The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2018

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches techcrunch.com · mpweiher · 6 Feb 2018

3k pts 871 comments

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Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 28 Feb 2018

1.8k pts 751 comments

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John Perry Barlow has died eff.org · schoen · 7 Feb 2018

1.5k pts 126 comments

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Signal Foundation signal.org · conroy · 21 Feb 2018

1.3k pts 284 comments

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Email is your electronic memory blog.fastmail.com · brongondwana · 14 Feb 2018

1.2k pts 282 comments

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Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · jwngr · 26 Feb 2018

1.2k pts 324 comments

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AMP for email is a terrible idea techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 14 Feb 2018

1.2k pts 465 comments

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Ask HN: What has HN given you? jxub · 19 Feb 2018

1.1k pts 570 comments

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OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble blog.emacsen.net · emacsen · 16 Feb 2018

1.1k pts 284 comments

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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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Let's Learn About Waveforms waveforms.surge.sh · tomduncalf · 14 Feb 2018

989 pts 128 comments

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JupyterLab is ready for users blog.jupyter.org · thenipper · 20 Feb 2018

958 pts 248 comments

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Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice med.stanford.edu · jv22222 · 1 Feb 2018

942 pts 173 comments

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Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud cnbc.com · uptown · 26 Feb 2018

912 pts 222 comments

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Let’s talk about usernames b-list.org · acjohnson55 · 12 Feb 2018

900 pts 429 comments

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Show HN: Hacker News Classics jsomers.net · jsomers · 23 Feb 2018

864 pts 107 comments

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The Business of SaaS stripe.com · geordilaforge · 20 Feb 2018

845 pts 248 comments

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"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords troyhunt.com · explodingcamera · 21 Feb 2018

842 pts 355 comments

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VLC 3.0 release videolan.org · jbk · 9 Feb 2018

827 pts 294 comments

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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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Who Killed the Junior Developer? medium.com · gregorymichael · 13 Feb 2018

803 pts 777 comments

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Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors github.com · minimaxir · 22 Feb 2018

803 pts 391 comments

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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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Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work? throwawayqdhd · 19 Feb 2018

802 pts 369 comments

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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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How poverty changes your mindset review.chicagobooth.edu · bryanwbh · 25 Feb 2018

777 pts 522 comments

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Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012) nytimes.com · ValentineC · 20 Feb 2018

763 pts 720 comments

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Modern CSS Explained medium.com · TiredOfLife · 5 Feb 2018

762 pts 137 comments

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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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U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice reuters.com · chatmasta · 5 Feb 2018

739 pts 375 comments

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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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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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How to Study Mathematics (2017) math.uh.edu · kenny87 · 16 Feb 2018

661 pts 148 comments

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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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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results theverge.com · quotemstr · 15 Feb 2018

658 pts 374 comments

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Pricing low-touch SaaS stripe.com · davidw · 27 Feb 2018

655 pts 182 comments

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German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal reuters.com · HoppedUpMenace · 12 Feb 2018

650 pts 378 comments

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After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat vox.com · aaronbrethorst · 27 Feb 2018

633 pts 496 comments

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Dropbox S-1 sec.gov · i0exception · 23 Feb 2018

629 pts 378 comments

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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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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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? pyeu · 28 Feb 2018

594 pts 267 comments

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Show HN: A CSS Keylogger github.com · maxchehab · 20 Feb 2018

576 pts 168 comments

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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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface socket3.wordpress.com · LaSombra · 7 Feb 2018

568 pts 394 comments

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I don’t understand Graph Theory medium.com · signa11 · 22 Feb 2018

566 pts 138 comments

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The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble audreyii-fic.tumblr.com · spiralpolitik · 16 Feb 2018

565 pts 448 comments

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Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS d.tube · WhiteRiceWill · 28 Feb 2018

558 pts 192 comments

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Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement uber.com · chollida1 · 9 Feb 2018

557 pts 266 comments

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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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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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Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers mashable.com · pinewurst · 14 Feb 2018

550 pts 367 comments

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The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects olioapps.com · theothershoe · 28 Feb 2018

544 pts 512 comments

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Do not use NPM 5.7 github.com · jguimont · 22 Feb 2018

544 pts 225 comments

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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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Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning argmin.net · mxwsn · 12 Feb 2018

531 pts 94 comments

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My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition jacobian.org · craigkerstiens · 22 Feb 2018

530 pts 219 comments

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How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop smashingmagazine.com · _petronius · 27 Feb 2018

526 pts 688 comments

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The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet gizmodo.com · curtis · 7 Feb 2018

522 pts 255 comments

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What I wish I knew when I became CTO medium.com · edmack · 13 Feb 2018

519 pts 249 comments