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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  2. Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk' Database

    11 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  3. Why the National Debt Is the Wrong Problem to Care About

    11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  4. I Got a Data Breach Alert. What Next?

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  5. MIT Artificial Intelligence Podcast: Guest Interview With Eric Schmidt

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  6. Going Deep on UUIDs and ULIDs

    11 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  7. A Global Guide to What It Means to Be Part of the 1%

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  8. Python Development in Visual Studio Code

    11 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  9. Journalism Isn't Dying, It's Returning to Its Roots

    11 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  10. How Did They Make TV Graphics in the 80s and 90s? Meet the Quantel Paintbox

    11 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  11. Sex robots are raising hard questions

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  12. Security PSA: “Hidden” Content Is Readable in Shared, Readonly Google Sheets

    11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  13. Butlerian Jihad

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  14. Ask HN: How do you version control your event stream schema?

    11 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  15. Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

    11 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  16. Unearthed Emails Could Be Smoking Gun in Epic GDPR Battle Against Google, Adtech

    11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  17. The world’s most precious spice is on the verge of disappearing

    11 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  18. The N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America

    11 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  19. The Tragedy of systemd

    11 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  20. Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent

    11 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  21. BTC investors are out $190m after the only guy with the password dies, firm says

    11 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  22. Google removes government-banned sites from Russian search results, report says

    11 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  23. Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

    11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  24. EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because 'Mob' Understood It Incorrectly

    11 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  25. How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  26. Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  27. Why existing profanity detection libraries suck and how I built a better one

    10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  28. String Formatting with Python

    10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  29. Tesla self-driving car gets confused, crashes on highway – CBS News

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  30. Discovery of Cameras Built into Airlines’ Seats Sparks Privacy Concerns

    10 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  31. Hotel booking sites forced to end misleading sales tactics

    10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  32. Principles of Good Experience Design

    10 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  33. Google’s new Chrome Extension automatically checks your passwords are secure

    10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  34. If anyone cares: Get rid of new Facebook sponsored posts

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  35. Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment

    10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  36. How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  37. Military to investigate decision to certify the Falcon Heavy rocket

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  38. Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  39. Show HN: Libre-Wsdl4j

    10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  40. Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images

    10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  41. New patent win for University of California upends CRISPR legal battle

    10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  42. Trump climate advisory panel structured to avoid public records

    10 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  43. Learn Enough Git to Be Useful – 4 Essential Workflows for GitHub Projects

    10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  44. Security researcher won't share MacOS exploit details with Apple out of protest

    10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  45. How We’ll Invent the Future, by Bill Gates

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  46. Processing Trillions of Events per Day with Apache Kafka on Azure

    10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  47. Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks

    10 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  48. How to create a SaaS landing page that converts

    10 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  49. Airbus Beluga XL spreads its wings at long last

    10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  50. Ubuntu vs. Debian vs. OpenSUSE on the POWER9 Raptor Talos II

    10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  51. Ask HN: What’s the most important software in the world?

    10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  52. Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight – 'Hidden City' Trick

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  53. Unintended consequences

    10 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  54. Google Play Apps with 10M Installs Drain Batteries, Jack Up Data Charges

    10 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  55. Amazon wants to sell “every genuine product in the world.” That’s a mistake

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  56. Body modification artist charged with GBH, despite written consent

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  57. [NSFW] This Vagina Does Not Exist

    10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  58. The organic universe (2017)

    10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  59. Why Everyone Is Fighting About CSS/UX and JavaScript

    10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  60. Sharding the Shards: Managing Datastore Locality in Facebook at Scale with Akkio

    10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  61. NY Times, Why Are You So Worried About 23andMe's Genetic Tests?

    10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  62. How An Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm

    10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  63. As Tension Escalated Between India and Pakistan, Misinformation Spread Online

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  64. Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder

    10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  65. Our World in Data Is at Y Combinator

    10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  66. Trump Set to Declare Emergency Over Border

    10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  67. 2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden, and It’s Pure Comedy

    10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  68. Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does This Mean for the Future?

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  69. Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk

    10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  70. Zig Is Great

    10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  71. Janus: Statically-Driven Profile-Guided Automatic Dynamic Binary Parallelisation

    10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  72. Facebook Has Changed Computing

    10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  73. What I've Learned from Hacker News

    10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  74. Snake sex is every bit as peculiar as you would expect (2017)

    10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  75. Will Automation Set Us Free?

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  76. Forecasting a software project's completion CREATES toxic agile teams

    10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  77. A general reinforcement learning algorithm for chess and Go (Journal Club)

    10 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  78. Show HN: Minimum Viable Bash Prompt

    10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  79. Official Looking Mailings Continue (2018)

    10 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  80. Switching.social: ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives

    10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  81. Venezuela Voices: “We Are Starving Here”

    10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  82. Ask HN: How to Migrate All the Data from Your Google Account?

    10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  83. Ask HN: How do you write efficient and elegant systems / APIs?

    10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  84. Learn UX Design A$AP

    10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  85. OpenShift in a world of KaaS

    10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  86. The cost of companies staying private hits all of us

    10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  87. Hack My House: Garage Door Cryptography Meets Raspberry Pi

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  88. Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion

    10 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  89. Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six minutes

    10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  90. The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  91. The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China

    10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  92. The Little Book of Stoicism

    10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  93. Tesla Is Decades Away from Full Self-Driving Cars

    10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  94. Bill Gates: Textbooks are becoming obsolete

    10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  95. Research Suggests YouTube Aids Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists

    10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  96. Can anyone working @Google explain the decision to kill Inbox?

    10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  97. Learning to Generalize from Sparse and Underspecified Rewards

    10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  98. Ask HN: Any programmers with long arms?

    10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  99. CEO Who Held $150M in Crypto Died in a Region Known for Having Fake Death Mafia

    10 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  100. Amazon Federal Taxes: How the Company’s Corporate Tax Bill Was $0

    10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019