top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-02-08

Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html

8 years ago

806 upvotes – 812 comments

A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js

8 years ago

★ 11kTypeScriptMIT
622 upvotes – 208 comments

Science’s Pirate Queen

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit

8 years ago

496 upvotes – 251 comments

Why Toys?

http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/

8 years ago

468 upvotes – 200 comments

Crushed wood is stronger than steel

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01600-6

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 172 comments

Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/twitter-posts-surprise-sales-gain-monthly-user-growth-stagnates

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 205 comments

Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

https://therealdeal.com/2018/02/06/google-is-buying-chelsea-market-building-for-2b-plus/

8 years ago

358 upvotes – 246 comments

European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/latest-european-parliament-approves-proposal-to-end-bi-annual-clock-change-826985.html

8 years ago

306 upvotes – 244 comments

Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a34g9j/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 112 comments

“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 96 comments

Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost

https://news.agu.org/press-release/scientists-find-massive-reserves-of-mercury-hidden-in-permafrost/

8 years ago

230 upvotes – 101 comments

Exploring ReasonML and functional programming

http://reasonmlhub.com/exploring-reasonml/

8 years ago

211 upvotes – 63 comments

Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md

8 years ago

★ 48.6kJuliaMIT
207 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 124 comments

Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster

http://www.americaspace.com/2018/02/08/air-force-strike-takes-out-spacexs-floating-govsat-booster/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 74 comments

Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21736498-their-small-size-and-large-numbers-can-overwhelm-defences-home-made-drones-now

8 years ago

181 upvotes – 148 comments

GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/grubhub-drivers-are-contractors-judge-rules-in-bellwether-suit

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 161 comments

The Kubernetes Effect

https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-effect

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 125 comments

Advanced SQL window function quiz

http://www.windowfunctions.com/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 79 comments

The rise and fall of 18F

https://www.fedscoop.com/rise-fall-18f/

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 118 comments
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