The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2017

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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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Announcing the first SHA-1 collision security.googleblog.com · pfg · 23 Feb 2017

3k pts 485 comments

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Ask HN: Is S3 down? iamdeedubs · 28 Feb 2017

2.6k pts 1.1k 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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I am an Uber survivor medium.com · NelsonMinar · 27 Feb 2017

2.2k pts 767 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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Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave lists.gnu.org · dhuramas · 9 Feb 2017

1.3k pts 474 comments

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The web sucks if you have a slow connection danluu.com · philbo · 8 Feb 2017

1.3k pts 598 comments

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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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Mozilla Acquires Pocket blog.mozilla.org · qdot76367 · 27 Feb 2017

1.2k pts 445 comments

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GitLab Database Incident – Live Report docs.google.com · sbuttgereit · 1 Feb 2017

1.2k pts 598 comments

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Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service cloudplatform.googleblog.com · wwilson · 14 Feb 2017

1.1k pts 434 comments

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Introducing Keybase Chat keybase.io · aston · 8 Feb 2017

990 pts 192 comments

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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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List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak github.com · emilong · 24 Feb 2017

914 pts 215 comments

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Starting an Internet Service Provider chrishacken.com · chrishacken · 20 Feb 2017

912 pts 242 comments

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Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 23 Feb 2017

907 pts 348 comments

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Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters yegor256.com · kesor · 21 Feb 2017

892 pts 652 comments

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What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen ftc.gov · Deinos · 6 Feb 2017

888 pts 333 comments

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GitHub commit search: “remove password” github.com · rsc-dev · 15 Feb 2017

861 pts 257 comments

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Ventusky – Weather data visualization ventusky.com · misotaur · 3 Feb 2017

849 pts 108 comments

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Hans Rosling has died m.gapminder.org · anc84 · 7 Feb 2017

846 pts 135 comments

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API Design Guide cloud.google.com · andybons · 22 Feb 2017

824 pts 183 comments

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RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience blog.sagemath.com · williamstein · 9 Feb 2017

822 pts 328 comments

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An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster andychase.me · mfts0 · 1 Feb 2017

821 pts 265 comments

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Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? thedrive.com · bootload · 20 Feb 2017

821 pts 247 comments

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Python moved to GitHub github.com · c8g · 12 Feb 2017

820 pts 305 comments

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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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Google Spreadsheets and Python twilio.com · happy-go-lucky · 17 Feb 2017

811 pts 140 comments

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Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System blogs.msdn.microsoft.com · janwh · 3 Feb 2017

805 pts 274 comments

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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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What programming languages are used most on weekends? stackoverflow.blog · minaandrawos · 7 Feb 2017

782 pts 288 comments

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RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next rethinkdb.com · mglukhovsky · 6 Feb 2017

733 pts 106 comments

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Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes htmlreference.io · bbx · 14 Feb 2017

728 pts 93 comments

36

Blockchain Demo [video] anders.com · spaceboy · 4 Feb 2017

723 pts 147 comments

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Operating Systems: From 0 to 1 tuhdo.github.io · tuhdo · 14 Feb 2017

709 pts 79 comments

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Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision marc.info · sampo · 24 Feb 2017

704 pts 262 comments

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Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python github.com · eriklindernoren · 25 Feb 2017

694 pts 63 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017) whoishiring · 1 Feb 2017

690 pts 1.2k comments

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RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 joyent.com · csmajorfive · 6 Feb 2017

686 pts 164 comments

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Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee nytimes.com · qzervaas · 20 Feb 2017

678 pts 488 comments

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India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi globalcitizen.org · SimplyUseless · 14 Feb 2017

671 pts 256 comments

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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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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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White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing nytimes.com · ComputerGuru · 24 Feb 2017

660 pts 384 comments

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“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

48

Warren Buffett’s Best Investment gatesnotes.com · jonbaer · 14 Feb 2017

659 pts 204 comments

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Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups? seahckr · 6 Feb 2017

657 pts 1k comments

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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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Txt.fyi txt.fyi · mdlincoln · 23 Feb 2017

655 pts 183 comments

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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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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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Cloudflare data still in Bing caches news.ycombinator.com · neonate · 25 Feb 2017

649 pts 246 comments

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An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors medium.com · sdomino · 23 Feb 2017

648 pts 374 comments

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TensorFlow 1.0 Released developers.googleblog.com · plexicle · 15 Feb 2017

647 pts 71 comments

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The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow dev-books.com · vladwetzel · 8 Feb 2017

644 pts 246 comments

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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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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