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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

    182 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  2. SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful

    182 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  3. Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?

    182 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  4. Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report

    182 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  5. Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code

    181 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  6. Shaking Up the Diamond Industry

    181 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  7. France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones

    181 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  8. Downsides of Google Authenticator

    181 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  9. Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship

    181 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  10. Graph Neural Networks – An Overview

    180 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  11. Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

    180 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  12. ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components

    180 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  13. Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?

    180 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  14. Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?

    179 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  15. HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

    179 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  16. How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)

    179 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  17. Challenges with distributed systems

    179 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  18. Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson

    178 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  19. Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

    178 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  20. Show HN: Build a JS-only interactive product walk-through for your landing page

    178 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  21. Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay

    178 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  22. How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage

    178 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  23. The 2020 State of Remote Work

    177 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  24. Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust

    177 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  25. Verlan: French slang that inverses words

    177 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  26. New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution

    176 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  27. My favorite Erlang program (2013)

    176 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  28. Delphi's 25th Birthday

    176 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  29. Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language

    176 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  30. The Two Middle Classes

    176 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  31. Time Machine in macOS 10.15.3 is very slow on first full backup

    175 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  32. End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux

    175 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  33. Frankenstein Veto

    175 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  34. Reducing Docker Image Size

    174 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  35. SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing

    174 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  36. App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested

    173 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  37. Why programming is difficult (2014)

    173 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  38. Space Frigates

    173 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  39. BBC Micro Bot

    173 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  40. Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)

    172 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  41. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Asynchronous Programming

    172 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  42. Justice Department meeting state AG offices Tuesday to discuss Google: sources

    172 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  43. Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?

    172 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  44. Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died

    172 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  45. Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot

    171 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  46. Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings

    171 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  47. Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards

    171 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  48. Show HN: My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

    171 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  49. Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

    171 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  50. Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails

    171 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  51. Guessing smart phone PINs by monitoring the accelerometer

    170 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  52. Wikimedia Cookbook

    170 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  53. Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter

    170 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  54. Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?

    170 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  55. How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders

    170 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  56. Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction

    169 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  57. NetBSD 9.0

    169 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  58. Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)

    169 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  59. Universal, reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (2017)

    168 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  60. I built a DIY license plate reader with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning

    168 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  61. Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging

    168 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  62. The Need for Data Engineers

    168 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  63. Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance

    167 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  64. Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?

    167 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  65. Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

    167 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  66. Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch

    167 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  67. Open Source Security Tools

    167 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  68. The BBC’s attempt to build a Netflix-style service was snuffed by regulation

    166 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  69. How important are 'economies of scale'?

    166 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  70. An Engineering Team Where Everyone Is a Leader

    166 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  71. The general value of typed functional programming lies in leaving no edge cases

    166 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  72. Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it

    165 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  73. How to write the perfect pull request (2015)

    165 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  74. Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf]

    164 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  75. A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?

    164 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  76. Ant Design 4.0

    164 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  77. Over 150k botanical illustrations enter public domain

    163 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  78. GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy

    163 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  79. Jailed Just-in-Time Compilation on iOS

    162 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  80. The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

    162 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  81. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

    161 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  82. One Hundred Ideas for Computing

    161 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  83. MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua

    161 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  84. A Leadership Library for Engineers

    160 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  85. Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble burst

    160 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  86. How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost

    160 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  87. Apple's long processor journey

    160 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  88. Tools you’d miss if you left a company

    159 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  89. Using ‘radioactive data’ to detect if a data set was used for training

    159 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  90. Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code

    159 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  91. How the JPL works to secure its missions from adversaries

    159 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  92. Why we need a book about naming

    159 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  93. How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files

    158 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  94. More than a thousand scientists have built the most detailed picture of cancer

    158 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  95. Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case

    158 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  96. The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]

    158 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  97. Writing Grant Applications

    158 points • comment • feb 16, 2020

  98. What Coronavirus Does to the Body

    158 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  99. Fig – Crowdfunding for video games

    158 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  100. A new model and dataset for long-range memory

    158 points • comment • feb 10, 2020