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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Artificial Mountains

    33 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  2. Stripe charged me $714 for duplicate transactions within seconds

    32 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  3. OHCHR UN expert says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now

    32 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  4. Telegram Founder on WhatsApp Hacks: Backdoors Are Camouflaged as Security Flaws

    32 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  5. Freeman Dyson Dies at 96; Wrestled with Questions of Physics and Morality

    32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  6. How the cancel culture was leveraged against RMS

    32 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  7. Show HN: Decentralized Automation Framework in YAML

    32 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  8. Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-NCoV)

    32 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  9. What Do We Want History to Do to Us?

    32 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  10. Detecting manuscripts and publications from paper mills

    32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  11. WikiLeaks Twitter account has been locked

    32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  12. Show HN: Binary delta encoding tools based on bsdiff and HDiffPatch

    32 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  13. Mom and pop investors are on a stock buying spree, fueled by free trades

    32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  14. Checksumming in filesystems, and why ZFS is doing it right

    32 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  15. What happens if I don't fill out my census form? (2019)

    32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  16. Notes on Linear Transformations

    32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  17. J.Bridenstine/NASA: Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old.

    32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  18. Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

    32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  19. Show HN: Census – Sync your warehouse data to any app

    32 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  20. Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns

    32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  21. Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees

    32 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  22. The United States of Franchising

    32 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  23. Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary

    32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  24. High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population

    32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  25. The Parallelism Blues: when faster code is slower

    32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  26. What are these 100.x.x.x addresses?

    32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  27. Making a Timelapse of your PCB design in KiCad

    32 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  28. Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres

    32 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  29. $3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week

    32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  30. Deep linking in React Native

    32 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  31. Fun with Decorators, Protobuf and Apache Beam

    32 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  32. Study: Soy Protein Decreases DHT/Testosterone in Healthy Young Men

    32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  33. LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed

    32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  34. Twitter pro users should enjoy more features and pay monthly fee

    32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  35. Branching Time Iteration

    32 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  36. Marketers are panicking over Google's plan to yank cookies from advertising

    32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  37. Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?

    32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  38. React v16.13.0

    31 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  39. Show HN: There are 100s of similar Monitor Arms so I built this

    31 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  40. The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2

    31 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  41. The Wildness of Maurice Sendak

    31 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  42. What 6 years of bootstrapping a startup has taught me

    31 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  43. Extraction of 96% of total O2 and production of metal alloys from lunar regolith

    31 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  44. What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

    31 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  45. Bumblebee decline points to mass extinction, according to study

    31 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  46. Nintendo Cracked Open Its Secret Game Boy Stash to Help a 95-Year-Old Fan

    31 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  47. Every software company giving a take home coding test

    31 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  48. Visa Grants Coinbase Power to Issue Bitcoin Debit Cards

    31 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  49. The Great Google Revolt

    31 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  50. ZFS on Linux repo renamed to openzfs/ZFS

    31 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  51. First, Consider No Harmful

    31 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  52. GAN Collaborative Image Inpainting

    31 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  53. Our app powered car rental lost cell service and now I'm stuck here

    31 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  54. Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases

    31 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  55. Boeing Refuses to Cooperate with New Inquiry into Deadly Crash from 2009

    30 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  56. Google Earth Outage: 17 hours and counting

    30 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  57. Sex drive-in

    30 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  58. Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  59. Brace yourself, I’m in an expansive mood (2019)

    30 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  60. Tesla recalls 15,000 Model X SUVs for power steering issue in North America

    30 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  61. Everybody Lies: FBI Edition

    30 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  62. Learning Is More Complex Than We Thought

    30 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  63. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only known eight-sided pyramid

    30 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  64. Working with Strings in Rust

    30 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  65. Casper lowers IPO price range, implying valuation of just over $500M

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  66. Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  67. Tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare

    30 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  68. 70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes

    30 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  69. Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet

    30 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  70. Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations (2018)

    30 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  71. You Should Be Eating More Canned Fish

    30 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  72. The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

    30 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  73. When Einstein Was Bohemian

    30 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  74. In 1986 Microsoft advertised Windows was available “except in Nebraska”. Why?

    30 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  75. Game-based virtual archaeology field school

    29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  76. Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich?

    29 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  77. Show HN: Pomodoro Calendar: custom printable planners for Pomodoro technique

    29 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  78. Antarctica hits its warmest temperature in recorded history

    29 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  79. Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate

    29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  80. Landmark ruling by Dutch court stops government attempts to spy on the poor

    29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  81. WebAssembly in the Linux Kernel, with Faster-Than-Native Performance

    29 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  82. Petrol and diesel car sales ban brought forward to 2035

    29 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  83. Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Technologies for Refugees (2019) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  84. Peerd: an AWS VPC peering connection management tool

    29 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  85. You Don't Need Millions of Dollars

    29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  86. Microsoft Teams Now Available for Linux

    29 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  87. Commodore LCD Emulator

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  88. SpaceX Starship SN1 experiences an anomaly and explodes

    29 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  89. Safari Will Stop Accepting HTTPS Certificates That Last Longer Than 13 Months

    29 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  90. Britain’s Productivity Decline Is the Worst in 250 Years

    29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  91. Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  92. Stop Lying About Our Sons

    29 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  93. Show HN: Aggregate search DB for arbitration outcomes

    29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  94. George Steiner has died

    29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  95. Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's Hypervisor

    29 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  96. Improving Compilation Time of C/C++ Projects

    28 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  97. Datastructure APIs in C++

    28 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  98. The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware

    28 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  99. Show HN: Hyperdoc - We make code walkthrough guides (Moment.js)

    28 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  100. Show HN: Gltfjsx, a tool that turns 3D GLTF files into React components

    28 points • comment • feb 03, 2020