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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Slaking the World's Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  2. America Plans to Withdraw from 1987 Nuclear Treaty with Russia

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  3. Creative Tools in the Post-“Deep Fakes” World

    4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  4. Show HN: ONNEMI-4211, A minimal coding style that can be used with any language

    4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  5. Near $1B Startup Is Led by a 27-Year-Old Female CEO

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  6. Fallout from Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention Is Severe

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  7. Forget Bitcoin, Try Your Mattress

    4 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  8. Meet the 14-year-old who discovered Apple’s shocking FaceTime bug

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  9. Countries with More Butter Have Happier Citizens

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  10. Heavy metal confronts its Nazi problem

    4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  11. He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost (2018)

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  12. Why Mayors Keep Trying to Woo Business with Tax Breaks

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  13. Google: Software Is Never Going to Be Able to Fix Spectre-Type Bugs

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  14. A new net neutrality bill is headed to Congress

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  15. Ask HN: What Are Your Recommendations from the ACM Digital Library?

    4 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  16. Learn Internationalization in JavaScript. ES6 Only, No Libs

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  17. Charlie Munger Speaks at Daily Journal Annual Meeting

    4 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  18. Nest Secure had a secret microphone, can now be a Google Assistant

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  19. Ask HN: Do You Usually Visit the Same Small Number of Sites Every Day?

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  20. What Is OpenTracing? Everything You Need to Get Started

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  21. Japanese Spacecraft to Attempt Landing on Distant Asteroid

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  22. Apple buys AI voice startup PullString

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  23. Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  24. How to build a Node.js server that scales

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  25. Oracle Is Destined to Beat Amazon at Cloud Database: Larry Ellison

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  26. The Machine Stops

    4 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  27. Project Management, an engineer's guide

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  28. Design of a Modern Cache – Part Deux

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  29. The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business (2017)

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  30. The Management Myth

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  31. The “Backendification” of Front End Development

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  32. Training quantum neural networks with pytorch and tensorflow

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  33. Ask HN: Can you transition from trade secrets to open source?

    4 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  34. Ask HN: What tech paradox is analogous to 'dark night sky' paradox in physics?

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  35. Samsung's Blazing Fast 512GB EUFS 3.0 Flash Enter Production for Flagship Phones

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  36. Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says UK's Met Office

    4 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  37. Reality check: Can cat poop cause mental illness?

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  38. What Is a Better Call to Action Than “Request a Demo”?

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  39. AI on Raspberry Pi with the Intel Neural Compute Stick

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  40. China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  41. Preserve the Heritage; Ski with Wood

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  42. The magical thinking of guys who love logic

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  43. China data leak exposes vast hi-tech surveillance operation in Xinjiang

    4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  44. Google researchers say software alone can’t mitigate Spectre chip flaws

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  45. Face Recognition with Python, in Under 25 Lines of Code

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  46. Twitter’s PWA Does Not Indicate That More Menu Options Are Available

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  47. Why did ancient Egypt spend 3000 years playing a game nobody else liked?

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  48. Why I Never Work Weekends

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  49. SpaceX’s first Starship engine suffers “expected” damage during Raptor test fire

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  50. Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies

    4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  51. What Is the Future of PHP?

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  52. Stack Overflow Questions

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  53. Humanity’s 30M-page backup plan is heading to the moon

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  54. Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories

    4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  55. Alan Kay, 2018: The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It. But

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  56. Linux Network Queues Overview

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  57. 50,000 Heck*ng Facebook Ad Variants?

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  58. Owner of USB Stick Found in Seal Poop Has Come Forward

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  59. No, you can't take open-source code back

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  60. Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  61. GitHub: Unlimited free private repos

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  62. President Trump Calls for 6G Technology

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  63. Ask HN: What Are You Fiction Book Recommendations?

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  64. Show HN: Nintendo Switch Emulator for Android (Experimental)

    4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  65. Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached 5 Sigma Certainty

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  66. Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  67. Biggest offshore windfarm to start UK supply this week

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  68. Facebook enables ads to target users interested in ‘vaccine controversies’

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  69. AOC Is Right: Algorithms Will Always Be Biased as Long There’s Systemic Racism

    4 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  70. Solving Artificial Intelligence's Problem with Gender and Racial Bias

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  71. Brazil (1985 film)

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  72. PostgreSQL BRIN indexes: performance for big data with minimal storage

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  73. Crypto Exchange Founder Dies with Only Password

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  74. All Your VMs Are Disconnected: Attacking Hardware Virtualized Network (2017) [pdf]

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  75. A Mulching Proposal [pdf]

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  76. DenseNets – Expanding the Idea of ResNets

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  77. The Devastating Fallout from Prenatal Testing

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  78. Columbus Lowered World Temperature

    4 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  79. Anti-vaxxers plan to subvert changes to vaccination laws

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  80. Democracy’s Midlife Crisis a Conversation with David Runciman

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  81. A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  82. Splunk Pulls Out of Russia with Mysterious Statement

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  83. Paris in the Twentieth Century

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  84. Chat with Gitlab CEO: Offering an On-Prem/Self-Managed Version of Your Software

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  85. Could we soon be able to detect cancer in 10 minutes?

    4 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  86. Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji

    4 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  87. What We Wrote About Facebook 12 Years Ago

    4 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  88. Pinterest Files Confidentially for IPO

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  89. Netflix – Extending Vector with EBPF to Inspect Host and Container Performance

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  90. The Power of Product Scoring Mechanisms – Product School

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  91. The Guy Who Sent a Hiring Manager a Shoe to “Get a Foot in the Door”

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  92. Hot Tech Markets, 2019 [slides]

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  93. What I learned from giving up everything I knew as a leader - Jim Whitehurst

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  94. Making Out-of-Print Pre-1942 books available with “Last 20” provision

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  95. Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  96. Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  97. Practice Your Go WebAssembly with a Game

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  98. Bad Statistics Are Costing British Taxpayers $1.3B a Year

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  99. Show HN: Konami Code Using React Hooks

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  100. Tesla launches orders for the $35,000 Model 3

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019