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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. “For Ursula”: A Poem by Naomi Novik for Ursula Le Guin

    7 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  2. Could Self-Driving Trucks Be Good for Truckers?

    7 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  3. Amateur astronomer tries out new camera, catches supernova at its start

    7 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  4. San Francisco Man Has Spent Years Trying to Turn His Laundromat into Apartments

    7 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  5. Facebook Hackers Gaming Its Video Algorithm

    7 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  6. Ask HN: RFC – Ubuntu Minimal Images

    7 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  7. SREXero: Managing Incidents Part I

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  8. A student called Kevin holds the fate of the Merkel coalition

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  9. Moving a Large and Old Codebase to Python3 – Anders Hovmöller – Medium

    7 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  10. Ask HN: Open-source, centralised, zero-knowledge file syncing software?

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  11. All the things I hate about Python

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  12. Apache Mesos 1.5.0 has been released

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  13. Bitcoin is my potential pension: What’s driving Kentuckians to join the craze

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  14. A new type of solar cell is coming to market

    7 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  15. Google May Step into Gaming with ‘Yeti’ Streaming Service

    7 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  16. Ask HN: How do you backup data of your projects

    7 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

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

    7 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  18. Why “Open Borders” Is a Dangerous Idea

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  19. Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (2012)

    7 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  20. InfoWars' main YouTube channel is two strikes away from being banned

    7 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  21. Research Team Uncovers Hidden Details in Picasso Blue Period Painting

    7 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  22. Ask HN: Is there a podcast on the history of Unix?

    7 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  23. UK banks ban Bitcoin purchases with credit cards

    7 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  24. Is your software racist?

    7 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  25. Elon Musk's Tesla to give solar panels and batteries to 50,000 SA homes

    7 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  26. Priority Bicycles: How a Startup Builds a Better, Cheaper Bicycle

    7 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  27. Racist, Sexist AI Could Be a Bigger Problem Than Lost Jobs

    7 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  28. McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's glue that holds communities together (2016)

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  29. SPED – A text-based non-destructive sound file editor (2007) [pdf]

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  30. How to create an ML framework from scratch: Our high school thesis

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  31. Poor Man’s Cryptocurrency Google Sheet

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  32. How to create desktop applications with JavaScript (Electron) in 30 minutes

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  33. NASA Rediscovers Lost Satellite, IMAGE

    6 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  34. The case for Ethereum maximalism

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  35. The Girl Who Turned to Bone

    6 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  36. “Hello World” Spotted on United Airlines Login Site

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  37. Fast JSON API Serialization with Ruby on Rails

    6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  38. Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  39. Ask HN: Which Open Source projects need more maintainers

    6 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  40. What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture

    6 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  41. Ripcord allegedly fires employee over claims of toxic work environment

    6 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  42. Bitcoin energy use in Iceland set to overtake homes

    6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  43. Where Are the Startups? Loss of Dynamism Is Impeding Growth

    6 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  44. Tell HN: Atrium Academy – free fundraising bootcamp March 24-25

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  45. Someone Is Sending Sex Toys to Strangers. Amazon Has No Idea How to Stop It

    6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  46. Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  47. Ask HN: How to improve my code review skills?

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  48. America No Longer a 'Nation of Immigrants,' – USCIS

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  49. U.S. Border Patrol Hasn't Validated E-Passport Data for Years

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  50. Global smartphone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  51. Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  52. From cyber-libertarianism to national-populism (The many faces of fascism pt. 1)

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  53. Quit Genius, backed by Y Combinator, wants to help you quit smoking

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  54. The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  55. A personal inquiry into the tech industry

    6 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  56. Ask HN: What Python web programming frameworks and tools are you using?

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  57. The Hypocrisy of AT&T’s “Internet Bill of Rights”

    6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  58. Fundraising Advice from Female Founders

    6 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  59. In-the-wild DDoSes use new way to achieve unthinkable sizes

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  60. Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates all traces of cancer in mice

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  61. SpaceX Hid a Second, Secret Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy, and It Sounds Amazing

    6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  62. More Mac OS X and iPhone sandbox escapes and kernel bugs

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  63. COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  64. After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  65. Petro: the first State-issued cryptoasset

    6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  66. A new version of BriskBard web browser has been released

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  67. Ask HN: What is the best way to future proof a new home your about to build?

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  68. Checking Firewall Equivalence with Z3

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  69. The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Gellhorn

    6 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  70. America Should Have Stayed Home This Flu Season

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  71. A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  72. U.S. court says Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims

    6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  73. Flashback: For 1930s Dallas schoolgirls, posture was a required course

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  74. Intel Rolls Out New 3D NAND SSDs – InsideHPC

    6 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  75. EMEs – the most controversial HTML5 extension

    6 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  76. Making tunnels the way you make spaceships

    6 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  77. New EU Privacy Law May Weaken Security

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  78. Russian trolls on Twitter ‘rile’ Americans on gun violence

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  79. How Bill Gates aims to clean up the planet

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  80. The Engineering of the Drinking Bird [video]

    6 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  81. Liquid-crystal contact lenses that will be able to switch focus

    6 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  82. Dow Tumbles Over 1,100 Points in Biggest Point-Drop Ever

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  83. Trump administration considering privatizing International Space Station

    6 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  84. The Rise of a Visual Internet: Welcome to the Post-Text Future

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  85. Tesla’s cloud was ‘hijacked’ by hackers to mine cryptocurrencies

    6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  86. Uber, Lyft and others want self-driving cars–but only if they operate as a fleet

    6 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  87. For Billionaire “Crypto-Whales”, Puerto Rico Is the New Cayman Islands

    6 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  88. Add-on clip turns smartphone into fully operational microscope

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  89. Ask HN: Whom do you follow for personal growth?

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  90. Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desert

    6 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  91. China Railway project involving 1,500 workers completed in less than 9 hours

    6 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Is there any WINE like software for running OS X software on Linux?

    6 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  93. Why Code Breaks

    6 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  94. The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy [pdf]

    6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  95. Tesla Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Update [pdf]

    6 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  96. VMware Acquires CloudCoreo

    6 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  97. Amazon has agreed to acquire Ring for more than $1B

    6 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  98. Exponential Backoff in Service Startup

    6 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  99. AMD sending out free processors to solve firmware flashing Catch-22

    6 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  100. Roth Agonistes

    6 points • comment • feb 20, 2018