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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

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

    119 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

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

    119 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  3. A Journey to the Disappointment Islands

    118 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  4. Oldschool planar graphics and why they were a good idea

    118 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  5. Homosexuality in giraffes and other non-human animals

    118 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  6. The Servant Economy

    118 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  7. Holdout Jeff Bezos Confronted by Amazon Moms Demanding Day Care

    118 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  8. US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators

    118 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  9. Read color hex codes

    118 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  10. Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt

    118 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  11. We hired a Japanese moving company [video]

    118 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  12. Better web video with AV1 codec

    118 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  13. Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014)

    118 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  14. Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) [video]

    117 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  15. Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for $166M

    117 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  16. Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 1

    117 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  17. Gun laws where guns take the most lives

    117 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  18. Writing a Book with Unix

    117 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  19. The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587

    117 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  20. Show HN: Grafana Live Streaming Datasource Implementation

    117 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  21. Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max

    117 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  22. Programming Sucks

    117 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  23. 2019 Guide to Cryptographic Key Sizes and Algorithm Recommendations

    117 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  24. Why the Amazon River Can't Be Crossed by Bridge (2018)

    117 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  25. Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds

    117 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  26. How India’s massive 2019 election will work

    116 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  27. Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg Have Blown Up on Twitter, and in Betting Markets

    116 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  28. NSA’s top policy advisor: It’s time to start putting teeth in cyber deterrence

    116 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  29. Chinese Data Breach Exposes 'Breed Ready' Status of Almost 2M Women

    116 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  30. Show HN: H2 Forth CPU

    116 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  31. Re2c: A free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++

    116 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  32. Yield Curve Is More Inverted Than at This Point in Run-Up to Financial Crisis

    116 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  33. Flashing Light, Sound Restore Memory in Alzheimer's Mice

    116 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  34. Interpreter for a simple Lisp, Written in Prolog

    116 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  35. Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (2014)

    116 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  36. Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication

    115 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  37. Facebook’s Privacy Cake

    115 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  38. Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does has bad effects

    115 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  39. A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018)

    115 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  40. Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale

    115 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  41. In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag

    115 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  42. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

    115 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  43. Leaderless Debian

    114 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  44. Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak

    114 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  45. How to live without Google (2017)

    114 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  46. Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R

    114 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  47. A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

    114 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  48. MathML in Chromium

    114 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  49. How to Dress Like an Ottoman

    114 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  50. Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio

    114 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  51. The Calculus Trap (2005)

    113 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  52. 1100 layoffs at Bay Area tech companies

    113 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  53. Case Study: Monolithic Repository at Google (2018) [pdf]

    113 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  54. German Wikipedia blacked out in protest against EU copyright reform

    113 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  55. ARM and Intel have different performance characteristics: a case study

    113 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  56. SR-71's “R2-D2” Could Be the Key to Winning Fights in GPS Denied Environments

    113 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  57. Repairing a Bent Trombone Slide (2004)

    113 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  58. One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards

    112 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  59. The Triton malware is murderous and spreading

    112 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  60. I’d rather be dead than linger on in an old folks’ home

    112 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  61. A Front End Does Not Have to Be Rich

    112 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  62. New fastest portable hash: wyhash

    112 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  63. Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus

    112 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  64. Grim C++ Tales from the Crypt: The Visitor Pattern (2017)

    112 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  65. Convert Markdown to PDF only using browser

    112 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  66. Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through video screen

    112 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  67. GCC proves an uninitialized variable must be 0 and doesn't warn about it

    112 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  68. Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design

    112 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  69. Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry

    111 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  70. 911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats

    111 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  71. Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library

    111 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  72. Pac-Man: How We Played the Game

    111 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  73. The Priest of Abu Ghraib

    111 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  74. Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client

    111 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  75. Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.1.9

    111 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  76. What Made Apollo a Success (1971) [pdf]

    110 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  77. Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech

    110 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  78. Why Haven't Voters Been Buying the Case for Increasing Housing Supply?

    110 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  79. New in Chrome 73

    110 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  80. GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet [pdf]

    110 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  81. To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces

    110 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  82. The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce

    110 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  83. Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild

    110 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  84. Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest

    110 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  85. Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)

    109 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  86. The Decentralized Web Primer (2017)

    109 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  87. Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol

    109 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  88. SweRV – An Annotated Deep Dive of the SweRV RISC-V Core

    109 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  89. New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]

    109 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  90. PostgreSQL DBaaS vendor comparison and calculator

    109 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  91. Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers

    109 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  92. For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive

    109 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  93. Amazon Web Services CEO: We’re a $30b revenue business in the ‘early stages’

    109 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  94. Neural MMO – A Multiagent Game Environment

    108 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  95. Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targeted Ads

    108 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  96. Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing

    108 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  97. The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold

    108 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  98. New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and psychosis

    108 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  99. Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time

    108 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  100. Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris

    108 points • comment • mar 19, 2019