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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]

    126 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  2. Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem

    126 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  3. Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app

    126 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  4. Switzerland Federal Council bans large-scale events

    125 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  5. Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp

    125 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  6. Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps on IPFS

    125 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  7. Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM

    125 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  8. 'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast

    125 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  9. Leila Janah, CEO and entrepreneur who wanted to end global poverty, dies at 37

    125 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  10. Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service

    125 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  11. Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use

    125 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  12. Scroll: Ad-free subscription for news sites

    124 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  13. Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)

    124 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  14. Langserver.org – A community-driven source for Language Server implementations

    124 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  15. Say Goodbye to CoreOS

    124 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  16. Boeing finds debris left in new 737 MAXes, now in storage

    124 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  17. A Mathematician’s Apology

    124 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  18. James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'

    124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  19. All the current trees in Barcelona

    124 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  20. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)

    124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  21. IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history

    123 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  22. Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)

    123 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  23. Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia

    123 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  24. “Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted

    122 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  25. Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO

    122 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Where do you find software development freelance work?

    122 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  27. Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement

    122 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  28. A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports

    122 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  29. Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber

    122 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  30. Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly

    122 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  31. Who Was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon?

    122 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  32. Crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20

    122 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  33. Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW

    121 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  34. Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations

    121 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  35. Why I Like Math [pdf]

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  36. Airports for the Supersonic Age

    121 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  37. Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video]

    121 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  38. AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle

    121 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  39. Don’t stage off Starship

    121 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  40. Big Ball of Mud (1999)

    121 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  41. Launch HN: Syndetic (YC W20) – Software for explaining datasets

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  42. Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing

    121 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  43. Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment

    121 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  44. Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016)

    121 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  45. Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

    120 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  46. Ask HN: How do you do home surveillance?

    120 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  47. How Bezos built his data machine

    120 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  48. Measuring Latency in Linux (2014)

    120 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  49. Physicists captured individual atoms and observed them merge into a molecule

    120 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  50. The man who discovered umami

    120 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  51. What’s New in Swift 5.2

    120 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  52. Tesla teardown finds electronics ahead of Toyota and VW

    119 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  53. Myst: the Drawbacks to Success

    119 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  54. Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft

    119 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  55. Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install

    119 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  56. Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley

    119 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  57. A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies

    119 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  58. Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

    119 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  59. Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned

    119 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  60. Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different

    119 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  61. Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo

    118 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  62. Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak

    118 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  63. Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

    118 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  64. Diffing Coronaviruses

    118 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  65. Why operators are useful (2019)

    117 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  66. Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

    117 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  67. Kicks Condor

    117 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  68. Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities

    117 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  69. Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change

    117 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  70. Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors

    117 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  71. McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France

    116 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  72. Stepping Feet Illusion

    116 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  73. Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

    116 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  74. Dispatch – Open-source release of Netflix's crisis management framework

    116 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  75. Show HN: VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot

    116 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  76. McClatchy files bankruptcy

    116 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  77. Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment

    116 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  78. NASA images show China pollution clear amid slowdown

    116 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  79. Applying Mypy to real-world projects

    116 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  80. Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5

    116 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  81. The History of Git

    116 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  82. Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

    116 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  83. OpenSSH 8.2

    116 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  84. Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice

    115 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  85. Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech

    115 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  86. Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004)

    115 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  87. 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

    115 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  88. Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang confirmed dead of coronavirus at 34

    115 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  89. Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains

    115 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  90. Redneck Bank

    115 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  91. Jeff Bezos pledges $10b to launch Earth Fund for combating climate change

    114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  92. A repository of beautiful photos and images

    114 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  93. Seeing the Smoke

    114 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  94. Problems, not solutions (2018)

    114 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  95. Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)

    114 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  96. A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies

    114 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  97. Tesla X parts that had to be replaced after 400k miles

    114 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  98. Domain Logic and SQL (2003)

    114 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  99. Move, simply

    114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  100. FAA faces dilemma over 737 Max wiring flaw that Boeing missed

    114 points • comment • feb 16, 2020