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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API

    243 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  2. Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

    243 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  3. Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California

    242 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  4. Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

    242 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  5. Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’

    242 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  6. Swift Crypto

    242 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  7. Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)

    242 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  8. Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair

    241 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  9. We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech

    241 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  10. The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

    241 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  11. Angular 9.0

    240 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  12. GitHub Discussions Beta

    240 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  13. Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?

    240 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  14. Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

    239 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  15. iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature

    239 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  16. Securing Firefox with WebAssembly

    238 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  17. Show HN: Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display

    238 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  18. Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus

    238 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  19. Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

    237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  20. Undiscoverable UI Madness

    237 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  21. Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone

    237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  22. Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns

    236 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  23. The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

    236 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  24. Blender GIS

    235 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  25. Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)

    235 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  26. Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?

    235 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  27. Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?

    234 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  28. Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial

    234 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  29. Wearable Microphone Jamming

    234 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  30. A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip

    234 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  31. What Happened with Lego

    234 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  32. Programming trick questions

    233 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  33. The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer

    233 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  34. OCaml 4.10

    233 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  35. Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)

    233 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  36. Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable

    232 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  37. Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?

    232 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  38. It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985

    232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  39. Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer

    232 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  40. Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming

    232 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  41. Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server

    232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  42. A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

    231 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  43. The Disneyfication of a University

    231 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  44. A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer

    231 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  45. Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash

    230 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  46. How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)

    230 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  47. PCILeech

    229 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  48. Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

    229 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  49. Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B

    228 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  50. Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet

    228 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  51. Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

    228 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  52. Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

    227 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  53. Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing

    227 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  54. C# Pattern Matching

    226 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  55. Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (2014)

    224 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  56. Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users

    223 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  57. Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages

    223 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  58. Vue.js Documentary [video]

    223 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  59. How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

    223 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  60. The state of full text search in PostgreSQL 12

    223 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  61. Blender 2.82

    222 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  62. Google Fonts Analytics

    222 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  63. Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century

    221 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  64. Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence

    220 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  65. Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices

    220 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  66. Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey

    220 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  67. 5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  68. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015)

    220 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  69. HTTP 402: Payment Required

    220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  70. AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?

    219 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  71. Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

    219 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  72. Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

    219 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  73. Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight

    217 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  74. SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1M

    217 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  75. Colab Pro

    217 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  76. History of LSD in Czechoslovakia

    216 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  77. How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)

    216 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  78. Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13B

    216 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  79. In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis

    215 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  80. ThinkPad Mods, Done Right

    215 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  81. IBM's Lost Decade

    214 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  82. Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018)

    214 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  83. China bans consumption and trade of wild animals

    213 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  84. Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training

    213 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  85. Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County

    212 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  86. Toxic sofas are a secret scandal

    211 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  87. Why do incompetent managers get promoted?

    211 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  88. Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA

    211 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  89. Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

    211 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  90. Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

    211 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  91. Visual Introduction to Self Supervised Learning

    211 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  92. What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?

    211 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  93. PyRobot

    210 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  94. Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)

    210 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  95. The Rapid Growth of Io_uring

    209 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  96. New Chip Brings Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Connectivity to IoT Devices

    209 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  97. Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes

    209 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  98. Learning technical writing using the engineering method (2016) [pdf]

    209 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  99. Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army

    209 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  100. Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems

    208 points • comment • feb 18, 2020