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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

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

    259 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  2. Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus

    258 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  3. NBC took Bob Costas off the Super Bowl for speaking out about concussions

    258 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  4. The Art of PNG Glitch (2015)

    258 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  5. A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video]

    257 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  6. Matrix at FOSDEM 2019

    257 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  7. Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base

    257 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  8. The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

    256 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  9. Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)

    255 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  10. Why are we templating YAML?

    255 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  11. Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking

    255 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  12. How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You

    254 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  13. Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data

    253 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  14. Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims

    253 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  15. Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share

    252 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  16. Tracking my phone's silent connections

    252 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  17. Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

    252 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?

    251 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  19. Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

    250 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  20. Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?

    250 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  21. New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

    250 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  22. The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)

    250 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  23. Upvote for HN Darkmode?

    249 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  24. A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty

    248 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  25. Programming the Z3 SMT solver

    246 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  26. Wayland misconceptions debunked

    245 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  27. Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos

    245 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  28. Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge

    245 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  29. Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups

    244 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  30. Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment

    243 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  31. Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins

    243 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  32. Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people

    243 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  33. Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

    242 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  34. Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency

    242 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  35. What’s Wrong with the Raspberry Pi

    242 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  36. Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

    242 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  37. The memory safety problem isn't bad coders

    242 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  38. Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line

    241 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  39. Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform

    241 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  40. Wage Stagnation

    240 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  41. OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes

    240 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  42. Underactuated Robotics

    239 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  43. Heat Pumps Work Miracles

    239 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  44. The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

    238 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  45. AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

    238 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  46. Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy in Elimination of HPV in Mexican Women [pdf]

    238 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  47. This Startup Does Not Exist

    237 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  48. USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse

    237 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  49. Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

    237 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  50. Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

    237 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  51. Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt

    237 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  52. Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

    236 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  53. There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings

    236 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  54. CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout

    235 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  55. Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

    235 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  56. Shorewall – The End of the Road

    235 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  57. Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

    234 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  58. Next.js 8 released

    234 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  59. Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

    233 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  60. Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately

    233 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  61. Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books

    233 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  62. JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments

    233 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  63. Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

    232 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  64. I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken

    232 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  65. Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops

    231 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  66. Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)

    231 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  67. CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

    231 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  68. Moving from Ruby to Rust

    231 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  69. Crazy Circuits: An Open Source Electronics Learning System

    230 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  70. Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment

    230 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  71. Announcing Rust 1.33.0

    229 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  72. In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades

    228 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  73. The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety

    228 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  74. Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix

    228 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  75. C++20 Design Is Complete: Modules, Coroutines in C++20

    228 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  76. Color Spaces

    228 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  77. Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

    227 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  78. A RISC-V CPU for $8

    227 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  79. Things that are more inequitable than road pricing

    227 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  80. I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain

    227 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  81. We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017)

    226 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  82. Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia

    225 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  83. My First Year as a Solo Developer

    225 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  84. Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

    225 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  85. Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly

    224 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  86. America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s

    224 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  87. Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations

    224 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  88. Sample cloud-native application with microservices

    224 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  89. Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines

    223 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  90. We’re Reading Fahrenheit 451 Wrong (2018)

    222 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  91. Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries

    222 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  92. Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract

    222 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  93. When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

    222 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  94. Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code

    222 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  95. Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton

    221 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  96. Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' YouTube accounts

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  97. How the US has hidden its empire

    220 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  98. Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  99. Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling

    220 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  100. McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2019