top stories
Hacker News (Feb 2019)
-
Don't Learn to Code in 2019, Learn to Solve Problems
30 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
-
Ask HN: What Moonshots Have Had Real, Tangible Progress?
30 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
-
The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years
30 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
Ask HN: How Can I Be More Hardworking?
30 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
-
The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (1982)
30 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
Canada's Answer to Tesla Is a $15,500 Electric Three-Wheeler
30 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
-
Wells Fargo outage includes debit cards
30 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
-
Evolution of Positioning Techniques in Cellular Networks, from 2G to 4G (2017)
30 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
Uber services suspended in Barcelona
30 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
-
MySigMail – UI Email Signature Generator
30 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
-
Kerosene Lantern Becomes a Compact Bioreactor
30 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
-
Show HN: On the fly color scheme selection for rxvt-unicode
30 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
-
How It Feels to Learn Data Science in 2019
30 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
Cleaning plastic from the ocean using the flow of ocean currents (2017)
30 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
-
My Chevy Bolt Is on Third Battery Pack: Here’s Why
30 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
-
Anxieties of development: emerging voices in Chinese social media
30 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
30 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
-
US carriers illegally sold 911 location data
30 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
Show HN: Icotar – Generate Free Colorful Icon Avatars
30 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
-
Habits of Successful People: Start Before You Feel Ready
30 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
-
John Ruskin: A Prophet for Our Troubled Times
30 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
-
Air Force 'rods from god' kinetic weapon could hit with nuclear-weapon force
30 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
-
Ask HN: DigitalOcean Destroyed All My Data, Any Legal Recourse?
30 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
-
A Faster Pseudopolynomial Time Algorithm for Subset Sum (2015)
30 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Former Tesla workers paint grim picture of Gigafactory II
30 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
-
‘Austerity, That’s What I Know’: The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist
30 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
-
Dating is a free software issue
29 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
-
Intellectual Control [pdf]
29 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
-
Google doesn't hire losers
29 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
-
Are robots better baristas? Berkeley’s Bbox café thinks so
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
-
Digital exchange loses $137M as founder takes passwords to the grave
29 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
-
Supporting employees engaged in open source
29 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained?
29 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
-
Show HN: YouTube GIF Maker with Full Search and No Watermark
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
WebAssembly Troubles Part 3: The Stack Is Not the Stack
29 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
NoFlo – Flow-Based Programming for JavaScript
29 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
-
Menu Matters
29 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
-
Slang: language mechanisms for extensible real-time shading systems (2018) [pdf]
29 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
-
Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)
29 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
-
Ask HN: Any success stories with token-based employee incentives?
29 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
Should I Machine-Learn? (2014)
29 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
-
Urban Neighborhoods, Once Distinct by Race and Class, Are Blurring
29 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
-
Finding Duplicate RSA Moduli in the Wild
29 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
-
Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
29 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
On Being an Octopus (2013)
29 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
-
Have Dark Forces Been Messing with the Cosmos?
29 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
-
How to Delete Your Data from 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Kaiser Permanente’s New Med School Will Waive Tuition for Its First 5 Classes
29 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
-
Hawaii considers ban on cigarette sales
29 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
Tesla Model 3 Owners Vent About Polar Vortex Affecting Cars
29 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (2013)
29 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
-
If Silicon Valley’s unicorn bubble bursts, what legacy will it leave?
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Mobile networks caught selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters
29 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
-
Consider Yourself a Developer? You Should Solve the Project Euler Problems
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
-
Why the Brain Is So Noisy
29 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
-
A guide to AppStore search optimization
29 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
-
Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
-
Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusations of Racism
29 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
-
Ask HN: Best textbooks for learning operating systems
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
-
California Considering Lanes with No Speed Limit
29 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
-
Accentuate the Positive
28 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
-
NY Times Blocking Incognito Browsers
28 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
-
Security Issue February 2019: FAQ
28 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
-
IntersectionObserver in WebKit
28 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
Congratulations Women, Judge Rules the US Military Should Draft You Too
28 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
-
Fuck You, Pay Me
28 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
-
Lessons from Seven Years of Research into Buttons
28 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
-
Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
28 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
-
Conquering convolutional neural networks for the curious and confused
28 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
-
Complexity, contingency, and criticality (1994) [pdf]
28 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
-
Pi-Hole v4.2 Available with Shared Memory, New Blocking Modes, and More
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Why Starting a Business as a Software Developer Is a Good Idea
28 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
-
Ask HN: How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?
28 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
‘Spotify Teardown’ Is the Book Spotify Didn’t Want Published
28 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
The Ring of Steel
28 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
Researchers dismantle Mark Zuckerberg’s “meaningful interactions” argument
28 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
-
Wind River VxWorks Platforms 6.9 RTOS [pdf]
28 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
-
Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
28 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
-
Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
28 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
-
Get Keto score, insulin index and nutrient density of every food you need
28 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
-
The value of owning more books than you can read
28 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
-
Archive Shows Medieval Nun Faked Her Own Death to Escape Convent
28 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
-
Sound, Motion, Notation (2018)
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Forget the 401(k) – Let's Invent a New Retirement Plan
28 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
-
Can America Still Build Big? A California Rail Project Raises Doubts
28 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
-
Watchdog permits 170k wild bird killings in five years
28 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
-
'I stole £30,000 from my mum to make millions'
28 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
-
U.S. National Debt Soars to a Record $22T
28 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
-
Pongmechanik (video)
28 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
-
Peter Thiel funds a science publication questioning evolution and climate change
28 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
-
Map shows trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing its Muslims
28 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
-
DIY Spot Welder [video]
28 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
-
Eric Schmidt thought 'Don't Be Evil' was 'the stupidest rule ever' (2013)
28 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
-
Ask HN: How do you market your product/services?
27 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
-
Amazon projected to pay 0 federal income tax, second year in a row
27 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
-
The Salish Woolly Dog's Hair Was Used to Weave Clothing and Blankets
27 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
-
Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera
27 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
-
I got banned for life from AirBnB
27 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
-
Microsoft Research's community of software engineering tools
27 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
-
An Old but Cool Result – Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
27 points • comment • feb 06, 2019