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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter

    24 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  2. We Must Defend Free Thought

    23 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  3. Privacy vs. “I Have Nothing to Hide”

    23 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  4. What Happens When You Believe in Ayn Rand and Modern Economic Theory

    23 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  5. How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm (2018)

    23 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  6. Confidential Emails Sent by Facebook Executives Leaked Online

    23 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  7. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) [pdf]

    23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  8. A Visit to the Site of Plato's Academy

    23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  9. Net.wars (1997)

    23 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  10. Generating Mutually Recursive Definitions [pdf]

    23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  11. ABI Stability and More

    23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  12. My 2018 Apple Report Card

    23 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  13. Hungarian PM: no tax for Hungarian women with four or more children

    23 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  14. The Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don't Need Renewables

    23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  15. Environment Variables: For and Against

    23 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  16. A web browser reference implementation using Mozilla Android Components

    23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  17. Robots Track Moving Objects with Unprecedented Precision

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  18. Senator introduces a bill to legalize marijuana and it’s called S.420

    23 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  19. A Complete Program

    23 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  20. China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market–and the US Has No Plan

    23 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  21. Diversity Should Be #1 for Good Reason

    23 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  22. Biological sex shapes tumour evolution across cancer types

    23 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  23. Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State

    23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  24. I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg

    23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  25. Why My New Blog Isn’t on Medium – Dan Abramov

    23 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  26. Letter of Recommendation: Color Blind Pal

    23 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  27. Choosing a Web Framework for F# in 2019

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  28. What Is Dark?

    23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  29. Avoiding Alzheimer’s Disease Could Be Easier Than You Think

    23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  30. Numerical Algorithms for Computing Eigenvectors

    23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  31. Tarpé Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury

    23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  32. Ruby CVE-2018-8778 Arbitrary Memory Disclosure Vulnerability

    23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  33. Tell HN: Coffee Meets Bagel hacked, yielding at least names and email addresses

    23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  34. What’s Better Than 40 GPU-Based Computers? A Computer with 40 GPUs

    23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  35. OneNote Genesis (2004)

    23 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  36. Manipulating an Indian politicians’s tweets is worryingly easy to do

    22 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  37. Spotify bans ad blockers in updated Terms of Service

    22 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  38. Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory

    22 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  39. Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  40. Trump declares national emergency to build border wall

    22 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  41. People love Facebook so much they wouldn’t quit unless we paid them a lot

    22 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  42. The Sea Was Not a Mask

    22 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  43. Converting objects to hash signatures in JavaScript

    22 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  44. Scientists Found a Compound That Reverses Aging in Mice

    22 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  45. An Introduction to Gradient Descent

    22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  46. Quadriga mystery deepens with little evidence of cold wallets containing $250M

    22 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  47. Tobacco Use Is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven by E-cigarettes

    22 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  48. Show HN: Package Diff: compare two versions of a published NPM package

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  49. Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone Behind ICE’s Immigration Crackdown

    22 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  50. Show HN: Karaoke for Piano Overlaid and Synched with YouTube Videos

    22 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  51. Facebook Planned to Spy on Android Phone Users, Internal Emails Reveal

    22 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  52. Ask HN: How Do I Know My True Self?

    22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  53. Germany cracks down on Facebook for 'abuse of market power'

    22 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  54. Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)

    22 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  55. New Reactor Designs for Revival of Nuclear Energy

    22 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  56. The Other Wrapping the Earth Problem

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  57. Habitat: A fast 3D simulator for embodied AI research

    22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  58. Lego Mosaic Printer (2015)

    22 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  59. What Happens at a Firearms Training for Teachers

    22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  60. Y Combinator’s Women-Only Forum Is Becoming Its Own Business

    22 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  61. Can Big Science Be Too Big?

    22 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  62. Paris seeks $14M from Airbnb for illegal adverts

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  63. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: What Is Its Source Material?

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  64. Zcash Counterfeiting Vulnerability Successfully Remediated

    21 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  65. What All the Major Surface Warships of the U.S. Navy Do

    21 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Are sites like Elance and Upwork worthwhile?

    21 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  67. Ask HN: Unfairly Flagged Submissions?

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  68. Researchers Peer Inside the Mind of the Worm for Clues on How Memories Form

    21 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  69. Ask HN: How to get aggregated user behaviour without tracking an individual user

    21 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Should We Create a Badge for Software That Does Not Track You?

    21 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  71. Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)

    21 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  72. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline

    21 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  73. Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018

    21 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  74. After 30 years of coding and tech management, I want to get into movie making

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  75. Google Employees Are Fighting with Executives Over Pay

    21 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  76. America’s 1% hasn’t had this much wealth since just before the Great Depression

    21 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  77. What Is the Dark Spot Visible Below the Cockpit on A-10s? False Cockpit

    21 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  78. Jeff Bezos on Peter Thiel: 'Seek revenge and you should dig two graves'

    21 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  79. Fix It Already – EFF Campaign

    21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  80. Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed

    21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  81. “This guy’s arrogance takes your breath away” – Jiahao Chen

    21 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  82. Japanese women push back against Valentine's tradition of 'obligation chocolate'

    21 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  83. Secret History of Women in Coding

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  84. Incentives to Attract Firms Induce Bad Selection [pdf]

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  85. “Algebraic Theory of French Letters”

    21 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  86. Farm Aid for the Big House

    21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  87. China’s Money Supply Has Outgrown Its Economy over Two Fold Since 2009

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  88. Warplanes: B-52 Stays, B-1B Retires

    21 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  89. Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  90. California cancels high-speed train between LA and SF

    21 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  91. An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning (2002) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  92. Producing an Application for Both Desktop and Mobile

    20 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  93. Show HN: Tech Productivity – A Newsletter for Techs Who Want to Get Stuff Done

    20 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  94. Ask HN: How would you sort HN users by quality of comments?

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  95. This is for the fat ones: what changed it?

    20 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  96. Digi-Comp II Replica

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  97. London’s Surprisingly Rich History of Transit Textile Design

    20 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  98. Watch This Tesla Model 3 Stop Itself to Avoid Horrific Crash

    20 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  99. Emoji Number Plates Launched in Queensland

    20 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  100. Shooting Dr. Tourette

    20 points • comment • feb 03, 2019