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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

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

    102 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  2. MIDI 2.0 Specifications Available for Download

    102 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  3. Iowa Caucus App Error

    102 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  4. ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse

    102 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  5. If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause

    101 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  6. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance

    101 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  7. Turtleocracy

    101 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  8. Companies flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans

    101 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  9. Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom

    101 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  10. Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics

    101 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  11. Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis

    101 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  12. The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is a trove of cunning inventions

    100 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  13. Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)

    100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  14. Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything

    100 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  15. Implementing Raft: Part 2: Commands and Log Replication

    100 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  16. Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS

    100 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  17. Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection

    100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  18. Royal Mail's new video game stamp set

    100 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  19. How to Make a Memex

    100 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  20. An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation

    100 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  21. Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones

    100 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  22. A Human's Guide to Words (2010)

    100 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  23. The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments

    100 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  24. Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action

    99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  25. Fiber – Express inspired web framework written in Go

    99 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  26. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)

    99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  27. Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

    99 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  28. Why Business Is So Difficult and Unpredictable

    99 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  29. Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?

    99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  30. Pathfinding Demystified (2014)

    99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  31. DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework

    99 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  32. Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil

    98 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  33. Bootstrap Treeview

    98 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  34. Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared

    98 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  35. Why has progress stalled?

    98 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  36. First, Do No Harm

    98 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  37. Project Euler 001 the Hard Way

    97 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  38. Internet in a Box

    97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  39. Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads

    97 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  40. Twinkle Notes: Cross-platform encrypted notes app

    97 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  41. Flow Fields

    97 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  42. Lightbeam: A Highly-Optimising Streaming WebAssembly Compiler (2019) [video]

    97 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  43. Decoding evolution and transmissions of novel pneumonia coronavirus

    97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  44. Colorado voters are set to decide if wolves should be reintroduced to the state

    97 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  45. Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time

    97 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  46. Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?

    97 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  47. Paper Clay Air Humidifier

    97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  48. Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email

    96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  49. Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

    96 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  50. SpaceX’s Starship SN1 prototype blows up during pressure test on its Texas pad

    96 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  51. CSS Containment Specification

    96 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  52. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019)

    96 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  53. Send me your privacy abuse tipoffs

    96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  54. Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

    96 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  55. Richard P. Feynman on the Distinction Between Past and Future

    96 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  56. The Law of Conservation of Complexity

    96 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  57. A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems

    96 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  58. Brandless has shut down

    96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  59. The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy

    96 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  60. Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study

    96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  61. Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them for Not Having Licenses

    96 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  62. Little Ideas

    96 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  63. Show HN: Broxy – An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go

    96 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  64. Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend

    95 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  65. Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

    95 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  66. Show HN: A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C

    95 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  67. Explore ancient Athens online in 3D models

    95 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  68. 311 years ago, Alexander Selkirk was rescued on a desert island

    94 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  69. When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’

    94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  70. Writing a triple polyglot script

    94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  71. Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?

    94 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  72. San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus

    94 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  73. Show HN: Codeflow – Understand a codebase quicker with PowerPoint-like tutorials

    94 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  74. Analyzing the attacks on my website

    94 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  75. Pitch Drop Experiment

    94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  76. Getting started on Twitter as a scientist

    94 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  77. Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading

    93 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  78. LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC

    93 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  79. A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell

    93 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  80. WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”

    93 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  81. Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC

    93 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  82. Crystal 0.33

    93 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  83. “If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”

    93 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  84. Seattle Tech Employees Earn 56% More Than NYC Finance Workers

    93 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  85. Mitigations are attack surface, too

    93 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  86. ‘McMillions’: ex-cop orchestrated $24M McDonald’s Monopoly scam

    93 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  87. Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer

    93 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  88. We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (2015)

    93 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  89. Facebook URLs Dataset Now Available for Academic Research

    93 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  90. Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class

    92 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  91. Show HN: IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting

    92 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  92. Coronavirus Mortality Rate

    92 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  93. BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]

    92 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  94. A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis

    92 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  95. Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

    92 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  96. How might the coronavirus change our world?

    92 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  97. European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech

    92 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  98. Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regulatory action

    92 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  99. Math Keeps Changing

    92 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  100. The Age of Instagram Face

    91 points • comment • feb 19, 2020