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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. One analyst's attempts to demystify the types of traffic Google sends publishers

    48 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  2. Reading in an Age of Catastrophe

    48 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  3. Show HN: Buckaroo – A decentralized C++ package manager

    48 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  4. Call for retraction of 400 papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners

    47 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  5. Activision Blizzard Begins Massive Layoffs

    47 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  6. Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn

    47 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  7. Surveillance and Internet Disruption in Baku

    47 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  8. Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equipment

    47 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  9. What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith?

    47 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  10. The map is not the territory (2015)

    47 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  11. Wonderful Python3 Library for working with webpages’ semantic content

    47 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  12. ‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor

    47 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  13. See China’s Chang’e 4 on moon’s far side

    47 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  14. Family spaghetti of programming languages

    47 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  15. In Search of the Northern Lights

    47 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  16. Putting neural networks under the microscope

    47 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  17. Show HN: A Hands-On Guide on PySpark Coding and Best Practices

    47 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  18. ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS?

    47 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  19. We Can’t Have Efficiency, Good Incentives and No Deficit

    47 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  20. Why Many Americans Feel Cheated by Their Student Loans

    47 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  21. Modern LZ Compression

    47 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  22. Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Mario Klingemann

    47 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  23. NL-Graphs: A Hybrid Approach Toward Interactively Querying Semantic Data [pdf]

    47 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  24. Git reset vs. Git revert

    46 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  25. The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage

    46 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  26. A GitHub user is taking over dozens of domains they don't own via GitHub Pages

    46 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  27. Explore France’s Loire Valley in the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci

    46 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  28. Mastodon for Metalheads

    46 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  29. Humanity and Machine Learning [video]

    46 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  30. The Last Free Generation (2018)

    46 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  31. Ask HN: How do I auto buy domain names?

    46 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  32. Create your own game engine but don't use it (2017)

    46 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  33. Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry

    46 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  34. I miss the chatrooms of the 90's

    46 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  35. Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users

    46 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  36. A science lab in your pocket?

    46 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  37. Phishing Attacks via Google translate

    46 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  38. A small (and objective) taste of Objective-Smalltalk

    46 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  39. How to Break PDF Signatures

    46 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  40. CSS-In-JS and Static Rendering

    46 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  41. The Geography of the Odyssey

    46 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  42. Bell cuts phone service to family struggling to pay surprise $1,800 bill

    46 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  43. 16 Inch MacBook Pro and Other Apple Products predicted coming in 2019

    46 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  44. Google employees pushing for nationwide legislation banning forced arbitration

    46 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  45. Facebook Ups Surveillance of Users to Keep Tabs on People Who Don't Like It

    46 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  46. A Handbook of Modern Uyghur [pdf]

    45 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  47. O.MG Cable: Malicious USB Cable with WiFi

    45 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  48. Ask HN: Finding tech talent is getting harder. It's not a Bay Area problem only

    45 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  49. There Was a Time before Mathematica (2013)

    45 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  50. If It Ain't TypeScript It Ain't Sexy

    45 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  51. ASP.NET Core: Saturating 10GbE at 7M Rps

    45 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  52. Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual

    45 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  53. The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds

    45 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  54. Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing (2017)

    45 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  55. A heatmap of your Google Pay payments

    45 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  56. Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers

    45 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  57. You Want How Many Years Experience?

    45 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  58. Robot Melts Its Bones to Change How It Walks

    45 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  59. What Hooks Mean for Vue

    45 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  60. A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (1937) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  61. Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs

    45 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  62. From Sudoku Solver to Program Synthesis

    45 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  63. Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide

    45 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  64. Sheela-Na-Gigs: Women Adorning Britain's Churches

    45 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  65. A Database for the Edge of the Network (2015) [video]

    45 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  66. Polymorphic Encryption Algorithms (2016)

    45 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  67. TS Eliot and the Pyramid of Organisational Knowledge

    45 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  68. Collection about Rich Hickey's Works

    44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  69. Nuclear Waste Dumpsters in Massachusettes Are Costing Taxpayers a Fortune

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  70. Graceful Shutdown

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  71. The design and building of a large dish antenna rotor

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  72. Scalable Video Technology for AV1 Encoder

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  73. Falsehoods programmers believe about economics (2016)

    44 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  74. Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  75. Billions could die if India and Pakistan engage in nuclear war

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  76. Caret Package – A Practical Guide to Machine Learning in R

    44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  77. Yoshua Bengio Worries About China's Use of AI

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  78. Disco: Modern Session Encryption [pdf]

    44 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  79. Stabilizer: Statistically sound performance evaluation [pdf]

    44 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  80. “Takedown notice” sent to Defense Distributed was fraudulent, from Slovakia

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  81. John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (2014)

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  82. The Fatal Ensnaring of Dan DePew

    44 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  83. QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool

    44 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  84. SAT Solvers as Smart Search Engines

    44 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  85. Delta Chat – WhatsApp Like Messenger over IMAP

    44 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  86. What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  87. Hacker Surfing: Free Housing for Engineers and Designers Visiting SF

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  88. Python: Even a Feature That You Do Not Use Can Bite You

    44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  89. Who Were the Pinkertons?

    44 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  90. A Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books

    44 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  91. Python Scripting – Beginner to Advanced

    44 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  92. Fiberbots: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

    44 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  93. People Who Own Businesses Should Not Act Like Assholes – Something Better to Do

    44 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  94. Show HN: Colorffy – 3-colors gradients generator

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  95. An AI Whose Performance Increases If They Let It Sleep and Dream

    44 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  96. Jasper Johns, American Legend

    44 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  97. Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language

    43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  98. Neil Postman, Technopoly, and Technological Theology

    43 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  99. Visual Noises – Noise Algorithms Visualised in 1D and 2D

    43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  100. Meth and murder: New kind of drug war makes Tijuana one of deadliest cities

    43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019