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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Gears

    2723 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  2. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

    2275 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  3. Wacom tablets track every app you open

    1586 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  4. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

    1552 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  5. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

    1538 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  6. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

    1502 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  7. Google Maps Hacks

    1399 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  8. Larry Tesler Has Died

    1343 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  9. Freeman Dyson Has Died

    1228 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  10. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

    1208 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  11. What's SAP?

    1196 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  12. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

    1150 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  13. The missing semester of CS education

    1113 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  14. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

    1108 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  15. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

    1020 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  16. 1-on-1 meeting questions

    1007 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  17. Old CSS, New CSS

    1004 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  18. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

    986 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  19. Tailwind UI

    966 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  20. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

    949 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  21. “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”

    941 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  22. More bosses give four-day workweek a try

    922 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  23. The dystopian world of software engineering interviews

    921 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  24. Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

    905 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  25. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

    887 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  26. Explorabl.es

    874 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  27. Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

    874 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  28. A half-hour to learn Rust

    865 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  29. Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?

    842 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  30. Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

    822 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  31. Reasons not to become famous

    819 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  32. Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell

    813 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  33. How to Write Usefully

    806 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  34. Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

    800 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  35. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

    796 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

    773 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  37. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

    753 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  38. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”

    748 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  39. Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian

    741 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  40. I Learned French in 12 Months

    731 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

    730 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  42. Python dicts are now ordered

    728 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  43. Hard Startups

    721 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  44. Palindrome Day 20200202

    719 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  45. To get good, go after the metagame

    708 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  46. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him

    705 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  47. Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk

    704 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  48. Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years

    704 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  49. Don't touch my clipboard

    700 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  50. An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)

    698 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  51. Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records

    693 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  52. Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

    689 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  53. Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study

    689 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  54. No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

    684 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  55. Time.gov was upgraded today

    683 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  56. Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas

    679 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  57. Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly

    678 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  58. FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

    677 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  59. Bert Sutherland Has Died

    677 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  60. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

    677 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  61. Guide to running Elasticsearch in production

    672 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  62. How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)

    667 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  63. Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

    661 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  64. I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

    661 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  65. Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]

    657 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  66. GitHub CLI is now in beta

    654 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  67. Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs

    640 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  68. Scaling to 100k Users

    628 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  69. Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom

    628 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  70. Suspicious Discontinuities

    626 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  71. Firefox 73

    617 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  72. How to brainstorm great business ideas

    616 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  73. Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

    615 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  74. Ultimate Electronics

    609 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  75. Donald Knuth was framed

    609 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  76. Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment

    605 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  77. OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

    597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  78. Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

    597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  79. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

    594 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  80. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

    591 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  81. Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

    583 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  82. Rotary Cellphone

    562 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  83. Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]

    558 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  84. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

    558 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  85. Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers

    551 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  86. An app can be a home-cooked meal

    549 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  87. Why Google Did Android

    548 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  88. I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system

    546 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  89. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983

    544 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  90. The Simpsons in CSS

    543 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  91. Where are all the animated SVGs?

    542 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  92. Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

    535 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  93. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

    533 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  94. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

    528 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  95. Debt is coming to the tech industry

    522 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  96. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

    521 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  97. The boss who put everyone on 70K

    520 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  98. Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

    519 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  99. Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

    518 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  100. 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

    516 points • comment • feb 14, 2020