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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

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

    305 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  2. Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning

    304 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  3. How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”

    302 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  4. To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

    301 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  5. Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells in dental pulp

    301 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  6. 10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain

    301 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  7. Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)

    300 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  8. Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person

    300 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  9. European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change

    299 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  10. Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head

    297 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  11. Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)

    296 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  12. Quiet for Android – TCP over sound

    296 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  13. A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die

    295 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  14. Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum

    295 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  15. Farewell from Rusty Russell

    295 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  16. Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT

    293 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  17. A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse

    292 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  18. Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick

    292 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  19. Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

    292 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  20. Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations

    291 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  21. “Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996)

    291 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  22. Propel – Machine learning for Javascript

    290 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  23. CRPG Book Released

    290 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  24. My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)

    289 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  25. One year of cycling to work

    289 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  26. RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming language

    287 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  27. Python’s Weak Performance Matters

    286 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  28. Beverly Clock

    285 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  29. KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System

    284 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  30. A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges

    284 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  31. New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it

    284 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  32. How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software

    284 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  33. OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000

    282 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  34. Show HN: Ask a Dev

    282 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  35. FCC’s Inspector General investigating whether Ajit Pai acted inappropriately

    282 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  36. “Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying

    281 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  37. Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

    281 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  38. FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident

    280 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

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

    279 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  40. A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built

    279 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  41. Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming

    279 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  42. Origami Simulator

    277 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  43. A Programmable Programming Language

    277 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  44. Germany considers free public transport in fight to banish air pollution

    276 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  45. Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now

    274 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  46. Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data

    271 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  47. Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen

    270 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  48. Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)

    270 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  49. RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images

    270 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  50. In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster

    269 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  51. Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition

    268 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  52. Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit

    268 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  53. A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters

    267 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  54. A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)

    267 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  55. Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains

    266 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  56. The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones

    266 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  57. CSS Grid changes everything [video]

    266 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  58. Introduction to LLVM [video]

    266 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  59. LLVM for Grad Students (2015)

    263 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  60. Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim

    263 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  61. Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)

    263 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  62. Nix 2.0 Released

    262 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  63. The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

    262 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  64. How to find hidden cameras (2002) [pdf]

    260 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  65. Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine

    260 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  66. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)

    260 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  67. The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself

    259 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  68. A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using

    259 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  69. Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression [pdf]

    259 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  70. The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a reason

    259 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  71. Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts

    257 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  72. Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?

    256 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  73. Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated

    256 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  74. XXY Oscilloscope

    256 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  75. Hidden work when launching a SaaS

    255 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  76. Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX

    255 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  77. Drawing better-looking Bézier curves

    255 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  78. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

    253 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  79. Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)

    253 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  80. Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

    253 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  81. A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B

    252 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  82. Electron 2.0.0 beta

    252 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  83. Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

    252 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  84. Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)

    251 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  85. OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time

    251 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  86. Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules

    250 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  87. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)

    250 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  88. The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up

    249 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  89. Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015

    248 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  90. Cloud TPUs in Beta

    247 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  91. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines

    247 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  92. ISP Spying

    246 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  93. Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads

    246 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  94. Keep your Identity Small (2009)

    245 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  95. ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)

    245 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  96. The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)

    245 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  97. StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf]

    245 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  98. Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter

    245 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  99. Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf]

    244 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  100. The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java

    244 points • comment • feb 14, 2018