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Hacker News (Feb 2020)

  1. Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more

    139 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  2. RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India

    139 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  3. Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers

    139 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  4. FDA agrees to expanded access program for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD

    139 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  5. The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives

    138 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  6. Hallucinogenic Fish

    138 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  7. An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs

    138 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  8. You don't need to work on hard problems

    138 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  9. Twitter Thread: Experience at Lambda School for UX

    138 points • comment • feb 22, 2020

  10. Ken Allen

    138 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  11. When did Americans lose their British accents?

    138 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  12. Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering

    138 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  13. Waymo’s Hiring Binge

    138 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  14. Flashsort

    138 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  15. Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf]

    137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  16. Fork Bomb

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  17. Brothels of Ancient Pompeii

    137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  18. Handling 350k Requests for $3 using Lambda

    137 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  19. Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings

    137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  20. USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer

    137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  21. Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of employees work from home

    137 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  22. Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults

    137 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  23. In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles

    137 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  24. Dictionary union (PEP 584) is merged

    137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  25. Plasma 5.18

    136 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  26. Jonathan Blow on Rust

    136 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  27. Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation

    136 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  28. Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index

    136 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  29. AI thinks like a corporation (2018)

    136 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  30. Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020

    136 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  31. Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT

    136 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  32. Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

    136 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  33. Stranded after driving out of cellphone range in app-powered smart car

    136 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  34. The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot

    136 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  35. Benford's Law

    136 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  36. Manuals and guides for startups

    136 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  37. YaCy: Decentralized Web Search

    135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  38. An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program

    135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  39. Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers

    135 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  40. Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf]

    135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  41. Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end

    135 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  42. Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record

    135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  43. Allocator Designs

    134 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  44. Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes

    134 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  45. Inertial Locking Box (2013)

    134 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  46. Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)

    133 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  47. Database Lab – Full-size staging databases as a service

    133 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  48. Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

    133 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  49. Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]

    133 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  50. How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (2017)

    133 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  51. Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record

    133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  52. What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (2017)

    133 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  53. A list of companies using Elm in production

    133 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  54. Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users

    133 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  55. You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)

    133 points • comment • feb 26, 2020

  56. FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit

    133 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  57. Show HN: Hacker News Trends

    133 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  58. Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video]

    133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  59. Single div Sierpinski triangle

    133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020

  60. Persisting React State in LocalStorage

    132 points • comment • feb 28, 2020

  61. Building a neural network from scratch in Haskell

    132 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  62. Ballerina Programing Language

    132 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  63. Systemd Home Directories

    132 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  64. Unix as IDE (2012)

    132 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  65. How to Respond to COVID-19

    132 points • comment • feb 29, 2020

  66. Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications

    132 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

    132 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  68. Null Values in SQL Queries

    132 points • comment • feb 03, 2020

  69. Pointer Compression in V8

    132 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  70. Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy first

    132 points • comment • feb 24, 2020

  71. These Lyrics Do Not Exist

    131 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  72. Streaming: a skill gap?

    131 points • comment • feb 02, 2020

  73. Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

    131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  74. Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re an SRE

    131 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  75. Racket-on-Chez Status

    131 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  76. HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2002)

    131 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  77. Dell Sells RSA to Private Equity Firm for $2B

    131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020

  78. Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?

    130 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  79. Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)

    130 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  80. Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

    130 points • comment • feb 01, 2020

  81. The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric

    130 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  82. Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.S. Attorney General

    130 points • comment • feb 20, 2020

  83. How to reduce 'attention residue'

    129 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  84. Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration dates?

    129 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  85. Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria

    129 points • comment • feb 18, 2020

  86. Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus

    129 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  87. Drop.lol – copy files over the network with WebRTC or TURN relays

    128 points • comment • feb 08, 2020

  88. HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy

    128 points • comment • feb 07, 2020

  89. Questions to ask before adopting microservices

    128 points • comment • feb 13, 2020

  90. Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Prolog

    128 points • comment • feb 04, 2020

  91. Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019

    128 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  92. The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves

    128 points • comment • feb 05, 2020

  93. Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers

    128 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  94. Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s

    128 points • comment • feb 10, 2020

  95. The Economics of Clean Code

    127 points • comment • feb 11, 2020

  96. SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition

    127 points • comment • feb 17, 2020

  97. Was Knuth Really Framed?

    127 points • comment • feb 25, 2020

  98. Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows

    127 points • comment • feb 06, 2020

  99. Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app

    126 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  100. Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record supply

    126 points • comment • feb 08, 2020