The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2017
We track 1,077 stories from February 2017, averaging 262 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 68 stories. Together they drew 136,163 comments, 126 per story on average.
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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
susanjfowler.com · grey-area · 19 Feb 2017
4.1k pts
1k comments
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Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
bugs.chromium.org · tptacek · 23 Feb 2017
3.2k pts
992 comments
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3
Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
security.googleblog.com · pfg · 23 Feb 2017
3k pts
485 comments
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Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
nature.com · ngoldbaum · 22 Feb 2017
2.3k pts
704 comments
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SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
spacex.com · runesoerensen · 27 Feb 2017
1.7k pts
488 comments
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8
Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
lists.gnu.org · dhuramas · 9 Feb 2017
1.3k pts
474 comments
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9
The web sucks if you have a slow connection
danluu.com · philbo · 8 Feb 2017
1.3k pts
598 comments
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10
I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
news.distrokid.com · pud · 15 Feb 2017
1.2k pts
217 comments
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11
Mozilla Acquires Pocket
blog.mozilla.org · qdot76367 · 27 Feb 2017
1.2k pts
445 comments
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12
GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
docs.google.com · sbuttgereit · 1 Feb 2017
1.2k pts
598 comments
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13
Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
cloudplatform.googleblog.com · wwilson · 14 Feb 2017
1.1k pts
434 comments
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15
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
theverge.com · smb06 · 12 Feb 2017
956 pts
437 comments
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16
List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
github.com · emilong · 24 Feb 2017
914 pts
215 comments
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17
Starting an Internet Service Provider
chrishacken.com · chrishacken · 20 Feb 2017
912 pts
242 comments
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18
Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 23 Feb 2017
907 pts
348 comments
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19
Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
yegor256.com · kesor · 21 Feb 2017
892 pts
652 comments
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20
What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
ftc.gov · Deinos · 6 Feb 2017
888 pts
333 comments
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21
GitHub commit search: “remove password”
github.com · rsc-dev · 15 Feb 2017
861 pts
257 comments
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22
Ventusky – Weather data visualization
ventusky.com · misotaur · 3 Feb 2017
849 pts
108 comments
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25
RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
blog.sagemath.com · williamstein · 9 Feb 2017
822 pts
328 comments
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26
An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster
andychase.me · mfts0 · 1 Feb 2017
821 pts
265 comments
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27
Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
thedrive.com · bootload · 20 Feb 2017
821 pts
247 comments
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29
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
kyoob · 16 Feb 2017
813 pts
229 comments
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30
Google Spreadsheets and Python
twilio.com · happy-go-lucky · 17 Feb 2017
811 pts
140 comments
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31
Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com · janwh · 3 Feb 2017
805 pts
274 comments
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32
Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
antirez.com · sathis · 28 Feb 2017
782 pts
312 comments
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33
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
stackoverflow.blog · minaandrawos · 7 Feb 2017
782 pts
288 comments
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34
RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
rethinkdb.com · mglukhovsky · 6 Feb 2017
733 pts
106 comments
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35
Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
htmlreference.io · bbx · 14 Feb 2017
728 pts
93 comments
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37
Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
tuhdo.github.io · tuhdo · 14 Feb 2017
709 pts
79 comments
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38
Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
marc.info · sampo · 24 Feb 2017
704 pts
262 comments
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39
Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python
github.com · eriklindernoren · 25 Feb 2017
694 pts
63 comments
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40
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
whoishiring · 1 Feb 2017
690 pts
1.2k comments
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41
RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
joyent.com · csmajorfive · 6 Feb 2017
686 pts
164 comments
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42
Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
nytimes.com · qzervaas · 20 Feb 2017
678 pts
488 comments
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43
India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
globalcitizen.org · SimplyUseless · 14 Feb 2017
671 pts
256 comments
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44
Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]
ca5.uscourts.gov · oftenwrong · 17 Feb 2017
670 pts
189 comments
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45
Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
arstechnica.com · doener · 12 Feb 2017
667 pts
485 comments
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46
White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
nytimes.com · ComputerGuru · 24 Feb 2017
660 pts
384 comments
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47
“I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”
twitter.com · z3t1 · 27 Feb 2017
660 pts
314 comments
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48
Warren Buffett’s Best Investment
gatesnotes.com · jonbaer · 14 Feb 2017
659 pts
204 comments
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49
Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
seahckr · 6 Feb 2017
657 pts
1k comments
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50
How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
blog.zikes.me · wjh_ · 19 Feb 2017
657 pts
74 comments
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52
Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
raspberrypi.org · benn_88 · 28 Feb 2017
653 pts
309 comments
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53
Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation
theregister.co.uk · oska · 16 Feb 2017
651 pts
172 comments
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54
Cloudflare data still in Bing caches
news.ycombinator.com · neonate · 25 Feb 2017
649 pts
246 comments
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55
An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
medium.com · sdomino · 23 Feb 2017
648 pts
374 comments
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56
TensorFlow 1.0 Released
developers.googleblog.com · plexicle · 15 Feb 2017
647 pts
71 comments
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57
The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
dev-books.com · vladwetzel · 8 Feb 2017
644 pts
246 comments
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58
Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
medium.com · anp · 1 Feb 2017
643 pts
97 comments
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59
Google’s not-so-secret new OS
techspecs.blog · techenthusiast · 15 Feb 2017
634 pts
538 comments
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Annotation is now a web standard
hypothes.is · kawera · 25 Feb 2017
627 pts
157 comments
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