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Hacker News (Feb 2018)

  1. Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]

    121 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

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

    121 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  3. The Fields Medal should return to its roots

    121 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  4. Background removal with deep learning

    121 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  5. Modernish: a shell moderniser library

    121 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  6. A list of swag opportunities for developers

    120 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  7. Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple

    120 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  8. Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust

    120 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  9. A Closed-Form Solution to Photorealistic Image Stylization

    120 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  10. A Tribute to John Perry Barlow

    120 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  11. CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit

    119 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  12. The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data

    119 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  13. Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan

    119 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  14. LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video]

    119 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  15. ​Pipenv: One Year Later and a Call for Help

    119 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  16. DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM

    118 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  17. Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017)

    118 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  18. IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t

    118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  19. SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites

    118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  20. Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour

    118 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  21. The Tyranny of Convenience

    118 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  22. What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?

    118 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  23. Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone

    118 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  24. Show HN: I implemented seamless copy and paste of images, and wrote a tutorial

    118 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  25. Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web

    118 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  26. Oceans and Lakes Are Becoming 'Dead Zones' Again

    118 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  27. Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection

    117 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  28. How inflation swindles the equity investor (1977)

    117 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  29. Stripping CO2 from the air and using it to produce carbon-neutral fuel

    117 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  30. The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM

    117 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  31. Number of open faculty positions in CompSci exceeds candidates by a factor of 5

    117 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  32. Please – A Cross-Language Build System

    117 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  33. 'The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell'

    117 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  34. 25 Days of ReasonML

    116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  35. Memory Tagging and how it improves C/C++ memory safety

    116 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  36. Return type polymorphism in Haskell

    116 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  37. Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide

    116 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  38. Networked Physics in Virtual Reality

    116 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  39. ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs

    116 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  40. A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby

    116 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  41. Finding the Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale

    116 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  42. Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups

    116 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  43. The “Oh-My-God Particle”

    116 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  44. Show HN: Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs

    116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  45. How Justin Kan fundraises

    116 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  46. IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur

    116 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  47. Revisiting 'Monadic Parsing in Haskell'

    116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  48. You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time

    115 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  49. How Will I Measure My Life?

    115 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  50. Elsevier’s profits swell to more than £900M

    115 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  51. Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications

    114 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  52. Aura: shipping software that was delayed for 4 years because of patent licensing

    114 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  53. Improving the way kids are taught to read

    114 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  54. Toyota develops first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet for motors

    114 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  55. Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News

    114 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  56. Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads

    114 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  57. Reading bits in far too many ways

    114 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  58. Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

    114 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  59. Docker for Data Science

    113 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  60. Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’

    113 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  61. How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels

    113 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  62. A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA

    113 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  63. A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology

    113 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  64. On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

    112 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  65. Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key

    112 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  66. An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported

    112 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  67. A320-X DRM: What happened

    112 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  68. Announcing SegWit support

    112 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  69. Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy

    112 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  70. Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?

    112 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  71. Chip Aging Accelerates

    112 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  72. Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content

    112 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  73. Show HN: Online web tools to get your work done faster

    112 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  74. A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet

    112 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  75. Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website

    112 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  76. Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years–and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix It All

    112 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  77. Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work (2015)

    111 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  78. Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it

    111 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  79. Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data

    111 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  80. The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf]

    111 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  81. The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars

    111 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  82. Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up

    111 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  83. Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job

    111 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  84. US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm

    111 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  85. Turning a Job Opening into a Dream Job for Top Talent

    111 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  86. Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly from Miners

    110 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  87. Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p

    110 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  88. Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons

    110 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  89. Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK

    109 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  90. DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild

    109 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  91. JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (2013)

    109 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  92. OpenAI Supporters

    109 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  93. Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car

    109 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  94. Bringing AMP to Gmail

    109 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  95. A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved

    108 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  96. IDEA: A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions

    108 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  97. WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

    108 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  98. JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM [pdf]

    108 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  99. 2600 Accused of Using Unauthorized Ink Splotches (2015)

    108 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  100. TensorFlow on Mobile: TensorFlow Lite

    108 points • comment • feb 04, 2018