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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop

    63 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  2. Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstract and not for experience

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  3. Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series

    62 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  4. Visibility and Monitoring for Machine Learning Models

    62 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  5. Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  6. Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

    62 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  7. No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability (2014) [pdf]

    62 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  8. An industry has developed around the online resale of clothes

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  9. China banned letter N from internet after people used it to attack Xi Jinping

    62 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  10. Why people collect art

    62 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  11. Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]

    62 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  12. General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8B

    61 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  13. What William James Got Right About Consciousness

    61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  14. Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win

    61 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  15. Memory Safety in Rust: A Case Study with C

    61 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  16. 2017 was probably the best year in the history of humanity

    61 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  17. Ask HN: Best companies to work for in Europe?

    61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  18. Launch HN: Medumo (YC W18) prepares patients for surgeries

    61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  19. Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset

    61 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  20. How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 MTA Delays (2016)

    61 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  21. How We Bootstrapped Our Mailing List to Ramen Profitability of $2k/mo

    61 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  22. Beautiful folds in Haskell (2016)

    61 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  23. An Update to Our Event Ticket Reseller Policy

    61 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  24. The Book That Colored Charles Darwin’s World

    61 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  25. We can learn to be more creative

    61 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  26. Agile Is Dead (2015) [pdf]

    61 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  27. Update on two pledge-related changes to OpenBSD

    60 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  28. Walmart has acquired VR startup Spatialand

    60 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  29. TCP-Starvation

    60 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  30. Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?

    60 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  31. Link Deployment with AWS LambdaEdge

    60 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  32. 57% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (2017)

    60 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  33. The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb

    60 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  34. Symbolic Assembly: Using Clojure to Meta-Program Bytecode (2017) [video]

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  35. The special data device SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy sent to orbit is just the start

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  36. We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years

    60 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  37. Show HN: Bounding-box labeler tool to generate the training data for YOLO v2

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  38. Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe

    60 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  39. Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of hardware performance degradation in prod systems

    60 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  40. Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?

    59 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  41. The search for Jackie Wallace

    59 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  42. Air pollution in London passes levels in Beijing (2017)

    59 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  43. Whistleblower alleges manipulation in the VIX fear gauge

    59 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  44. We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014)

    59 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  45. The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature

    59 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  46. An Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  47. How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  48. In Shanghai, a prototype of a new 24-hour convenience store (2017)

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  49. The Sierra Network

    59 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  50. What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated

    59 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  51. Sulong – A high-performance LLVM bitcode interpreter built on the GraalVM

    59 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  52. Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  53. Tinder Lack of Encryption Raises Privacy Concerns

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  54. How Protein Conquered America

    58 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  55. African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia

    58 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  56. Facebook suggesting security app – it secretly owns – that tracks usage

    58 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  57. A Russian Train Stop That Serves One Schoolgirl

    58 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  58. We Need Fewer Product Managers

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  59. New York Times Co. Subscription Revenue Surpassed $1B in 2017

    58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  60. The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries

    58 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  61. Kactus: Design version control without changing tools

    58 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  62. A geographer's theory of regional inequality as a cause of revolt

    58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  63. Etcd 3.3 – Improvements to stability, performance, and more

    58 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  64. Intel Ships (hopefully Stable) Microcode for Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake

    58 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  65. North Korea’s Hacker Army

    58 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  66. 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests

    58 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  67. Understanding Intel's Ivy Bridge Random Number Generator (2012)

    58 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  68. The new breed of chatbot talks more like a human, but that is not always good

    58 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  69. JDK 10 Early Access Release Notes

    58 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  70. Java 9 has six weeks to live

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  71. Review of Vivek Wadhwa’s Washington Post Column on Quantum Computing

    58 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  72. Camels in early medieval western Europe (2016)

    58 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  73. New plan to defund space station opens up some surprising possibilities

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  74. The top 1% of the US makes $480k or more in adjusted gross income

    58 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  75. A Eulogy for the Headphone Jack

    58 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  76. Rocket Lab Reveals Secret Engine and “Kick Stage” for the Electron Rocket

    58 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  77. Palantir has secretly been testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  78. Tesla Model 3 Teardown by Engineering Firm Reveals Flaws Like 'A Kia in the 90s'

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  79. An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Unix Utilities (1989) [pdf]

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  80. Fiat Chrysler pushed a UConnect update that causes constant reboots

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  81. Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute

    57 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  82. Things that were more likely to kill you in 1970s Britain than today

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  83. Tesla confirms having produced its 300,000th electric car

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  84. Blind Signature

    57 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  85. Why Decentralization Matters

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  86. On the Nature of Wine

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  87. Decimal: A high-performance, arbitrary-precision, floating-point decimal library

    57 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  88. The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were

    57 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  89. Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks

    57 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  90. Nuggets of Thought – Modern thinkers on business, philosophy of success and life

    57 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  91. When will the world reach 'peak child'?

    57 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  92. “Column Tetris” – Calculating and Saving Space in PostgreSQL

    57 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  93. Making Sense of the Bias / Variance Trade-Off in Deep Reinforcement Learning

    57 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  94. Building a backup bee: A novel replacement for the embattled honeybee

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  95. Compressing Radix Trees Without Too Many Tears (2017)

    56 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  96. Bootstrapping a site builder to $6k in monthly revenue

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  97. Live Views of Starman

    56 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  98. HR has lost the trust of employees

    56 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  99. The Popularity of Near-Death Experience

    56 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  100. IPR Process Saves 80 Companies from Paying for a Sports-Motion Patent

    56 points • comment • feb 11, 2018