The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2019
We track 1,073 stories from February 2019, averaging 251 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 53 stories. Together they drew 136,239 comments, 127 per story on average.
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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
medium.com · jamesjyu · 7 Feb 2019
2.1k pts
353 comments
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Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
apitman · 5 Feb 2019
2k pts
1.2k comments
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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
universityofcalifornia.edu · tingletech · 28 Feb 2019
1.7k pts
233 comments
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Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
blog.usejournal.com · jacquesm · 9 Feb 2019
1.7k pts
498 comments
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U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
nytimes.com · ComputerGuru · 20 Feb 2019
1.4k pts
423 comments
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
hacks.mozilla.org · mfsch · 4 Feb 2019
1.4k pts
368 comments
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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
blog.stephenwolfram.com · perardi · 21 Feb 2019
1.3k pts
393 comments
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Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)
immersivemath.com · reverse · 27 Feb 2019
1.3k pts
140 comments
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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
instant.page · dieulot · 9 Feb 2019
1.2k pts
337 comments
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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
linuxjournal.com · jrepinc · 4 Feb 2019
1.1k pts
261 comments
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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
bradfrost.com · octosphere · 15 Feb 2019
1.1k pts
506 comments
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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
nytimes.com · uptown · 14 Feb 2019
1.1k pts
964 comments
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MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools
hacker-tools.github.io · anishathalye · 4 Feb 2019
1k pts
79 comments
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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
quora.com · grzm · 13 Feb 2019
1k pts
618 comments
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New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
forbrukerradet.no · thg · 1 Feb 2019
953 pts
445 comments
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On Being a Principal Engineer
blog.dbsmasher.com · kiyanwang · 10 Feb 2019
893 pts
331 comments
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Flightradar24 – how it works
habr.com · crunchiebones · 17 Feb 2019
874 pts
155 comments
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I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
reddit.com · sohkamyung · 18 Feb 2019
873 pts
113 comments
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This person does not exist
thispersondoesnotexist.com · bpierre · 12 Feb 2019
872 pts
236 comments
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Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
redislabs.com · mrburton · 27 Feb 2019
855 pts
215 comments
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SQL: One of the most valuable skills
craigkerstiens.com · duck · 13 Feb 2019
821 pts
382 comments
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You probably don't need a single-page app
journal.plausible.io · ukutaht · 17 Feb 2019
816 pts
499 comments
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My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
mailarchive.ietf.org · baptou12 · 15 Feb 2019
810 pts
496 comments
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Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
techcrunch.com · sinstein · 8 Feb 2019
799 pts
931 comments
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$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
tesla.com · felipemesquita · 28 Feb 2019
785 pts
713 comments
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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
techcrunch.com · e1ven · 5 Feb 2019
774 pts
835 comments
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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
theregister.co.uk · peter_d_sherman · 4 Feb 2019
746 pts
395 comments
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A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]
oldlinux.org · turingbook · 22 Feb 2019
739 pts
40 comments
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Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
nytimes.com · jimktrains2 · 13 Feb 2019
728 pts
221 comments
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HTTP/3 explained
http3-explained.haxx.se · signa11 · 5 Feb 2019
716 pts
233 comments
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Whitespace killed an enterprise app
uxdesign.cc · kirkbackus · 13 Feb 2019
708 pts
435 comments
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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
blog.mozilla.org · Vinnl · 28 Feb 2019
705 pts
61 comments
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Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
dave.cheney.net · ra7 · 21 Feb 2019
688 pts
226 comments
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One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
buzzfeednews.com · chollida1 · 1 Feb 2019
677 pts
314 comments
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PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
fosdem.org · lelf · 9 Feb 2019
676 pts
307 comments
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Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
cbc.ca · colinprince · 20 Feb 2019
674 pts
330 comments
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What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
hackaday.com · jccalhoun · 6 Feb 2019
668 pts
498 comments
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Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
techcrunch.com · mayneack · 21 Feb 2019
652 pts
278 comments
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Going Solo, Successfully
kev.inburke.com · kevinburke · 17 Feb 2019
638 pts
191 comments
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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
theguardian.com · uxhacker · 19 Feb 2019
635 pts
221 comments
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Sex censorship killed the internet we love
engadget.com · coding123 · 2 Feb 2019
627 pts
493 comments
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Winning the Blackbird Battle
blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 14 Feb 2019
620 pts
138 comments
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Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
tonsky.me · kirushik · 28 Feb 2019
614 pts
303 comments
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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
bbc.co.uk · _wmd · 28 Feb 2019
610 pts
530 comments
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EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
dw.com · Nux · 1 Feb 2019
604 pts
383 comments
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Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
techcrunch.com · jbegley · 7 Feb 2019
603 pts
278 comments
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Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
nytimes.com · bookofjoe · 25 Feb 2019
601 pts
331 comments
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Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
github.com · cmsimike · 21 Feb 2019
598 pts
196 comments
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Google Docs gets an API for task automation
techcrunch.com · Manu1987 · 11 Feb 2019
594 pts
191 comments
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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
news.mit.edu · salvadormon · 18 Feb 2019
584 pts
815 comments
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Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
blakesmith.me · blakesmith · 16 Feb 2019
584 pts
129 comments
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Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
github.com · smacke · 25 Feb 2019
583 pts
124 comments
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