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Top of Month - Feb 2017

1. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
   (19 Feb 2017 | 4107 points | Comments)

2. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
   (23 Feb 2017 | 3238 points | Comments)

3. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
   (23 Feb 2017 | 3030 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: Is S3 down?
   (28 Feb 2017 | 2589 points | Comments)

5. Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
   (22 Feb 2017 | 2256 points | Comments)

6. I am an Uber survivor
   (27 Feb 2017 | 2168 points | Comments)

7. SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
   (27 Feb 2017 | 1747 points | Comments)

8. Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
   (9 Feb 2017 | 1332 points | Comments)

9. The web sucks if you have a slow connection
   (8 Feb 2017 | 1269 points | Comments)

10. I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
    (15 Feb 2017 | 1237 points | Comments)

11. Mozilla Acquires Pocket
    (27 Feb 2017 | 1187 points | Comments)

12. GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
    (1 Feb 2017 | 1162 points | Comments)

13. Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
    (14 Feb 2017 | 1068 points | Comments)

14. Introducing Keybase Chat
    (8 Feb 2017 | 990 points | Comments)

15. A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
    (12 Feb 2017 | 956 points | Comments)

16. List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
    (24 Feb 2017 | 914 points | Comments)

17. Starting an Internet Service Provider
    (20 Feb 2017 | 912 points | Comments)

18. Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
    (23 Feb 2017 | 907 points | Comments)

19. Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
    (21 Feb 2017 | 892 points | Comments)

20. What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
    (6 Feb 2017 | 888 points | Comments)

21. GitHub commit search: “remove password”
    (15 Feb 2017 | 861 points | Comments)

22. Ventusky – Weather data visualization
    (3 Feb 2017 | 849 points | Comments)

23. Hans Rosling has died
    (7 Feb 2017 | 846 points | Comments)

24. API Design Guide
    (22 Feb 2017 | 824 points | Comments)

25. RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
    (9 Feb 2017 | 822 points | Comments)

26. An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster
    (1 Feb 2017 | 821 points | Comments)

27. Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
    (20 Feb 2017 | 821 points | Comments)

28. Python moved to GitHub
    (12 Feb 2017 | 820 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
    (16 Feb 2017 | 813 points | Comments)

30. Google Spreadsheets and Python
    (17 Feb 2017 | 811 points | Comments)

31. Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
    (3 Feb 2017 | 805 points | Comments)

32. What programming languages are used most on weekends?
    (7 Feb 2017 | 782 points | Comments)

33. Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
    (28 Feb 2017 | 782 points | Comments)

34. RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
    (6 Feb 2017 | 733 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
    (14 Feb 2017 | 728 points | Comments)

36. Blockchain Demo [video]
    (4 Feb 2017 | 723 points | Comments)

37. Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
    (14 Feb 2017 | 709 points | Comments)

38. Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision
    (24 Feb 2017 | 704 points | Comments)

39. Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python
    (25 Feb 2017 | 694 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
    (1 Feb 2017 | 690 points | Comments)

41. RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
    (6 Feb 2017 | 686 points | Comments)

42. Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
    (20 Feb 2017 | 678 points | Comments)

43. India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
    (14 Feb 2017 | 671 points | Comments)

44. Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]
    (17 Feb 2017 | 670 points | Comments)

45. Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
    (12 Feb 2017 | 667 points | Comments)

46. White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
    (24 Feb 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

47. “I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration”
    (27 Feb 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

48. Warren Buffett’s Best Investment
    (14 Feb 2017 | 659 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
    (6 Feb 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

50. How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
    (19 Feb 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

51. Txt.fyi
    (23 Feb 2017 | 655 points | Comments)

52. Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
    (28 Feb 2017 | 653 points | Comments)

53. Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% innovation
    (16 Feb 2017 | 651 points | Comments)

54. Cloudflare data still in Bing caches
    (25 Feb 2017 | 649 points | Comments)

55. An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
    (23 Feb 2017 | 648 points | Comments)

56. TensorFlow 1.0 Released
    (15 Feb 2017 | 647 points | Comments)

57. The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
    (8 Feb 2017 | 644 points | Comments)

58. Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
    (1 Feb 2017 | 643 points | Comments)

59. Google’s not-so-secret new OS
    (15 Feb 2017 | 634 points | Comments)

60. Annotation is now a web standard
    (25 Feb 2017 | 627 points | Comments)

61. Algorithms
    (15 Feb 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

62. Upspin – Another option for file sharing
    (21 Feb 2017 | 619 points | Comments)

63. Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine
    (9 Feb 2017 | 616 points | Comments)

64. Fluid Paint Simulation
    (8 Feb 2017 | 605 points | Comments)

65. Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
    (7 Feb 2017 | 601 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
    (19 Feb 2017 | 597 points | Comments)

67. React Native at Instagram
    (6 Feb 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

68. A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine
    (5 Feb 2017 | 581 points | Comments)

69. YC Research: Universal Healthcare
    (7 Feb 2017 | 576 points | Comments)

70. Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
    (7 Feb 2017 | 576 points | Comments)

71. Amazon Chime
    (14 Feb 2017 | 573 points | Comments)

72. Four Column ASCII
    (1 Feb 2017 | 569 points | Comments)

73. Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported
    (8 Feb 2017 | 568 points | Comments)

74. Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules
    (6 Feb 2017 | 562 points | Comments)

75. How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
    (2 Feb 2017 | 556 points | Comments)

76. How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017
    (27 Feb 2017 | 551 points | Comments)

77. FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks
    (24 Feb 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

78. Linus on Git and SHA-1
    (25 Feb 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

79. The JVM is not that heavy
    (1 Feb 2017 | 549 points | Comments)

80. Encrypted email is still a pain
    (13 Feb 2017 | 544 points | Comments)

81. To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
    (2 Feb 2017 | 538 points | Comments)

82. Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
    (23 Feb 2017 | 535 points | Comments)

83. GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down
    (9 Feb 2017 | 520 points | Comments)

84. Prophet: forecasting at scale
    (27 Feb 2017 | 520 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
    (5 Feb 2017 | 516 points | Comments)

86. Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
    (11 Feb 2017 | 515 points | Comments)

87. Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
    (6 Feb 2017 | 509 points | Comments)

88. Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year
    (3 Feb 2017 | 506 points | Comments)

89. John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying
    (2 Feb 2017 | 505 points | Comments)

90. Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy
    (18 Feb 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

91. CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
    (27 Feb 2017 | 500 points | Comments)

92. What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
    (22 Feb 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

93. Introducing Netflix Stethoscope
    (21 Feb 2017 | 497 points | Comments)

94. The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
    (13 Feb 2017 | 493 points | Comments)

95. Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
    (23 Feb 2017 | 490 points | Comments)

96. $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
    (19 Feb 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

97. Data Loss at GitLab
    (1 Feb 2017 | 476 points | Comments)

98. How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
    (21 Feb 2017 | 472 points | Comments)

99. Signal can now be used without Google Play Services
    (20 Feb 2017 | 469 points | Comments)

100. Facebook is terrifying
     (4 Feb 2017 | 468 points | Comments)