The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2020
We track 1,166 stories from February 2020, averaging 267 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 74 stories. Together they drew 156,484 comments, 134 per story on average.
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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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Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
neilwithdata.com · nsainsbury · 23 Feb 2020
1.2k pts
210 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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14
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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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
jarednelsen.dev · asangha · 15 Feb 2020
1k pts
811 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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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47
Palindrome Day 20200202
blog.sumymus.de · stanislavb · 2 Feb 2020
723 pts
173 comments
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49
I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
fasterthanli.me · whatever_dude · 28 Feb 2020
717 pts
492 comments
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50
Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
embeddedbits.org · sprado · 6 Feb 2020
717 pts
87 comments
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51
Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
phoronix.com · alexellisuk · 9 Feb 2020
714 pts
246 comments
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52
An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)
betterexplained.com · PNWChris · 25 Feb 2020
709 pts
102 comments
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53
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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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
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