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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift

    117 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  2. Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

    117 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  3. Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin

    117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  4. For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom

    117 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  5. NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’

    116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  6. Show HN: Scannable Chess Scoresheets

    116 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  7. Teaching People to Trade Stocks Is Like Starting Them on Heroin – Munger

    116 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  8. Reddit Transparency Report 2018

    116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  9. Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover

    116 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  10. The Peculiar Power of Plane Mechanic Simulator

    116 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  11. What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure

    115 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  12. A FrankenPad Story: T25 with Quad-Core CPU and UHD LCD Panel

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  13. The rise of alternative milks

    115 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  14. This Is Silicon Valley

    115 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  15. Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018 [pdf]

    115 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  16. How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know

    114 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  17. I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings

    114 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  18. New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols

    114 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  19. Roger McNamee says the 'like' button was 'beginning of the end'

    114 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  20. Leading with Wikipedia: A brand proposal for 2030

    114 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  21. A humble alternative to technical interviews

    114 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  22. Reflections on Learning Rust by Building Punchtop

    114 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  23. Ask HN: How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?

    114 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  24. The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV

    114 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  25. Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio

    113 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  26. Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?

    113 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  27. Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement

    113 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  28. The Nuclear Option

    113 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  29. Is a shared database in microservices actually an anti-pattern?

    113 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  30. Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography

    113 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  31. Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted

    112 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  32. What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out

    112 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  33. 41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the Internet

    112 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  34. How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley

    112 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  35. Is the Insect Apocalypse Upon Us?

    112 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  36. Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

    112 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  37. Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go

    112 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  38. Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro [video]

    112 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  39. Ask HN: Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?

    112 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  40. PlotNeuralNet: Latex Code for Drawing Neural Networks

    111 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  41. AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

    111 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  42. 4X

    111 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  43. Nginx 1.15.9

    111 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  44. Impossible Mathematics of the Real World (2017)

    111 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  45. Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed

    111 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  46. Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images

    111 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  47. TSMC's Photoresist Material Incident: $550M Loss

    111 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  48. Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding

    110 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  49. Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

    110 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  50. Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]

    110 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  51. How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?

    110 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  52. Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?

    110 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  53. Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)

    110 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  54. U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure

    110 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  55. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Review

    109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  56. Breaking Out of Docker via RunC

    109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  57. Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera

    109 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  58. Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game

    109 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  59. The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

    109 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  60. Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015)

    109 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  61. The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Startups

    109 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  62. VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs

    108 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  63. CSS Grid the Right Way

    108 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  64. “100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway

    108 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  65. Deep learning may need a new programming language

    108 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  66. HyperCard Users Guide (1987) [pdf]

    108 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  67. A brief history of the UUID (2017)

    108 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  68. Deep Dive into Math Behind Deep Networks

    108 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  69. Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People

    108 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  70. The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013)

    107 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  71. Tell HN: Node.js koa-router package transferred to unknown user

    107 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  72. China's housing glut casts pall over the economy

    107 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  73. Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

    107 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  74. Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

    107 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  75. Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources

    107 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  76. A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future

    107 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  77. Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client

    107 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  78. Why 80s BASIC still matters

    107 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  79. Why's a Big Red Tanker Drifting Near Boston?

    107 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  80. Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law

    107 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  81. Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff

    106 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  82. Bitbucket Pipes

    106 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  83. A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech

    106 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  84. 'The Class Ceiling' Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces

    106 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  85. Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps

    105 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  86. Model Metropolis

    105 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  87. Overpaid CEOs 2019

    105 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  88. Show HN: AskData – API to Translate Natural Language-2-Sql

    105 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  89. Cargo's next few years

    105 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  90. Blockchain and Trust

    105 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  91. Cygwin 3.0.0-1

    105 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  92. Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018)

    104 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  93. Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination

    104 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  94. Learn Computer Graphics from Scratch

    104 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  95. Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed to taste

    104 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  96. Wyden Introduces S. 420 to Legalize Cannabis

    104 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  97. I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers

    104 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  98. My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

    103 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  99. “Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure

    103 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  100. Web page service workers bypass ad-blockers after Chrome 72 upgrade?

    103 points • comment • feb 17, 2019