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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?

    39 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  2. It's Perfectly Fine to Only Code at Work – Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise

    39 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  3. The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  4. Go and Versioning: Reproducible, Verifiable, Verified Builds

    39 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  5. The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language

    39 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  6. Can you predict a recession by looking at pregnancy rates?

    39 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  7. Why Can’t Riding Bikes in America Just Be Normal?

    39 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  8. Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders

    38 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  9. The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat

    38 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  10. Arc: Virus-Like Protein Is Involved in Memory and Cognition

    38 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  11. A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths

    38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  12. Set-top box maker TiVo exploring options, could go private

    38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  13. GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’

    38 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  14. UK Electronics Store Maplin Goes into Administration

    38 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  15. Show HN: Passpwn – check passwords in pass against haveibeenpwned

    38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  16. Peter Thiel’s Warning to the Valley

    38 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  17. You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes

    38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  18. Bitcoin Miners Fried in Game of Chicken

    38 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  19. The Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Over a Million Rideshare Drivers [pdf]

    38 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  20. How to Write Dockerfiles for Python Web Apps

    38 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  21. Show HN: Making good Steam games discoverable again

    38 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  22. Show HN: Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Responsive HTML Documents

    38 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  23. Library of Babel – Explore the Near In(de)finite

    38 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  24. On the Work of Edward Witten (1990) [pdf]

    38 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  25. Ask HN: How to play the politics game at your company?

    38 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  26. US Electric Car Sales Report

    38 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  27. Telegram Remote Code Execution Zero-Day Vulnerability

    37 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  28. How do you build a healthy city? Copenhagen reveals its secrets

    37 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  29. Merrell Trail Glove Failures and Minimal Running in a Communist Shoe

    37 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  30. Bitcoin energy use in Iceland set to overtake homes, says local firm

    37 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  31. Former Apple developer explains why the company’s software is struggling

    37 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  32. Disabling ANSI color output

    37 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  33. The Natural Rate of Interest Is Zero (2004) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  34. Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation

    37 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  35. Scope exit in C++11 (2012)

    37 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  36. Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?

    37 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  37. Server-Side Swift from Scratch

    37 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  38. China spends $300M to buy lab produced meats from Israel

    37 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  39. Sorry, Collectors, Nobody Wants Your Beanie Babies Anymore

    37 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  40. Volatility and the Alchemy of Risk (2017) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  41. “Implement WebP image support” – Reported 8 years ago

    37 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  42. The Forest That Blooms Brilliantly for Just a Few Days a Year

    37 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  43. Are voting-machine modems truly divorced from the Internet?

    37 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  44. Designing experiments for understanding performance [pdf]

    37 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  45. Global Latinists

    37 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  46. To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems

    37 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  47. Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia

    37 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  48. Mercer Family Grants $1M to MAPS for PTSD Research with MDMA

    36 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  49. Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?

    36 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  50. Verizon to stop honoring FCC restriction, start SIM-locking phones

    36 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  51. An agoraphobic globetrotter who uses Street View to 'travel'

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  52. What’s it like to be one of the Jeopardy clue writers?

    36 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  53. AMD unveils 14nm Ryzen Embedded V1000 to compete with Intel Xeon D

    36 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  54. Flight Simulator Installs Password-Stealing Malware in Attempt to Combat Piracy

    36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  55. SEC May Take Enforcement Action Against Investors Who Promoted Unregulated ICOs

    36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  56. Place Kit – The future of augmented reality mobile apps

    36 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  57. Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Downloads

    36 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  58. Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms

    36 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  59. Show HN: Veros, a high-performance ocean simulator in pure Python

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  60. Interactive ML Analytics with Google's Facets Dive and Scikit-Learn

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  61. How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months

    36 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  62. When are Lyft and Uber going to add a “refund” button within their app?

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  63. Unfortunately, StackOverflow is difficult-to-avoid nowadays…

    36 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  64. A short history of Zhvandun, Afghanistan's lost magazine

    36 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  65. South Korean Cryptocurrency Regulator Found Dead at Home

    36 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  66. Compaction Strategies Series: Write Amplification in Leveled Compaction

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  67. Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up

    36 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  68. Bitcoin thieves threaten real violence for virtual currencies

    36 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  69. Why and How Java Developers Break APIs

    36 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  70. Big rise in IPv6-enabled .nl domain names

    35 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  71. Show HN: LambStatus – Status page system built on AWS Lambda

    35 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  72. Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples

    35 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  73. Ask HN: What about Think HN?

    35 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  74. Voice UI Is the Future. But When?

    35 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  75. ‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Shows the Evolution of Mary Shelley’s Monster

    35 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  76. The Uber Pay Gap

    35 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  77. Reading bits in far too many ways, part 2

    35 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  78. A worm species called Thelazia gulosa was found in the eye of a woman

    35 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  79. Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

    35 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  80. Investigators Say DB Cooper Was CIA

    35 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  81. I Ate Nothing but Meat for 2 Weeks

    35 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  82. A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a Close

    35 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  83. Georgia Must Block This Flawed Computer Crime Bill

    35 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  84. The Black Panther’s scientist role models

    35 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  85. Intel 4004 microprocessor oral history panel (2007)

    35 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  86. Student Loan Debt Clock

    35 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  87. The American Mall Game: A 2018 Retail Challenge

    35 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  88. What Is the Perfect Color Worth?

    34 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  89. The Navy’s Electromagnetic Railgun Is Both Alive and Dead

    34 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  90. When the Copyright Office Meets, the Future Needs a Seat at the Table

    34 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  91. The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality

    34 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  92. Node-APL: APL interpreter written in JavaScript

    34 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  93. Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk

    34 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  94. Bill Gates – A villain who lived to see himself become a hero? (2016)

    34 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  95. The Importance of Taleb’s System: The Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game

    34 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  96. SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe

    34 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  97. Ask HN: Does anyone here suffer from a speech impediment?

    34 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  98. Razer doesn’t care about Linux

    34 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  99. Filtering stream water or fresh water is medically unnecessary

    34 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  100. There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining the Planet

    34 points • comment • feb 10, 2018