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Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users more favorable to war

    167 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  2. FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks

    167 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  3. The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

    167 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  4. APFS encrypted plaintext password found in another log file

    167 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  5. Operating Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips as Arbitrary Signal Transmitters, Like SDRs

    167 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  6. Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (2014)

    167 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  7. I Built a Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone

    167 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  8. Void Linux: Into the Void

    167 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  9. Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended

    166 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  10. California's other drought: a major earthquake is overdue

    166 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  11. Linux Raw Sockets

    166 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  12. AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix

    165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  13. Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer

    165 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  14. Stateful Experiments on AWS Lambda

    165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  15. Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression

    165 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  16. "Sonic attack" may have been two ultrasonic signals accidentally interfering

    165 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  17. Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel

    165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  18. Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016)

    165 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  19. Why Cities Boom While Towns Struggle

    164 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  20. Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones

    164 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  21. The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon

    163 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  22. Stratechery 4.0

    163 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  23. Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)

    163 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  24. AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

    163 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  25. Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python

    163 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  26. Memoirs of an Ass

    163 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  27. The Amiga Consciousness

    163 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  28. TensorFlow 1.7.0 released

    163 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  29. “We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civility of conversation”

    162 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  30. Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition

    162 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  31. Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go

    162 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  32. Do we need to move away from Elm?

    162 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  33. The making of Dark Castle

    162 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  34. Sl: a mirror version of ls

    162 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  35. New Orleans ends its relationship with tech firm Palantir

    161 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  36. Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference

    161 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  37. Hack everything without fear

    161 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  38. Peer review: the end of an error?

    160 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  39. Problems coming for online publishing

    160 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  40. Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election

    160 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  41. Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media

    160 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  42. Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed

    160 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  43. A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world

    160 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  44. Who will steal Android from Google?

    160 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  45. What is Mastodon? [video]

    160 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  46. Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface

    160 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  47. Show HN: Wishminer – Mining social media for app ideas, my weekend project

    159 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  48. Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech

    159 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  49. Writing an OS in Rust, Second Edition

    159 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  50. Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering

    159 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  51. A dietary supplement makes old mice youthful, but will it work in people?

    158 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  52. Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia

    158 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  53. Using Technical Debt in Your Favor

    158 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  54. Shaderoo: realtime ballpoint effect

    158 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  55. Michał Zalewski, Director Information Security Engineering, leaves Google

    157 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  56. Facebook tracks your private calls

    157 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  57. Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

    157 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  58. Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems

    157 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  59. Fordlandia

    156 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  60. Linux beats legal threat from one of its own developers

    156 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  61. A Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy

    156 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  62. Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes

    156 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  63. A Glimpse into the Bureaucratic Hell of Denying Health Insurance Claims

    156 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  64. How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google

    156 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  65. Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely

    156 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  66. LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers

    156 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  67. Why Apple and Microsoft Are Healthier Than Facebook

    156 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  68. The Worsening Cosmic Ray Situation

    155 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  69. Startups not status: Japan's top grads rethink success

    155 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  70. Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)

    155 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  71. Talent, luck and success: simulating meritocracy and inequality

    155 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  72. The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio

    154 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  73. GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

    154 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  74. Cluster and app management services in Docker Cloud are shutting down on May 21

    154 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  75. How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS

    154 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  76. GIMP Convolution Matrix

    154 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  77. Lessons for Building AI-Driven Products

    154 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  78. Launch HN: SafetyWing (YC W18) – A Global Safety Net for Digital Nomads

    153 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  79. Urn: A Lisp implementation for Lua

    153 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  80. Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era

    153 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  81. Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

    153 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  82. The great Pacific garbage patch is largely abandoned fishing gear

    152 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  83. Into the Breach’s interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness

    152 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  84. The Unnerving Existence of Teen Boss

    152 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  85. Scientists suspect a link between the digestive system and problems with sleep

    152 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  86. Into the Forbidden Zone: Varosha, Ghost City of Cyprus

    152 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  87. Facebook lost more than Tesla's market cap

    151 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  88. Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

    151 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  89. Pitching Your Startup

    151 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  90. Kottke.org is 20 years old today

    151 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  91. Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting on Kubernetes

    151 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  92. Profiling Go Applications with Flamegraphs

    151 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  93. Lossy GIF compressor

    150 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  94. CSS: The bad bits and how to avoid them

    150 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  95. Prove you are not an evil corporate person

    150 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  96. Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

    150 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  97. Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy

    149 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  98. Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads

    149 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  99. Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption

    149 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  100. Landfills – a future source of raw materials

    149 points • comment • mar 25, 2018