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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Google.com Ranks Slow Using New Google PSI Speed Rank

    43 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  2. Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wiggle Room

    43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

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

    43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  4. The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet

    43 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  5. Lenny Baum as trader (1982) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

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

    43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  7. Neil Postman, Technopoly, and Technological Theology

    43 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  8. How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit

    43 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  9. Possible cooked S-boxes in Kuznyechik & Streebog..Russian cipher & hash

    43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  10. Reddit’s revenue per user is much lower than that of other social networks

    43 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  11. Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language

    43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  12. Amazon Workers Are Denouncing Unions by Using Suspiciously Similar Tweets

    43 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  13. What every physicist should know about string theory

    43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  14. Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order

    43 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  15. Apple Rumors Point to 31.6-inch 6K Display, All-New 16-inch MacBook Pro for 2019

    43 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  16. Solution to Harvard’s admissions problem is simple: run a lottery

    43 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  17. You Can’t just rename your IT Ops team and call it “DevOps”

    42 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  18. An Open Letter to the FB Recruiter Who Gets Ordered, Every Quarter, to Email Me

    42 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  19. Industrial Opportunities for Startups

    42 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  20. First U.S. Coal Plant in Years Opens Where No Options Exist

    42 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  21. The Evolution of IPsec [pdf]

    42 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  22. Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?

    42 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  23. Skype is better, but still problematic

    42 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  24. Tepco carries out examination in Fukushima by remote-controlled probe

    42 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  25. House Opens Inquiry into Proposed U.S. Nuclear Venture in Saudi Arabia

    42 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  26. Alstom and Siemens Show How Not to Deal with China (and Vestager)

    42 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  27. Lazarus Release 2.0.0

    42 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  28. Getting started with Readable Human Format

    42 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  29. What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

    42 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  30. Decentralized Clearing Network: A Protocol for Hybrid Decentralized Exchanges

    42 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  31. The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid

    42 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  32. Wanted: Cofounder for YC S19. Robotic Tunnel Delivery of Groceries/food/packages

    42 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  33. Vocab: An online dictionary integration to the command line

    41 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  34. Illicit iPhone App Store Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  35. Bug Bombs Don’t Get Rid of Bugs, Study Suggests

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  36. Wireshark 3.0.0 Released

    41 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  37. Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud

    41 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  38. Losing Your Privacy in the Digital Age: Share Your Stories

    41 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  39. Accused College Students Deserve the Presumption of Innocence

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  40. Ask HN: Things You Wish You Knew Before Getting into Machine Learning

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  41. Azlo – Fee-free small business banking

    41 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  42. Fixing Random

    41 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  43. 'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What's Known About the Medicare for All Act of 2019

    41 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  44. Sr.ht experimental mercurial support

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  45. The Story of Storytelling

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  46. A Plan for Spam (2002)

    41 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  47. Don't Let Robots Pull the Trigger

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  48. Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

    41 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  49. Hacker News Meetups?

    41 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  50. We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space

    41 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  51. Ask HN: Is there an open source curriculum for for a mathematics degree?

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  52. Pattern Matching Custom Data Types in TypeScript

    41 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  53. Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (1981) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  54. Manfred Eigen, Nobel-winning chemist who clocked fast reactions, dies at 91

    41 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  55. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Blocked by Vodafone, Three, O2, and EE

    41 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  56. A landmark ruling gives new power to sue tech giants for privacy harms

    41 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  57. Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (1954) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  58. Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (1990)

    41 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  59. Bezos Selfie Controversy Triggers Alarm for Billionaires Worldwide

    41 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  60. PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning

    40 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  61. SortSupport: Sorting in Postgres at Speed

    40 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  62. Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law

    40 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  63. The exercise “recovery” industry is largely bogus

    40 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  64. Inline types and functions in Swift

    40 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  65. Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare

    40 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  66. Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market

    40 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  67. The Treeographer

    40 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  68. Early South Dakota Thrived by Being a Divorce Colony

    40 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  69. A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming

    40 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  70. About the AOL announcement (2005)

    40 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  71. Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees

    39 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  72. Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  73. “I’m moving out of state”: employees are trying to avoid California income tax

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  74. Expensive Loans to Desperate People Built This $90B Industry

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  75. Show HN: Serverless Page Builder

    39 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  76. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

    39 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  77. Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?

    39 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  78. Facebook Screwed Us All

    39 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  79. What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)

    39 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  80. Solving Depression with Analytical Thinking

    39 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  81. A new book argues that violence laid the foundation for virtue

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  82. A 49-inch ultrawide monitor is extravagant, ridiculous, and amazing

    39 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  83. Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet

    39 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  84. Programming as Translation

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  85. Ex-Cons Create ‘Instagram for Prisons,’ and Wardens Are Fine with That

    39 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  86. Kara Swisher interview of Jack Dorsey

    39 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  87. Holography Transmission Equations

    39 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  88. Python exceptions considered an anti-pattern

    39 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  89. Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion, as He Builds Surveillance State

    39 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  90. The Sorry State of the World Economy

    39 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  91. The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spectre One Year Later

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  92. Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted

    39 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  93. Gene therapy trials on monkeys’ eyes could help cure color blindness

    39 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  94. Why Does Mozilla Maintain Our Own Root Certificate Store?

    39 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  95. Two Starkly Similar Novels and the Puzzle of Plagiarism

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  96. Hacking Laws are Silly, don't click this link

    39 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  97. Can Programming Be Liberated, Period? (2008) [pdf]

    39 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  98. PeerTube. What It Is, and What I Think It's Problems Are

    38 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  99. KDE Is Adding Matrix to Its IM Framework

    38 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  100. Apple Said to Launch 16-Inch MacBook Pro with All-New Design in 2019

    38 points • comment • feb 18, 2019