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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

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

    114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  2. U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties

    114 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  3. People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets

    113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  4. Lumière’s Train in 4K

    113 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  5. Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions

    113 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  6. Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research

    113 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  7. The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine

    113 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  8. Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser

    113 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  9. How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?

    113 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  10. Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative

    113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  11. Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators

    113 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  12. Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

    113 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  13. F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel

    112 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  14. How to Escape from Immoral Mazes

    112 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  15. Systems Thinking and Quality

    112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  16. Production-Oriented Development

    112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  17. Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))}

    112 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  18. Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX

    112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  19. On Mind, Language and Machines

    112 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  20. Modern Data Lakes Overview

    111 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  21. Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four

    111 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  22. Scientist decries ‘chaotic’ conditions on cruise ship after viral outbreak

    111 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  23. Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech

    111 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  24. Hidden Champions: Successful but little-known businesses

    111 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  25. Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go

    111 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  26. A quick primer on type traits in modern C++

    111 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  27. Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain

    111 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  28. Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)

    111 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  29. JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI

    110 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  30. Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do

    110 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  31. Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)

    110 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  32. YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules

    110 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  33. Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

    110 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  34. Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

    110 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  35. What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?

    110 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  36. Show HN: Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs

    110 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  37. The Business Case for Formal Methods

    109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  38. DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration

    109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  39. NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north

    109 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  40. Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants

    109 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  41. Clang vs. other open-source compilers

    109 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  42. Microsoft's Three Browsers

    108 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  43. How to detect web bots?

    108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  44. Cotton Candy (2010)

    108 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  45. WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56

    108 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  46. Eiffel programming language

    108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  47. The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction

    107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  48. JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change

    107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  49. Coronavirus and the blindness of authoritarianism

    107 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  50. NanoTritium 20-Year Betavoltaic Battery

    107 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  51. Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (2006)

    107 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  52. Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking

    107 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  53. Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome

    107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  54. Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device

    107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  55. Panolens.js: A JavaScript Panorama Viewer

    107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  56. Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade

    107 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  57. Printing tiny, high-precision objects

    107 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  58. A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

    107 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  59. Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans

    107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  60. Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  61. A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

    106 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  62. Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)

    106 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  63. Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company

    106 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  64. SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch

    106 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  65. Did the early internet activists blow it?

    106 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  66. Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants

    106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  67. Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  68. Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out

    106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  69. The Shifting State of Remote Work

    106 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  70. Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data

    105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  71. Video Game Keyboard Diagrams

    105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  72. Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X

    105 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  73. Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)

    105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  74. Three Types of Data

    105 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  75. Launch HN: Probably Genetic (YC W19): At-home DNA testing for every gene

    105 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  76. Ancestry lays off 6% of staff

    105 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  77. Amazon Dating: The Future of Dating

    105 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  78. Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November

    105 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  79. Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents

    105 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  80. Free Illustrations of the Natural World

    104 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  81. An improvised Lego device helped scientists conduct tests at CERN

    104 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  82. Amish Hackers (2009)

    104 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  83. Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service

    104 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  84. Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop

    104 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  85. Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found

    104 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  86. Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM

    104 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  87. People of Las Vegas

    104 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  88. Holes in Bayesian Statistics

    104 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  89. A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11

    104 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  90. Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks

    104 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  91. Show HN: FastComments

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  92. Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development

    104 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  93. Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?

    103 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  94. How ‘big law’ makes big money

    103 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  95. NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization

    103 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  96. Spore Prototypes (2008)

    103 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  97. Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

    102 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  98. ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse

    102 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  99. Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  100. Debian 10.3

    102 points • comment • feb 09, 2020