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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018)

    67 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  2. Benchmarking Debian vs. Alpine as a base Docker image (2018)

    67 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  3. SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals

    67 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  4. Learn Python the NSA Way

    67 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  5. Backdoor mechanism still active in devices using HiSilicon chips

    67 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  6. Kubernetes Journey – How to setup the HAProxy Cluster with high availability

    67 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  7. Nearly a third of Indian startup founders surveyed are considering moving abroad

    66 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  8. Go 1.14 is Released

    66 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to native iOS dev?

    66 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  10. Crystallization robot generates true random numbers via chemistry stochasticity

    66 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  11. Welcome Lichess Boards – A new way to play on Lichess

    66 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  12. Anti-cheat kernel driver

    66 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  13. India is the next internet frontier (2018)

    66 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  14. Quora Doesn’t Know What a Contract Is

    66 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  15. Three Years of Metal (2019)

    65 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  16. Under Armour dumped an app

    65 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  17. Investor update on quarterly guidance

    65 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  18. Haskell in Production: Riskbook

    65 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  19. Tesla Autopilot tricked into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with modified sign

    65 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  20. What makes code “Swifty”?

    65 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  21. Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, First Principles [video]

    65 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  22. The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem

    65 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  23. On Drafting an Engineering Strategy

    65 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  24. PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs (2018) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  25. Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained

    65 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  26. Your balance is $0.30000000004

    65 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  27. Raw Gadget is a kernel module that allows to emulate USB devices from userspace

    64 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  28. How to raise money: it’s a journey not an event

    64 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  29. Branch prediction: fundamentals every programmer need not know

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  30. Audit Initiated of FAA's Pilot Training Requirements

    64 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  31. Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again

    64 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  32. The Battle for Rust Knowledge Supremacy

    64 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  33. TOML for Modern C++

    64 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  34. Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence

    64 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  35. China's role in the U.S. fentanyl epidemic

    64 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  36. Ask HN: First hire offered to work part-time – what should I do?

    64 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  37. AT&T, T-Mobile sold real-time location data: Make a legal claim under their ToS

    64 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  38. A scalable photonic computer solving the subset sum problem

    64 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  39. AT&T mobile users are unable to access Tutanota

    64 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  40. Spelunky Level Generator Lessons (2013)

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  41. Online altruists making Reddit more accessible

    64 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  42. The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu

    64 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  43. Back to the Future

    63 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  44. Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 805, Passing SARS

    63 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  45. The Mechanical Transmission of Power (2013)

    63 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  46. Amazon tells employees to pause nonessential travel in U.S. due to coronavirus

    63 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  47. What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]

    63 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  48. Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV infection

    63 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  49. AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update

    63 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  50. Nvidia Geforce Now launches at $5 a month

    63 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  51. JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

    63 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  52. Throwaway Code

    63 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  53. DEC Alpha: A History in Facts and Comments (2005)

    63 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  54. On emulating hypervisors: a Samsung RKP case study

    63 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  55. Manifold: A model-agnostic visual debugging tool for machine learning (2019)

    63 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  56. MOV is Turing-complete (2013) [pdf]

    62 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  57. Ever Loved’s funeral marketplace undercuts undertakers

    62 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  58. Amazon gets restraining order to block Microsoft work on Pentagon Jedi

    62 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  59. The Extended Mind (1998)

    62 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  60. The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

    62 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  61. I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices

    62 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  62. Phone services disrupted across B.C., but emergency calls still working

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  63. Qt 5.15 Alpha

    62 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  64. ABI – Now or Never [pdf]

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  65. Reducing risk of automotive death

    62 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  66. Mars Needs Leap Days Too

    62 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  67. Coronavirus – The Status of the Outbreak and 4 Possible Scenarios

    62 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  68. Tech companies giving away free face masks to combat coronavirus

    62 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  69. Show HN: NestDrop – realtime VJ engine using Milkdrop

    61 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  70. Apple subpoenas Santander and US intelligence contractor on use of Corellium

    61 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  71. WebUSB is dead

    61 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  72. Japan doesn't test staff for covid19 cause they cannot work if infected

    61 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  73. Unexpected places you can and can’t use null bytes

    61 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  74. Gray Goo

    61 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  75. Colony is a platform for community collaboration

    61 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  76. Drug makers feel burned by string of vaccine pleas

    61 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  77. ‘We feel really terrible,’ says chief executive whose app roiled the Iowa caucus

    61 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  78. Show HN: Startizer – Startup Incubation System (MVP v2 Made in Access)

    61 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  79. Watching for software inefficiencies with Valgrind

    61 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  80. Wallace Tree

    60 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  81. Antarctica is teeming with microbes

    60 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  82. Of Modes and Men (2005)

    60 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  83. Google photos allowed the wrong users to download videos

    60 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  84. How Do I Get Rid of Search Results from India Community

    60 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  85. Cats, lasers and Raspberry Pi

    60 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  86. End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange

    60 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  87. Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)

    60 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  88. Security recommendations for any device that depends on random numbers (2013)

    60 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  89. The Eye – Open Directory Data Archive

    60 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  90. Show HN: Free startup ideas, analysis, validation and first steps

    60 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  91. WeWork has a new CEO who is a real estate exec

    60 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  92. Privacy-focused messenger Signal is ready to go mainstream and take on WhatsApp

    60 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  93. Mexico City's 'Walking Fish'

    60 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  94. Safety Meeting

    60 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  95. Video game development in Iran

    60 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  96. Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires

    60 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  97. Sun's JavaFX Mobile smartphone, the Neo 1973 (2007)

    60 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  98. DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections [pdf]

    60 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  99. Power to the People

    60 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  100. Fireflies facing extinction due to habitat loss, pesticides and artificial light

    59 points • comment • feb 06, 2020