top 10 hacker news stories for 2018-02-12

Let’s talk about usernames

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/

8 years ago

900 upvotes – 429 comments

German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0

8 years ago

650 upvotes – 378 comments

Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-users-decline-instagram-snap-emarketer

8 years ago

552 upvotes – 349 comments

Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

http://www.argmin.net/2018/01/25/optics/

8 years ago

531 upvotes – 94 comments

The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/06/01/the-long-slow-decline-of-bittorrent/

8 years ago

399 upvotes – 532 comments

Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-unilever-ads-google-facebook-20180212-story.html

8 years ago

378 upvotes – 358 comments

Appropriate Uses for SQLite

https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

8 years ago

359 upvotes – 150 comments

Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-science-photo-contest/

8 years ago

355 upvotes – 84 comments

My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)

https://jmkorhonen.net/2018/01/12/my-professional-opinion-as-a-blockchain-researcher-i-dont-see-the-point/

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 219 comments

How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple-plans-to-root-out-bugs-revamp-iphone-software

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 223 comments
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