Hacker News on 19 February 2017

• Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
• How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
• Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
• $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
• AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
• Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page
• Norway: 37% of new vehicles sold in January were electric
• Scientists have detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans
• Dear Apple
• Hero Patterns – A collection of SVG background patterns for your web projects