top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-14

Email is your electronic memory

https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory/

8 years ago

1248 upvotes – 282 comments

AMP for email is a terrible idea

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/amp-for-email-is-a-terrible-idea/

8 years ago

1151 upvotes – 465 comments

Let's Learn About Waveforms

http://waveforms.surge.sh/waveforms-intro

8 years ago

989 upvotes – 128 comments

Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

https://mashable.com/2018/02/14/facebook-spam-2fa

8 years ago

550 upvotes – 367 comments

CSS Grid for UI Layouts

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/02/css-grid-for-ui-layouts/

8 years ago

455 upvotes – 104 comments

MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M2/Pages/PatentList.aspx

8 years ago

435 upvotes – 176 comments

Dtrace for Linux

https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2018/02/14/dtrace-for-linux-oracle-does-the-right-thing/

8 years ago

354 upvotes – 104 comments

Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser

8 years ago

★ 39.5k JavaScript MIT
349 upvotes – 59 comments

Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377751

8 years ago

321 upvotes – 168 comments

Farewell from Rusty Russell

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 65 comments

Germany considers free public transport in fight to banish air pollution

https://www.thelocal.de/20180213/germany-considers-making-public-transport-free-to-fight-air-pollution

8 years ago

290 upvotes – 193 comments

Origami Simulator

http://apps.amandaghassaei.com/OrigamiSimulator/

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 37 comments

Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit

https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn

8 years ago

276 upvotes – 64 comments

The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/14/technology/huawei-intelligence-chiefs/index.html

8 years ago

270 upvotes – 254 comments

A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/fine-google-competition-eu-shivaun-adam-raff

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 138 comments

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

http://www.ariss.org/

8 years ago

255 upvotes – 119 comments

The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java

https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/irs-clutches-its-modernization-holy-grail/

8 years ago

246 upvotes – 212 comments

Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier

https://physicstravelguide.com/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 21 comments

Utility poles

https://blog.plover.com/tech/utility-poles.html

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 210 comments

The Decentralized Future

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-decentralized-future-series

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 141 comments

Tensor Comprehensions

https://research.fb.com/announcing-tensor-comprehensions/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 59 comments

The Algorithm Design Manual (2008)

http://www.algorist.com/

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377523

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 108 comments

FBI Says Chinese Operatives Active at Scores of U.S. Universities

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article199929429.html

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 179 comments

Ad Companies Love Google’s Ad Blocker, but Hate Apple’s Privacy Features

https://www.howtogeek.com/342297/why-ad-companies-love-googles-ad-blocker-but-hate-apples-privacy-features/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 142 comments

Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed

http://www.kguttag.com/2018/02/14/magic-leap-one-video-diffractive-waveguides-confirmed/

8 years ago

174 upvotes – 85 comments

Making Light of the “Dark Web”

https://www.troyhunt.com/making-light-of-the-dark-web-and-debunking-the-fud/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 35 comments

Pineapple Fund Drops $1M on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/14/pineapple-fund-drops-1m-on-the-sustainable-ocean-alliance-and-its-new-accelerator/?ncid=rss

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 38 comments

Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes

http://brandon.dimcheff.com/2018/02/rainbow-deploys-with-kubernetes/

8 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB

https://www.arangodb.com/2018/02/nosql-performance-benchmark-2018-mongodb-postgresql-orientdb-neo4j-arangodb/?hn

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 114 comments

Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania

http://signato.lt/en/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

Andy Gross has died

https://twitter.com/justinsheehy/status/963618478874943488

8 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers

https://www.ccn.com/monero-declares-war-asic-manufacturers/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 135 comments

SpaceX hits two milestones in plan for low-latency satellite broadband

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 92 comments

Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture

https://www.simform.com/serverless-databases/

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 34 comments

The world's most romantic postbox

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180213-in-germany-the-worlds-most-romantic-postbox

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

Fall of Voodoo

https://tedium.co/2018/02/14/3dfx-history-failure/

8 years ago

128 upvotes – 105 comments

Introduction and Quick Guide to GraphQL for BackEnd and FrontEnd

https://time2hack.com/2018/02/introduction-quick-guide-to-graphql-for-backend-frontend/

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-its-data-tracking-onavo-vpn-within-its-main-mobile-app/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

The next billion users are the future of the internet

https://www.blog.google/topics/next-billion-users/next-billion-users-are-future-internet/

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Deep CNNs for Image Classification: A Comprehensive Review

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/neco_a_00990

8 years ago

101 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: A Punny 3D Interactive Valentine's Card

https://love.ronikdesign.com/

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Rusty Russell: The Corrosion of Ethics in Cryptocurrencies

https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-corrosion-of-ethics-in-cryptocurrencies-f7ba77e9dfc3

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments
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