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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Spotify in Talks to Buy Gimlet Media

    67 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  2. Git 2.21 Highlights

    67 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  3. Scientists Release Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in High-Security Lab

    67 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  4. Patent Exhaustion and Open Source

    67 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  5. Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer

    67 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  6. Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

    66 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  7. What we did when our investors told us we weren't working hard enough

    66 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  8. Lazarus 2.0.0

    66 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  9. Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City

    66 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  10. Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees say crosses a line

    66 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  11. Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong (2017)

    66 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  12. Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum

    66 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  13. Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya

    66 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  14. Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving Cars

    66 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  15. Asami: Datomic-Like Graph Database

    66 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  16. Microbiome interactions shape host fitness

    66 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  17. Showing the power of startup women’s health brands, P&G buys This is L (YC S15)

    66 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  18. The 1979 Delft Cycle Plan

    66 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  19. Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps

    66 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  20. Inheriting the Trauma of Genocide

    66 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  21. Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science

    65 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  22. Facebook Loses Fact-Checking Group Snopes After Two Years

    65 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  23. The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency

    65 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  24. Are You a Human at Google?

    65 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  25. In China, an electric car lifestyle

    65 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  26. “Hearing” the Hammond Organ

    65 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  27. Cloudflare's RPKI Toolkit

    65 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  28. Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)

    65 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  29. Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  30. Show HN: Compiler Fundamentals – Closure Conversion

    65 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  31. Airbus ending A380 program

    65 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  32. Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket

    65 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  33. How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (2015)

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  34. Show HN: Spektral – Deep learning on graphs with Keras

    64 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  35. Amazon acquired robotics company Dispatch to build Scout

    64 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  36. Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  37. ASCII generator: image to text, image to image, video to video

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  38. “Git Tower” revokes licenses when discussing bugs/feedback on Reddit

    64 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  39. How to Calculate the Phase of the Moon

    64 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  40. Doing more than 40 push-ups shows you’re 96% less likely to get a heart attack

    64 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  41. Writing CSS Algorithms

    64 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  42. Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats

    64 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  43. The Life of a Small-Town Bookseller and Writer

    64 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  44. When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Marriages with Beer

    63 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  45. Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI

    63 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  46. Show HN: Radio station WWV audio simulation

    63 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  47. Stories of Financial Windfalls

    63 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  48. Business Card Ray Tracer (2013)

    63 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  49. High-speed rail in California was a disaster, but there’s a better way

    63 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  50. Why Mark Zuckerberg's Writing Style Erodes Our Trust in Facebook

    63 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  51. Builder vs. Programmer Perspective

    63 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  52. Osaka.rs – Rust async without the noise

    63 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  53. The Welfare Effects of Social Media [pdf]

    63 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  54. A Canticle for Leibowitz Still Smolders (2014)

    63 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  55. 3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display

    63 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  56. SCOTUS – Constitutional Protection Against Excessive Fines Applies to States

    63 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  57. Ask HN: What have you found the most useful interview question to be?

    63 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  58. An Encoded Tree Traversal

    63 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  59. Pufferfish in China bred poison-free

    63 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  60. How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)

    62 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  61. Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis

    62 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  62. Researcher Won't Disclose MacOS Keychain 0 Day Without Apple Bug Bounty Program

    62 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  63. A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides?

    62 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  64. Reltron: a GUI for exploring relational databases

    62 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  65. Why the attack on our cameraman was no surprise

    62 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  66. Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook?

    62 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  67. The Caviar Con

    62 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  68. KitchenAid’s Key Ingredient: Investing in Workers

    62 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  69. San Francisco has more drug addicts than students enrolled in public high school

    62 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  70. Gym Class Is So Bad, Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  71. Pandas got 3x faster

    62 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  72. 2.7M phone calls to Swedish medical advice service laid open for anyone

    62 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  73. Show HN: Discover what locals eat all around the world

    62 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  74. Thousands of Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam

    62 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  75. Learning transistor mimics the brain

    62 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  76. React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released

    61 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  77. How to Make Connections That Count: Advice from an SV Veteran and Introvert

    61 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  78. Bill de Blasio: The Path Amazon Rejected

    61 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  79. Building a Time Capsule – Guidelines for Preserving Materials [pdf]

    61 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  80. Griping about Go

    61 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  81. Is fasting safe? A review of adverse events during water-only fasting (2018)

    61 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  82. New York Beats Out San Francisco to Be World’s Best Tech City

    61 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  83. Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile

    61 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  84. EU cross-border payments outside Eurozone: MEPs scrap excessive fees

    61 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  85. GNU Binutils 2.32 Released

    61 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  86. The Communal Mind

    61 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  87. A 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’

    61 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  88. Ask HN: How do I earn more as a developer?

    60 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  89. Launch HN: Avo (YC W19) – Minimize Human Errors When Implementing Analytics

    60 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  90. EU countries agree on copyright reforms, deal in sight next week

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  91. Nintendo Announces Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield

    60 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  92. Announcing k3s: The Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution Built for the Edge

    60 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  93. WebDAV (2010)

    60 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  94. Sheryl Sandberg: The teens consented

    60 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  95. We Are Living in the Anthropocene

    60 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  96. The Battle for the Future of Stonehenge

    60 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  97. Notes on Computational Group Theory (2010) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  98. What’s a Gadgetbahn? (2017)

    60 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  99. Ways to think about market size (2015)

    60 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  100. The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement

    59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019