1426
423
U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/civil-asset-forfeiture-supreme-court.html
7 years ago
674
330
Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/pee-chlorine-red-eyes-swimming-pools-cdc-1.3127865
490
268
Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2
439
155
Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive
https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive
437
183
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md
★ 3.7k MIT– 7 years ago
428
180
This Cat Does Not Exist
https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/
407
274
I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17
392
126
Y Combinator Resources for Developers
https://yc.dev
384
153
WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
https://hackaday.com/2019/02/18/wifi-hides-inside-a-usb-cable/
350
198
Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/
312
146
Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution
https://coocoor.com/advisory/cve/CVE-2019-8912
306
93
Trolls Are Real
https://www.eff.org/effector/32/3
271
85
Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus
https://commento.io
269
113
Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising
https://ourworldindata.org/cancer-death-rates-are-falling-five-year-survival-rates-are-rising
255
300
Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/disney-pulls-youtube-ads-amid-concerns-over-child-video-voyeurs
250
Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/let-s-talkconcurrency-panel-discussion-with-sir-tony-hoare-joe-armstrong-and-carl-hewitt.html
241
59
OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes
https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/
236
212
Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
https://kirkcenter.org/essays/would-you-recognize-a-dystopia-if-you-saw-one/
220
256
US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians
https://theconversation.com/why-us-cities-are-becoming-more-dangerous-for-cyclists-and-pedestrians-111713
217
71
UBS Is Fined $4.2B in French Tax-Evasion Case
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubs-is-fined-4-2-billion-in-french-tax-evasion-case-11550668920
205
60
Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_188_Pacific_rescue
200
214
Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
https://www.tlnt.com/toxic-workers-are-more-productive-but-the-price-is-high/
191
18
A visual guide to the Go memory allocator from scratch
https://blog.learngoprogramming.com/a-visual-guide-to-golang-memory-allocator-from-ground-up-e132258453ed
56
Show HN: GitNews Web – Trending Repositories from GitHub, HackerNews and Reddit
https://git.news
182
145
Block Ads in Apps on Android
https://unlikekinds.com/article/block-video-ads-android
179
Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18231249/samsung-galaxy-fold-folding-phone-features-screen-photos-size-announcement
175
23
This Waifu Does Not Exist
http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
173
103
A DIY Cruise Missile (2004)
http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/
169
72
I Lost Faith in the Industry, Burned Out, but the Cult of the Tool Saved Me
https://habr.com/en/post/440914/
166
92
How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25980368/how-former-ref-tim-donaghy-conspired-fix-nba-games
133
Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkgn8/dont-rent-a-modem-from-comcast
141
137
20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-20th-century-fox-uses-ml-to-predict-a-movie-audience
38
Dr. Rhonda Patrick on DHA in Phospholipid Form and the Prevention of Alzheimers
https://zenpatient.com/blog/dr-rhonda-patrick-on-the-role-of-the-phospholipid-form-of-dha-in-apoe4-alzheimers/
134
51
SleepyHead Project Is Shutting Down
http://jedimark.net/2019/02/08/sleepyhead-project-shutdown/
127
11
Sparta: High-Performance Static Code Analyzers Based on Abstract Interpretation
https://github.com/facebookincubator/SPARTA#sparta
★ 668 C++ MIT– 7 years ago
121
58
Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-02/2019-02-19.html
115
Is the Insect Apocalypse Upon Us?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/insect-apocalypse-really-upon-us/583018/
112
Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]
https://mobilejazz.com/docs/company-handbook/mobile-jazz-company-handbook.pdf
111
46
How to Kill the Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life
https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2016/06/25-ways-to-kill-the-toxic-ego-that-will-ruin-your-life/
105
77
Airtable CEO on the continued importance of getting a ‘unicorn’ valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/airtable-ceo-howie-liu-on-the-continued-importance-of-getting-a-unicorn-valuation/
104
118
I love React Hooks
https://vijayt.com/post/react-nugget-2-why-do-i-love-react-hooks/
102
An Optometrist Billionaire Investor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/02/19/the-greatest-investor-youve-never-heard-of-an-optometrist-who-beat-the-odds-to-become-a-billionaire/
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-surprising-value-of-obvious-insights/
101
36
What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
131
On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-pedophile-videos-advertising
33
Am I Unique?
https://amiunique.org/fp
80
52
Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/why-do-zebras-have-stripes-flies/583114/
79
81
Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
https://www.seedtable.com/startups-stockholm
76
57
Which Face Is Real?
http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/
20
Using Artificial Intelligence to Engineer Materials’ Properties
http://news.mit.edu/2019/artificial-intelligence-engineer-microchips-0211
75
22
Show HN: Simple Webapp to Play with Open AI Transformer (Smaller Version)
https://lm.sprinkleai.com/
73
Pinterest Blocks Vaccination Searches in Move to Control the Conversation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-front-in-tech-firms-war-on-misinformation-bad-medical-advice-11550658601
2
SCOTUS – Constitutional Protection Against Excessive Fines Applies to States
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-constitutional-protection-against-excessive-fines-applies-to-state-actions/2019/02/20/204ce0d4-3522-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html
7
CVE-2019-8912: Use After Free Vuln in All Linux Kernels Up to 4.20.10
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8912