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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out

    130 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  2. The Supreme Backdoor Factory

    130 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  3. Our Chess Champion Has a Home

    129 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  4. Knoppix 8.5.0 Released

    129 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  5. Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar

    129 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  6. One Page Love – One Page Website Inspiration and Templates

    129 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  7. How Sitting For Long Periods Affects Your Metabolism

    129 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  8. PC Assembly Book (2006)

    129 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  9. UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit

    129 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  10. Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking

    129 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  11. Architecting UIs for Change

    128 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  12. Understanding Convolutions (2014)

    128 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  13. Cutter: Open-source GUI disassembler, with Python plugins

    128 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  14. Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces

    128 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  15. Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams

    128 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  16. Did Sam Altman make YC better or worse?

    128 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  17. Cloudflare Registrar

    128 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  18. Opioids and the Labor Market (2018)

    127 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  19. The most important software dev skills aren’t technical

    127 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  20. Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Government Malware

    127 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  21. Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)

    127 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  22. Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on board

    127 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  23. A 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet

    127 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  24. Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go

    127 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  25. First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars

    127 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  26. You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure

    127 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  27. Sony to slash smartphone workforce

    127 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  28. Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly (2018)

    126 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  29. KiCad 5.1.0

    126 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  30. “It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012)

    126 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  31. Show HN: DropCSS – A simple, thorough and fast unused-CSS cleaner

    126 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  32. Show HN: REDasm Disassembler 2.0

    126 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  33. Hundreds of luxury Vancouver mansions being rented for cheap

    126 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  34. Too Clever by Half (2018)

    126 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  35. Traduora is now open source

    126 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  36. Introduction to Memory Management (2018)

    125 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  37. Stalin's daughter on her life in Wisconsin (2010)

    125 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  38. What was the nicest codebase you've inherited without the original author(s)?

    125 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  39. Invent More, Toil Less (2016) [pdf]

    125 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  40. American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods

    125 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  41. Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app

    125 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  42. Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

    124 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  43. Gravity Payments: Seattle company with a minimum salary of $70K

    124 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  44. The Functional Style (2018)

    124 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  45. Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google

    124 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  46. NASM Tutorial (2018)

    124 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  47. A woman who doesn't feel pain

    124 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  48. The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency [2016]

    124 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  49. Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

    123 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  50. Hardware Debugging with JTAG on a Raspberry Pi

    123 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  51. Show HN: Mixing WebGL and HTML, Both Rendered Out in React

    123 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  52. Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame

    123 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  53. Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor

    123 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  54. Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society [video]

    123 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  55. Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

    123 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  56. Children for Sale, 1948

    123 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  57. De-Google-Ify Internet

    123 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  58. My Cognitive Bias – A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab

    123 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  59. The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops

    123 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  60. Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack

    123 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  61. A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card

    122 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  62. Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

    122 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  63. Bare Metal STM32 Programming and a Quadcopters Awakening

    122 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  64. Writing a simple evaluator and type-checker in Haskell

    122 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  65. Against Willpower (2017)

    122 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  66. Rare new kind of twins: boy and girl are semi-identical

    122 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  67. Freedom to Compete Act [pdf]

    122 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  68. Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded files (2017)

    122 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  69. 'Big Data' Has Come to Mean 'Small Sampled Data'

    122 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  70. Show HN: Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index

    122 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  71. Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows

    122 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  72. The Intercept cuts back

    122 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  73. Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)

    121 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  74. India successfully shoots down satellite in space

    121 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  75. Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

    121 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  76. HighwayHash: Fast hashing at over 10 GB/s per core in Golang

    121 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  77. No call for simulators in new Boeing 737 Max training proposals

    121 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  78. PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019

    121 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  79. Teardown of a 50-Year-Old Modem

    121 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  80. Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013)

    121 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  81. William S. Burroughs’ Manifesto for Overthrowing a Government with Fake News

    121 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  82. RaptorQ and performance optimization in Rust

    121 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  83. Local Variables

    121 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  84. Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (2012)

    121 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  85. Tetris Is Hard, Even to Approximate

    121 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  86. How MSG Got a Bad Rap (2016)

    121 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  87. Technical Debt Is Like Tetris

    121 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  88. Swift UTF-8 String

    121 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  89. It’s not about how many countries you have been to

    121 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  90. UC Browser for Android, Desktop Exposes 500M Users to MiTM Attacks

    120 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  91. We built a distributed DB capable of running across 100s of global locations

    120 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  92. Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos

    120 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  93. PGHoard – PostgreSQL backup and restore service for cloud object storages

    120 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  94. Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts

    119 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  95. From the Bootloader to the Kernel

    119 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  96. How Discord Went Mainstream

    119 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  97. Google's Page Allegedly Gave Rubin $150M Stock Award

    119 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  98. New study provides evidence that we need different drugs for men and women

    119 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  99. Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash

    119 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  100. Ton Roosendaal and Blender receives ASIFA-Hollywood Ub Iwerks Award

    119 points • comment • mar 30, 2019