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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?

    373 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  2. Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

    372 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  3. What happens to a mail-order mattress after you return it

    372 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  4. Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

    371 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  5. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

    369 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  6. Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL

    368 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  7. Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    367 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  8. Game AI Pro

    367 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  9. Burnoutindex.org

    367 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  10. I've screwed up plenty of things too

    367 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  11. Cursed Adapters

    366 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  12. Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers

    366 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  13. AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs

    366 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  14. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

    365 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  15. China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

    363 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  16. Assange Hearing Day 2

    363 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  17. Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol

    362 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  18. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

    362 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  19. Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

    361 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  20. Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

    359 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  21. Educated Fools

    359 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  22. Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

    359 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  23. Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

    359 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  24. Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

    358 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  25. Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

    358 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  26. Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death

    357 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  27. To become a good C programmer (2011)

    357 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  28. Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax

    357 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  29. Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.

    356 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  30. JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language

    353 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  31. BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder

    353 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  32. Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning

    353 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  33. Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned

    350 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  34. Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”

    347 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  35. Hard Drive Stats for 2019

    346 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  36. A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit

    345 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  37. SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM

    344 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  38. Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality

    342 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  39. Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions

    342 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  40. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

    341 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  41. ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go

    341 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  42. Routed Gothic Font

    340 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  43. New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta

    340 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  44. Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password

    340 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  45. 0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras

    338 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  46. NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

    338 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  47. OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android

    338 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  48. Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate

    335 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  49. Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?

    335 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  50. Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

    334 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  51. Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam

    332 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  52. Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

    332 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  53. QEMU for iOS

    331 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  54. ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD

    331 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  55. Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)

    331 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

    329 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  57. Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

    329 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  58. Pwn.college

    328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  59. T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer

    328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  60. macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

    327 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  61. My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech

    326 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  62. Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care

    325 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  63. CBS gets YouTube review of 'Picard' taken down for using 26 seconds

    325 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  64. Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech

    325 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  65. Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?

    325 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  66. California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build

    324 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  67. Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb

    321 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  68. Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe

    318 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  69. Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad

    318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  70. Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three

    318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  71. M3DB, a distributed timeseries database

    317 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  72. New in PHP 8

    317 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  73. My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn

    316 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  74. How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

    315 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  75. OK Doomer

    315 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  76. ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money

    313 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  77. Living without a SIM card

    312 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  78. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

    312 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  79. On Voice Coding

    312 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  80. Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company

    311 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  81. The Zen of Go

    309 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  82. “I made an operating system UI within Unity”

    309 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  83. Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN

    307 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  84. Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good

    306 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  85. This person does not exist

    306 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  86. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

    305 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  87. Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort

    304 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  88. 2020 Leap Day Bugs

    304 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  89. The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering

    303 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  90. CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets

    303 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  91. The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)

    302 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  92. Learn TLA+ (2018)

    302 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  93. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

    301 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  94. Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance

    300 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  95. Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck

    300 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  96. Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App

    300 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  97. Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming

    300 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  98. Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?

    300 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  99. Create a First-Person Shooter In Godot

    299 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  100. COVID-19 Supply Chain Update

    297 points • comment • feb 28, 2020