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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

    10 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  2. Directory of Open Access Journals

    10 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  3. Crypto exchange can't repay $190M because the CEO died with only password

    10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  4. AirPods Are Now One of Apple’s Most Important Products

    10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  5. The Green Nuclear Deal: Eliminate Fossil Fuels with Nuclear Power

    10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  6. Ask HN: Examples of well-designed highly-configurable user account UIs?

    10 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  7. Johnson and Johnson will be the first drugmaker to list pill prices in TV ads

    10 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  8. Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

    10 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  9. Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking, and Subjective Well-Being

    10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  10. Shatter Secrets: Using Secret Sharing to Cross Borders with Encrypted Devices

    10 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  11. It’s ideology vs. science in psychology’s war on boys and men

    10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  12. HexagDLy – Processing Hexagonal Data with PyTorch

    10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  13. Alphabet spent more than $1.3B last quarter on ‘other bets’

    10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  14. The Space Review: Building a better booster (part 1)

    10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  15. How 18th century information wars can solve problem of 21st-century fake news

    10 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  16. A Complete Program

    10 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  17. Tesla shares fall on report SEC asks judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt

    10 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  18. Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing [pdf]

    10 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  19. Neanderthals were sprinters rather than distance runners, study suggests

    10 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  20. A Real Tube Carrying Dreams of 600-MPH Transit

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  21. TSLint in 2019: TSLint Will Be Officially Deprecated in Favor of ESLint

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  22. HoloLens for Good, Not for War

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  23. Pingdom kill its free website monitoring plan

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  24. Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify

    9 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  25. What Is Real User Monitoring

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  26. Edge Detection in Computer Vision

    9 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  27. Impersonation and Identity Theft Risk on GitHub and How to Prevent It

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  28. Every HN front page post of last 3 years

    9 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  29. Seals took over California beach during government shutdown – won’t give it back

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  30. Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  31. Joe Rogan Experience – Jack Dorsey

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  32. Seconds of advice on how to survive being attacked by nuclear missiles

    9 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  33. Slack’s New Logo Became a Lightning Rod For Bad Things on The Internet

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  34. Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  35. Mars One Is Done

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  36. An earthquake in Turkey lasted 50 days, but no one felt it

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  37. Mental illness is surging even in the world’s happiest countries

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  38. Ask HN: How to Best Stay on Top of Vulnerability Releases in Software?

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  39. Halting Password Puzzles (2007) [pdf]

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  40. Hold the front pages: meet the endpaper enthusiasts

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  41. What I learnt on a men-only retreat…

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  42. A New Account of the Emotions

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  43. New browser attack lets hackers run bad code even after users leave a web page

    9 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  44. Apple Sued Over Not Letting Customers Disable Two-Factor Auth After Two Weeks

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  45. Data breach allowed Stanford applicants to view others’ information

    9 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  46. Will Node.js forever be the sluggish Golang?

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  47. How I got rid of the new sponsored Facebook posts

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  48. Zealots of Programming

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  49. Color can prevent your users from getting phished

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  50. The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained

    9 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  51. Winning Blackjack Using Machine Learning

    9 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  52. New Go Client for Elasticsearch

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  53. I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  54. Home Affairs says encryption-busting laws now in use

    9 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  55. California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  56. What would you do if a company recently rejected you contacted you for an offer?

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  57. An Investigation into Jacob Appelbaum Leaving the Tor Project

    9 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  58. CBC head warns Netflix poses cultural threat to Canada

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  59. Linux Kernel Getting Io_uring to Deliver Fast and Efficient I/O

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  60. Real-Time Chat Solutions vs. Chat Platforms – Make Your Choice

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  61. Chem journal yanks paper because authors had stolen it as peer reviewers

    9 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  62. Pascal is faster than C++

    9 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  63. Ask HN: Why Did Your Business Fail?

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  64. The end of Blu-ray and movie and TV show collecting

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  65. Astronomers Just Found 300,000 Hidden Galaxies in Just a Tiny Patch of Sky

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  66. Tesla: Great things are launching at 2pm

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  67. Tiny Homes for Homeless Get Go-Ahead

    9 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  68. Create a Clockwork Mechanical Camera for Venus

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  69. Oregon has more legal cannabis than the state can consume in six years

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  70. The Accelerator Wall: A New Problem for a Post-Moore’s Law World

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  71. The Power of a $15 Minimum Wage

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  72. An Analysis of All 1.3M Public Jupyter Notebooks on GitHub

    9 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  73. The Ethical Dilemma Facing Silicon Valley’s Next Generation

    9 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  74. Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  75. Uber released Ludwig, a deep learning toolbox where hardly any coding skill

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  76. Virgin Galactic Makes Space for Second Time in Ten Weeks with Three on Board

    9 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  77. A Tiny Reef Fish Can Recognize Itself in a Mirror

    9 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  78. Show HN: P2P In-Browser Screen Sharing

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  79. Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull Safari analytics

    9 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  80. ExSpectre: Hiding malware in speculative execution [pdf]

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  81. Blood of the Young Won’t Spare Rich Old People from Sadness and Death, FDA Says

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  82. The Hideous Name (1985) [pdf]

    9 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  83. Aussie IT firms cop customer trust hit as encryption laws bite

    9 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  84. Wrapping the Earth

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  85. Collection of 65 messaging patterns for enterprise integration

    9 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  86. Fair Open-Sources New ELF OpenGo Data Set, Research, and Insights

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  87. It’s Time to Cancel FuckJerry

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  88. Changes in the Rust Core Team

    9 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  89. Ask HN: Life after corporate job

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  90. I created a list of every startup job in Boston

    9 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  91. Maintaining Different Git Identities

    9 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  92. Splunk Will No Longer Be Selling Software and Services to Russian Organizations

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  93. Australian Political Parties Hit by 'State Actor' Hack

    9 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  94. Apple Removes Useless 'Do Not Track' Feature from Latest Beta Versions of Safari

    9 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  95. They Worked on Conflicts Overseas. Now These Americans See ‘Red Flags’ at Home

    9 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  96. Bill Gates Made These 15 Predictions Back in 1999

    9 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  97. Plain old graphs that solve your problems

    9 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  98. The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

    9 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  99. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big

    9 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  100. Optimizing for the Speed of Light

    9 points • comment • feb 20, 2019