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February 2019 Archive
1.
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker (medium.com)
2444 points by coloneltcb on Feb 7, 2019 | 730 comments
2.
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (medium.com)
2101 points by jamesjyu on Feb 7, 2019 | 353 comments
3.
Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
2009 points by apitman on Feb 5, 2019 | 1165 comments
4.
UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access (universityofcalifornia.edu)
1743 points by tingletech on Feb 28, 2019 | 233 comments
5.
Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account (blog.usejournal.com)
1668 points by jacquesm on Feb 9, 2019 | 498 comments
6.
U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property (nytimes.com)
1426 points by ComputerGuru on Feb 20, 2019 | 423 comments
7.
Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)
1415 points by mfsch on Feb 4, 2019 | 368 comments
8.
Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (blog.stephenwolfram.com)
1308 points by perardi on Feb 21, 2019 | 393 comments
9.
Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) (immersivemath.com)
1269 points by reverse on Feb 27, 2019 | 140 comments
10.
Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute (instant.page)
1214 points by dieulot on Feb 9, 2019 | 337 comments
11.
Dotfile madness (0x46.net)
1146 points by boreq on Feb 2, 2019 | 514 comments
12.
If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source (linuxjournal.com)
1138 points by jrepinc on Feb 4, 2019 | 261 comments
13.
Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms (bradfrost.com)
1124 points by octosphere on Feb 15, 2019 | 506 comments
14.
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com)
1066 points by uptown on Feb 14, 2019 | 964 comments
15.
MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools (hacker-tools.github.io)
1028 points by anishathalye on Feb 4, 2019 | 79 comments
16.
Leukemia Has Won (alex.blog)
1012 points by yagodragon on Feb 19, 2019 | 184 comments
17.
We Need Chrome No More (redalemeden.com)
1011 points by kaishin on Feb 27, 2019 | 518 comments
18.
Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? (quora.com)
1002 points by grzm on Feb 13, 2019 | 618 comments
19.
New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking (forbrukerradet.no)
953 points by thg on Feb 1, 2019 | 445 comments
20.
Public protest against Amazon
920 points by _zsm0 on Feb 19, 2019 | 495 comments
21.
On Being a Principal Engineer (blog.dbsmasher.com)
893 points by kiyanwang on Feb 10, 2019 | 331 comments
22.
Flightradar24 – how it works (habr.com)
874 points by crunchiebones on Feb 17, 2019 | 155 comments
23.
I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon (reddit.com)
873 points by sohkamyung on Feb 18, 2019 | 113 comments
24.
This person does not exist (thispersondoesnotexist.com)
872 points by bpierre on Feb 12, 2019 | 236 comments
25.
Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News (redislabs.com)
855 points by mrburton on Feb 27, 2019 | 215 comments
26.
SQL: One of the most valuable skills (craigkerstiens.com)
821 points by duck on Feb 13, 2019 | 382 comments
27.
You probably don't need a single-page app (journal.plausible.io)
816 points by ukutaht on Feb 17, 2019 | 499 comments
28.
My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 (mailarchive.ietf.org)
810 points by baptou12 on Feb 15, 2019 | 496 comments
29.
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers (techcrunch.com)
799 points by sinstein on Feb 8, 2019 | 931 comments
30.
$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now (tesla.com)
785 points by felipemesquita on Feb 28, 2019 | 713 comments