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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Put Driverless Cars Back in the Slow Lane

    20 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  2. Wire Chat App is now actually close-sourced

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  3. In just 24 hours, 5,000 Android devices are conscripted into mining botnet

    20 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  4. Show HN: Hey Meta – Quickly check, improve and generate your website's meta tags

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  5. Show HN: GitMeet – Attract and Retain GitHub Project Contributors

    19 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  6. Show HN: Jobder – Find the job match your open source contribution

    19 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  7. Saferwall – A hackable malware sandbox

    19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  8. I'm a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist

    19 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  9. Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers

    19 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  10. ‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion

    19 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  11. Why A.I. Researchers at Google Got Desks Next to the Boss

    19 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  12. Dow Plunges 1,175, the Biggest Point Drop in History

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  13. We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s Sake

    19 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  14. Scavenging for Intelligence: The Secret Search for Objects During the Cold War

    19 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  15. The Comprehensive Illusion of Football (2015)

    19 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  16. Bitcoin dropping alongside global stock markets, discrediting safe haven theory

    19 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  17. I passed $50,000 in monthly revenue as an indie maker

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  18. Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision: 'Accidentism'

    19 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  19. Feeling Good About the Future of Computer Science

    19 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  20. What a Number Is (1991)

    19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  21. Trainee doctors left 'crying' after computer glitch crashes online exam

    19 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  22. An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector

    19 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  23. Ask HN: How to escape my own zombie startup?

    19 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  24. Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga

    19 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  25. Building a Well System

    19 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  26. Inside Russian Troll Farm, the Internet Research Agency (2015)

    19 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  27. Introducing HTTP/2 Server Push with NGINX 1.13.9

    19 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  28. Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  29. Genetics Dominate Environmental Influences on Self-Control in Children

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  30. Why your programmers fantasize about a big rewrite

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  31. Easy PostgreSQL Performance Stats with PgHero and Docker

    19 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  32. The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It?

    19 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  33. Is there anything like HN for creatives

    19 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  34. Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  35. Machine Learning with TensorFlow is now published

    19 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  36. Obama Targeted Killing Document: If We Do It, It’s Not Illegal (2013)

    18 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  37. US CBP Haven't Properly Verified Visitor Passports for a Decade Plus

    18 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  38. Trump Cuts US Cash for International Space Station

    18 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  39. Federal Crackdown on Immigration Activists Threatens to Chill Free Speech

    18 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  40. Why New Zealand is releasing a rabbit-killing virus

    18 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  41. Weak Men Are Superweapons

    18 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  42. Predicting Productivity Gains from Parking Behavior (2014)

    18 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  43. A single night of sleep loss impairs working memory in women, but not men

    18 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  44. Blockchain is a useless technology

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  45. Silent Witnesses: Two Manuals of the Sart Language

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  46. Is Rails Still Popular in 2018?

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  47. OpenAI Releases Algorithm That Helps Robots Learn from Hindsight

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  48. WhatsApp Co-Founder Puts $50M into Signal to Supercharge Encrypted Messaging

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  49. An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters)

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  50. How Banks Could Control Gun Sales If Washington Won’t

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  51. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1994) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  52. House moves toward eliminating agency tasked to prevent voting machine hacking

    18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  53. Early Facebook and Google employees are planning to lobby against tech addiction

    18 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  54. White settlers buried the truth about the Midwest’s mysterious mound cities

    18 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  55. The Game Boy Camera, one of Nintendo’s weirdest, most ingenious inventions

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  56. Hipster ipsum

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  57. Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  58. Terminal Recorders: A Comprehensive Guide

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  59. Ask HN: How to take back my attention and discipline?

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  60. Toyota Prius software fix may reduce fuel efficiency, experts say

    18 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  61. What Bitcoin Reveals About Financial Markets

    18 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  62. Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  63. Meet Uber’s software engineer apprentices

    18 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  64. UI Design for Startups (Monthly Service)

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  65. Ask HN: What are your experiences re: relocating?

    18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  66. Ask HN: Do any accelerators specialize in “Remote First” or “Remote Only” teams?

    18 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  67. Mercedes-Benz caused an outcry in China by quoting the Dalai Lama

    18 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Why are we addicted to getting rich?

    18 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  69. HomePods are staining wooden tables with a white ring

    18 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  70. Alt-right leaders can no longer spread disinformation on Medium

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  71. Ask HN: What is your company doing for GDPR compliance?

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  72. ‘Bitcoin is my potential pension’: What’s driving people in Kentucky to join

    17 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  73. Ask HN: Would you live in a town built for remote workers?

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  74. Kaspersky Says Telegram Flaw Used for Cryptocurrency Mining

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  75. Your Facebook data is creepy as hell

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  76. YouTube Red is having an identity crisis

    17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  77. Telegram apps fall foul of iOS App Store content rules

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  78. How Facebook took the news business

    17 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  79. Women go into science careers more often in countries without gender equality

    17 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  80. Show HN: Memes on the Blockchain

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  81. FogBugz rebranded to Manuscript

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  82. Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  83. Google starts taking payments for apps via Kenya's M-Pesa service

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  84. Common Lisp Brazil Community

    17 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  85. Get Ready for Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says

    17 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  86. "Not Rocket Science": The story of Monotone and Bors (2014)

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  87. Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  88. Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  89. Show HN: A HN or Reddit like social network for musicians and music learners

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curating)

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  91. Almost four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017

    17 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  92. Goreuse: Generic Code for Go

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  93. GitHub Is Enabling HTTPS on GitHub Page

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  94. TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 15 Results

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  95. Why I rejected my manager

    17 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  96. Performance debugging: from 1.3X slower to 48X faster than Apache Kafka

    17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  97. Ask HN: Would you pay to have a penpal?

    17 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  98. Bitcoin Regret Club

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  99. Microsoft’s compiler-level Spectre fix shows how hard this problem will be

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  100. Ethereum founder warns cryptocurrencies 'could drop to near zero at any time'

    17 points • comment • feb 17, 2018