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Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. Concurrency Limits by Netflix

    190 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  2. The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)

    190 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  3. Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with Firefox for desktop

    189 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  4. Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users

    187 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  5. Tail recursion in Python

    187 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  6. Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

    187 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  7. Computing with Random Pulses Promises to Simplify Circuitry and Save Power

    187 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  8. Facebook–while it apologizes for scandal–funds campaign to block CA data-privacy

    187 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  9. Utah governor signs law legalizing 'free-range parenting'

    186 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  10. Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting Nissan Motor Company to Keep Nissan.com

    186 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  11. Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying

    186 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  12. Understanding Deep Learning Through Neuron Deletion

    186 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  13. PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour

    186 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  14. From Rails to Clojure, Then to Java, Then Back to Rails

    186 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  15. Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks

    186 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  16. Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans

    186 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  17. Launch HN: Hexel (YC W18) – Create a cryptocurrency for your community

    185 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  18. Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

    185 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  19. Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode

    185 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  20. Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage

    185 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  21. Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?

    185 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  22. Show HN: Egg Gradients – Gradient color inspirations

    184 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  23. Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs

    184 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  24. V8 release v6.6

    184 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  25. Former Equifax employee indicted for insider trading

    184 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  26. A Fresh Graduate's Guide to Software Development Tools and Technologies (2012) [pdf]

    183 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  27. 3D Lightning (2013)

    183 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  28. The Role of Luck in Life Is Still Misunderstood

    183 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  29. How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base

    183 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  30. The Effective Tech Lead Is a 100x Engineer

    183 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  31. Email marketing for e-commerce

    183 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  32. Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting

    183 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  33. Protecting Against HSTS Abuse

    183 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  34. Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid development game engine

    183 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  35. Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information

    182 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  36. How Ethereum can be stolen through DNS rebinding

    182 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  37. Another chapter on Facebook’s privacy woes is being written in Latin America

    182 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  38. Ask HN: If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?

    181 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  39. The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex

    181 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  40. $560M Powerball Winner Can Keep Her Name Private, Judge Rules

    181 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  41. More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop'

    181 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  42. The Role of Luck in Life Success

    181 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  43. Loneliness on the Job: Why No Employee Is an Island

    181 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  44. Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers?

    180 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  45. Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks in Pytorch

    180 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  46. Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now

    180 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  47. SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990)

    179 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  48. London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting construction workers

    179 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  49. Python Idioms in Rust

    179 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  50. Reasons not to use Facebook

    179 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  51. How Your Returns Are Used Against You at Best Buy, Other Retailers

    178 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  52. Google Cloud Armor

    178 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  53. Walmart Whistle-Blower Claims Cheating in Race with Amazon

    178 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  54. Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems

    178 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  55. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

    178 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  56. Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it

    178 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  57. The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

    177 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  58. Slack client for the terminal

    177 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  59. Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies

    176 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  60. Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL

    176 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  61. GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

    175 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  62. Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support

    175 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  63. Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations

    175 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  64. Lsofgraph – Convert lsof output to graph of processes, pipes, fifos and sockets

    175 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  65. Tech Giants Set to Face 3% Tax on Revenue Under New EU Plan

    174 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  66. After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs

    174 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  67. Swift 4.1 Released

    173 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  68. Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated

    173 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  69. Toys 'R' Us Founder Charles Lazarus Dies at 94

    173 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  70. Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype

    173 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  71. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows

    173 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  72. Dark Patterns, the Ratchet

    173 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  73. Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

    173 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  74. Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards

    173 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  75. Ibn Battuta and his adventure

    173 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  76. We Open Source Everything

    173 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  77. Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal

    172 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  78. Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on

    172 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  79. Norwegian Shipbuilders Turning to Battery Power

    172 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  80. Mont Saint Michel Reveals New Secrets

    172 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  81. Trump's Campaign Payments Totalling $130K

    172 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  82. What Airbnb Did to New York City

    171 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  83. Appeals Court Says It's Okay to Copyright an Entire Style of Music

    171 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  84. C++ Core Guidelines

    171 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  85. Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad press coverage

    171 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  86. The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

    170 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  87. 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

    170 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  88. How Big Deals Kill Companies

    170 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  89. SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200B building a solar power plant

    170 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  90. A transportation engineer has a simple solution to potholes: pave better roads

    170 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  91. From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN

    169 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  92. US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save them

    169 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  93. A teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad

    169 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  94. Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles (2017)

    169 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  95. Nerd Sniped by BINFMT_MISC

    169 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  96. Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site

    169 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  97. Astronaut’s DNA No Longer Matches His Identical Twin’s After Year Spent in Space

    168 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  98. Touched (2015)

    168 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  99. Ontario wrongly separated families on results of Motherisk hair-testing program

    168 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  100. The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make

    168 points • comment • mar 18, 2018