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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

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

    59 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  2. Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization

    59 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  3. Chopping books in half

    59 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  4. Mapping Income Inequality in the US Using IRS SOI Data

    59 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  5. Twitter lists for YC 2017, YC 2018, YC 2019 companies

    59 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  6. TTY-Exit: terminal exit codes for humans and machines

    59 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  7. Magic and Software Design (1993)

    59 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  8. Show HN: Bob – A GUI for DNS Record Management and Name Auctions on Handshake

    59 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  9. Clearing up some myths around e-cigarettes

    59 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  10. The Wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost $550

    59 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  11. Uber blocks drivers who picked up coronavirus-infected man

    59 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  12. Let's Build a Simple Database

    59 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  13. Thousands of workers jobs cut as former boss walks away with $62M

    58 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  14. ‘Radical change’ needed after latest neutron star collision

    58 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  15. The Hunting of Billie Holiday (2015)

    58 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  16. Taika Waititi Slams Apple's MacBook Keyboards After Winning Oscar

    58 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  17. Romu – Fine random number generators

    58 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  18. Volume of a Sphere

    58 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  19. Transparent 3D maps of human organs

    58 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  20. Open Peeps, a hand-drawn illustration library

    58 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  21. Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens

    58 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  22. Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor

    58 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  23. Intro To Pattern Matching – Covers C# 9

    58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  24. SLEEF Vectorized Math Library

    58 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  25. Ericsson pulls out of major Barcelona conference over coronavirus

    58 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  26. HOPL IV: History of Programming Languages – Accepted Papers

    58 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  27. Socratic vs. Euclidean Forms of API Documentation

    58 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  28. Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War

    58 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  29. Paramedical Tattoos

    58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  30. Announcing Our New ISA Financing Blueprint and $100M in New Financing

    58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  31. A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014)

    58 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  32. Some unique aspects in US which make risks of COVID19 higher than Europe

    58 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  33. Barbara Newhall Follett

    58 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  34. A proactive approach to e-scooter safety

    57 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  35. One of the earliest victims of internet bullying

    57 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  36. The Compact Merkle Multiproof

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  37. Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  38. Ex-MS engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currency

    57 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  39. Apache Flink 1.10

    57 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  40. Chinese companies say they can’t afford to pay workers now

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  41. Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell

    57 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  42. Collected Papers of Alexander A. Stepanov

    57 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  43. Gitea 1.11.0 Is Released

    57 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  44. You don't need libraries for internationalization of dates

    57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  45. Where’s _why? (2012)

    57 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  46. To create a new category, name a new game

    57 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  47. Show HN: Hacker UI – a React design system for developers

    57 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  48. The AI delusion: why humans trump machines

    57 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  49. Oracle VP: Data would be safer if most OSS distributed databases didn't exist

    57 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  50. An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU

    56 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  51. Is Recycling a Waste of Time?

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  52. Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor

    56 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  53. Private Internet Access VPN Open Source Repository

    56 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  54. Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises in Japan

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  55. GitHub Outage

    56 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  56. The Dever Ransomware Experience

    56 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  57. Understanding the Neural Tangent Kernel

    56 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  58. Robotic submarine snaps images at foundation of Antarctic glacier

    55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  59. Bose–Einstein Condensate

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  60. Europe’s solar orbiter begins its journey to the Sun tonight

    55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  61. Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  62. Basecamp to launch email competitor

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  63. New Bill Would Give Nearly Every Californian $1,000/Month

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  64. Complex-step differentiation and automatic differentiation (2001) [pdf]

    55 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  65. Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  66. ARM Launches Cortex M55 and Ethos-U55

    55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  67. Ask HN: How do you maintain your medical record?

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  68. Alan Turing in America

    55 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  69. Perennial philosophy

    55 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  70. Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha)

    55 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  71. Creating haptic feedback in iOS 13

    55 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  72. Tests Should be Specific [video]

    55 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  73. Rackspace terminates FOSS support without notification, charging fees

    55 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  74. Let ICANN know if you support .com price hikes

    55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  75. Ask HN: Does anyone have celiac disease and how do you deal with that?

    54 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  76. The Effect of Pipe Capacity on Unix Pipeline Performance

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  77. Occam programming language

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  78. Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises with Serious New Failure

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  79. Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis (2002) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  80. Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  81. Fake Goods Sold by AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish

    54 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  82. Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm

    54 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  83. Leaving Google

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  84. Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day?

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  85. PostgreSQL for Those Who Can’t Even

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  86. Tinygo is now officially a Google sponsored project

    54 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  87. There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us

    53 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  88. Kessler Syndrome

    53 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  89. Babashka: A quick example

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  90. Lithophone

    53 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  91. Bernie's plan to hike taxes on some startup employees

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  92. Show HN: Tagx.io – Create/share video highlights and annotations

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  93. Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015)

    53 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  94. Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped (2019)

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  95. Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery

    53 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  96. Why and how to search two years back in your Elastic search logs [pdf]

    53 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  97. Learning Synths

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  98. RSA Algorithm

    53 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  99. Deploying front-end websites to S3 with CloudFront

    53 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  100. Coinbase Billionaire Brian Armstrong’s Plan to Make Crypto Safe for All

    53 points • comment • feb 20, 2020