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Hacker News (Feb 2019)

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

    129 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

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

    129 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  3. Fast Perfect Hashing

    129 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  4. Living Alone Can Be Deadly

    128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  5. The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]

    128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  6. Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?

    128 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  7. That photo of Colossus

    128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  8. World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years

    128 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  9. PDP-1 FPGA Implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console

    128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  10. Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices

    128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  11. Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

    128 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  12. Could Get Millions to Turn Factory into Condos, Is Not Selling

    128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  13. Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java

    128 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  14. Show HN: Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi

    128 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  15. Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”

    127 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  16. A Beach Nobody Can Touch

    127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  17. 500M-year-old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada

    127 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  18. Delta Chat

    127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  19. Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler

    127 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  20. Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video [pdf]

    127 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  21. Modern Robotics

    127 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  22. Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

    127 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  23. Memcached – Caching Beyond RAM: Riding the Cliff

    126 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  24. Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published

    126 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  25. We Also Failed to Build a Billion Dollar Company

    126 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  26. WiPhone: A professionally-packaged Arduino phone

    126 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  27. Be: Fundraising Misadventures

    126 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  28. Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in Nazis – and Let Ads Target Them

    126 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  29. Show HN: Simple way to share state using React Hooks and Context

    126 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  30. UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

    125 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  31. Intern at a YC Company

    125 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  32. Grave Concerns Over White House Efforts to Transfer Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia

    125 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  33. A History of Singapore in 10 Dishes

    125 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  34. Build me a Lisp

    125 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  35. Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014)

    125 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  36. Txti – Fast web pages for everybody

    125 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  37. Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)

    125 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  38. An Introduction to CubeSats

    125 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  39. A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory

    125 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  40. 'Extinct' Formosan clouded leopard spotted in Taiwan

    124 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  41. Public hacker test on Swiss Post’s e-voting system

    124 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  42. Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report

    124 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  43. Sparta: High-Performance Static Code Analyzers Based on Abstract Interpretation

    124 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  44. Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  45. Should Mental Disorders Have Names?

    123 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  46. Linux kernel: Add io_uring IO interface

    123 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  47. The SDK “Power Mac G5” for the Xbox 360

    123 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  48. Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

    123 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  49. Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy

    123 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  50. Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb

    123 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  51. Ask HN: How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?

    123 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  52. Innovative Cultures

    122 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  53. DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering

    122 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  54. Is There a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?

    122 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  55. Do Jails Kill People?

    122 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  56. Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet

    122 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  57. The State of Python Packaging

    122 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  58. It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town

    122 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  59. U.S. Is a Rich Country with Symptoms of a Developing Nation

    122 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  60. Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading

    122 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  61. I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience

    122 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  62. Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  63. SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future

    121 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  64. Sexy prime

    121 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  65. Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

    121 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  66. Interview with Ted Nelson

    121 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  67. ‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs

    121 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  68. Unity Technologies Targeting 2020 IPO

    121 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  69. California lawmakers introduce plan to end surprise ER bills

    121 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  70. A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle

    121 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  71. Hacker News Meetups

    121 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  72. A Fairly Fast Fibonacci Function

    121 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  73. Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?

    121 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  74. Key Takeaways from Zero to One

    120 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  75. First .dev Domains Go Live

    120 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  76. Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients

    119 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  77. Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (2017)

    119 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  78. There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology

    119 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  79. Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT

    119 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  80. The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

    119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  81. Journalism generated by machine is on the rise

    119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  82. Jupyter switches to C++ kernel and widgets

    118 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  83. You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3

    118 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  84. Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said

    118 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  85. FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure

    118 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  86. The infrastructural humiliation of America

    118 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  87. FDA warning brings young-blood transfusion company to a halt

    118 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  88. Software Rot (2017)

    118 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  89. The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool

    118 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  90. Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates

    118 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  91. Private Mossad for Hire

    118 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  92. All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf]

    118 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  93. Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates

    117 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  94. Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld

    117 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  95. Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?

    117 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  96. Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift

    117 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  97. CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers (2015)

    117 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  98. Time Travel (2006)

    117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  99. Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin

    117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  100. AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers

    117 points • comment • feb 23, 2019