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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Ask HN: What's the best algorithms and data structures online course?

    242 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  2. How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away with It

    242 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  3. Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014)

    240 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  4. AMP: the missing controversy

    239 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  5. Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

    239 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  6. Show HN: Mitmproxy 3.0 released, an open-source console-based proxy

    239 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  7. A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)

    239 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  8. “We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

    239 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  9. Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet

    238 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  10. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

    237 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  11. Why Paper Jams Persist

    237 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  12. Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?

    237 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  13. Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)

    236 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  14. Konva – HTML5 2d canvas library for desktop and mobile applications

    236 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  15. Tesla Model S outsells German luxury flagships in Europe

    236 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  16. Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI

    236 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  17. Meltdown fix committed to OpenBSD

    235 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  18. Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug

    235 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  19. Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)

    234 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  20. Concerns that social media causes childhood depression

    234 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  21. QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64

    234 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  22. Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies

    234 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  23. I reported a critical bug and now they started a police investigation on me

    233 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  24. The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails

    233 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  25. Reason ML toolchain

    233 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  26. Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika

    233 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  27. HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board

    232 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  28. 16 year old app developer: Plagiarist or Prodigy?

    231 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  29. Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

    231 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  30. Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws

    230 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  31. Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)

    230 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  32. Arduino OpenCat

    230 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  33. Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)

    230 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  34. Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost

    228 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  35. Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS

    228 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  36. A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’

    227 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  37. U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election

    225 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  38. Startup Investor School: The Basics of Seed Investing

    225 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  39. Utility poles

    225 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  40. How and why we moved to Vue.js

    224 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  41. Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests

    224 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  42. SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

    224 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  43. FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia

    224 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  44. Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears

    223 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  45. Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World

    222 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  46. Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading

    222 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  47. Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

    222 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  48. Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring

    221 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  49. Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

    220 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  50. China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  51. The Case Against Google

    220 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  52. Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  53. Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex

    219 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  54. An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU

    218 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  55. Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier

    218 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  56. African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there

    218 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  57. Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'

    216 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  58. JMESPath – A query language for JSON

    216 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  59. Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

    216 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  60. Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines

    216 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  61. The reason Facebook won’t ever change

    216 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  62. High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War

    215 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  63. A Clojure learning journey

    214 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  64. Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M

    214 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  65. A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating

    214 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  66. An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures

    214 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  67. PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

    214 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  68. Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users

    213 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  69. How Rust Is Tilde’s Competitive Advantage [pdf]

    213 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  70. Show HN: Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images

    213 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  71. Apple in China: who holds the keys?

    213 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  72. A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers

    213 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  73. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet

    212 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  74. Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

    212 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  75. Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

    212 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  76. Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs

    211 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  77. WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

    211 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  78. Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"

    211 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  79. Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol

    211 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  80. Making Direct3D games faster in Wine using modern OpenGL

    211 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  81. Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative

    211 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  82. The Shallowness of Google Translate

    210 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  83. The Dropbox Foundation

    209 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  84. Answers to front-end developer job interview questions

    209 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  85. Doctors, Revolt

    209 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  86. Americans are spending less on clothing

    208 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  87. An opinionated guide to Haskell

    208 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  88. Decode Like It's 1999: MPEG-1 Decoder in JavaScript

    208 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  89. I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind

    208 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  90. Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails

    208 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  91. How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?

    208 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  92. GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse

    208 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  93. Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes

    207 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  94. The brazenness of the LIBOR scam

    207 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  95. Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System

    206 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  96. A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while running in 1950

    206 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  97. How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life

    206 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  98. Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

    206 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  99. Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks [pdf]

    206 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  100. Exploring ReasonML and functional programming

    205 points • comment • feb 08, 2018