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Top of Month - Feb 2019

1. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
   (7 Feb 2019 | 2444 points | Comments)

2. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
   (7 Feb 2019 | 2101 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
   (5 Feb 2019 | 2009 points | Comments)

4. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
   (28 Feb 2019 | 1743 points | Comments)

5. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
   (9 Feb 2019 | 1668 points | Comments)

6. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
   (20 Feb 2019 | 1426 points | Comments)

7. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
   (4 Feb 2019 | 1415 points | Comments)

8. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
   (21 Feb 2019 | 1308 points | Comments)

9. Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)
   (27 Feb 2019 | 1269 points | Comments)

10. Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
    (9 Feb 2019 | 1214 points | Comments)

11. Dotfile madness
    (2 Feb 2019 | 1146 points | Comments)

12. If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
    (4 Feb 2019 | 1138 points | Comments)

13. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
    (15 Feb 2019 | 1124 points | Comments)

14. Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
    (14 Feb 2019 | 1066 points | Comments)

15. MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools
    (4 Feb 2019 | 1028 points | Comments)

16. Leukemia Has Won
    (19 Feb 2019 | 1012 points | Comments)

17. We Need Chrome No More
    (27 Feb 2019 | 1011 points | Comments)

18. Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
    (13 Feb 2019 | 1002 points | Comments)

19. New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
    (1 Feb 2019 | 953 points | Comments)

20. Public protest against Amazon
    (19 Feb 2019 | 920 points | Comments)

21. On Being a Principal Engineer
    (10 Feb 2019 | 893 points | Comments)

22. Flightradar24 – how it works
    (17 Feb 2019 | 874 points | Comments)

23. I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
    (18 Feb 2019 | 873 points | Comments)

24. This person does not exist
    (12 Feb 2019 | 872 points | Comments)

25. Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
    (27 Feb 2019 | 855 points | Comments)

26. SQL: One of the most valuable skills
    (13 Feb 2019 | 821 points | Comments)

27. You probably don't need a single-page app
    (17 Feb 2019 | 816 points | Comments)

28. My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
    (15 Feb 2019 | 810 points | Comments)

29. Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
    (8 Feb 2019 | 799 points | Comments)

30. $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
    (28 Feb 2019 | 785 points | Comments)

31. Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
    (5 Feb 2019 | 774 points | Comments)

32. “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
    (4 Feb 2019 | 746 points | Comments)

33. A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]
    (22 Feb 2019 | 739 points | Comments)

34. Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
    (13 Feb 2019 | 728 points | Comments)

35. HTTP/3 explained
    (5 Feb 2019 | 716 points | Comments)

36. Whitespace killed an enterprise app
    (13 Feb 2019 | 708 points | Comments)

37. Magic Lantern
    (18 Feb 2019 | 707 points | Comments)

38. Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
    (28 Feb 2019 | 705 points | Comments)

39. Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
    (21 Feb 2019 | 688 points | Comments)

40. One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
    (1 Feb 2019 | 677 points | Comments)

41. PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years
    (9 Feb 2019 | 676 points | Comments)

42. Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
    (20 Feb 2019 | 674 points | Comments)

43. What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
    (6 Feb 2019 | 668 points | Comments)

44. COI – Chat Over IMAP
    (21 Feb 2019 | 660 points | Comments)

45. Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
    (21 Feb 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

46. Going Solo, Successfully
    (17 Feb 2019 | 638 points | Comments)

47. Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
    (19 Feb 2019 | 635 points | Comments)

48. Sex censorship killed the internet we love
    (2 Feb 2019 | 627 points | Comments)

49. Winning the Blackbird Battle
    (14 Feb 2019 | 620 points | Comments)

50. Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
    (28 Feb 2019 | 614 points | Comments)

51. YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
    (28 Feb 2019 | 610 points | Comments)

52. My Twitch Live Coding Setup
    (25 Feb 2019 | 606 points | Comments)

53. EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone
    (1 Feb 2019 | 604 points | Comments)

54. Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
    (7 Feb 2019 | 603 points | Comments)

55. Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
    (25 Feb 2019 | 601 points | Comments)

56. Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
    (21 Feb 2019 | 598 points | Comments)

57. Books I Recommend
    (25 Feb 2019 | 597 points | Comments)

58. Google Docs gets an API for task automation
    (11 Feb 2019 | 594 points | Comments)

59. Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
    (16 Feb 2019 | 584 points | Comments)

60. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
    (18 Feb 2019 | 584 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
    (25 Feb 2019 | 583 points | Comments)

62. Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago
    (22 Feb 2019 | 578 points | Comments)

63. WireGuard for MacOS
    (17 Feb 2019 | 575 points | Comments)

64. About V, the language Volt is written in
    (5 Feb 2019 | 570 points | Comments)

65. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
    (6 Feb 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

66. New pill can deliver insulin
    (8 Feb 2019 | 564 points | Comments)

67. The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
    (26 Feb 2019 | 562 points | Comments)

68. Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine
    (15 Feb 2019 | 553 points | Comments)

69. Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
    (8 Feb 2019 | 550 points | Comments)

70. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use
    (14 Feb 2019 | 549 points | Comments)

71. The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
    (11 Feb 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

72. Bye, Bye, Google
    (4 Feb 2019 | 539 points | Comments)

73. A small notebook for a system administrator
    (1 Feb 2019 | 531 points | Comments)

74. How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)
    (24 Feb 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

75. Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
    (19 Feb 2019 | 524 points | Comments)

76. You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
    (14 Feb 2019 | 519 points | Comments)

77. Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
    (12 Feb 2019 | 517 points | Comments)

78. You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
    (22 Feb 2019 | 515 points | Comments)

79. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown
    (26 Feb 2019 | 513 points | Comments)

80. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
    (22 Feb 2019 | 510 points | Comments)

81. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
    (1 Feb 2019 | 509 points | Comments)

82. Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?
    (19 Feb 2019 | 509 points | Comments)

83. Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes
    (18 Feb 2019 | 507 points | Comments)

84. Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
    (4 Feb 2019 | 500 points | Comments)

85. Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
    (26 Feb 2019 | 492 points | Comments)

86. Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
    (5 Feb 2019 | 490 points | Comments)

87. Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
    (20 Feb 2019 | 490 points | Comments)

88. Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
    (12 Feb 2019 | 488 points | Comments)

89. Event Sourcing is Hard
    (3 Feb 2019 | 485 points | Comments)

90. Compounding Knowledge
    (6 Feb 2019 | 482 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
    (14 Feb 2019 | 473 points | Comments)

92. Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL
    (26 Feb 2019 | 465 points | Comments)

93. Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many
    (11 Feb 2019 | 464 points | Comments)

94. Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
    (28 Feb 2019 | 464 points | Comments)

95. Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
    (26 Feb 2019 | 461 points | Comments)

96. K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
    (27 Feb 2019 | 458 points | Comments)

97. Cleave.js – Format input text content when you are typing
    (23 Feb 2019 | 456 points | Comments)

98. FindChips – Get instant insight into any electronic component
    (8 Feb 2019 | 455 points | Comments)

99. Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
    (28 Feb 2019 | 455 points | Comments)

100. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
     (21 Feb 2019 | 451 points | Comments)