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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Venice without water

    135 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  2. Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies

    135 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  3. Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase

    135 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  4. The House That Spied on Me

    134 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  5. PostgreSQL 10.2 Released

    134 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  6. Online voting in Finland: Conclusions and recommendations (2017) [pdf]

    134 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  7. Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft

    134 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  8. Open Source Color Management Is Broken

    133 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  9. SpaceX hits two milestones in plan for low-latency satellite broadband

    133 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  10. ‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows

    133 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  11. What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?

    133 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  12. Go 2017 Survey Results

    133 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  13. Spry Language

    132 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  14. UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks

    132 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  15. The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf]

    132 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  16. Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages

    132 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  17. JPMorgan, BofA Ban Cryptocurrency Transactions on Credit Cards

    132 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  18. Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker

    132 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  19. Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze

    131 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  20. 5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day)

    131 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  21. Announcing Linode Block Storage Volumes

    131 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  22. Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)

    131 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  23. The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West

    131 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  24. Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  25. Introduction to Apple WatchKit with Core Motion – Tracking Jumping Jacks

    130 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  26. How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made?

    130 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  27. Ethics can’t be a side hustle

    130 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  28. How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email

    130 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  29. Bazel can now build Haskell

    130 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  30. Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations

    130 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  31. The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018

    130 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  32. Many Animals Can Count

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  33. Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture

    130 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  34. Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning

    129 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  35. Introducing Airbnb Plus

    129 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  36. Java Grinder: Compile Java bytecode to microcontroller assembly

    129 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  37. Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs

    129 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  38. Twitter Killing Its Mac App

    129 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  39. Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf]

    129 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  40. Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies

    129 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  41. So You Think You Have a Power Law (2007)

    129 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  42. Practical, unsexy steps to become a millionaire

    129 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  43. Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom

    129 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  44. Ian Knot

    128 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  45. Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters

    128 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  46. Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted

    128 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  47. CockroachDB Interactive, D3-Powered Simulations

    128 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  48. Creating a Linux Desktop App with Ruby

    127 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  49. People who are less willing to apologize also tend to be less self-compassionate

    127 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  50. Just teach my kid the math

    127 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  51. Show HN: Takehome.io – Time-limited coding challenges for interviews via Git

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  52. The world's most romantic postbox

    127 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  53. What Atari Was Really Like, According to Women Who Were There

    127 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  54. CloudBees acquires Codeship as devops consolidates

    127 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  55. Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated, Then One Doctor Put It All Together

    127 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  56. Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet service will be IP-less

    126 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  57. Interpretable Machine Learning Through Teaching

    126 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  58. How Much Does a Compiler Cost?

    126 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  59. Switch to Windows 95

    126 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  60. Japan’s SS-520 CubeSat Launch Vehicle Achieves Success on Second Try

    125 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  61. Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation

    125 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  62. Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea

    125 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  63. How WeChat Came to Rule China

    125 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  64. IRS Notification

    125 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  65. Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]

    124 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  66. A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology

    124 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  67. Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”

    124 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  68. Micro-op fusion in x86

    124 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  69. Accurate Navigation Without GPS

    124 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  70. Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera

    124 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  71. HEVC and the No Good Month of January

    124 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  72. New ethics courses in computer science

    124 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  73. 6.4 Earthquake hits Taiwan

    124 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  74. Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (2007)

    123 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  75. Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games

    123 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  76. Native UIs using Vue.js and NativeScript

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  77. Fall of Voodoo

    123 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  78. Adopting a more active lifestyle could benefit your personality decades from now

    123 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  79. A Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol

    123 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  80. Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault Storage Back End

    123 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  81. Zombie Processes Are Eating Your Memory

    123 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  82. Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection

    123 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  83. S-Expressions (1997)

    123 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  84. Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

    123 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  85. The Mess at Meetup

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  86. Prince Rupert's cube

    122 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  87. Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

    122 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  88. The Engineering of the Drinking Bird Toy [video]

    122 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  89. Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations

    122 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  90. Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released

    122 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  91. Understanding Dijkstra's Algorithm

    122 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  92. Uber Sales Reach $7.5B in 2017

    122 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  93. The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica

    122 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  94. Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

    122 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  95. Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video]

    121 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  96. The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years

    121 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  97. Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]

    121 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  98. Modernish: a shell moderniser library

    121 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  99. Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]

    121 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  100. An employer asked me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my alternative proposal.

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2018