top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-02-09

VLC 3.0 release

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html

8 years ago

827 upvotes – 294 comments

Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/

8 years ago

557 upvotes – 266 comments

Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/

8 years ago

421 upvotes – 296 comments

Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu

8 years ago

414 upvotes – 174 comments

Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?

https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

8 years ago

381 upvotes – 561 comments

Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-eggs-grown-lab-fertility-breakthrough-first-time-ivf-development-scientists-edinburgh-a8201001.html

8 years ago

345 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

https://medium.com/tableplus/modern-native-tool-for-relational-database-79efc35b647d

8 years ago

333 upvotes – 155 comments

Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning

https://www.wired.com/story/greedy-brittle-opaque-and-shallow-the-downsides-to-deep-learning/

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 149 comments

“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always

8 years ago

291 upvotes – 106 comments

Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/02/09/facebooks-desperate-smoke-screen/

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 248 comments

Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-02-09/kpti-kaiser-meltdown-performance.html

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 43 comments

GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse

https://donatstudios.com/GithubsTotalSecurityFacepalm

8 years ago

216 upvotes – 147 comments

QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification

https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 120 comments

“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292229/

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 77 comments

What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 152 comments

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/9/16994318/samsung-galaxy-s9-headphone-jack-dex-pad-photo-leak

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 204 comments

JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp

http://tromey.com/blog/?p=982

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02700

8 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)

https://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-athletes-go-broke

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 262 comments

Financial Times journo's private messages quoted to her at China visa renewal

https://twitter.com/YuanfenYang/status/962002259407089664

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments
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