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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games via Predictive Streaming (2019) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  2. Another 85 Ideas for Computing

    21 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  3. Feeding Plants Artificial Sweeteners (2010)

    21 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  4. Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  5. Citroën unveils the Ami, a super-cheap electric car you can buy for $6,600

    21 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  6. Why String Theory Is Both a Dream and a Nightmare

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  7. C++ 20 Is Done

    21 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  8. Israeli soldiers duped by Hamas 'fake women' phone ruse

    21 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  9. Gini coefficient

    21 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  10. App Automatically Cancels and Sues Robocallers

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  11. Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? (1998)

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  12. Swift Soars Ever Higher

    21 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  13. Facebook would have to pay $3.50 per month to U.S. users for contact info: study

    21 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  14. New SoftBank tech fund falls far short of $108B fundraising goal

    21 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  15. Jebbit's Tom Coburn on getting big customers [video]

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  16. A Link to the Shadow Inc. App That Blew Up the Iowa Caucus

    21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  17. Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  18. Ask HN: How to take your privacy back?

    21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  19. At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus

    21 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  20. Laughing OnLine (2019)

    21 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  21. Show HN: Py package to collect normalized news from (almost) any website

    21 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  22. Ask HN: What is the most underrated skill software engineers should learn?

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  23. Harvard professor’s arrest shows Chinese spying via US universities

    21 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  24. Gradually, by word of mouth

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  25. We still see the world like the mathematician and poet who first mapped it

    21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  26. Flash in 2020 (and Beyond)

    21 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  27. Boomers got houses and good jobs. Doomers get AGI

    21 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  28. Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  29. Face ID compatible respirator masks

    21 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  30. Amazon finally closes above $1t

    21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  31. Multicluster Kubernetes with Service Mirroring

    21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  32. The Little-Known History of Palestine's First Rock Band

    21 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  33. Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well

    21 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  34. John le Carré: Why we should learn German (2017)

    21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  35. Which milk alternative should we be drinking?

    21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  36. Transitioning to a sustainable economy is fiscally conservative. Why can't we?

    21 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  37. Why Docker Was Written in Go

    20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  38. Stanford's free course on higher mathematical thinking is about to start soon

    20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  39. Xkcd Smearing Clock

    20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  40. Lunar Programming Language

    20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  41. Hand-optimized interpreter loop in LuaJIT2 (2011)

    20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  42. Facebook's fail is going to be epic (2008)

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  43. Scaling Software Development

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  44. Brain-melting Unity demo becoming reality-creating puzzle game

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  45. Seagulls prefer food previously touched by humans to untouched items

    20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  46. Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out

    20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  47. AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead

    20 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  48. Becoming a blockchain developer

    20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  49. Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk

    20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  50. Utah sends employees to Mexico for lower prescription prices

    20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  51. No, a vaccine or antiviral therapy won’t save us from the first wave of Covid-19

    20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  52. Monkeys wake from anaesthetic when region linked to consciousness is stimulated

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  53. A trashed Italian manuscript got sewn into a sweet silk purse

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  54. GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020

    20 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  55. Garbage Language Why do corporations speak the way they do?

    20 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  56. Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites

    20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  57. Mobile app errors could delay Iowa Caucus results

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  58. Former USAF drone operator says he killed innocents

    20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  59. Far-UVC Lights Deactive Majority of Airborne Pathogens

    20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  60. Utah sponsors employee travel to Mexico to buy medicines in cheap

    20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  61. Show HN: Machine Wisdom – Generated Inspiration from Deep Learning (GPT-2)

    20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  62. Four Ballads of USS Thresher (2013)

    20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  63. In 2000, Blockbuster with 7700 stores declined to buy Netflix for $50M

    20 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  64. YouTube Copyright Strike Took Down Livestream Before It Even Started

    20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  65. The Body Shop will start hiring the first person who applies for any retail job

    20 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  66. Microsoft Open Sources the Biggest Language Model in Human History

    20 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  67. A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)

    20 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  68. Tip: Don't record laser tattoo removal (2019)

    20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  69. NYPD video warning about leaks to the media is leaked to the media

    20 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  70. OpenJDK project considering move to Git and GitHub

    20 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  71. Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?

    19 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  72. Teaching honeybees to do arithmetic

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  73. The future of work looks like staying out of the office

    19 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  74. Second Unexplained [Coronavirus] Case Found in California, Santa Clara County

    19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  75. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Overview for Startup Founders

    19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  76. DrDrunkenstein’s (Magnus Carlsen) Reign of Terror

    19 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  77. Thanks to Linux, Google and Valve Are Bringing Steam to Chromebooks

    19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  78. Show HN: Simple JavaScript VPN detection using timezones

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  79. Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death

    19 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  80. 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users

    19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  81. Trump Jr. Is a Poacher After Illegally Killing an Endangered Species

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  82. ‘The Whole System Collapsed’: The Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis

    19 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  83. Reposurgeon Defeats All Monsters

    19 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  84. U.S. sees first coronavirus case of unknown origin in Bay Area

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  85. Rackspace reverses course, revoking open source discounts again

    19 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  86. Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins

    19 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  87. Nouriel Roubini: “This crisis will spill over and result in a disaster”

    19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  88. Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google services

    19 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  89. How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu

    19 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  90. Tesla Is Slowly Pushing Germany into Recession

    19 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  91. On Computers: First Rule on Updating Software – Don’t

    19 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  92. What ruins can teach us about beauty and decay

    19 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  93. Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build

    19 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  94. DHS skirting Supreme Court order by using purchased location data

    19 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  95. The Shadow Inc. App That Failed in Iowa Last Night

    19 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  96. The world's first Bitcoin-settled index futures

    19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  97. After 2 years, couple sells tiny home without ever living in it

    19 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  98. Developing Embodied Familiarity with Hyperphysical Phenomena (2019)

    19 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  99. Show HN: The largest Node.js CLI Apps best practices list

    19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  100. Entrepreneurship is a spectrum so why did we forget to support its social side?

    19 points • comment • feb 08, 2020