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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of the Fittest

    77 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  2. GitHub Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Quick Reference Guide

    77 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  3. FCC Inspector General to Investigate Ajit Pai Over Sinclair Deal

    77 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  4. Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind

    77 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  5. Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia

    77 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  6. Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements

    77 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  7. New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption

    76 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  8. Excessive DNS queries for NTP pool addresses

    76 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  9. Building a Distributed File Sync in Ruby

    76 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  10. Predicting Starman’s Return to Earth

    76 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  11. Where Dutch directness comes from

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  12. The Gluten Project: A Search Engine for 35K Certified Gluten-Free Products

    76 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  13. Taxi deregulation coming to Finland

    76 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  14. The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance

    76 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  15. China sets stage for Xi to stay in office indefinitely

    76 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  16. Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors

    76 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  17. Ivory investigator killed in Kenya

    76 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  18. Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’

    76 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  19. The Parrot Virtual File System

    76 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  20. Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model

    76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  21. Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities

    76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  22. Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoline engine

    76 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  23. The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd

    76 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  24. Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage

    76 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  25. Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

    76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  26. Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – Roadshow

    76 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  27. Kotlin/Native v0.6 is Here

    75 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  28. A Tale of Two Columbia Classes

    75 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  29. UK Hacker Won't Be Extradited to the US Because American Prisons Are 'Medieval'

    75 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  30. The Game Designer's Calculator

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  31. A taste of CoreData – A graph framework

    75 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  32. NeuroSAT: Learning a SAT Solver from Single-Bit Supervision

    75 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  33. Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)

    75 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  34. The American “Empire” Reconsidered

    75 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  35. Proofs and Refutations Using Z3

    75 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  36. Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens

    75 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  37. Dancing mania

    75 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  38. Apple's Middle Age

    75 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  39. Unexpected functional programming in Go

    75 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  40. The Circuitry in Our Cells

    75 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  41. Professionals need our 4:3 screens

    75 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  42. In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow

    75 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  43. Semantic Import Versioning

    75 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  44. Show HN: A Tetris clone written in ES6 using React

    74 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  45. “Loving Your Enemies” (1957)

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  46. Double Pendulum Visualization

    74 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  47. Startup Fathers Need to Start Taking Parental Leave

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  48. Allwinner VPU support for the Linux kernel

    74 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  49. London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’

    74 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  50. Rollup now has code-splitting and we need your help

    74 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  51. Tesla announces biggest quarterly loss

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  52. Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth?

    74 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  53. Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)

    74 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  54. Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere

    74 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  55. The crisis of American forensics

    74 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  56. Machine learning benchmark: GPU providers

    74 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  57. The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  58. Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (2001)

    74 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  59. BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

    74 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  60. Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (2014)

    74 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  61. Were There Really Arrow Storms?

    74 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  62. Redesigning Redux

    73 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  63. Tips for successful adoption of machine learning products

    73 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  64. New FreeBSD Code of Conduct

    73 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  65. Speed improvements in Python 3.7

    73 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  66. Opioid epidemic costs West Virginia $8.8B annually, study says

    73 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  67. Rare photographs that changed lives

    73 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  68. Mercedes-Benz Confirms It Will Skip Detroit Auto Show in 2019

    73 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  69. The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators

    73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  70. Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago

    73 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  71. DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes

    73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  72. Detroit has outlawed Airbnb for R1 and R2 zoning

    73 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  73. CFTC and SEC Testimony on Cryptocurrencies [pdf]

    73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  74. How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months

    72 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  75. The oddness of Isaac Newton

    72 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  76. What is an MVP for a B2B startup?

    72 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  77. Q1 2018 Funding Announcement

    72 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  78. DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  79. The Exeter Book was used as a cutting board

    72 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  80. A Chinese Finance Giant That’s Secretly an AI Company (2017)

    72 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  81. With ePrivacy looming, German publishers scramble to get users logged in

    72 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  82. The four motivators (2016)

    72 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  83. Show HN: git self-blame – Blame yourself for others' mistakes

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  84. Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  85. A man who became immune to snake venom

    72 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  86. Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)

    72 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  87. Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)

    72 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  88. We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction

    72 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  89. Germany says its government computers secure after “isolated” hack

    71 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  90. Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley

    71 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  91. Show HN: Deploy a Go Lambda to Ping a Site in 20 Seconds

    71 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  92. Detecting Consciousness (2017) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  93. Microbe Emoji

    71 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  94. Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures

    71 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  95. Apple dictates that all new apps must fully support the iPhone X screen

    71 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  96. Emacs Lisp Lambda Expressions Are Not Self-Evaluating

    71 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  97. Minimal Perfect Hash-Tables in Common Lisp

    71 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  98. HomePod Teardown

    71 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  99. Monero Gold integer undeflow scam

    71 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  100. Cure53: Browser Security Whitepaper (2017) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • feb 18, 2018