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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)

    208 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

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

    208 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  3. Algo Deck: an open-source collection of 200 cards on algorithms

    208 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  4. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

    208 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  5. A video game that lets you make video games

    208 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  6. Ancient Roman Valves (2013)

    208 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  7. Does my data fit in RAM?

    207 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  8. Ask HN: How to explain job gaps on the resume?

    207 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  9. i3 4.18

    207 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  10. Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update

    206 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  11. Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions

    206 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  12. Principles of Icon Design

    206 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  13. Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App

    206 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  14. Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'

    206 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  15. Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats

    206 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  16. MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law

    205 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  17. A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017)

    205 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  18. Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal

    205 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  19. Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate

    205 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  20. Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?

    204 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  21. Board Games of the Ancient World

    204 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  22. ‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially

    203 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  23. Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype

    203 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  24. Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

    203 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  25. RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps

    203 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  26. Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity

    203 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  27. GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization

    202 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  28. Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei

    202 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  29. Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records

    202 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  30. Math is an insurance policy

    202 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  31. Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch

    201 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  32. The coming IP war over facts derived from books

    201 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  33. Safari will no longer trust certs valid for more than 13 months

    201 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  34. If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)

    201 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  35. Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (2016)

    201 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  36. Walmart Gets Into Health Care

    201 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  37. Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis

    201 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  38. The mysteries of aerodynamic lift

    200 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  39. Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz

    200 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  40. Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says

    200 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  41. Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules

    199 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  42. Servers for an Accelerated Future

    199 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  43. German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults

    199 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  44. GitLab Handbook

    199 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  45. Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline

    199 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  46. Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack

    199 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  47. Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

    199 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  48. What happened to Google's effort to scan university library books? (2017)

    198 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  49. Where Have All the Schematics Gone?

    198 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  50. Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected

    198 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  51. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard

    197 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  52. Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

    197 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  53. Using BPF to Transform SSH Sessions into Structured Events

    197 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  54. Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week

    196 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  55. Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups

    196 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  56. Bastion – Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime

    195 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  57. SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave

    194 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  58. How to grip a pen?

    194 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  59. USB 4.0 [pdf]

    192 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  60. Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution

    192 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  61. Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]

    192 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  62. MusicKit JS

    192 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  63. Contextualise: Manage your knowledge

    192 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  64. The limits of high-speed rail

    192 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  65. Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

    191 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  66. In Britain, even jails have a class system

    191 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  67. Website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize

    191 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  68. System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations

    191 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  69. Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs

    191 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  70. Sled: Embedded Database Written in Rust

    190 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  71. The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]

    190 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  72. Implement with types, not your brain (2019)

    190 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  73. CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic

    190 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  74. SQL query to generate the Mandelbrot set as ASCII art

    190 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  75. My Second Phone Is in the Cloud

    189 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  76. Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]

    189 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  77. Tech salaries are risk premiums

    189 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  78. U.S. Signs Peace Deal with Taliban

    189 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  79. Unofficial Winamp Web Site

    188 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  80. Miranda released as free software

    188 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  81. Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage

    187 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  82. Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM

    187 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  83. Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain

    186 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  84. Exploit custom codecs to write inline C in Python

    186 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  85. Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

    185 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  86. Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war

    185 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  87. Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots

    185 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  88. Second Sock Syndrome

    185 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  89. Introduction to Clifford Algebra (2006)

    185 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  90. Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]

    185 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  91. Postgresqlco.nf: a PostgreSQL configuration guide

    185 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  92. How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack

    185 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  93. SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast

    184 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  94. Want to call C from Python? Use D

    184 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  95. An interview with Paul Graham on writing

    184 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  96. Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium

    183 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  97. You’re better off using Exceptions

    183 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  98. SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful

    182 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  99. Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?

    182 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  100. Spreadsheet Horror Stories

    182 points • comment • feb 27, 2020