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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. N26 will be leaving the UK

    516 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  2. Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

    515 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  3. We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%

    510 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  4. No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback

    507 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  5. Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects

    507 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  6. Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

    502 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  7. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

    502 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  8. 1k True Fans? Try 100

    496 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  9. Simple, solar-powered water desalination

    494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  10. Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android

    494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  11. Does memory leak? (1995)

    493 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  12. Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)

    493 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  13. MSPaint in JavaScript

    489 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  14. Draft of the Fast.ai Book

    489 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  15. Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing

    487 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  16. EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app

    486 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  17. Brown: color is weird [video]

    485 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  18. Reviving Sandstorm

    484 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  19. Guide to Equity Compensation

    481 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  20. Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice

    481 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  21. Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

    478 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  22. Apple Edge Cache

    477 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  23. DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

    475 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  24. Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?

    474 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  25. Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

    473 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  26. Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?

    473 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  27. I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca

    470 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  28. Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter

    469 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  29. Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements

    467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  30. Stop Using Encrypted Email

    467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  31. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

    457 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  32. A new hash algorithm for Git

    455 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  33. Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules

    453 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  34. Our first patent troll

    450 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  35. Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain

    449 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  36. FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI

    443 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  37. Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015)

    441 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  38. Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece

    440 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  39. Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU

    440 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  40. Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice

    434 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  41. SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic

    432 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  42. ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data

    432 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  43. Swift Playgrounds for macOS

    432 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  44. How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

    431 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  45. DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot

    430 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  46. Captcha.nsa.gov

    430 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  47. C4: C in Four Functions (2014)

    429 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  48. Mondragon Corporation

    429 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  49. Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug

    427 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  50. South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

    426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  51. How to Take Smart Notes

    426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  52. TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key

    426 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  53. Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

    425 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  54. Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt

    424 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  55. Poolside.fm

    421 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  56. 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach

    417 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  57. A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’

    416 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  58. Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

    416 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  59. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

    412 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  60. Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

    407 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  61. Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video

    405 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  62. A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians

    404 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  63. Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra

    404 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  64. Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

    404 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  65. A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it

    404 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  66. What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)

    402 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  67. Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?

    400 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  68. Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council

    399 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  69. Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend

    398 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  70. I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf

    397 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  71. Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

    395 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  72. Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November

    395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  73. Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

    395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  74. Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale

    393 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  75. Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax

    392 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  76. Things I Believe About Software Engineering

    392 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  77. Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  78. Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers

    390 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  79. A Map of Mathematics

    390 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  80. Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)

    390 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  81. Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded

    388 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  82. Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications

    388 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  83. Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it

    388 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  84. YC’s new guide to raising a Series A

    386 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  85. Lambda School’s Misleading Promises

    384 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  86. U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada

    384 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  87. Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation

    384 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  88. Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras

    382 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  89. Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)

    381 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  90. Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)

    380 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  91. "This community is available in the app"

    380 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  92. TV Backlight Compensation

    380 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  93. Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

    379 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  94. Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database

    378 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  95. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    378 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  96. CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says

    376 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  97. Monobloc chair

    374 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  98. IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

    374 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  99. MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)

    374 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  100. The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

    373 points • comment • feb 18, 2020