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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

  1. DVC – Open Source Machine Learning Version Control System

    145 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  2. Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure

    145 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  3. SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)

    145 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  4. Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?

    144 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  5. Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy

    144 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  6. Drivers claim Uber won’t pay fees to launch forced arbitration cases

    144 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  7. The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker

    144 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  8. Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city

    144 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  9. The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research

    144 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  10. 2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden

    144 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  11. Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)

    144 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  12. PostgreSQL 11 Reestablishes Window Functions Leadership

    144 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  13. Ask HN: Alternative HN-Like Communities?

    143 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  14. Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf]

    143 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  15. Our Language Affects What We See

    143 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  16. CSS Reference

    143 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  17. Huawei Sting Offers Rare Glimpse of the U.S. Targeting a Chinese Giant

    142 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  18. SAT/SMT by Example [pdf]

    142 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  19. Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position

    142 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  20. How to fight the surveillance economy

    142 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  21. Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs

    142 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  22. Forecasting in Python with Prophet

    142 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  23. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

    142 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  24. How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers

    142 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  25. What you need to know before you join a startup

    142 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  26. Algorithmic Justice Could Clear Convictions in California

    142 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  27. Why Captchas have gotten so difficult

    141 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  28. Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet

    141 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  29. Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues

    141 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  30. A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

    141 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  31. Sweden's leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business

    141 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  32. BuzzFeed Journalists Vote to Unionize in Wake of Layoffs

    140 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  33. Scientists cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%

    140 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  34. Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human?

    140 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  35. System76 Thelio: A Review

    140 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  36. Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

    140 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  37. Forge – Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit

    139 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  38. Lost in Math?

    139 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  39. Gopher: A Present for Redis

    139 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  40. Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad

    139 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  41. Dr. Rhonda Patrick on DHA in Phospholipid Form and the Prevention of Alzheimers

    138 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  42. China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises

    138 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  43. Databases always have a schema (2018)

    138 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  44. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

    138 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  45. Ledger's Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository

    138 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  46. Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding

    138 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  47. Kató Lomb

    138 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  48. Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering

    138 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  49. Why the “Self-Made” Success Story Is a Myth

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  50. Iterative development: the secret to great product launches

    137 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  51. Show HN: Hack Club Bank – A Bank for Student Hackers

    137 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  52. The complicated business of funding open source software development

    136 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  53. Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof

    136 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  54. Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper

    136 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  55. Go 1.12 Release Candidate 1 is released

    136 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  56. Notices have already been issued under Australia’s new encryption laws

    136 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  57. V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison

    136 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  58. X265 3.0 released

    136 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  59. Openrsync imported into the tree

    136 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  60. Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver

    135 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  61. LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]

    135 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  62. Red Team's SIEM

    135 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  63. Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace

    135 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  64. The art of writing eBPF programs

    135 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  65. 20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience

    135 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  66. C# 8: Switch expressions

    135 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  67. McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting Staff

    134 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  68. Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts

    134 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  69. Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself

    133 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  70. Amateur astronomers tracking the world’s spy satellites

    133 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  71. Useful Postgres Extension: Pg_stat_statements

    133 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  72. Why Is My Perfectly Good Shellcode Not Working? Cache Coherency on MIPS and ARM

    133 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  73. The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted

    133 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  74. Linux Fsync Issue for Buffered IO and Its Preliminary Fix for PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  75. Glowing reviews tout counterfeit cash on the dark web

    132 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  76. Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes

    132 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  77. What Is Differentiable Programming?

    132 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  78. Ramses – A distributed system for rendering 3D content

    132 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  79. AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis'

    132 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  80. Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation

    131 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  81. Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake

    131 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  82. A Death Sentence for a Life of Service

    131 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  83. VW, BMW and Daimler hold talks on cooperation in self-driving cars

    131 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  84. Volt: Fast native desktop client for Slack and Skype

    131 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  85. Aztec Political Thought (2013)

    130 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  86. SleepyHead Project Is Shutting Down

    130 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  87. JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (2009) [pdf]

    130 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  88. The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019

    130 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  89. Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication

    130 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  90. Electron v5.0 Timeline

    130 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  91. CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  92. YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels

    130 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  93. Meaningful life at older ages – relationship with prosperity, health, biology

    130 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  94. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet

    130 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  95. Visual Quantum Physics

    129 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  96. Fast Perfect Hashing

    129 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  97. The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

    129 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  98. Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

    129 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  99. Warning: Debian stable kernel upgrade breaks most ARM SBC

    129 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  100. A meta approach to implementing programming languages (2018)

    129 points • comment • feb 24, 2019