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Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. Landfills – a future source of raw materials

    149 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  2. KDE Plasma Voted Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards

    148 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  3. A cliff that changed our understanding of time

    148 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  4. Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]

    148 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  5. Power Outage at Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% of Global NAND Flash Output for March

    148 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  6. The IRS collects data on Coinbase account holders

    148 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  7. Valve to open source 'GameNetworkingSockets' for developers, Steam not required

    148 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  8. New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life

    147 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  9. How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time

    147 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  10. P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing

    147 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  11. Generating $32,000 in 30 days selling a crypto-filled USB stick

    147 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  12. Symbolic Execution: Intuition and Implementation

    147 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  13. LC4: A Low-Tech Authenticated Cipher for Human-To-Human Communication

    147 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  14. Practical Go benchmarks

    147 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  15. Pixar's senior scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love

    146 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  16. Exploring Word2Vec

    146 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  17. Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleading view of intelligence

    146 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  18. Monarch butterfly numbers keep declining

    146 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  19. Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories

    146 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  20. Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded in 2015

    146 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  21. Year 1: My full time indie developer life

    146 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  22. Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

    146 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  23. Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix

    146 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  24. Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their Videos to Pornhub

    145 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  25. Paper is dead, long live paper programming

    145 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  26. Facebook was warned in 2011 of data loopholes exploited by Cambridge Analytica

    145 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  27. Google makes push to turn product searches into cash

    145 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  28. Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores

    145 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  29. “Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)

    145 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  30. Lytro is winding down

    144 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  31. AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success

    144 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  32. How does `cd` work?

    144 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  33. EU GDPR – Another reason for SaaS to reconsider on-premise

    144 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  34. Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service

    144 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  35. In Praise of ADHD

    144 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  36. Ask HN: How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?

    143 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  37. Stack Overflow: Support for OpenID Ends on July 1, 2018

    143 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  38. Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?

    143 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  39. Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction

    143 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  40. Palantir Wins $876M U.S. Army Contract

    143 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  41. NLP with spaCy

    143 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  42. China is trying to police what people are saying about it around the world

    142 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  43. Level 3 technician's misstep causes largest telephone outage ever reported

    142 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  44. Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

    141 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  45. China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown

    141 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  46. World Models

    141 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  47. “No Man’s Sky” Displayed on the Amiga 1000

    141 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  48. Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back

    141 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  49. HIP – Convert CUDA to Portable C++

    141 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  50. Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

    141 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  51. Google Flutter and AWS Lambda for a serverless mobile app

    141 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  52. YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay for Music

    140 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  53. Less is Exponentially More (2012)

    140 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  54. First Lightning mainnet release

    140 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  55. Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car

    140 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  56. How autism may stem from problems with prediction

    140 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  57. Eve: Programming designed for humans

    140 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  58. Magic Leap Ships First Set of Devices Under Tight Security Constraints

    140 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  59. Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money

    140 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  60. The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)

    140 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  61. Who and what is Coinhive?

    139 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  62. You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than a main effect

    139 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  63. Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

    139 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  64. How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers

    139 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  65. How Europeans evolved white skin (2015)

    139 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  66. How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing

    139 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  67. Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion

    139 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  68. One take on working in some of the major tech companies

    139 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  69. Show HN: Quickly build a production ready image classifier from your images

    139 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  70. Reptile: A Scalable Meta-Learning Algorithm

    138 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  71. Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and Other Social Media

    138 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  72. Mozilla’s Servo Team Joining Mixed Reality

    138 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  73. Nvidia Playing with Fire

    138 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  74. Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers

    138 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  75. Brain tissue samples suggest we stop growing new neurons in our early teens

    138 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  76. TunnelBear Joins McAfee

    138 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  77. Ask HN: Is a blog clever marketing or just a waste of time?

    138 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  78. Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin?

    137 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  79. Ask HN: What's Your CI/CD Workflow for Your Machine Learning Projects?

    137 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  80. Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web

    137 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  81. Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation

    136 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  82. LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime

    136 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  83. Moral outrage in the digital age

    136 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  84. Chrome lets hackers phish even 'Unphishable' Yubikey users

    136 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  85. Uber Agrees on Southeast Asian Sale to Grab

    136 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  86. Thinking Differently about Thinking: The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark

    136 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  87. Trump Hits China With Stiff Trade Measures

    135 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  88. Multiple Android apps use combined permissions to siphon personal data

    135 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  89. Guide to Speech Recognition with Python

    135 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  90. A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka

    135 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  91. Rise in cancers 'caused by weight'

    135 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  92. Qubes OS 4.0 has been released

    135 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  93. New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber

    135 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  94. Learning by playing

    135 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  95. Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Test IBM Systems

    135 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  96. Using React, Firebase, and Ant Design to Quickly Prototype Web Applications

    135 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  97. Virtual private networks with WireGuard

    135 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  98. Cheap 3D-printed home is a start for the 1B who lack shelter

    135 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  99. Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository

    134 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  100. Gravitational attraction of stars and cows

    134 points • comment • mar 28, 2018