The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2020

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Gears ciechanow.ski · robert-boehnke · 12 Feb 2020

2.8k pts 222 comments

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Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID github.com · rvnx · 4 Feb 2020

2.3k pts 615 comments

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Wacom tablets track every app you open robertheaton.com · krithix · 5 Feb 2020

1.6k pts 449 comments

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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust blog.discordapp.com · Sikul · 4 Feb 2020

1.6k pts 642 comments

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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit howonlee.github.io · curuinor · 13 Feb 2020

1.6k pts 437 comments

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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file jeffhuang.com · lazyjeff · 8 Feb 2020

1.5k pts 402 comments

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Google Maps Hacks simonweckert.com · rsj_hn · 2 Feb 2020

1.4k pts 382 comments

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Larry Tesler Has Died gizmodo.com · drallison · 18 Feb 2020

1.3k pts 149 comments

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Freeman Dyson Has Died nytimes.com · ChickeNES · 28 Feb 2020

1.2k pts 248 comments

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Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner neilwithdata.com · nsainsbury · 23 Feb 2020

1.2k pts 210 comments

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What's SAP? retool.com · dvdhsu · 5 Feb 2020

1.2k pts 600 comments

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education missing.csail.mit.edu · anishathalye · 3 Feb 2020

1.2k pts 196 comments

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Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates letsencrypt.org · jaas · 27 Feb 2020

1.2k pts 258 comments

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Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain smithsonianmag.com · ChrisArchitect · 25 Feb 2020

1.1k pts 123 comments

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Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu news.softpedia.com · milankragujevic · 10 Feb 2020

1k pts 559 comments

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1-on-1 meeting questions github.com · yankit · 16 Feb 2020

1k pts 296 comments

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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews jarednelsen.dev · asangha · 15 Feb 2020

1k pts 811 comments

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Old CSS, New CSS eev.ee · culturedsystems · 2 Feb 2020

1k pts 244 comments

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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) cutle.fish · aphextron · 15 Feb 2020

1k pts 281 comments

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“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it” cybernews.com · teslademigod1 · 24 Feb 2020

980 pts 328 comments

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Tailwind UI tailwindui.com · alt3red · 26 Feb 2020

974 pts 358 comments

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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades washingtonpost.com · allard · 11 Feb 2020

962 pts 330 comments

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More bosses give four-day workweek a try npr.org · hhs · 21 Feb 2020

934 pts 388 comments

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Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? xcoding · 4 Feb 2020

930 pts 862 comments

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A half-hour to learn Rust fasterthanli.me · xrd · 29 Feb 2020

927 pts 148 comments

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Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety boingboing.net · ericdanielski · 13 Feb 2020

919 pts 403 comments

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Kickstarter employees vote to unionize vice.com · danso · 18 Feb 2020

910 pts 1.1k comments

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Explorabl.es explorabl.es · rickdeveloper · 19 Feb 2020

894 pts 36 comments

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Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? thewirecutter.com · zdw · 21 Feb 2020

853 pts 408 comments

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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? Shosty123 · 11 Feb 2020

852 pts 178 comments

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Reasons not to become famous tim.blog · imgabe · 9 Feb 2020

850 pts 408 comments

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“We already store data. In a database. It works well” twitter.com · susam · 11 Feb 2020

847 pts 351 comments

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A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools acrossapp.com · ksj2114 · 29 Feb 2020

834 pts 453 comments

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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads krebsonsecurity.com · akeck · 17 Feb 2020

831 pts 297 comments

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Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits musictech.net · jensgk · 28 Feb 2020

829 pts 330 comments

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How to Write Usefully paulgraham.com · r_singh · 21 Feb 2020

821 pts 285 comments

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Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell git.sr.ht · kick · 11 Feb 2020

814 pts 227 comments

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Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead? Voxoff · 6 Feb 2020

766 pts 250 comments

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Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian ascmag.com · ashin · 20 Feb 2020

766 pts 122 comments

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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech? newatlas.com · chris_overseas · 21 Feb 2020

760 pts 276 comments

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I Learned French in 12 Months runwes.com · ingve · 16 Feb 2020

748 pts 312 comments

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Python dicts are now ordered softwaremaniacs.org · signa11 · 7 Feb 2020

734 pts 436 comments

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Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him petapixel.com · ProAm · 21 Feb 2020

732 pts 280 comments

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Hard Startups blog.samaltman.com · sethbannon · 26 Feb 2020

728 pts 326 comments

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Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study inc.com · simonebrunozzi · 6 Feb 2020

727 pts 455 comments

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To get good, go after the metagame commoncog.com · shadowsun7 · 25 Feb 2020

726 pts 296 comments

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Palindrome Day 20200202 blog.sumymus.de · stanislavb · 2 Feb 2020

723 pts 173 comments

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Don't touch my clipboard alexanderell.is · otras · 18 Feb 2020

718 pts 312 comments

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I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride fasterthanli.me · whatever_dude · 28 Feb 2020

717 pts 492 comments

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Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk embeddedbits.org · sprado · 6 Feb 2020

717 pts 87 comments

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Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years phoronix.com · alexellisuk · 9 Feb 2020

714 pts 246 comments

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An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012) betterexplained.com · PNWChris · 25 Feb 2020

709 pts 102 comments

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Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records txti.es · iudqnolq · 24 Feb 2020

698 pts 407 comments

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Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height scottlocklin.wordpress.com · dostoevsky · 24 Feb 2020

695 pts 244 comments

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Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin twitter.com · Aissen · 4 Feb 2020

694 pts 323 comments

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Time.gov was upgraded today time.gov · bryant · 8 Feb 2020

692 pts 210 comments

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FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format flif.info · scotteh · 6 Feb 2020

691 pts 249 comments

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How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) reasonablypolymorphic.com · falava · 17 Feb 2020

688 pts 57 comments

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No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia vice.com · SZJX · 12 Feb 2020

687 pts 247 comments

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Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas github.com · alok-g · 18 Feb 2020

687 pts 92 comments