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Top of Month - Feb 2018

1. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
   (6 Feb 2018 | 2968 points | Comments)

2. Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
   (28 Feb 2018 | 1767 points | Comments)

3. John Perry Barlow has died
   (7 Feb 2018 | 1485 points | Comments)

4. Signal Foundation
   (21 Feb 2018 | 1314 points | Comments)

5. Email is your electronic memory
   (14 Feb 2018 | 1248 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
   (26 Feb 2018 | 1176 points | Comments)

7. AMP for email is a terrible idea
   (14 Feb 2018 | 1151 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: What has HN given you?
   (19 Feb 2018 | 1095 points | Comments)

9. OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
   (16 Feb 2018 | 1062 points | Comments)

10. Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
    (16 Feb 2018 | 1016 points | Comments)

11. Let's Learn About Waveforms
    (14 Feb 2018 | 989 points | Comments)

12. JupyterLab is ready for users
    (20 Feb 2018 | 958 points | Comments)

13. Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
    (1 Feb 2018 | 942 points | Comments)

14. Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
    (26 Feb 2018 | 912 points | Comments)

15. Let’s talk about usernames
    (12 Feb 2018 | 900 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: Hacker News Classics
    (23 Feb 2018 | 864 points | Comments)

17. The Business of SaaS
    (20 Feb 2018 | 845 points | Comments)

18. "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
    (21 Feb 2018 | 842 points | Comments)

19. VLC 3.0 release
    (9 Feb 2018 | 827 points | Comments)

20. Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
    (8 Feb 2018 | 806 points | Comments)

21. How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
    (10 Feb 2018 | 803 points | Comments)

22. Who Killed the Junior Developer?
    (13 Feb 2018 | 803 points | Comments)

23. Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
    (22 Feb 2018 | 803 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?
    (19 Feb 2018 | 802 points | Comments)

25. Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
    (1 Feb 2018 | 778 points | Comments)

26. How poverty changes your mindset
    (25 Feb 2018 | 777 points | Comments)

27. Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
    (20 Feb 2018 | 763 points | Comments)

28. Modern CSS Explained
    (5 Feb 2018 | 762 points | Comments)

29. Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
    (21 Feb 2018 | 740 points | Comments)

30. U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
    (5 Feb 2018 | 739 points | Comments)

31. Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
    (10 Feb 2018 | 706 points | Comments)

32. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine
    (26 Feb 2018 | 700 points | Comments)

33. How to Study Mathematics (2017)
    (16 Feb 2018 | 661 points | Comments)

34. Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030
    (22 Feb 2018 | 659 points | Comments)

35. Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
    (15 Feb 2018 | 658 points | Comments)

36. Pricing low-touch SaaS
    (27 Feb 2018 | 655 points | Comments)

37. German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
    (12 Feb 2018 | 650 points | Comments)

38. After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat
    (27 Feb 2018 | 633 points | Comments)

39. Dropbox S-1
    (23 Feb 2018 | 629 points | Comments)

40. A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
    (8 Feb 2018 | 622 points | Comments)

41. Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
    (19 Feb 2018 | 600 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (28 Feb 2018 | 594 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: A CSS Keylogger
    (20 Feb 2018 | 576 points | Comments)

44. The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books
    (16 Feb 2018 | 574 points | Comments)

45. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
    (7 Feb 2018 | 568 points | Comments)

46. I don’t understand Graph Theory
    (22 Feb 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

47. The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble
    (16 Feb 2018 | 565 points | Comments)

48. Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
    (28 Feb 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

49. Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
    (9 Feb 2018 | 557 points | Comments)

50. What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
    (25 Feb 2018 | 554 points | Comments)

51. Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
    (12 Feb 2018 | 552 points | Comments)

52. Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers
    (14 Feb 2018 | 550 points | Comments)

53. Do not use NPM 5.7
    (22 Feb 2018 | 544 points | Comments)

54. The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
    (28 Feb 2018 | 544 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
    (26 Feb 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

56. Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
    (12 Feb 2018 | 531 points | Comments)

57. My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
    (22 Feb 2018 | 530 points | Comments)

58. How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
    (27 Feb 2018 | 526 points | Comments)

59. The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
    (7 Feb 2018 | 522 points | Comments)

60. What I wish I knew when I became CTO
    (13 Feb 2018 | 519 points | Comments)

61. The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps
    (10 Feb 2018 | 512 points | Comments)

62. Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites
    (6 Feb 2018 | 510 points | Comments)

63. Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
    (19 Feb 2018 | 509 points | Comments)

64. Rust 1.24
    (15 Feb 2018 | 503 points | Comments)

65. Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native
    (13 Feb 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

66. Science’s Pirate Queen
    (8 Feb 2018 | 496 points | Comments)

67. India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
    (1 Feb 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

68. Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS
    (25 Feb 2018 | 494 points | Comments)

69. Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016)
    (26 Feb 2018 | 488 points | Comments)

70. The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
    (1 Feb 2018 | 484 points | Comments)

71. A surprisingly potent technique can boost short and long-term recall
    (13 Feb 2018 | 481 points | Comments)

72. Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
    (21 Feb 2018 | 480 points | Comments)

73. Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
    (26 Feb 2018 | 479 points | Comments)

74. Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
    (6 Feb 2018 | 473 points | Comments)

75. Learning to program is getting harder
    (16 Feb 2018 | 470 points | Comments)

76. Why Toys?
    (8 Feb 2018 | 468 points | Comments)

77. Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell
    (24 Feb 2018 | 468 points | Comments)

78. Mozilla Re-Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
    (23 Feb 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

79. Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans
    (25 Feb 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

80. NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python
    (27 Feb 2018 | 466 points | Comments)

81. Spotify Form F-1
    (28 Feb 2018 | 463 points | Comments)

82. Crushed wood is stronger than steel
    (8 Feb 2018 | 461 points | Comments)

83. Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
    (11 Feb 2018 | 461 points | Comments)

84. I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
    (16 Feb 2018 | 460 points | Comments)

85. In web design, everything easy is hard again
    (10 Feb 2018 | 459 points | Comments)

86. Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude
    (11 Feb 2018 | 459 points | Comments)

87. Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String
    (15 Feb 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

88. What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
    (25 Feb 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

89. John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
    (2 Feb 2018 | 455 points | Comments)

90. CSS Grid for UI Layouts
    (14 Feb 2018 | 455 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
    (1 Feb 2018 | 454 points | Comments)

92. 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download
    (4 Feb 2018 | 450 points | Comments)

93. Intel made smart glasses that look normal
    (5 Feb 2018 | 440 points | Comments)

94. Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest'
    (13 Feb 2018 | 435 points | Comments)

95. MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired
    (14 Feb 2018 | 435 points | Comments)

96. Family fun with deepfakes
    (2 Feb 2018 | 427 points | Comments)

97. Working remotely, 4 years in
    (19 Feb 2018 | 424 points | Comments)

98. How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
    (3 Feb 2018 | 423 points | Comments)

99. Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever
    (1 Feb 2018 | 422 points | Comments)

100. How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband
     (28 Feb 2018 | 422 points | Comments)