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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Chrome canary (66) blocks symantec issued SSL certificates

    56 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

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

    56 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  3. Buy Now, Pay Later Helps JAB Billionaires Build Beverage Empire

    56 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

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

    56 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  5. More diagnostics data from desktop

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  6. Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung

    55 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  7. It’s Time to End the Scam of Flying Pets

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  8. Protonmail Online Security Guide for Journalists

    55 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  9. Randomness: the Ghost in the Machine? (2014)

    55 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  10. The Last Scan: Keeping old TVs alive

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  11. YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'

    55 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  12. One File Linux – live linux distro combined in one EFI file

    54 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  13. The U.S. government is set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  14. One of EFF's directors is running for congress

    54 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  15. How New Zealand Made Edmund Hillary, the Man Who Conquered Everest

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  16. Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize

    54 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  17. Incivility in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender, Agency and Communion

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  18. Some Notes on the “Andrew Ng” Coursera Machine Learning Course

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  19. Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission [pdf]

    54 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  20. Traces of Old Egyptian in Eurasian languages?

    54 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  21. An Underground Farm Delivering Rare Herbs to New York’s Top Chefs

    54 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  22. Cuba's Lack of Literature

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  23. This Is a Generic LinkedIn Rant

    54 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  24. The way we run Exist

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  25. Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks

    54 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  26. Reddit bans /r/deepfakes

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  27. “A thread on the best reading lists I've come across so far.”

    53 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  28. Tiny Core v9.0 Released

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  29. More evidence of rent declines in Portland

    53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  30. A ranking of the highest tech salaries in the US, adjusted for cost of living

    53 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  31. Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia

    53 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  32. Center for Humane Technology

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  33. What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  34. GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction

    53 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  35. Retpoline: A Branch Target Injection Mitigation [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  36. China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  37. Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlightenment Now’

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  38. A Kingdom from Dust

    53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  39. Methods for Studying Coincidences (1989) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  40. Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories

    53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  41. Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks (2010)

    53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  42. Herbert Simon: The Architecture of Complexity (1962) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  43. Stealing Data with CSS: Attack and Defense

    53 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  44. Couple that paid $90k for a private street in SF is forced to give it back

    53 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  45. Ripgrep 0.8.0

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  46. Pass-Through Businesses Are Rethinking Their Status in Wake of Tax Law

    53 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  47. Save the CR100

    53 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  48. Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans

    53 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  49. Why do we keep designing streets for speed?

    52 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  50. Veil is private browsing for the ultra-paranoid

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  51. Firefly book series announced: Joss Whedon to serve as consulting editor

    52 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  52. Dabbling in the Cryptographic World (1999)

    52 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  53. HP EliteBook: A friend to the User

    52 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  54. Five tips on making every day count, by Richard Branson

    52 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  55. Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs

    52 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  56. An Interview with Tom Quisel, Former CTO of OkCupid (2017)

    52 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  57. Murders in US very concentrated (2017)

    52 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  58. High-Level Rendering Using Render Graphs

    52 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  59. 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?

    52 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  60. Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate

    52 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  61. Progress Continues on Firmware Updates

    52 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  62. The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader

    52 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  63. Ask HN: How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?

    52 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  64. Building and Running a Geographically Distributed Engineering Team

    52 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  65. Bijlmer: City of the Future, Part 1

    52 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  66. Apocalypse now: London’s property crash has begun

    52 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  67. xkcd's 2018 CVE List

    51 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  68. Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters

    51 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  69. Direction for ISO C++ [pdf]

    51 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  70. Techniques of Systems Analysis (1957) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  71. Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless

    51 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  72. What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (2012)

    51 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  73. Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things

    51 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  74. Waymo is readying a ride-hailing service that could directly compete with Uber

    51 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  75. As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface

    51 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  76. BACE1 deletion in the adult mouse reverses preformed amyloid deposition

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  77. Java language oddities

    51 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  78. Ask HN: What best practices for in-house Docker Registry?

    51 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  79. What Is Going to Happen With Whois?

    51 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  80. Gobee.bike pulls out of France due to mass destruction of its bike fleet

    51 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  81. Show HN: CloudMapper, open-source tool for visualizing AWS environments

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  82. Gig economy is the mass exploitation of millennials

    51 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  83. Meritocracy and its discontents: The merits of revisiting Michael Young

    51 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  84. Optimizely’s decision to ditch its free plan

    50 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  85. Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for macOS devs?

    50 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  86. In Running Like A Startup, Nonprofits Find Success

    50 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  87. The weak scientific case for emotional support animals

    50 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  88. When Everything Is Too Safe, Add Risk

    50 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  89. ‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music

    50 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  90. Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”

    50 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  91. JavaScript in the Internet of Things: JerryScript and the Fitbit Ionic

    50 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  92. Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai Factory

    50 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  93. Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela's lawless roads

    50 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  94. Meet India’s Women Open Source Warriors

    50 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  95. Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks

    50 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  96. Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility

    50 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  97. iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'

    50 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  98. The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (2010)

    50 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  99. Undocumented 8086 Opcodes, Part I

    50 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  100. Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s dead

    50 points • comment • feb 21, 2018