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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Alternatives to JSX

    103 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  2. Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)

    103 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  3. Payless is closing all its U.S. stores

    103 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  4. The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM

    103 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  5. Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe

    103 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

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

    103 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  7. Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness

    103 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  8. Vulkan Raytracing Tutorials

    103 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  9. Cache tables

    102 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  10. Pijul for Git users

    102 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  11. Why I prefer objects over switch statements

    102 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  12. Frackers Face Harsh Reality as Wall Street Backs Away

    102 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  13. George Boole and the Calculus of Thought (2018)

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  14. Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)

    101 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  15. Canvas fingerprinting on the web

    101 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  16. Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s Complicated

    101 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  17. Design Without Color First

    101 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  18. They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To

    101 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  19. Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

    101 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  20. Spoofing Google Search Results

    101 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  21. Leap Spins out of YC

    101 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  22. Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark

    101 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  23. Airtable CEO on the continued importance of getting a ‘unicorn’ valuation

    101 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  24. Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics

    100 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  25. Show HN: Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git

    100 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  26. AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support

    100 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  27. Nonnegative matrix factorization

    100 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  28. When Algorithms Think You Want to Die

    100 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  29. Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

    100 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  30. Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text

    100 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  31. The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013)

    100 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  32. The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)

    100 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  33. An Introduction to the Mathematics of Uncertainty (2010) [pdf]

    100 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  34. Enquire: Everything you wanted to know about your C compiler and machine

    100 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  35. Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy

    99 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  36. Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list

    99 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  37. Flavors of SIMD

    99 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  38. Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2019?

    99 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  39. Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card

    99 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  40. More bad news for controversial 20-year-old claim of dark matter detection

    99 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  41. Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1

    99 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  42. Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

    99 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  43. How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?

    99 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  44. The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

    99 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  45. Digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them

    99 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  46. Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

    98 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  47. New experimental drug rapidly repairs age-related memory loss and improves mood

    98 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  48. Why Is PayPal So Successful Yet They Treat Merchants Like Crap?

    98 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  49. TI Claims Breakthrough in BAW On-Die-Oscillators

    98 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  50. MakerLisp Machine

    97 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  51. WAL-G – fast archival and restoration for PostgreSQL

    97 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  52. JP Morgan rolls out first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform paymentsd

    97 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  53. A Raspberry Pi Grimoire For The Command Line Wizard

    97 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  54. Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

    97 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  55. Rare snow rollers spotted in field near Marlborough, UK

    97 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Is it practical to create a software-controlled model rocket?

    97 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  57. From Vimperator to Tridactyl (2018)

    97 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  58. Deep Learning on the GPU in Clojure from Scratch: Sharing Memory

    97 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  59. What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)

    96 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  60. U.S. Steel wins tax breaks from one of America's poorest cities

    96 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  61. Notes on fuzzing ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick

    96 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  62. Regarding EGLStreams Support in KWin

    96 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  63. ParaSail Programming Language: parallel programming language

    96 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  64. Berlin Builds Ideas to Stage a Housing Revolution

    96 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  65. Ask HN: How to get better in advanced SQL

    96 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  66. Be: From Concept to Near Death

    95 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  67. Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies

    95 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  68. PHP code generated by GPT-2

    95 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  69. An Optometrist Billionaire Investor

    95 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  70. The Secret Facebook War for Mormon Hearts and Minds

    95 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  71. The Zipper Rule on German Roads

    95 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  72. The Alter Bible

    95 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  73. I love React Hooks

    95 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  74. US plans to strip H1B immigrants' spouses of work permits

    95 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  75. TinySeed applications close today

    95 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  76. London's billion-pound guilds

    95 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  77. Activision Blizzard staff reportedly bracing for layoffs

    94 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  78. Show HN: Stand-Up/Meetings in VR for Remote Teams

    94 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  79. Apple Is Removing 'Do Not Track' from Safari

    94 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  80. Instacart CEO apologizes for tipping debacle

    94 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  81. A Case for a New Language

    94 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  82. Obfuscated JavaScript, scam emails, and American Express

    94 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  83. Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge (2017)

    94 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  84. An Update on Android Things

    94 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  85. DoorDash and Amazon Won’t Change Tipping Policy After Instacart Controversy

    94 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  86. How to Kill the Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life

    94 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  87. Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype

    93 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  88. Colin Kroll’s rise and untimely death

    93 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  89. Apple makes billions from Google Search each year

    93 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  90. How Craig Barton wishes he’d taught maths

    93 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  91. Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson

    93 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  92. Asia-Pacific is home to a rise in new self-made billionaires

    93 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  93. A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (2014)

    93 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  94. Limiting JavaScript?

    92 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  95. Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks

    92 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  96. Clair Patterson: scientist and campaigner against lead poisoning (2017)

    92 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  97. SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security

    92 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  98. Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  99. Mozilla may treat Aussie staff as 'insider threats' to code base

    92 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  100. Coding Intentionally in Bash Grains

    92 points • comment • feb 15, 2019