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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. ‘Trotsky’ Is an Icepick to the Heart of Soviet History

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  2. Colliding Blocks Act Like a Beam of Light [video]

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  3. Discerning the Origins of the Negritos, First Sundaland People

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  4. Show HN: Chord Assist – An accessible smart guitar for the blind, deaf and mute

    18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  5. Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2B Profits

    18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  6. Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge

    18 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  7. Mozi: No Aggression, but Universal Love (2011)

    18 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  8. Textbook errors in binary searching (1988)

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  9. Ask HN: What Is a Good Daylight/SAD Lamp?

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  10. U.S. Student-Loan Delinquencies Hit Record

    18 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  11. Ask HN: Starting a CS degree at 28?

    18 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  12. Show HN: A rap song about the struggles of finishing a side project

    18 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  13. Boarding Passenger Arrested Sued After Tossing Coins in Jet Engine for Good Luck

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  14. Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  15. An airline is suing a customer who skipped a leg of his flight to save money

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  16. QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad application

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  17. Thanks to Yao Ming, killing sharks for their fins is down 50%.he’s just started

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  18. Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

    17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  19. Physics has demoted mass (2017)

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  20. Optimizing Aggregations in Sql Query Execution

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  21. Cerebral blood flow and personality: a positron emission tomography study

    17 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  22. Microsoft at MWC Barcelona: Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  23. Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2019 Release

    17 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  24. European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  25. Category Theory Lesson 2: Basics of Categorical Abstraction

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  26. Thank You Google – Flight Cancelled

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  27. Digging Up Diderot

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  28. Tesla Customers Describe Maddening Problems with Returns and Refunds

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  29. Loop Seems Like a Logistical Disaster That Might Work

    17 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  30. The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion

    17 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  31. China and India Account for One-Third of the Greening

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  32. Dart 2.2

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  33. Reasons Employees Prefer to Work Remotely

    17 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  34. What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system?

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  35. Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-developers style company?

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  36. The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless

    17 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  37. Frie Otto – Modeling with Soap Films (c. 1961) [video]

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  38. Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn's wild rise

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  39. U.S. Loses Appeal Seeking to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  40. Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?

    17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  41. Introducing the Wealthfront Cash Account

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  42. Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  43. Postmodern Family Clan

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  44. Building a Literal Library of Building Blocks

    17 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  45. Show HN: A Simple Resume Generator

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  46. Lidl whisky costing £13.49 named best Scotch in the world

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  47. Liberals and Conservatives Can Believe Fake News, but for Different Reasons

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

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

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  49. Tasting the Highs and Lows of Ethiopian Honey Wine (2015)

    17 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  50. Woody Allen Sues Amazon Studios Claiming Breach of Contract

    17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  51. Decades Ago, MDMA Was Used in Marriage Counseling

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  52. Under Amazon, Whole Foods prices were expected to decrease but they’re rising

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  53. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read (2018)

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  54. Ubuntu Developers Seem to Be Pursuing ZFS Root Partition Support on the Desktop

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  55. Some best practices for using Git

    17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  56. In the Future, Senior Citizens Will Play Video Games All Day

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  57. Chinese Novelists Are Reimagining Science Fiction

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  58. The magical thinking of guys who love logic

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  59. Ask HN: How Do Services Like PythonTutor and Repl.it Run Code Safely

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  60. StyleGAN Trained on Anime Faces (Japanese)

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  61. Vector vs. SIMD: Dynamic Power Efficiency

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  62. How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy (2012)

    17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  63. Browning Fever: A story of fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  64. The tech giant fighting anti-vaxxers isn’t Twitter or Facebook. It’s Pinterest

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  65. The Empty Brain

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  66. Relevant Xkcd

    17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  67. A thermostat company shut down every thermostat in the middle of a cold night

    16 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  68. All You Need to Know About Elastic Search but Were Afraid to Ask

    16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  69. Preventing SQL Injections When WAF’s Not Enough

    16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  70. Record 7M Americans are delinquent on car loans

    16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  71. (German) Niklaus Wirth – a pioneer of computer science turns 85

    16 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  72. I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA after caught giving DNA data to FBI

    16 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  73. Update in ajv package broke webpack

    16 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  74. Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century

    16 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  75. Raiding Clearance Aisles and Reselling on Amazon for Profit

    16 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  76. Tesla shares fall after Consumer Reports says it will no longer recommend Model3

    16 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  77. Google: News sites may lose 45% of traffic if EU passes its Copyright Reform

    16 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  78. Want a Glimpse of Facebook’s Soul in 2019? Look at Its Internal Propaganda Lab

    16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  79. Trail runner comes forward: How I killed that mountain lion

    16 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  80. How to Get Started with Building Serverless Applications?

    16 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  81. Pro-Amazon Protesters Paid to Demonstrate Against Company's Withdrawal

    16 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  82. Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is Finally Official

    16 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  83. Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service

    16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  84. The World Might Run Out of People

    16 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  85. Super-tall,super-skinny,super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of NYC's super-rich

    16 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  86. Supervised racing with Donkeycar AI

    16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  87. Show HN: Visualize Git Commits and Pull Requests Across Many Repos

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  88. “Not everybody lives in California”: Tesla Model 3's frozen door handles

    16 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  89. Microsoft Edge Secret Whitelist Allows Facebook to Autorun Flash

    16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  90. Fire Drills: Communications Strategy in a Crisis (2011)

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  91. The Bad News About Helicopter Parenting: It Works

    16 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  92. Show HN: Learn SQL Fundamentals

    16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  93. Learning how to learn

    16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  94. Locality-Sensitive Hashing in Elixir

    16 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  95. It Looks Like Idera Is Gutting Travis CI Just a Few Weeks After Acquiring It

    16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  96. Bezos probe concludes mistress' brother was Enquirer source

    16 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  97. Show HN: Two strange useless things to do with a neural net

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  98. JuliaAcademy Launches

    16 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  99. Plprofiler – A Handy Tool for Profiling PL/pgSQL Code

    16 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  100. European slaughter of Native Americans changed the climate

    16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019