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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?

    71 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  2. Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (1980)

    70 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  3. Bigelow Space Operations – B330 Space Station

    70 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  4. Building low-overhead metrics collection for high-performance systems

    70 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  5. Parallel C++ on AWS Lambda for CRISPR

    70 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  6. Validating email addresses: A journey down RFC5321 [video]

    70 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  7. The Case for Lowering Your Expectations

    70 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  8. Let's Encrypt Hits 50M Active Certificates and Counting

    70 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  9. How Cloud Storage uses Spanner for consistent bucket listing

    70 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  10. Show HN: Tiiiny growth ideas for SaaS

    70 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  11. Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of 'Political Correctness' (1994) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  12. Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency

    69 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  13. China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit

    69 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  14. The Economist house-price indices

    69 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  15. Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing

    69 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  16. Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?

    69 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  17. Venus flytraps don't eat the insects that pollinate them

    69 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  18. Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?

    69 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  19. Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

    69 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  20. Get started with KVM and Kubernetes

    69 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  21. Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Dream Phone' Concept

    69 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  22. A drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth (2017)

    69 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  23. Liberating a X200

    68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  24. Dave Kleiman's estate sues Craig Wright for $10B

    68 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  25. Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20)

    68 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  26. Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010)

    68 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  27. Smart homes and vegetable peelers

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  28. What's the significance of 0.05 significance? (2013)

    68 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  29. Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  30. The Boys Are Not All Right

    68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  31. A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

    68 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  32. Everyone Else Is Trash

    67 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  33. A computational model of the Moth Olfactory Network learns to read MNIST [pdf]

    67 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  34. The ESA says preserving old online games isn't 'necessary'

    67 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  35. Stocks are rolling over, Dow falls 1,500 points

    67 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  36. The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist

    67 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  37. The ramifications of a new type of gene

    67 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  38. Archiving JPEGs for long-term storage

    67 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  39. LibreOffice remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability

    67 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  40. Google discloses Microsoft Edge security flaw before a patch is ready

    67 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  41. Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide

    67 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  42. Robonaut Has Been Broken for Years, and Now NASA Is Bringing It Home

    67 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  43. Increase in suicides the months after the death of Robin Williams in the US

    67 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  44. Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform

    67 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  45. Show HN: Open Source Constellation T-Shirts

    67 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  46. Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?

    67 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  47. Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity

    67 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  48. A Root Cause Analysis EBook [pdf]

    67 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  49. Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI

    67 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  50. How Dropbox handles downgrades

    67 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  51. Mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2018

    67 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  52. Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army

    67 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  53. The Internet Isn’t Forever

    67 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  54. Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question

    67 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  55. Show HN: Browser extension to read HN comments for any url, in ClojureScript

    67 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  56. What Amazon Does to Poor Cities

    66 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  57. Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback

    66 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  58. Preventative care doesn't save money

    66 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  59. The first English professor of mathematics

    66 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  60. Standing desks 'increase pain' and slow down mental ability, study suggests

    66 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  61. The History of .NET [video]

    66 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  62. Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis

    66 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  63. How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?

    66 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  64. Show HN: Fastr – Reload Optimizing Chrome Extension

    66 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  65. McCLIM 0.9.7 "Imbolc" release

    65 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  66. Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  67. What might the Amazon, Berkshire and JPM health care joint venture actually do?

    65 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  68. Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)

    65 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  69. Seneca Systems (YC S16) Raises $3.5M to Make Cities More Responsive, Efficient

    65 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  70. Lazy deserialization

    65 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  71. Sweden is deporting entrepreneur for lowering his own salary

    65 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  72. A viable pathway for hydrogen as fuel

    65 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  73. Real-time updates without JavaScript

    65 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  74. How Cockroaches Crash into Walls and Keep Going

    65 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  75. Facebook lost a million users in the US and Canada last quarter

    65 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  76. Democracy Index 2016

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  77. Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon

    65 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  78. The Case for React-Like Web Components

    65 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  79. LevelDB: SSTable and Log-Structured Storage (2012)

    64 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  80. Ruby’s New JIT

    64 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  81. Apple won't approve apps that use emojis that aren't provided by the keyboard

    64 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  82. The split brain: A tale of two halves (2012)

    64 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  83. Twilio Demonstrates Why Courts Should Review Every National Security Letter

    64 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  84. Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

    64 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  85. Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  86. Ask HN: Why is there so little programming related content on HN?

    64 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  87. Altered Carbon – All the DNA of great science-fiction with some missing links

    64 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  88. Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer

    64 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  89. Even in Denmark, children are career killers for working moms

    64 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  90. Battleship Solitaire

    63 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  91. Go Library for the VMware vSphere API

    63 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  92. China Will Overtake the US in AI, said Alphabet's Eric Schmidt

    63 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  93. Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop

    63 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  94. A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector for Reconfigurable Hardware (2012) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  95. Fedora on RISC-V bootable disk image

    63 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  96. Algorithms, Etc. (2015)

    63 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  97. The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary in 1946 (2014)

    63 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  98. Datensparsamkeit (2013)

    63 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  99. A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science [pdf]

    63 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  100. When to use Dictionary Compression

    63 points • comment • feb 17, 2018