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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up off the ground

    205 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  2. Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant

    205 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  3. Capturing Starman from 1M miles away

    204 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  4. 2018 Annual Letter from Bill and Melinda Gates

    204 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  5. New Maps Reveal Global Fishing's 'Vast Scope of Exploitation of the Ocean'

    203 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  6. Speed Without Wizardry

    203 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  7. Ask HN: Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?

    202 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  8. Machine Theory of Mind

    202 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  9. The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry

    202 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  10. Failed intercept at Dhahran caused by a software error in handling of timestamps

    202 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  11. The Philosophy of Computer Science

    201 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  12. Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks

    201 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  13. HappyOrNot terminals look simple, but the information they gather is revelatory

    201 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  14. Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup

    201 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  15. Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon

    200 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  16. Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware startups

    200 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  17. How much money do people need to be happy?

    200 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  18. TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client

    200 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  19. Go 1.10 Release Notes

    200 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  20. 2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added

    199 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  21. Doctors in China Lead Race to Treat Cancer by Editing Genes

    198 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  22. Live Computer Vision Coding

    197 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  23. Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH

    197 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  24. QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification

    197 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  25. Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos

    197 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  26. Many patent holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling

    196 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  27. Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old code

    196 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  28. Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2017

    195 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  29. 21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco

    195 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  30. Promises are not neutral enough

    195 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  31. Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018

    195 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  32. How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious

    195 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  33. What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death

    195 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  34. Advantages of monolithic version control

    194 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  35. E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night

    193 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  36. Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster

    193 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  37. Writing a Wayland Compositor, Part 1: Hello Wlroots

    193 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  38. Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability

    193 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  39. “The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)

    192 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  40. No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X

    192 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  41. Alphabet's earnings miss profit estimates as spending grows

    192 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  42. Tiny Core Linux

    191 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  43. Equifax under pressure after data breach update

    191 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  44. Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard

    191 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  45. Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings

    191 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  46. Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

    191 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  47. What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM

    191 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  48. China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

    191 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  49. Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today

    190 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  50. The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise

    190 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  51. Inspector – A drop-anywhere C++ REPL

    190 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  52. Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]

    190 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  53. Tensor Comprehensions

    189 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  54. Tinkering with electronics

    189 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  55. 3D engine made of MS Excel formulae

    189 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  56. Single Page Application Is Not a Silver Bullet

    189 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  57. China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power

    188 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  58. The Decentralized Future

    188 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  59. Benchmarking Google’s new TPUv2

    187 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  60. Use streaming JSON to reduce latency on mobile

    187 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  61. Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014)

    187 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  62. Tesla deployed over 300 Powerwalls in Hawaiian schools to cool down classrooms

    186 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  63. Progressing from Tech to Leadership

    185 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  64. Using k-d trees to efficiently calculate nearest neighbors in 3D vector space

    185 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  65. IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

    184 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  66. Show HN: Kismet – get an e-mail introduction to a fellow HN member every day

    184 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  67. C++ Coroutine Theory (2017)

    184 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  68. Some Notes About How I Write Haskell

    184 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  69. Who Goes Nazi? (1941)

    184 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  70. Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password

    184 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  71. Washington state has passed the country’s toughest net neutrality legislation

    183 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  72. Nginx HTTP/2 server push support

    183 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  73. 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)

    183 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  74. Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years on an idea many other scientists dismissed

    183 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  75. Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

    182 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  76. Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack

    182 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  77. Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

    181 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  78. The cpu_features library

    181 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  79. Plan 9 public grid

    181 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  80. Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs

    181 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  81. Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform

    181 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  82. Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]

    181 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  83. Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain

    180 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  84. Do you need a blockchain?

    180 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  85. ECMAScript 2018: final feature set

    180 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  86. Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (2016)

    180 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  87. What to do when tech jobs go bad

    180 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  88. Where the wall once stood

    180 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  89. FBI Says Chinese Operatives Active at Scores of U.S. Universities

    179 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  90. Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback

    179 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  91. Malta: an island of secrets and lies

    179 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  92. Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains

    179 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  93. The Algorithm Design Manual (2008)

    179 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  94. I have forgotten how to read

    179 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  95. Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+

    178 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  96. The Tripartite Identity Pattern (2008)

    178 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  97. KeePassXC 2.3.0 released

    178 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  98. BPF comes to firewalls

    177 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  99. Skype can't fix a nasty security bug without a massive code rewrite

    177 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  100. Ajit Pai faces investigation into moves that benefit Sinclair Broadcasting

    176 points • comment • feb 25, 2018