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Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. Stephen Hawking has died

    5967 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  2. Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

    2343 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  3. Machine Learning Crash Course

    1887 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  4. Congrats Dropbox

    1537 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  5. It's time to head back to RSS?

    1494 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  6. Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

    1385 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  7. Blocklist Facebook domains

    1344 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  8. Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

    1344 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  9. Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud

    1206 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  10. Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

    1181 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  11. Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

    1140 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  12. “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

    1129 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  13. Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

    1128 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  14. Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

    1106 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  15. FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says

    1105 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  16. Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript

    1065 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  17. WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

    1062 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  18. Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation

    1060 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  19. Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe

    1033 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  20. Some terrible personal news

    1003 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  21. ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live

    1003 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  22. Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

    945 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  23. Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

    934 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  24. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

    911 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  25. Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

    906 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  26. Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks

    899 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  27. All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate

    896 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  28. Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail

    892 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  29. Au Revoir

    887 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  30. Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

    851 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  31. Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

    842 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  32. Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

    829 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  33. #deletefacebook

    810 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  34. China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

    795 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  35. Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]

    788 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  36. Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

    783 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  37. Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

    769 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  38. Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News

    764 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  39. A Career Cold Start Algorithm

    759 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  40. Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

    743 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  41. Slack's bait and switch

    734 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  42. Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life

    725 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  43. How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less

    722 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  44. With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law

    714 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  45. Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

    697 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  46. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

    693 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  47. The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees

    684 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  48. FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services

    679 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  49. Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

    674 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  50. I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

    673 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  51. Google bans cryptocurrency ads

    671 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  52. EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code

    667 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  53. Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

    663 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  54. Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

    663 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  55. Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica

    662 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  56. Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)

    649 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  57. Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It

    646 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  58. Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)

    636 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  59. Guide to Slack import and export tools

    628 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  60. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead

    619 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  61. Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit

    612 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  62. Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?

    605 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  63. Look for the duct tape

    602 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  64. A week-long programming retreat

    580 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  65. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

    580 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  66. PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

    576 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  67. Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

    576 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  68. FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites

    573 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  69. U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

    566 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  70. Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture

    562 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  71. Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

    560 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  72. Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out

    551 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  73. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

    548 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  74. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

    546 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  75. Ask HN: How to self-learn math?

    541 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  76. How not to run a CA

    537 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  77. Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election

    536 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  78. The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works

    536 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  79. The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization

    534 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  80. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

    532 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  81. Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

    526 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  82. Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

    526 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  83. 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

    519 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  84. Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings

    519 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  85. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

    517 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  86. How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes

    515 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  87. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

    509 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  88. Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

    507 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  89. Rust's 2018 roadmap

    507 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  90. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

    507 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  91. Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)

    505 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  92. Coinbase Index Fund

    504 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  93. Writing System Software [video]

    501 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  94. The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

    497 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  95. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists

    495 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  96. First firing of air-breathing electric thruster

    489 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  97. All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study

    488 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  98. Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects

    483 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  99. Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry

    483 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  100. Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?

    481 points • comment • mar 22, 2018