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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

    435 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  2. Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

    431 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  3. Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

    431 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  4. Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive

    429 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  5. Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

    427 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  6. The Gyllenhaal Experiment

    426 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  7. Myths in Machine Learning Research

    425 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  8. Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener

    422 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  9. Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend

    418 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  10. Linux Desktop Setup

    417 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  11. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

    414 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  12. With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release

    413 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  13. Better Language Models and Their Implications

    412 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  14. Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021

    412 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  15. This Cat Does Not Exist

    412 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  16. I Bought a House with Solar Panels

    411 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  17. Let Children Get Bored Again

    410 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  18. The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

    408 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  19. A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

    407 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  20. Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage

    407 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  21. New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps

    406 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  22. AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income

    406 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  23. A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

    405 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  24. 1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth

    404 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  25. Google Maps: Bird Mode

    399 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  26. Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them

    395 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  27. Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

    393 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  28. Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

    393 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  29. I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

    393 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  30. Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

    390 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  31. Moving from Go to PHP Again

    388 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  32. Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

    388 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  33. Y Combinator Resources for Developers

    387 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  34. Practical Facts about the Human Brain

    386 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  35. A 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

    385 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  36. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

    383 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  37. France Enters the Matrix

    382 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  38. Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

    381 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  39. If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed

    381 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  40. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

    380 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  41. Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]

    380 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  42. “Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]

    379 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  43. FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls

    379 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  44. Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

    378 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  45. Data Structure Visualizations (2011)

    377 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  46. Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

    376 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  47. Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend

    374 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  48. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

    373 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  49. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

    370 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  50. WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable

    367 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  51. Why I hate the weekends (2017)

    365 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  52. Earnest Capital is live

    365 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  53. HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points

    364 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  54. First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

    364 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  55. Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

    363 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  56. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

    362 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  57. We Lost Our Ability to Mend

    361 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  58. How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death

    358 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  59. Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

    358 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  60. Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results

    357 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  61. MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator

    357 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  62. Fully managed PostgreSQL databases

    357 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  63. PKI for busy people

    356 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  64. Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas

    355 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  65. German for Programmers

    355 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  66. Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS

    349 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  67. Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road

    349 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  68. Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks

    348 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  69. The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

    348 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  70. A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers

    348 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  71. New ‘past’ link on HN front page

    347 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  72. None of my projects want to be SPAs

    345 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  73. LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve

    344 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  74. Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source

    341 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  75. Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management

    340 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  76. Building a RISC-V PC

    339 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  77. Problem solving with Unix commands

    339 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  78. Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (2017)

    338 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  79. Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage

    338 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  80. Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

    337 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  81. The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows

    337 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  82. An update about Redis developments in 2019

    334 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  83. Interactive 3D ASCII scenes

    332 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  84. Universal Binaries Using WASM

    330 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  85. Hexagonal Grids (2013)

    330 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  86. React as a UI Runtime

    330 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  87. 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

    329 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  88. Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

    324 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  89. Code Shelter: A Maintainer Community for Abandoned FOSS Projects

    324 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  90. Explain shell

    323 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  91. ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

    322 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  92. Space Colony Art from the 1970s

    322 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  93. Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps

    322 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  94. How to Secure a Linux Server

    321 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  95. Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser

    321 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  96. California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it

    319 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  97. Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women

    319 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  98. We need to talk about systematic fraud

    319 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  99. Leon: An open-source personal assistant

    318 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  100. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction

    318 points • comment • feb 14, 2019