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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Ranking net worth by age, income, degree, and gender

    34 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  2. The Littlehampton libels

    34 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  3. The Shallowness of Google Translate (by Douglas Hofstadter)

    34 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  4. The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein”

    34 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  5. Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf]

    34 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  6. AR Planes: Discover nearby planes in augmented reality

    34 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  7. Politics is a Mind-Killer (2007)

    34 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  8. Using data to find the middle of nowhere

    34 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  9. Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system (2014)

    33 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  10. Transfer Learning Will Radically Change Machine Learning for Engineers

    33 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  11. 4 Years Trying to Get Approval to Turn SF Laundromat into Apartment Building

    33 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  12. The Stolen XRB has already been Redistributed or Sold

    33 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  13. Colour 0.3.11 is available

    33 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  14. War in the Womb (2014)

    33 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  15. A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting (2009)

    33 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  16. What If Men and Women Skied Against Each Other in the Olympics?

    33 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  17. Asian elephants have different personality traits

    33 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  18. NPM packages with most dependencies

    33 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  19. A Brief History of Private Money and Crypto

    33 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  20. This program is valid in 179 languages

    33 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  21. Deep Learning Meets DSP: OFDM Signal Detection

    33 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  22. Ask HN: What other websites/forums do you use that are of similar quality to HN?

    33 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  23. Show HN: Creating Custom Ubuntu Web Link App

    33 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  24. Instant scale with AWS Lambda (2017)

    33 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  25. Allcancode: from a coding game to a tool that simplifies software production

    33 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  26. Waking up to China’s infiltration of American colleges

    33 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  27. Rest is the new SOAP – followup

    33 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  28. Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?

    32 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  29. Last Week at Wellesley

    32 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  30. Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers

    32 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  31. Ask HN: Why do the things you are most afraid of?

    32 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  32. Ask HN: How would you relearn programming?

    32 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  33. The Risks Digest

    32 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  34. Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico

    32 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  35. Show HN: Transfer, easy transfer learning for image classification

    32 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  36. Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation in images

    32 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  37. Hex-Rays IDA 7.0 freeware version

    32 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  38. Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants You Off His Stretch of the California Coastline

    32 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  39. Java May Use UTF-8 as Its Default Charset

    32 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  40. Occultism, cinema and architecture: the Bradbury Building

    32 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  41. Credit Suisse Fund Liquidated, ETFs Halted as Short-Vol Bets Die

    32 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  42. Apple Park employees reportedly smacking into new headquarters’ glass walls

    32 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  43. I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great

    32 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  44. "Break and Enter dropbox" attack with Amazon Key (smartlock and smartcam combo)

    32 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  45. Resonance Audio SDK for Unity v1.2.0 released

    32 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  46. Switched-on bats: hosting viruses is a cost of flying

    32 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  47. Mysterious origin of domesticated horses ‘turned upside down' by DNA analysis

    32 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  48. Cryonics Myths

    32 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  49. Has liberalism failed?

    32 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  50. Twitter is finally cracking down on bots

    32 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  51. When you don't pay your web developer

    32 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  52. ATT loses years-long quest to cripple FTC authority over telecoms

    32 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  53. Coinbase is erratically overcharging some users and emptying their bank accounts

    32 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  54. The Risks of Knowing Your Risk

    32 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  55. Making Olympic Snow and Ice

    32 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  56. Bitcoin turning into a multi-layered system is most interesting thing in crypto

    32 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  57. Batch Normalization for deep networks

    32 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  58. Apple’s HomePod: Paying $350 for a speaker that says “no” this much is tough

    32 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  59. I’m no longer advocating for clean energy; here’s why (2017)

    31 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  60. Advice for Coding Bootcamp Graduates

    31 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  61. Unsafe Working Conditions at Tesla’s Factory

    31 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  62. The Navy’s Second Stealth Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Is Almost Ready for Action

    31 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  63. NET Core 2.1 Roadmap

    31 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  64. Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Production (1943) [video]

    31 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  65. Memex: open-source full-text search extension for browsing history and bookmarks

    31 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  66. Programmer's Oath

    31 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  67. Show HN: RESTCharts – Generate charts quickly and easily through a REST-like API

    31 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  68. Why Mean Squared Error?

    31 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  69. Nitrates and Ammonium

    31 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  70. Ask HN: Airbnb algorithms change hurts hosts?

    31 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  71. On AMP for Email

    31 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  72. Small b blogging

    31 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  73. What Is the Last Question?

    31 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  74. Robotics at Harvard

    31 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  75. Measuring Re-Identification Risk in De-Identified Content

    31 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  76. Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD

    31 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  77. China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley

    31 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  78. So many people are leaving the Bay Area, a U-Haul shortage is jacking up prices

    31 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  79. Secret Bitcoin billionaires to renounce their US citizenship before cashing in?

    31 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  80. Google Pay app for Android

    31 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  81. The time has come to remove Facebook from your life (2017)

    31 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  82. Flavors of Engineering Management

    31 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  83. How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights

    31 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  84. Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court

    31 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  85. Ask HN: What Algorithms are you using to make money?

    30 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  86. Rochefort – Poor Man's Kafka

    30 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  87. Artificial Intelligence Isn't Killing Jobs; It's Killing Business Models

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  88. FCC: Releasing 'Jokes' About Ajit Pai Colluding with Verizon Would 'Harm' Agency

    30 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  89. Stealing from Self-Checkouts

    30 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  90. Amateur astronomer gets 1-in-10M shot of supernova’s first light

    30 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  91. BitGrail got hacked and is insolvent

    30 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  92. Colorization Using Optimization (2004)

    30 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  93. What is the Shadow DOM anyway?

    30 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  94. Electronics-recycling innovator faces prison for printing Windows restore discs

    30 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  95. How I was hacked, and all my cryptocurrencies were stolen

    30 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  96. Iowa ranks as the best state to live in America, U.S. News says

    30 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  97. Critical thinking and why you shouldn’t listen to Martin Fowler

    30 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  98. You can’t build a SaaS company in 2018 without significant funding

    30 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  99. Inside Vancouver's Brock Commons, World's Tallest Mass Timber Building (2017)

    30 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  100. Facebook uses 2FA phone number for status updates

    30 points • comment • feb 14, 2018