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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction

    318 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  2. Google .dev domain early access

    318 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  3. What Impossible Meant to Feynman

    317 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  4. Introducing draft pull requests

    314 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  5. Amazon is buying Eero

    313 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  6. Google needed to build a graph serving system

    313 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  7. I scanned Austria

    311 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  8. Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com

    309 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  9. “Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene

    309 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  10. Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution

    308 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  11. Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

    308 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  12. Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

    308 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  13. Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbon payment from Norway

    307 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  14. Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)

    306 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  15. PostgreSQL's Explain Analyze Made Readable

    305 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  16. Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers

    305 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  17. Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

    305 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  18. Makefiles – Best Practices

    305 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  19. Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

    303 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  20. Tarrare

    302 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  21. Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

    301 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  22. CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)

    301 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  23. Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave

    300 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  24. Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway

    300 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  25. An Honest Living

    300 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  26. Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

    299 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  27. RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption

    299 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  28. Formally Specifying UIs (2018)

    296 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  29. Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff

    296 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  30. Modern Alternatives to PGP

    296 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  31. On Being an Engineering Manager

    296 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  32. Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

    295 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  33. Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine

    295 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  34. Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14

    295 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  35. Why Julia

    294 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  36. A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016)

    292 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  37. What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"

    292 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  38. Go 1.12 Released

    291 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  39. Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

    291 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  40. Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart

    291 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  41. Facebook moderators in America

    290 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  42. Trolls Are Real

    290 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  43. How the Varroa Mite’s True Diet Was Discovered

    289 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  44. An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine

    289 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  45. Open-Sourcing ClusterFuzz

    289 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  46. Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

    285 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  47. Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

    285 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  48. How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

    285 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  49. Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay

    283 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  50. Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model

    283 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  51. Orca – Live Programming Environment

    282 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  52. Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS

    282 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  53. Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

    282 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  54. Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph

    282 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  55. Learning Rust via Advent of Code

    281 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  56. Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users

    281 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  57. Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

    280 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  58. Principled GraphQL

    279 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  59. Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?

    279 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  60. Data science is different now

    278 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  61. Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

    278 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  62. Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut

    277 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  63. EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel

    277 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  64. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

    276 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  65. The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals

    274 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  66. Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

    274 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  67. Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

    273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  68. The Last POWER1 CPU on Mars Is Dead

    273 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  69. Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

    273 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  70. Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

    273 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  71. Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments

    273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  72. In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business

    272 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  73. Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks

    272 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  74. Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir

    272 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  75. Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again

    271 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  76. Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet

    270 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  77. Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

    270 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  78. Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable

    270 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  79. FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Indie Retail Website

    269 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  80. America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

    269 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  81. Google Edge TPU Devices

    268 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  82. The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind

    268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  83. What's next for SemVer

    268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  84. Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts

    267 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  85. So you want to be a wizard

    266 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  86. Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)

    265 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  87. Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

    265 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  88. Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (2011)

    265 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  89. Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems

    265 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  90. An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

    264 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  91. RIP Culture War Thread

    263 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  92. Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising

    262 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  93. Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data

    262 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  94. Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

    262 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  95. A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

    260 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  96. Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)

    260 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  97. Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

    259 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  98. Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries

    259 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  99. New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations

    259 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  100. Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

    259 points • comment • feb 08, 2019