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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

    412 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  2. Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive

    411 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  3. Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users

    410 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  4. Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever

    410 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  5. Working remotely, 4 years in

    407 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  6. Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars

    405 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  7. Family fun with deepfakes

    405 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  8. Asciinema 2.0

    404 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  9. Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

    402 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  10. The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”

    401 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  11. Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library

    401 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  12. Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

    400 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  13. Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps

    399 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  14. Worst Roommate Ever

    398 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  15. The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

    395 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  16. India Wants to Give Half a Billion People Free Health Care

    394 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  17. MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images

    394 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  18. Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle

    387 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  19. Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

    384 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  20. Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?

    379 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  21. Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

    376 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  22. Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'

    372 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  23. Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

    370 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  24. Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking

    369 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  25. Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch

    366 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  26. Mark Felt-Tipped: Uncovering top-secret information by counting pixels

    365 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  27. Don't use VPN services

    365 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  28. A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)

    362 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  29. Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze

    361 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  30. React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook

    361 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  31. Vim Anywhere

    360 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  32. Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

    360 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  33. EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen

    357 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  34. Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  35. California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

    357 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  36. Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)

    357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  37. Web application from scratch, part I

    354 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  38. Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

    353 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  39. Appropriate Uses for SQLite

    353 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  40. Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

    353 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  41. In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better

    351 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  42. The Real History of TechCrunch

    349 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  43. Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work

    348 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  44. Dtrace for Linux

    347 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  45. Nobody's just reading your code

    347 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  46. Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair

    345 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  47. Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework

    345 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  48. Collection of Useful CSS Snippets

    344 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  49. Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

    343 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  50. An introduction to Reactive Programming

    342 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  51. Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

    342 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  52. Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge

    341 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  53. Video editing with Python

    337 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  54. MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions

    335 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  55. China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

    333 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  56. LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS

    332 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  57. How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave

    332 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  58. How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve

    332 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  59. Peace for Triple Piano

    332 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  60. 3D Color Print

    331 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  61. Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services

    331 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  62. Go += Package Versioning

    328 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  63. Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

    328 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  64. Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture

    328 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  65. Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

    328 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  66. YC's Series A Diligence Checklist

    327 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  67. Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)

    327 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  68. Rust things I miss in C

    326 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  69. Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

    326 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  70. Facebook turned on face recognition silently

    326 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  71. Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time

    325 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  72. There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One Knows Why

    324 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  73. Dow plunges 1000 points

    323 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  74. US startups don’t want to go public anymore

    323 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  75. Show HN: Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning

    321 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  76. In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat

    319 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  77. Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

    319 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  78. A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files [pdf]

    319 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  79. Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

    319 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  80. Self-owning corporations are legally possible

    319 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  81. It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies

    318 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  82. Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI

    317 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  83. Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber

    316 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  84. Eldar Black Holes

    313 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  85. Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

    313 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  86. Ask HN: As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?

    310 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  87. Crankshaft – A GNU/Linux for the Raspberry Pi as an Android Auto headunit

    310 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  88. Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure

    310 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  89. Books I used to develop a game engine

    309 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  90. An SVG that always shows today's date

    309 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  91. Words for “yes” in Romance languages

    308 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  92. Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse

    308 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  93. Maintaining code quality when nobody cares

    308 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  94. Graphical linear algebra: from matrices to monoids

    308 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  95. Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple

    307 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  96. Best practices for user account, authorization and password management

    307 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  97. Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning

    306 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  98. Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic

    306 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  99. As we age, cancer rates go up as immune system winds down

    305 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  100. The case for ending Amazon’s dominance

    305 points • comment • feb 17, 2018