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Top of Month - Feb 2020

1. Gears
   (12 Feb 2020 | 2760 points | Comments)

2. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
   (4 Feb 2020 | 2292 points | Comments)

3. Wacom tablets track every app you open
   (5 Feb 2020 | 1594 points | Comments)

4. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
   (4 Feb 2020 | 1582 points | Comments)

5. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
   (13 Feb 2020 | 1564 points | Comments)

6. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
   (8 Feb 2020 | 1545 points | Comments)

7. Google Maps Hacks
   (2 Feb 2020 | 1410 points | Comments)

8. Larry Tesler Has Died
   (18 Feb 2020 | 1346 points | Comments)

9. Freeman Dyson Has Died
   (28 Feb 2020 | 1238 points | Comments)

10. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
    (23 Feb 2020 | 1232 points | Comments)

11. What's SAP?
    (5 Feb 2020 | 1221 points | Comments)

12. The missing semester of CS education
    (3 Feb 2020 | 1163 points | Comments)

13. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
    (27 Feb 2020 | 1160 points | Comments)

14. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
    (25 Feb 2020 | 1115 points | Comments)

15. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
    (10 Feb 2020 | 1047 points | Comments)

16. 1-on-1 meeting questions
    (16 Feb 2020 | 1030 points | Comments)

17. The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
    (15 Feb 2020 | 1027 points | Comments)

18. Old CSS, New CSS
    (2 Feb 2020 | 1018 points | Comments)

19. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
    (15 Feb 2020 | 1002 points | Comments)

20. “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
    (24 Feb 2020 | 980 points | Comments)

21. Tailwind UI
    (26 Feb 2020 | 974 points | Comments)

22. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
    (11 Feb 2020 | 962 points | Comments)

23. More bosses give four-day workweek a try
    (21 Feb 2020 | 934 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
    (4 Feb 2020 | 930 points | Comments)

25. A half-hour to learn Rust
    (29 Feb 2020 | 927 points | Comments)

26. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
    (13 Feb 2020 | 919 points | Comments)

27. Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
    (18 Feb 2020 | 910 points | Comments)

28. Explorabl.es
    (19 Feb 2020 | 894 points | Comments)

29. Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
    (21 Feb 2020 | 853 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
    (11 Feb 2020 | 852 points | Comments)

31. Reasons not to become famous
    (9 Feb 2020 | 850 points | Comments)

32. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”
    (11 Feb 2020 | 847 points | Comments)

33. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
    (29 Feb 2020 | 834 points | Comments)

34. Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
    (17 Feb 2020 | 831 points | Comments)

35. Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
    (28 Feb 2020 | 829 points | Comments)

36. How to Write Usefully
    (21 Feb 2020 | 821 points | Comments)

37. Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
    (11 Feb 2020 | 814 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
    (6 Feb 2020 | 766 points | Comments)

39. Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
    (20 Feb 2020 | 766 points | Comments)

40. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
    (21 Feb 2020 | 760 points | Comments)

41. I Learned French in 12 Months
    (16 Feb 2020 | 748 points | Comments)

42. Python dicts are now ordered
    (7 Feb 2020 | 734 points | Comments)

43. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
    (21 Feb 2020 | 732 points | Comments)

44. Hard Startups
    (26 Feb 2020 | 728 points | Comments)

45. Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
    (6 Feb 2020 | 727 points | Comments)

46. To get good, go after the metagame
    (25 Feb 2020 | 726 points | Comments)

47. Palindrome Day 20200202
    (2 Feb 2020 | 723 points | Comments)

48. Don't touch my clipboard
    (18 Feb 2020 | 718 points | Comments)

49. Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
    (6 Feb 2020 | 717 points | Comments)

50. I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
    (28 Feb 2020 | 717 points | Comments)

51. Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
    (9 Feb 2020 | 714 points | Comments)

52. An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)
    (25 Feb 2020 | 709 points | Comments)

53. Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
    (24 Feb 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

54. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height
    (24 Feb 2020 | 695 points | Comments)

55. Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
    (4 Feb 2020 | 694 points | Comments)

56. Time.gov was upgraded today
    (8 Feb 2020 | 692 points | Comments)

57. FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
    (6 Feb 2020 | 691 points | Comments)

58. How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)
    (17 Feb 2020 | 688 points | Comments)

59. No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
    (12 Feb 2020 | 687 points | Comments)

60. Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
    (18 Feb 2020 | 687 points | Comments)

61. Guide to running Elasticsearch in production
    (23 Feb 2020 | 684 points | Comments)

62. Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
    (5 Feb 2020 | 683 points | Comments)

63. Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly
    (26 Feb 2020 | 681 points | Comments)

64. Bert Sutherland Has Died
    (19 Feb 2020 | 680 points | Comments)

65. Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
    (3 Feb 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

66. GitHub CLI is now in beta
    (12 Feb 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

67. Scaling to 100k Users
    (5 Feb 2020 | 650 points | Comments)

68. Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
    (25 Feb 2020 | 648 points | Comments)

69. Suspicious Discontinuities
    (20 Feb 2020 | 644 points | Comments)

70. How to brainstorm great business ideas
    (28 Feb 2020 | 643 points | Comments)

71. Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
    (12 Feb 2020 | 641 points | Comments)

72. Donald Knuth was framed
    (24 Feb 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

73. Firefox 73
    (11 Feb 2020 | 631 points | Comments)

74. Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
    (14 Feb 2020 | 631 points | Comments)

75. Ultimate Electronics
    (13 Feb 2020 | 624 points | Comments)

76. Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
    (3 Feb 2020 | 621 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
    (8 Feb 2020 | 621 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
    (23 Feb 2020 | 614 points | Comments)

79. Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
    (12 Feb 2020 | 606 points | Comments)

80. OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React
    (12 Feb 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

81. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
    (26 Feb 2020 | 603 points | Comments)

82. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
    (19 Feb 2020 | 602 points | Comments)

83. Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)
    (19 Feb 2020 | 589 points | Comments)

84. Rotary Cellphone
    (12 Feb 2020 | 572 points | Comments)

85. Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]
    (5 Feb 2020 | 562 points | Comments)

86. An app can be a home-cooked meal
    (15 Feb 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

87. Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
    (27 Feb 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

88. I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system
    (4 Feb 2020 | 555 points | Comments)

89. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
    (15 Feb 2020 | 554 points | Comments)

90. The Simpsons in CSS
    (27 Feb 2020 | 554 points | Comments)

91. Why Google Did Android
    (10 Feb 2020 | 552 points | Comments)

92. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
    (25 Feb 2020 | 549 points | Comments)

93. Where are all the animated SVGs?
    (11 Feb 2020 | 548 points | Comments)

94. Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
    (5 Feb 2020 | 543 points | Comments)

95. Debt is coming to the tech industry
    (8 Feb 2020 | 541 points | Comments)

96. The boss who put everyone on 70K
    (28 Feb 2020 | 537 points | Comments)

97. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
    (14 Feb 2020 | 536 points | Comments)

98. Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
    (6 Feb 2020 | 533 points | Comments)

99. Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
    (21 Feb 2020 | 532 points | Comments)

100. Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
     (24 Feb 2020 | 532 points | Comments)