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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. Drug Combo Creates New Neurons from Neighboring Cells

    219 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  2. What we've learned about hiring engineering managers

    219 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  3. The CPython Bytecode Compiler Is Dumb

    218 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  4. GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship

    218 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  5. Cocktail Similarity

    217 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  6. Homebrew 2.0.0 released

    217 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  7. A tiny Swiss company thinks it can help stop climate change

    215 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  8. American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too

    215 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  9. 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)

    214 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  10. SEC Asks Manhattan Federal Court to Hold Elon Musk in Contempt

    214 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  11. Money Machines – An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader

    214 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  12. Cheap and simple medical devices have to overcome deeply rooted biases

    214 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  13. UBS Is Fined $4.2B in French Tax-Evasion Case

    214 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  14. Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

    212 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  15. U.S. Cloud Act is raising concern about extraterritoriality

    212 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  16. Portmanteau Generator

    211 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  17. Why CISA Issued Our First Emergency Directive

    211 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  18. Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (2016)

    211 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  19. Is Matter Conscious? (2017)

    211 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  20. Why Swift for TensorFlow?

    210 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  21. ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It

    210 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  22. Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?

    209 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  23. Show HN: ICONSVG – Customize and Generate Common SVG Icons

    209 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  24. Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control

    207 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?

    207 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  26. Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions

    207 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  27. Stylelint – A modern linter for CSS

    206 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  28. Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring

    206 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  29. Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

    206 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  30. Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish

    206 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  31. Adblockers Performance Study

    205 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  32. Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay

    205 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  33. Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage

    205 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  34. US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians

    204 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  35. California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor

    204 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  36. Boeing 787 Reaches 801 MPH as a Jet Stream Packs Record-Breaking Speeds

    204 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  37. C Macro Magic

    204 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  38. Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

    204 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  39. Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes

    203 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  40. Confessions of a location data exec

    203 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  41. Google now pays more money in EU fines than it pays in taxes

    203 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  42. How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

    203 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  43. As McKinsey Sells Advice, Its Hedge Fund May Have a Stake in the Outcome

    202 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  44. How does the Hololens 2 matter?

    202 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  45. 24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today

    202 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  46. Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

    201 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  47. Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN

    201 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  48. The Knot Book: Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots (1994) [pdf]

    201 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  49. Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs

    201 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  50. Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

    201 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  51. How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User

    201 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  52. Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019

    201 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  53. HyperCard Adventures

    200 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  54. My disabled son’s gaming life in the World of Warcraft

    200 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  55. A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete

    200 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  56. If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?

    200 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  57. Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue

    200 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  58. Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods

    200 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  59. When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t

    199 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  60. List of Open Source Real-Time Operating Systems

    199 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  61. Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver

    199 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  62. At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Building

    199 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  63. Handling 1M websocket connections in Go

    198 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  64. Startup Credits – Free/discounted plans for startups

    198 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  65. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]

    198 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  66. Saying Goodbye to Louisville

    198 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  67. Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”

    198 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  68. Stop Reading News (2013)

    198 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  69. From Alex’s Family

    197 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  70. PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha

    196 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  71. Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)

    196 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  72. John Carmack: writing Rust code feels wholesome

    196 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  73. Overwatch Randomized Trial on Gender

    196 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  74. Facebook collects a wide range of private data from developers

    196 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  75. Is China’s corruption-busting AI being turned off for being too efficient?

    196 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  76. AMA: Bill Gates

    195 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  77. Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion

    195 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  78. Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation

    195 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  79. Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

    195 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  80. America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste

    194 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  81. My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’

    194 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  82. Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon

    194 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  83. Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem

    193 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  84. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

    193 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  85. MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections

    193 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  86. Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers & libdivide

    193 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  87. Lyft lobbying to prevent Portland from regulating impact of ride-sharing

    193 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  88. Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings

    192 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  89. Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass

    192 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  90. Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near

    192 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  91. Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

    192 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  92. Machine Learning for Everyone

    192 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  93. Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending

    191 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  94. Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums

    191 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  95. SEO for Web Engineers

    191 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  96. Anti-Application video for YC120

    190 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  97. The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified

    190 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  98. How Fair Is My D20? (2015)

    189 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  99. Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer

    189 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  100. Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers

    188 points • comment • feb 16, 2019