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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Facebook's official Twitter and Instagram accounts appear to have been hacked

    5 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  2. “Predictive” algorithms influencing criminal punishment

    5 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  3. The Iowa Caucuses App Had Another Problem: It Could Have Been Hacked

    5 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  4. Mathematicians propose new use of neural nets for noisy, high-dimensional data

    5 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  5. Show HN: Musilinks – Interactive musical artist relationship discovery

    5 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  6. Bill Gates just bought a $645M super yacht powered by liquid hydrogen

    5 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  7. Show HN: Built a simple landing page waitlist widget to help kickstart projects

    5 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  8. PalindromeDay: Geeks around the world celebrate 02/02/2020

    5 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  9. Bumblebees are dying across North America and Europe as the climate warms

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  10. Show HN: Asynctasks – A sensible task system for vim to boost your development

    4 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  11. Making a home-brew social network

    4 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  12. Anatomy of a Loop (2004) [video]

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  13. Slack ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  14. Pope Francis urges Catholics to give up phones and trolling for Lent

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  15. A Gameboy Supercomputer

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  16. Chinese Military Turns to U.S. University to Conduct Covert Research

    4 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  17. ERPNext – Open-Source ERP Software

    4 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  18. The math of brewing a better espresso

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  19. Open-plan offices are bad. A Harvard study reveals more

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  20. Creating Porter; an open-source CLI to make cloud deployments easier

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  21. Open source licenses: What, which, and why

    4 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  22. 'Attacker' profits –$350k using flash loan and shorting on Ethereum

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  23. Take Care of Code - More and More Code

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  24. TextFooler: A Model for Natural Language Attack

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  25. Show HN: ReactJS – Iframe component with maximise to fullscreen button

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  26. Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  27. In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich

    4 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  28. Apple Has a Vladimir Putin Problem

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  29. Ask HN: What are some other online communities with similar vibes to HN?

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  30. A Repository of Configurations

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  31. Someone Used Neural Networks to Upscale an 1895 Film

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  32. Visualizing the Geometric Phase of Light

    4 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  33. Women Who Conquered the Comics World (2014)

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  34. YouTube: Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers, by Accident (MR1)

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  35. Plague Inc. Removed from the App Store in China

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  36. Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  37. Insider's story on Dem Iowa election app

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  38. Back to the “Cash Age”: A Chinese Writer in Japan

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  39. Kamau Brathwaite and the Voice of the Caribbean

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  40. New Startup Offers Free Live Negotiation Course from MIT

    4 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  41. Should Robots Have a Face?

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  42. Programming Metaphors for Theological Concepts

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  43. Why VCs Love SaaS Businesses

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  44. Russian Hackers Can Be US Hackers with Servers in Russia

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  45. Show HN: An ElasticSearch Powered React Dashboard Template

    4 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  46. Technical challenges cause chaos in Iowa Caucus results

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  47. Remembering organic chemistry legend Robert Burns Woodward (2017)

    4 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  48. Show HN: Derek – reduce fatigue by automating GitHub

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  49. She Said, He Sued: Men Sue Accusers for Defamation

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  50. American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors with Ukrainian Firmware (2017)

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  51. Ask HN: What is our solution if Trump kills/censors the Internet?

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  52. How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  53. Study finds rejected advances – but not accepted ones – influence our r (cont)

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  54. Beyond Facts: Divergent Thinking

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  55. Lex Fridman Interviewing Jim Kelleron Elon Musk and Tesla Autopilot

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  56. Fundamental issues we see with email

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  57. Tinder made a gigantic $1.2B in 2019

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  59. Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Upgrade Changes

    4 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  60. Fellini’s ‘8 1/2,’ and the dream scene that unlocks secret to human creativity

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  61. PostgreSQL Parallelism, What Next?

    4 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  62. Agile software development is dead. Deal with it

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  63. Coronavirus is definitely coming – these are the steps you need to take today

    4 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  64. Code Is a Palimpsest

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  65. Getting treated for coronavirus could cost more than $3k

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  66. After flying in space twice, Microsoft billionaire follows his passion

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  67. Show HN: DNS Rewrite Proxy

    4 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  68. Opening the window in your home will not flush out the chemicals in the air

    4 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  69. What’s New in HTML6

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  70. Scientists discovered weed compound that may be 30 times more powerful than THC

    4 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  71. Go for Cloud

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  72. Tech Experts Are Pessimistic About Their Industry

    4 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  73. New Hampshire town's voting system is 130 years old

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  74. Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  75. China has a mass cremation program underway to deal with COVID19

    4 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  76. Warcraft 3 Achieves Lowest Score in Metacritic History

    4 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  77. Salesforce’s AI navigates Wikipedia to find answers to complex questions

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  78. Buy This Homemade Nuclear Reactor for Only $3,000 in New Zealand

    4 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  79. User-Error Problems with Mobile App for Iowa Caucuses Prompt Online Confusion

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  80. DNSSEC Root Key Signing Key Ceremony Postponed

    4 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  81. Thoughts on Performance and Optimization

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  82. Parody (in Go) of some of the basic Python core features (collections package)

    4 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  83. Roadmap to becoming a backend developer in 2020

    4 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  84. Measuring the health of a project without looking at its code

    4 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  85. Debug Riot-OS on PineTime Smart Watch with VSCode

    4 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  86. The Welcome Optimism of “Star Trek: Picard”

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  87. Outrage as German center-right votes with AfD to oust Thuringia premier

    4 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  88. UCLA Abandons Plans to Use Facial Recognition After Backlash

    4 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  89. Paraic O’Donnell: MS is meticulously destroying me. I am being unmade

    4 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  90. Subset of the dependency graph of NPM's react-scripts package

    4 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  91. Ask HN: How do software platforms ensure money is transferred to lender?

    4 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  92. Shark Tank Host Loses $400k in Email Scam

    4 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  93. Trust in Humans as a Service

    4 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  94. How the US Heartland Institute Supports Deniers of Climate Change in Germany

    4 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  95. Lego Motor Lifts 100kg

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  96. How to Automatically Package a Python App (Pip) for PyPi

    4 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  97. White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus

    4 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  98. Disinformation is more than fake news

    4 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  99. Ask HN: What volume (in dollars) of materials is discarded/burned every year?

    4 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  100. Comedy Written for the Machines

    4 points • comment • feb 01, 2020