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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. What Made Lisp Different (2002)

    176 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  2. Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)

    176 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  3. What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?

    175 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  4. SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt

    175 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  5. 97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals

    175 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  6. Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress

    175 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  7. Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO

    174 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  8. Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine

    174 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  9. We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews

    174 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  10. Programming ARM μC in Rust at four different levels of abstraction

    174 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  11. Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona

    174 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  12. SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)

    173 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  13. Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces

    173 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  14. Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

    173 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  15. Ad Companies Love Google’s Ad Blocker, but Hate Apple’s Privacy Features

    172 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  16. Introduction to Functional Programming (1988) [pdf]

    172 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  17. JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp

    172 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  18. Are Monads a Waste of Time?

    172 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  19. Writing space invaders with Go

    172 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  20. Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier

    171 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  21. How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger

    171 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  22. The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick

    171 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  23. Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed

    170 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  24. Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World

    170 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  25. Show HN: Generating GraphQL servers for Go

    170 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  26. Google Calendar should prevent spam by default

    170 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  27. Telegram Login for Websites

    169 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  28. Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year

    169 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  29. We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important

    169 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  30. Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand

    169 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  31. Ariane RISC-V CPU

    168 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  32. Project: 2ine – OS/2 emulator for Linux

    168 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  33. The cost of forsaking C

    167 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  34. GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors

    167 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  35. Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet

    167 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  36. Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?

    167 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  37. Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city

    167 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  38. An Argument Against Quantum Computers

    167 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  39. WxPython 4.0.0 Released

    167 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  40. Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released

    167 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  41. Go 1.10 is released

    166 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  42. CS 522: Machine Learning Approaches to Decode the Human Genome

    166 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  43. Containers Will Not Fix a Broken Culture

    165 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  44. Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads

    165 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  45. Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles

    165 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  46. Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?

    165 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  47. Making Light of the “Dark Web”

    165 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  48. Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

    164 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  49. I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month

    164 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  50. Retiring Wave

    163 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  51. E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail

    163 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  52. Show HN: Headless Chrome Crawler

    163 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  53. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (2017) [pdf]

    163 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  54. Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

    162 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  55. Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk

    162 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  56. The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets

    161 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  57. Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?

    161 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  58. Reasoning with Types in Rust

    161 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  59. Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)

    161 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  60. Foxconn unit to cut over 10k jobs as robotics take over

    160 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  61. I.MX7 M4 Atomic Cache Bug

    160 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  62. REPL-Driven Development (2017)

    160 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  63. How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)

    160 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  64. Pineapple Fund Drops $1M on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance

    160 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  65. A Chinese Casino company has set out to take over the U.S. island of Saipan

    160 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  66. DigiCert Statement on Trustico Certificate Revocation

    160 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  67. A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)

    159 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  68. SaaS Pricing: Lessons from Changes

    159 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  69. Should you Rust in embedded yet?

    159 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  70. Safari Password Generation

    159 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  71. What people actually do at WeWork

    159 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  72. MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence

    159 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  73. Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

    159 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  74. FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

    158 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  75. Spectre Mitigations in Microsoft's C/C++ Compiler

    158 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  76. Udash – Scala and Scala.js Reactive Web Framework

    158 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  77. Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android

    158 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  78. Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

    158 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  79. Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative

    158 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  80. When to bring in the heavy hitters

    158 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  81. Reasons to think that, in terms of influence if not wealth, Facebook has peaked

    157 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  82. Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching?

    157 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  83. Google Hangouts Chat

    157 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  84. OpenSCHUFA – Reverse-engineering the algorithm of the German credit score agency

    157 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  85. Advanced SQL window function quiz

    157 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  86. How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down

    157 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  87. Flyover video of Jupiter’s Europa

    157 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  88. Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields

    157 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  89. Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes

    156 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  90. Opening the code of our X-Pack features

    156 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  91. Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”

    156 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  92. How black people still need to outwit racists in rural America

    156 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  93. Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India

    156 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  94. Visual Studio Live Share Preview

    156 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  95. Show HN: Jumprock.co – HTML Forms for Static Sites

    155 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  96. How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet

    155 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  97. Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016)

    155 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  98. Common combinators in JavaScript

    155 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  99. Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?

    154 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  100. Bill Ackman Surrenders in His Five-Year War Against Herbalife

    154 points • comment • feb 28, 2018