study shows AI can read contracts better than lawyers

    94 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  38. Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years (2014)

    93 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  39. Sonic ‘Attacks’ Show Us How Susceptible Our Brains Are to Mass Hysteria

    93 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  40. Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972)

    93 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  41. GitLab Pages Security Issue Notification

    93 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  42. Putting 500k People's DNA Online

    93 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  43. China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps'

    93 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  44. Understanding the Limitations of HTTPS

    93 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  45. Jevons Paradox

    93 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  46. Cold calling for my startup and how I learned to embrace the challenge

    93 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  47. Guide to Take-home Coding Challenges

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  48. Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia It Deserves

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  49. What Really Happened at the School Where Every Graduate Got into College

    92 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  50. Show HN: Simple monthly passive income calculator

    92 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  51. A Tale of Two Moons: Peter Lik’s Photographs Called Out by Science

    92 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  52. Xltrail – An open-source Git command line extension for Excel workbook files

    92 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  53. What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn

    92 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  54. Building a Full-Text Search App Using Docker and Elasticsearch

    92 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  55. Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plugin developer

    92 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  56. The Story of Tetris [video]

    92 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  57. C++ implementation of the Jupyter kernel protocol

    92 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  58. Government to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year 84 percent jump from last year

    92 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  59. The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments (2015)

    91 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  60. Cities and Ambition (2008)

    91 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  61. Spying on a Ruby process's memory allocations with eBPF

    91 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  62. Atom 1.24

    91 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  63. Frivpn – A multi-threaded OpenVPN client

    91 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  64. Show HN: A Chrome extension that tracks front-end JavaScript at runtime

    91 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  65. Watch Every Episode of Bob Ross' the Joy of Painting Free Online

    90 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  66. Why it's hard to quit Amazon Prime, even if maybe you should

    90 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  67. Asking the Right Questions About AI

    90 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  68. Implementing a Gaussian Naive Bayes Classifier in Python

    90 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  69. Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua

    90 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  70. Review: Tesla Model 3 lives up to hype

    90 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  71. Statement on Visit to the USA by Professor Philip Alston

    89 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  72. Google AI Residency Program

    89 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  73. Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors

    89 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  74. From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower

    89 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  75. Ask HN: Resumes that look good but professional too

    89 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  76. New York Will Never Be Silicon Valley. And It's Good with That

    89 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  77. Fractons, for Real?

    89 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  78. Intense laser experiments provide evidence that light can stop electrons

    89 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  79. // If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista

    89 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  80. Tesla Roadster has been officially logged as a celestial object by NASA

    89 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  81. Why are successful professionals still working 70 hours a week?

    89 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  82. Signatures of positive selection in autism spectrum disorder genes

    89 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  83. Self-taught astronomer makes monumental discovery

    89 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  84. Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

    89 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  85. Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at 8,000-Year-Old Burial Site in Sweden

    88 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  86. Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome

    88 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  87. The Wikipedia Zero program will end in 2018

    88 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  88. Approaches to PostgreSQL Replication and Backup

    88 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  89. End-to-end differentiable learning of protein structure

    88 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  90. Intentional memory leaks

    88 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  91. Commodore KERNAL History

    88 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  92. Some Code I Deleted

    88 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  93. The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar

    88 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  94. Real-time SFO plane location

    87 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  95. ICO startups band together to create $100M grant fund for Ethereum projects

    87 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  96. Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

    87 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  97. The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)

    87 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  98. The sudden death of the website?

    87 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  99. Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital

    87 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  100. Partisan: Enabling Cloud-Scale Erlang Applications

    87 points • comment • feb 10, 2018