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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

    2674 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  2. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

    2020 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  3. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

    1846 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  4. A guide to difficult conversations

    1802 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  5. U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

    1288 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  6. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

    1272 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  7. Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

    1219 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  8. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

    1051 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  9. Thinkpad X210

    989 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  10. Why Bother with What Three Words?

    943 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  11. Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s

    931 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  12. Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

    919 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  13. HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient

    916 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  14. Productivity Is About Attention Management

    913 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  15. Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

    892 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  16. Facebook to ban white nationalist content

    872 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  17. Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop

    860 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  18. Give Me Back My Monolith

    849 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  19. Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

    846 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  20. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

    806 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  21. Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics

    794 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  22. Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

    792 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  23. Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

    765 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  24. European Parliament approves copyright reform

    762 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  25. The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

    761 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  26. SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station

    743 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  27. Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website

    731 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  28. Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

    729 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  29. 737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer

    727 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  30. Serious Chrome zero-day

    724 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  31. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

    714 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  32. Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number

    711 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  33. Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

    711 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  34. Addressing Spotify’s Claims

    707 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  35. U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8

    707 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  36. Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money

    704 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  37. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

    703 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  38. Graying Out

    696 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  39. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

    694 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  40. Apple announces Apple Card credit card

    682 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  41. How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

    673 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  42. What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

    669 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  43. Write yourself a Git (2018)

    659 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  44. DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

    642 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  45. Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

    639 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  46. Tesla Model Y

    629 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  47. I Miss Rails

    628 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  48. Apple Cancels AirPower Product

    623 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  49. Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

    619 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  50. Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users

    613 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  51. Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

    613 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  52. Keybase is not softer than TOFU

    612 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  53. Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

    610 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  54. Scientists rise up against statistical significance

    610 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  55. How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger

    602 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  56. Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

    598 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  57. Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python

    597 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  58. Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed

    581 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  59. Fuchsia OS Introduction

    576 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  60. Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

    575 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  61. Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties

    574 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  62. Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia

    569 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  63. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

    568 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  64. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

    568 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  65. Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

    563 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  66. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

    563 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  67. Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'

    563 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  68. Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting

    560 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  69. Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today

    557 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  70. Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

    552 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  71. RSS Is Better Than Twitter

    547 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  72. Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search

    545 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  73. Building Fast Interpreters in Rust

    541 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  74. Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing

    539 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  75. Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir

    538 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  76. Lyft Files S-1

    532 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  77. Interviews with developers who became managers

    527 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  78. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

    526 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  79. Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising

    523 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  80. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

    522 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  81. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

    515 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  82. Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets

    514 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  83. Google launches AMP for email

    507 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  84. x86 Bare Metal Examples

    504 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  85. Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

    501 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  86. Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

    497 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  87. 800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

    495 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  88. Everyone should read support emails

    494 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  89. Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try

    492 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  90. Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

    491 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  91. Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases

    486 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  92. TLDR Stock Options

    480 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  93. Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

    480 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  94. Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

    479 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  95. Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

    476 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  96. My Salary Progression in Tech

    470 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  97. Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes

    469 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  98. JSON with Sqlite

    464 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  99. A JavaScript-Free Front End

    462 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  100. Winding down my Debian involvement

    459 points • comment • mar 10, 2019