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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?

    297 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  2. Performant Front-End Architecture

    296 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  3. Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]

    295 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  4. Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

    294 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  5. Where Sci-Hub Is

    294 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  6. Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

    294 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  7. Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position

    293 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  8. No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit

    293 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  9. The Bash Hackers Wiki

    292 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  10. Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps

    291 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  11. Hard negotiations: why a softer approach yields better outcomes

    291 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  12. Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

    290 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  13. Maryam Mirzakhani

    290 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  14. Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications

    289 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  15. State of Clojure 2020

    288 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  16. Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

    287 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  17. Year Without a Summer

    287 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  18. Li Wenliang

    286 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  19. Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’

    286 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  20. Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

    285 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  21. FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

    285 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  22. Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove

    285 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  23. Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies

    284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  24. Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)

    284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  25. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”

    284 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  26. Should you self-host Google Fonts?

    283 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  27. Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers

    283 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  28. FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality

    283 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  29. I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer

    283 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  30. GitHub was down

    282 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  31. How to take smart notes with Org mode

    281 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  32. On Resigning from Google

    279 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  33. Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (2013)

    279 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  34. Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

    279 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  35. 7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered

    279 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  36. The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard

    278 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  37. Costco Capitalism

    275 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  38. AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

    274 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  39. Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning

    273 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  40. Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)

    273 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  41. The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night

    272 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  42. Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together

    272 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  43. Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics

    271 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  44. The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM

    271 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  45. Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

    269 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  46. Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources

    269 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  47. Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’

    268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  48. Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)

    268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  49. Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75

    268 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  50. Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data

    268 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  51. Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

    267 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  52. The Problem with Palm Oil

    267 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  53. How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019

    266 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  54. Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born

    265 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  55. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

    265 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  56. Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]

    264 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  57. Levels of Seniority

    264 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  58. I Was Wrong about Nix

    263 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  59. John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]

    262 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  60. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

    261 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  61. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

    261 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  62. Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)

    260 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  63. 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)

    260 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  64. CouchDB 3.0

    260 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  65. Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse

    259 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  66. Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything

    259 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  67. MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)

    259 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  68. Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math

    258 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  69. Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA

    258 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  70. I Worked for a Criminal Organization

    258 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  71. Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)

    257 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  72. ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C

    257 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  73. An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models

    256 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  74. Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?

    255 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  75. Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking

    255 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  76. GDC 2020 has been postponed

    255 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  77. Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

    255 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  78. US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

    255 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  79. Goodbye Joyent

    254 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  80. Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

    254 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  81. Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront

    252 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  82. 64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks

    251 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  83. The war on food waste is a waste of time

    250 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  84. Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google

    249 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  85. How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation [video]

    249 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  86. Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation

    249 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  87. Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping

    248 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  88. Functional Programming in OCaml

    248 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  89. JWT is Awesome

    248 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  90. Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max

    247 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  91. Things about the new Firefox browser for Android

    247 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  92. Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)

    246 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  93. GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

    246 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  94. Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

    246 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  95. Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?

    246 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  96. Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID

    245 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  97. MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

    245 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  98. Flowcharts of programming language constructs

    244 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  99. McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality

    244 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  100. Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

    244 points • comment • feb 03, 2020