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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue

    88 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  2. Linux hardening schemes across five popular distributions

    88 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  3. California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes

    88 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  4. Show HN: Croissant, a Lua REPL and Debugger

    88 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  5. LittlevGL – A High-Level Micropython GUI Library

    88 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  6. Gone in six seconds? Exploiting car alarms

    88 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  7. What has your microcode done for you lately?

    88 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  8. PeerJS simplifies WebRTC peer-to-peer data, video, and audio calls

    87 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  9. Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe electricity

    87 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  10. Ocean Microphones May Have Recorded Lost Malaysian Jet's Crash

    87 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  11. Boeing Crashes Highlight the High Costs of Cheap Government

    87 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  12. Blackmail Should Be Illegal

    87 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  13. Duke University research fraud settlement: $112M payment to U.S. government

    87 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  14. Ten people arrested in Gujarat for allegedly playing banned game PUBG

    87 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  15. Decompilations of all packages from com.evenwell that I found on my Nokia 8

    87 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  16. Sleep helps to repair damaged DNA in neurons, scientists find

    87 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  17. Sourcebuster.js

    86 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  18. Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy (2016)

    86 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  19. Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem

    86 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  20. A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Underground

    86 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  21. How did two groups of fish separately evolve genes for making antifreeze?

    86 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  22. A Superscalar Out-of-Order x86 Soft Processor for FPGA (2017)

    86 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  23. Launch HN: Point (YC W19) – First Debit Card with Points

    86 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  24. Home of Strategic Command and Some of the USAF's Most Prized Aircraft Flooded

    86 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  25. Junior Developer Koans

    85 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  26. Great Essays and Essayists

    85 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  27. Scientists are getting creative to save the kakapo

    85 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you charge hourly?

    85 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  29. Ten Years of Using SPARK to Build CubeSat Nano Satellites with Students

    85 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  30. The ‘secretary problem’ is so unrealistic it can't inform our decisions

    85 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  31. Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49

    85 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  32. Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches

    85 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  33. In Beijing, it’s often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself

    85 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  34. Kicking neural network design automation into high gear

    85 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  35. Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams

    85 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  36. Tips and Tricks for Asp.net Core Applications

    85 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  37. Show HN: Building computer labs in schools in Africa

    85 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  38. Octopus and Squid Evolution Is Weird

    84 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  39. Video games that are tackling mental health issues

    84 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  40. Lego Mosaics Using R

    84 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  41. The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service

    84 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  42. Science Denial Won’t End Sexism

    84 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  43. How rats became an inescapable part of city living

    84 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  44. The Untold Story of Silk Road (2015)

    84 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  45. Cluetrain at 20

    84 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  46. The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa

    84 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  47. A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour

    83 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  48. How Kirkland Signature Powers Costco's Success

    83 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  49. The history of “How to Lie with Smoking Statistics” (2014)

    83 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  50. The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram

    83 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  51. Making Music with Shaders: Practical Additive GPU Audio Synthesis [pdf]

    83 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  52. Winter War

    83 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  53. Visualizing Complex Functions

    83 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  54. The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker

    83 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  55. Website Database Security (2018)

    83 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  56. Sound waves transport a small amount of mass, according to theory

    83 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  57. Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?

    83 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  58. Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator

    83 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  59. Don't Over-Optimize Fundraising

    82 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  60. New emperor, new era: How a single word defines Japan

    82 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  61. JavaScript Coercions Grid

    82 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  62. The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium

    82 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  63. Node.js Logging Made Right

    82 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  64. Show HN: tor_ssh.sh – One command to enable SSH access via Tor

    82 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  65. Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?

    82 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  66. Tech workers in China’s Silicon Valley face burnout before they reach 30

    82 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  67. Can fake names create bias in interviewing?

    82 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  68. Computational Mathematics with SageMath (2018)

    82 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  69. The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    82 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?

    82 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  71. Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development

    82 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  72. Open-sourcing homomorphic hashing to secure update propagation

    81 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  73. Rust has finally outgrown me

    81 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  74. nREPL 0.6

    81 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  75. Rugged 'mountains' taller than Everest lurk deep inside Earth

    81 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  76. How My Fears Doomed My First Startup

    81 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  77. Apple Special Event Livestream [video]

    81 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  78. Remote Work Is the Future

    81 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  79. PuTTY 0.71 released, fixing security vulnerabilities

    81 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  80. Tesla to raise prices and keep more stores open

    81 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  81. Alex Gibney on the Fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes

    80 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  82. A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US [pdf]

    80 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  83. Making 3D Terrain Maps (2017)

    80 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  84. Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018)

    80 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  85. Zuckerberg’s So-Called Shift Toward Privacy

    80 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  86. Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

    80 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  87. New Amazon S3 Storage Class – Glacier Deep Archive

    80 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  88. If Lyft can't keep its drivers as contractors, it may never be profitable

    80 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  89. Stroads and Strails

    80 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  90. How did we discard the idea of college faculty?

    80 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  91. AirPods 2 Teardown

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  92. Intel Processor Graphics Gen11 Architecture [pdf]

    80 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  93. Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb

    79 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  94. TypeTalk: Proof-of-concept of Smalltalk-like live coding system in the browser

    79 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  95. Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick

    79 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  96. Australian Alps Walking Track

    79 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  97. Theory of self-reproducing automata (1966)

    79 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  98. Show HN: FastAPI: build Python APIs with Go-like speed and automatic UI docs

    79 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  99. Knowing I’m Being Tricked Is Barely Enough

    79 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  100. My First Life as a Nurse (2015)

    79 points • comment • mar 20, 2019