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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. 737 Max: Debris found in new planes' fuel tanks

    47 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  2. After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police

    47 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  3. Removing people from complex backgrounds in real time using TensorFlow.js

    47 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  4. Holy Panda Keyswitch

    47 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  5. Infield top-aligned labels beat floating labels on forms

    47 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  6. Digital publishing is beginning to make money

    47 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  7. The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark (2018)

    46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  8. On Emulation

    46 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  9. U.S. deploys 'more survivable' submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon

    46 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  10. Demonstration of the Xerox PARC Cedar integrated environment (2019) [video]

    46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  11. Erdős–Bacon number

    46 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  12. The ‘consciousness causes quantum collapse’ hypothesis (2017)

    46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  13. Ironsides DNS Server in Ada Spark

    46 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  14. Dutch went from shortest to tallest in Europe through sexual selection

    46 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  15. Practical file system design with the Be File System (1999) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  16. Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  17. Wayfair growth stops; Layoffs start

    46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  18. Social Credit Systems, coming soon to a democracy near you

    46 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  19. How to Respond to Coronavirus by Bill Gates

    46 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  20. No More Pink Mustache

    46 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  21. GNU-FSF Cooperation Update

    46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  22. Bjarne Stroustrup – The Essence of C++ (2014) [video]

    46 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  23. Cocktail of flu, HIV drugs appears to help fight coronavirus: Thai doctors

    46 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  24. Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles

    46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  25. Millions of vehicles have unexpected, dangerous front blind zone

    45 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  26. Show HN: Subscription Score – A browser ext that identifies bad mailing lists

    45 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  27. Next stop, hydrogen-powered trains

    45 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  28. My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990

    45 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  29. Modern Database Engineering with Io_uring

    45 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  30. “How do you talk to 'I have nothing to hide' people?”

    45 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  31. KDE’s Plasma Mobile Is Shaping Up Nicely on the PinePhone

    45 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  32. Covid19info

    45 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  33. The optimal way of folding a bond notebook page into a bookmark

    45 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  34. Ribbons (2007)

    45 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  35. V

    45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  36. Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO

    45 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  37. Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes

    45 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  38. Fixng Nginx 502 Gateway Timeout with proxy_pass During Deployments

    45 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  39. Can an Economy Feel Joy?

    45 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  40. Deutschland AG rethinks workers’ role in management

    45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  41. Using symbolic regression to predict rare events

    45 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  42. Sorted – a new web extension to organize bookmarks for Firefox

    45 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  43. Printing Money

    45 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  44. No One Gets Rich by Shunning New Cars and Lattes

    45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  45. Jason Scott: “Here's some thoughts, before Patreon dies.”

    45 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  46. Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

    45 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  47. The worlds worst IoT idea is almost fully funded

    44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  48. Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  49. Collecting stamps from countries that don’t exist

    44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  50. Canada Invests in Ontario’s Electric Vehicle Network

    44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  51. No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  52. Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Plans to Advance Diversity

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  53. Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  54. The Aloha point-of-sale system

    44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  55. Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  56. Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome

    44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  57. OpenSMTPD advisory dissected

    44 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  58. Deepfake version of Travis Scott

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  59. A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  60. Headlinese

    44 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  61. EMM386 and VDS: Not Quite Working

    44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  62. A disk scheduling algorithm based on ant colony optimization (2009) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

    44 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  64. I Spoke Out Against Sexual Harassment at Uber

    44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  65. Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's

    44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  66. Gitlab Saleswomen “told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'”

    44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  67. The Plight of the Platypus

    44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  68. Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought'

    44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  69. Researchers study how birds retweet news

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  70. An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy [pdf]

    44 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  71. Never Use Floats for Money (2016)

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  72. Huawei Charged in Racketeering Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  73. Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton

    44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  74. Rotary Cellphone

    43 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  75. In the 1970s, NYC Dabbled in Carpeted Subway Trains

    43 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  76. Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144

    43 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  77. We’ll Be $1Trillion in the Red in 2020. No Big Deal

    43 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  78. Tesla stock explodes higher again, topping $900 per share

    43 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  79. Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source?

    43 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  80. Reading a book a week for your career

    43 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  81. Kava: Fiji’s psychoactive brew

    43 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  82. Format Python Code Using YAPF

    43 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  83. Show HN: Waymark – Roadmaps for product presentations

    43 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  84. Arnold Schoenberg: Beauty and horror

    43 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  85. The Race to Build the First Sustainable Supersonic Jet

    43 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  86. Our critique of Behringer's proposed TD-3 variant with Devil Fish functions

    43 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  87. Gentzen's Rules for Natural Deduction

    43 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  88. MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)

    42 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  89. Coronavirus: Iran's deputy health minister tests positive as outbreak worsens

    42 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  90. Louis Nirenberg, ‘one of the great mathematicians,’ dies at 94

    42 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  91. Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning

    42 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  92. Show HN: Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

    42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  93. Financial Times 404 Page

    42 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  94. Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin: The Testamentum Porcelli

    42 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  95. Bill Kentstravaganza

    42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  96. Artists who paint with their feet have unique brain patterns

    42 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  97. Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory (1967) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  98. Coronavirus – The Outlook Has Worsened

    42 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  99. New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave

    42 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  100. The Wall Street Journal’s Fake and Distorted News

    42 points • comment • feb 03, 2020