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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

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

    50 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  2. Ember 3.0 Released

    50 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  3. Puttin' on the Style: On writing, and on English style

    50 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  4. In our eyes, Google’s software sees heart attack risk

    50 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  5. Twitter and the Internet War

    49 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  6. Crypto-currency craze 'hinders search for alien life'

    49 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  7. The Smart Set: On Animal Intelligence

    49 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  8. How We Got from Twinkies to Tofu

    49 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  9. Natural Sounding Artificial Reverberation (1962) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  10. Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most

    49 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  11. Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash

    49 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  12. LittleThings online publisher shuts down, blames Facebook's algorithm

    49 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  13. Effect of Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults

    49 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?

    49 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  15. Llamatron “read me” file

    49 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  16. WeWork Buys Meetup; Here Is How Meetup.Com Will Change

    49 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  17. A rough guide to making a medieval manuscript

    49 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  18. OpenSCAP: Tools for managing system security and standards compliance

    49 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  19. The bizarre world of indie wrestling

    49 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  20. Chinese capital dangles carrots to lure foreign talent to its Silicon Valley

    49 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  21. Facebook hired a full-time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg’s approval ratings

    49 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  22. Typescript: class vs. interface

    48 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  23. Notice of Shutdown

    48 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  24. Problems at Singularity University

    48 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  25. Ask HN: I'm not a good programmer, but I keep acing interviews

    48 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  26. The differences between English and Korean

    48 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  27. Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide following, dies at 99

    48 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  28. The Art of Madness

    48 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  29. Ask HN: What can I do as a Software Engineer to help the under-priviliged?

    48 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  30. Peter Thiel Is a Flawed Messenger with a Crucial Message for Tech

    48 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  31. Protein Linguistics

    48 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  32. Self-Control in Chimpanzees Relates to General Intelligence

    48 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  33. Stock market enters the correction territory

    48 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  34. iMac Pro review: Hard to upgrade, but holy Jony Ive it’s fast

    48 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  35. There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is Winning

    48 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  36. MySQL 8.0 features which will improve a DBA's life

    48 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  37. Can Uber Ever Deliver? Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5B in 2017

    48 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  38. Duolingo podcast: The kiddnapping of Luis von Ahn's aunt

    48 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  39. Stanford researchers develop new method for waking up small electronic devices

    47 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  40. Machine Learning meets ketosis: how to effectively lose weight (2016)

    47 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  41. Google Will Block Spammy Ads (Just Not Many of Its Own)

    47 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  42. Life on Mars, from Viking to Curiosity (2017)

    47 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  43. Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation (2016)

    47 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  44. Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential Solar PV, 2017–2030

    47 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  45. V8 JavaScript Engine Release v6.5

    47 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  46. VS Code in Anaconda Distribution 5.1

    47 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  47. K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm in Python and Scikit-Learn

    47 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  48. Swedish consumers can now get affordable 10gbit internet

    47 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  49. Vaccines against addictive drugs push forward despite past failures

    47 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  50. 100k happy moments

    47 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  51. PostgreSQL rocks, except when it blocks: Understanding locks

    47 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  52. Forget $9,000… Bitcoin falls below $7,000

    47 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  53. Ask HN: Can you get away with not working?

    47 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  54. An Introduction to Information Security (2017) [pdf]

    47 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  55. 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth

    47 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  56. America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network

    46 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  57. Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'

    46 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  58. Cryptocurrencies Come to Campus

    46 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  59. The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage

    46 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  60. Fake news is not the real problem

    46 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  61. Optimizing global constant data structures using relative references

    46 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  62. Carta for Public Companies

    46 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  63. Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too

    46 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  64. Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio

    46 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  65. The Dropbox IPO is a transformative moment for Y Combinator

    46 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  66. DigitalOcean begins CEO search

    46 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  67. National Identity Is Made Up [video]

    46 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  68. SpaceX is set to launch its first two test satellites on Sunday

    46 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  69. A Basic Cohort Test of the Lead-Crime Hypothesis

    46 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  70. Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures [pdf]

    46 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  71. CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications [pdf]

    45 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  72. How bands are escaping the music industry snake pit

    45 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  73. Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

    45 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  74. Branching Layouts With Ease

    45 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  75. Pyrofex

    45 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  76. The WeWork Manifesto: First, Office Space. Next, the World

    45 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  77. The Delimited Continuation Monad in JavaScript (2014)

    45 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  78. Older Entrepreneurs Do It Better

    45 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  79. Snapchat petition attracts one million signatures

    45 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  80. Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer

    45 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  81. Exploring portable ratings for gig workers

    45 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  82. Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?

    45 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  83. Intel Expands Bug Bounty Program

    45 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  84. Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up

    45 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  85. When baby monitors fail to be smart

    45 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  86. Everyone can write bad code

    45 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  87. How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20

    45 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  88. ScalaNLP – A suite of machine learning and numerical computing libraries

    45 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  89. After Storm Over Tweets, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways

    45 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  90. Fliq.ai – Movie Intelligence Open Beta

    45 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  91. Pale Moon Official Branding Violation – Issue #86 – Jasperla/openbsd-wip

    45 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  92. MNIST Handwritten digits classification using Keras, part 1

    44 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  93. Researching alternatives to the chemical imbalance theory of depression

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  94. Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues

    44 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  95. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts 3.5M cybersecurity job openings by 2021

    44 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  96. Protocol aware recovery for consensus-based storage

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  97. Scientists use an atomic clock to measure the height of a mountain

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  98. CDE – Common Desktop Environment

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  99. Daily Facebook users drops for the first time in US

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  100. Ōmoto

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2018