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Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much

    213 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  2. An argument that companies should pay users for their data

    212 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  3. Attacking Merkle Trees with a second preimage attack

    212 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  4. Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

    212 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  5. Show HN: Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push

    211 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  6. Facebook Use of Sensitive Data for Advertising in Europe [pdf]

    211 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  7. Google's Python Class

    211 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  8. Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool

    211 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  9. Lead is even deadlier than was feared

    210 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  10. How to Quit a Top Tier Tech Job

    210 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  11. Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts

    210 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  12. Literate Devops with Emacs Org-Mode (2014)

    210 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  13. How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button

    210 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  14. Death of the sampling theorem?

    209 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  15. It's about what broke, not who broke it

    209 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  16. 23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk

    209 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  17. Being frugal is for the rich

    209 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  18. ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive

    209 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  19. The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing

    209 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  20. Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”

    208 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  21. How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)

    208 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  22. The “Run Less Software” philosophy

    207 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  23. Apple Is Developing Its Own Screens for the First Time

    207 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  24. Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says

    207 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  25. Hedge-fund managers that do the most research will post the best returns

    207 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  26. Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative

    206 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  27. Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist'

    206 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  28. A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat

    206 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  29. BMW says electric car mass production not viable until 2020

    206 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  30. Running Java in a Container

    206 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  31. Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program

    205 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  32. Swift for TensorFlow

    205 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  33. Fitter, happier, and other fantasies of modern life

    205 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  34. Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls

    205 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  35. Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers

    204 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  36. Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away

    204 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  37. The forgetting curve explains why humans struggle to memorize

    204 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  38. Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple

    204 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  39. How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance

    204 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  40. Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s

    204 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  41. The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind

    203 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  42. Examining overlooked clues reveals how ultrasound could have caused harm in Cuba

    202 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  43. The Bitter Truth of Learning: It’s Tough, Unpleasant, and Often Pointless

    202 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  44. DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon

    202 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  45. Vim-db: Modern database interface for Vim

    202 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  46. An Italian Region Where Co-Ops Produce a Third of GDP (2016)

    201 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  47. Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

    200 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  48. Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

    200 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  49. Largest Animal Study on Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link

    200 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  50. Founding Stories Are Myths

    200 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  51. Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes

    200 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  52. Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights

    200 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  53. Introducing the LineageOS SDK

    199 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  54. Intel Publishes Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Plans: Fixed Gear Later This Year

    199 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  55. It all made sense when we found out we were autistic

    199 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  56. Zstandard v1.3.4 – faster everything

    199 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  57. FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew

    199 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  58. Atomically thin LED opens the possibility for invisible displays

    199 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  59. Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution

    199 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  60. A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines

    199 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  61. Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter

    199 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  62. NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking

    199 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  63. 'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

    198 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  64. Why Women Choose Differently at Work

    198 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  65. Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

    198 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  66. A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64

    198 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  67. Ask HN: Resources to learn real analysis?

    197 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  68. Snap is laying off about 100 engineers

    197 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  69. Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it

    197 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  70. Canon's 120MP Camera Sensor

    197 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  71. Announcing Rust 1.24.1

    197 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  72. How warehouses for personal junk became a $38B industry

    197 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  73. How to dismantle a compiler bomb

    196 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  74. Brass and lead toxicity in midrange espresso machines

    196 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  75. Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap

    195 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  76. Learning to write programs that generate images

    195 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  77. Apple Music now has 38M paid members

    195 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  78. OpenPGPjs v3.0

    195 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  79. Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be

    195 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  80. When That Guy Died on My Show (2007)

    195 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  81. Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers

    195 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  82. How I implemented iPhone X’s FaceID using Deep Learning in Python

    194 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  83. Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling

    194 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  84. Mozilla.org is 20 years old

    194 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  85. RIP Cert.org

    194 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  86. Show HN: Launched my first app where people hum songs for others to guess

    194 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  87. Coltrane Pitch Diagrams: Wrapping notes around a torus

    194 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  88. Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists

    193 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  89. South Korean government to shut off computers to stop its employees working late

    193 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  90. Probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making

    193 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  91. NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor

    192 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  92. Google Skaffold – Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

    192 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  93. Senate Bill Would Make Credit Freezes Free

    192 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  94. European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue

    192 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  95. Turn Prisons into Colleges

    192 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  96. VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]

    191 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  97. Schism – A self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler

    191 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  98. Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates

    191 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  99. Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008)

    191 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  100. Can any composer equal Bach?

    190 points • comment • mar 09, 2018