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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing

    59 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  2. AI text generator not released for concerns about implications

    59 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

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

    59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  4. Data-Driven Flowcharts in R Using DiagrammeR

    59 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  5. A 5km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky

    59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  6. Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?

    59 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  7. Plotting hearts with Python and C

    59 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  8. MacOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders

    59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  9. Productivity tricks in Visual Studio

    59 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  10. Vulnerability in Tesla Website Used to Find Details of 8500 Cars in US Inventory

    59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  11. Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images

    59 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  12. Declarative Programming: Is It a Real Thing? (2015)

    58 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  13. Facebook tracks users it thinks could threaten employees and offices

    58 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  14. Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism

    58 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  15. Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix

    58 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  16. Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics

    58 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  17. Interview with Fritz Lang, Beverley Hills, August 12, 1972

    58 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  18. Where do Google's flaky tests come from?

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  19. Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct

    58 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  20. Show HN: Road Trips in Australia

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  21. Hydra – Live Coding Networked Visuals

    58 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  22. Bastion Fort

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  23. Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster

    58 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  24. Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor

    57 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  25. Understanding the Network Interface Card

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  26. Show HN: AdaBound, an optimizer that trains as fast as Adam and as good as SGD

    57 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  27. Not Long Ago, Lenses Were Much Lighter

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  28. Chinese, Taiwanese Restaurants Drop 'Golden' and 'Dragon'-Take on Mandarin Names

    57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  29. Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)

    57 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  30. Making the world a better place for the colorblind

    57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  31. Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping

    57 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  32. Time passed since cURL creator applied for a US visa

    57 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  33. When targets and metrics are bad for business

    57 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  34. Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis

    57 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  35. Wfirst, the Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles

    57 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  36. Benchmarking Go vs. Node vs. Elixir

    56 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  37. The reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything

    56 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  38. Two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks

    56 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  39. German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook's Whole Ad Business

    56 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  40. How we've attracted top talent to our early-stage bootstrapped startup

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  41. Magnet link generator

    56 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  42. Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”

    56 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  43. Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?

    56 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  44. A new predictive model for more accurate electrical grid mapping

    56 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  45. Show HN: Follow GitHub Organisations

    56 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  46. Artists Create “Infinite Skulls” Using GANs

    56 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  47. CERN day 2

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  48. Great Stirrup Controversy

    56 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  49. Does Carnitine from Red Meat Cause Heart Disease?

    56 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  50. The de Havilland Comet

    56 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  51. ‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life (2016)

    56 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  52. Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of This Blockchain Use Case?

    56 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  53. A taste for fat may have made us human, says study

    55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  54. The U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty Is the Next Step in a Global Arms Race

    55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  55. Ask HN: How do you manage state in your React application?

    55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  56. I Have 800 Passwords

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  57. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  58. About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men

    55 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  59. Chinese New Year Is World’s Biggest Human Migration

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  60. Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit (2017)

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  61. Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography

    55 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  62. The Internet Saved the Record Labels

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  63. A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos

    55 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  64. Containers as Kernel Objects – Again

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  65. Writing a Fast JSON Parser

    55 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  66. A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking

    55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  67. RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  68. World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found alive in Indonesia

    55 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  69. Making Swallowing Safer for those who have trouble swallowing

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  70. Open-sourcing Magma to extend mobile networks

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  71. Ask HN: What is your burnout story?

    55 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  72. 40% of Smart Homes at Risk to Hackers

    55 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  73. Ask HN: Work-life balance?

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  74. A Distracted Walk with Fundamental Analysis

    55 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  75. Why I Gave Up on Extreme Minimalism (2015)

    54 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  76. Elegy for a vent in a Hawaiian volcano

    54 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  77. The Value Chain Constraint

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  78. Colloquium: A Century of Noether's Theorem

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  79. The Shrinking Singapore Stock Market

    54 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  80. 'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised by Activists

    54 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  81. PG&E Contains Gas Leak That Caused San Francisco Explosion

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  82. Macrostrat: A Global Geological Map

    54 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  83. The Northwest Climate Toolbox

    54 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  84. Riot.im: The Big 1.0

    54 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  85. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

    54 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  86. Hashing for large-scale similarity

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  87. Ask HN: Environmental Cost of Semiconductors?

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  88. Study Looks at Why Neolithic Humans Buried Their Dogs with Them

    54 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  89. Honda Plans to Leave Britain as Brexit Draws Close

    53 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  90. Examining Pointer Authentication on the iPhone XS

    53 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  91. Millennials still recognise songs from music’s 1960s-90s golden age, study finds

    53 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  92. Ask HN: What paths for a software engineer are age-resilient?

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  93. RIAA Lawyers Botched a Big One Against flvto.biz – So What’s Next?

    53 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  94. How B players hire C players (2018)

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  95. Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  96. 0patch Blog: No Source Code for a 14-Year Old Vulnerable DLL? No Problem

    53 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  97. New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  98. Neoliberalism Is a Simplistic Perversion of Economics

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  99. The Future of Computing Is Analog

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  100. Expanding Access: Engineering Uber Lite

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019