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February 2018 Archive
1171.
The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism (nature.com)
85 points by onuralp on Feb 25, 2018 | 79 comments
1172.
‘Lede’ vs. ‘Lead’ (2011) (howardowens.com)
85 points by gruseom on Feb 15, 2018 | 72 comments
1173.
Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad? (excelsiorjet.com)
85 points by dleskov on Feb 22, 2018 | 47 comments
1174.
HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016) [video] (youtube.com)
85 points by kaivi on Feb 1, 2018 | 45 comments
1175.
Show HN: Scale 3D, API for 3D labeling of LIDAR, camera, and radar data (scaleapi.com)
85 points by ayw on Feb 21, 2018 | 16 comments
1176.
UK Hacker Won't Be Extradited to the US Because American Prisons Are 'Medieval' (gizmodo.com)
85 points by kushti on Feb 6, 2018 | 12 comments
1177.
Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (1984) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
85 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 11, 2018 | 11 comments
1178.
A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything (atlasobscura.com)
85 points by IntronExon on Feb 11, 2018 | 8 comments
1179.
Discovering types for entity disambiguation (blog.openai.com)
85 points by gdb on Feb 7, 2018 | 6 comments
1180.
$2 hardware SSH keys storage (github.com)
85 points by pavel_odintsov on Feb 18, 2018 | 6 comments
1181.
Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds (nytimes.com)
84 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Feb 20, 2018 | 155 comments
1182.
How California campuses are fixing the problem of pricey college books (scpr.org)
84 points by palidanx on Feb 15, 2018 | 133 comments
1183.
Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men [pdf] (scholar.princeton.edu)
84 points by gwern on Feb 16, 2018 | 116 comments
1184.
Can Eurostar Compete with Airlines on Speed and Price? (citylab.com)
84 points by edward on Feb 12, 2018 | 84 comments
1185.
ZFS for Linux (linuxjournal.com)
84 points by bcbs on Feb 13, 2018 | 72 comments
1186.
Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? (theguardian.com)
84 points by f_allwein on Feb 23, 2018 | 70 comments
1187.
The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding (bloomberg.com)
84 points by lnguyen on Feb 9, 2018 | 67 comments
1188.
DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes (theguardian.com)
84 points by techterrier on Feb 5, 2018 | 64 comments
1189.
The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)
84 points by GuiA on Feb 2, 2018 | 15 comments
1190.
Evolving a Decompiler (storm-country.com)
84 points by jsnell on Feb 13, 2018 | 14 comments
1191.
Show HN: How software projects and companies got their name (github.com)
84 points by amitmerchant on Feb 20, 2018 | 13 comments
1192.
Galois Field in Cryptography (2012) [pdf] (sites.math.washington.edu)
84 points by jpelecanos on Feb 11, 2018 | 11 comments
1193.
Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN” (danielcompton.net)
84 points by dantiberian on Feb 8, 2018 | 9 comments
1194.
China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit (nytimes.com)
84 points by dkobran on Feb 25, 2018 | 2 comments
1195.
China sets stage for Xi to stay in office indefinitely (reuters.com)
84 points by adventured on Feb 25, 2018 | 1 comments
1196.
Gates says billionaires should pay 'significantly' more taxes (phys.org)
83 points by sharkweek on Feb 19, 2018 | 77 comments
1197.
Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements (reddit.com)
83 points by lqueenan on Feb 12, 2018 | 76 comments
1198.
Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?
83 points by whitepoplar on Feb 5, 2018 | 49 comments
1199.
Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices (checkbot.io)
83 points by seanwilson on Feb 20, 2018 | 46 comments
1200.
GitHub Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Quick Reference Guide (github.com)
83 points by susam on Feb 17, 2018 | 32 comments