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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. The Age of Instagram Face

    91 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  2. Parasite – Firebug for GTK+ Applications

    91 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  3. Introduction to Epidemiology

    91 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  4. More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights

    91 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  5. New math makes scientists more certain about quantum uncertainties

    91 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  6. Why designing for open source can be difficult

    91 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  7. Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel

    91 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  8. Sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other

    91 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  9. A modern take on the “paperclip computer”

    91 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  10. AI Generated News Articles

    91 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  11. The Persian Desert (2015)

    91 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  12. Last and First Men

    90 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  13. FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4

    90 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  14. CVE-2020-0688: Remote Code Execution on Microsoft Exchange Server

    90 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  15. AT&T Hobbit

    90 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  16. An Amazon Scam: The Mofut Key Lock Box [video]

    90 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  17. Uranium Glass

    90 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  18. Netflix's Junk Bonds Explain How We Are in a Corporate Debt Bubble

    90 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  19. Giant Phages: a discovery in the world of viruses

    90 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  20. Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync

    90 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  21. Negative Feedback Is Positive

    90 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  22. ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture – an alternative to SPAs

    89 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  23. Thieves are targeting beehives with growing sophistication

    89 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  24. Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (1996)

    89 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  25. Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?

    89 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  26. Germany eyes new offshore wind farms dedicated to green hydrogen production

    89 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  27. AB2712 – California Universal Basic Income

    89 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  28. FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts

    89 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  29. Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)

    88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  30. The Chaos at Condé Nast

    88 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  31. Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus

    88 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  32. Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver

    88 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  33. Fedora Muscian's Guide

    88 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  34. Singapore Airlines is using aeroponics to upgrade in-flight meals

    88 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  35. Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of a Data Theft Scheme

    88 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  36. An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training

    88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  37. Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

    88 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  38. DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger

    88 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  39. Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983)

    88 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  40. Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed

    88 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?

    88 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  42. Hacked from a lightbulb

    88 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  43. Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search

    87 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  44. Ask HN: How do you manage your financials?

    87 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  45. The Economics of Maps [pdf]

    87 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  46. A Russian satellite appears to be shadowing an American spy satellite

    87 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  47. Hippos have become an invasive species in Colombia

    87 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  48. Crypto AG

    87 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  49. State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo

    87 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  50. The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)

    87 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  51. Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism

    87 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  52. Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)

    87 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  53. Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?

    87 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  54. Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals

    86 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  55. A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

    86 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  56. Highlights from FPGA 2020

    86 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  57. South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011)

    86 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  58. StorePreviewer – See what your app will look like on the App Store

    86 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  59. Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm

    86 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  60. AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing

    86 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  61. Rust Ghost, Signing Off

    86 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  62. Soviet Calculators History (1998)

    86 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  63. Insights – Open-Source Self-Hosted Business Intelligence Platform

    85 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  64. Tech can't remember what to do in a down market

    85 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  65. Ask HN: How do I find investors?

    85 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  66. Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster

    85 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  67. Programming an HP-15C (2013)

    85 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  68. Thinking About Recursion

    85 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  69. A milestone in the hunt for metallic hydrogen

    85 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  70. The Big Data of Big Hair (2019)

    85 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  71. Jupyter Notebooks to Web App

    85 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  72. Perch: a really little CMS

    85 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  73. Facial recognition company Clearview’s client list stolen by “intruder”

    85 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  74. DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for New York Residents

    84 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  75. Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform

    84 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  76. iPhone 11 Pro Emits Twice the Amount of Radiation for Safe Use

    84 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  77. What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera

    84 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  78. The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

    84 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  79. Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya

    84 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  80. OpenAPI v3.1 and JSON Schema 2019-09

    84 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  81. Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (2011)

    84 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  82. Time safety is more important than memory safety

    84 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  83. Japan to close schools nationwide to control spread of virus

    84 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  84. Languages of the Ottoman Empire

    84 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  85. New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery

    84 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  86. Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (2017)

    84 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  87. From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations

    84 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  88. Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

    84 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

    84 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  90. LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic

    84 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  91. “Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis

    83 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  92. Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s

    83 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  93. Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

    83 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  94. Cellular Automata in the Browser

    83 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  95. Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code

    83 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  96. The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence

    83 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  97. Too much locality for stores to forward

    83 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  98. A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64 (2018)

    82 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  99. Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book

    82 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  100. Galileo was right, but so were his critics (2015)

    82 points • comment • feb 27, 2020