The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2018
We track 1,025 stories from February 2018, averaging 237 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 122,853 comments, 120 per story on average.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
techcrunch.com · mpweiher · 6 Feb 2018
3k pts
871 comments
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2
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 28 Feb 2018
1.8k pts
751 comments
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5
Email is your electronic memory
blog.fastmail.com · brongondwana · 14 Feb 2018
1.2k pts
282 comments
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6
Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · jwngr · 26 Feb 2018
1.2k pts
324 comments
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7
AMP for email is a terrible idea
techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 14 Feb 2018
1.2k pts
465 comments
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9
OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
blog.emacsen.net · emacsen · 16 Feb 2018
1.1k pts
284 comments
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10
Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
kapwing.com · bemmu · 16 Feb 2018
1k pts
612 comments
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11
Let's Learn About Waveforms
waveforms.surge.sh · tomduncalf · 14 Feb 2018
989 pts
128 comments
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12
JupyterLab is ready for users
blog.jupyter.org · thenipper · 20 Feb 2018
958 pts
248 comments
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13
Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
med.stanford.edu · jv22222 · 1 Feb 2018
942 pts
173 comments
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14
Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
cnbc.com · uptown · 26 Feb 2018
912 pts
222 comments
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15
Let’s talk about usernames
b-list.org · acjohnson55 · 12 Feb 2018
900 pts
429 comments
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16
Show HN: Hacker News Classics
jsomers.net · jsomers · 23 Feb 2018
864 pts
107 comments
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18
"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
troyhunt.com · explodingcamera · 21 Feb 2018
842 pts
355 comments
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20
Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
security.googleblog.com · el_duderino · 8 Feb 2018
806 pts
812 comments
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21
Who Killed the Junior Developer?
medium.com · gregorymichael · 13 Feb 2018
803 pts
777 comments
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22
Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
github.com · minimaxir · 22 Feb 2018
803 pts
391 comments
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23
How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
tnhh.net · calcifer · 10 Feb 2018
803 pts
376 comments
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24
Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?
throwawayqdhd · 19 Feb 2018
802 pts
369 comments
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25
Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
blog.mozilla.org · jhatax · 1 Feb 2018
778 pts
226 comments
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26
How poverty changes your mindset
review.chicagobooth.edu · bryanwbh · 25 Feb 2018
777 pts
522 comments
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27
Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
nytimes.com · ValentineC · 20 Feb 2018
763 pts
720 comments
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29
Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
starterstory.com · patwalls · 21 Feb 2018
740 pts
275 comments
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30
U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
reuters.com · chatmasta · 5 Feb 2018
739 pts
375 comments
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31
Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
krausefx.com · janpio · 10 Feb 2018
706 pts
232 comments
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32
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine
raganwald.com · gregorymichael · 26 Feb 2018
700 pts
208 comments
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33
How to Study Mathematics (2017)
math.uh.edu · kenny87 · 16 Feb 2018
661 pts
148 comments
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34
Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030
hongkongfp.com · jacksmith21006 · 22 Feb 2018
659 pts
402 comments
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35
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
theverge.com · quotemstr · 15 Feb 2018
658 pts
374 comments
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37
German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
reuters.com · HoppedUpMenace · 12 Feb 2018
650 pts
378 comments
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38
After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat
vox.com · aaronbrethorst · 27 Feb 2018
633 pts
496 comments
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40
A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
github.com · tosh · 8 Feb 2018
622 pts
208 comments
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41
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
mrale.ph · youngtaff · 19 Feb 2018
600 pts
181 comments
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42
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
pyeu · 28 Feb 2018
594 pts
267 comments
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44
The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books
pathsensitive.com · nancyhua · 16 Feb 2018
574 pts
99 comments
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45
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
socket3.wordpress.com · LaSombra · 7 Feb 2018
568 pts
394 comments
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46
I don’t understand Graph Theory
medium.com · signa11 · 22 Feb 2018
566 pts
138 comments
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47
The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble
audreyii-fic.tumblr.com · spiralpolitik · 16 Feb 2018
565 pts
448 comments
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48
Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
d.tube · WhiteRiceWill · 28 Feb 2018
558 pts
192 comments
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49
Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
uber.com · chollida1 · 9 Feb 2018
557 pts
266 comments
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50
What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
candyjapan.com · jbardnz · 25 Feb 2018
554 pts
243 comments
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51
Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
recode.net · rblion · 12 Feb 2018
552 pts
349 comments
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52
Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers
mashable.com · pinewurst · 14 Feb 2018
550 pts
367 comments
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53
The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
olioapps.com · theothershoe · 28 Feb 2018
544 pts
512 comments
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55
Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Eilene · 26 Feb 2018
542 pts
615 comments
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56
Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
argmin.net · mxwsn · 12 Feb 2018
531 pts
94 comments
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57
My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
jacobian.org · craigkerstiens · 22 Feb 2018
530 pts
219 comments
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58
How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
smashingmagazine.com · _petronius · 27 Feb 2018
526 pts
688 comments
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60
What I wish I knew when I became CTO
medium.com · edmack · 13 Feb 2018
519 pts
249 comments
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