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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?

    458 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  2. Rules for Autocomplete

    456 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  3. Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?

    453 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  4. DTrace on Windows

    448 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  5. Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews

    448 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  6. How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

    447 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?

    445 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  8. Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight

    443 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  9. Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin

    443 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  10. Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

    443 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  11. Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

    441 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  12. Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35

    440 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  13. A generalised solution to distributed consensus

    437 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  14. FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadband Providers

    437 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  15. Barcelona Fines Landlords Who Let Buildings Sit Empty

    435 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  16. Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

    434 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  17. “Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”

    433 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  18. Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help

    429 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  19. Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

    428 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  20. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

    427 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  21. Everything I know about freelancing

    426 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  22. KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS

    426 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  23. Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?

    424 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  24. Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic'

    417 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  25. Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist

    417 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  26. The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says

    416 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  27. Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

    415 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  28. Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

    414 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  29. There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway

    409 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  30. Sway 1.0

    408 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  31. Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight

    406 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  32. Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis

    406 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  33. What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance

    402 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  34. 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship

    400 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  35. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

    399 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  36. Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server

    399 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  37. Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

    399 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  38. Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

    397 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  39. Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)

    396 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  40. PureOS is convergent

    394 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  41. Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android

    393 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  42. Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)

    391 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  43. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

    390 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  44. Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

    389 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  45. Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS

    387 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  46. Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks

    386 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  47. Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe

    386 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  48. Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic

    386 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  49. IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit

    384 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  50. EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs

    383 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  51. Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime

    383 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  52. California declared drought free for first time in seven years

    383 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  53. “No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”

    382 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  54. Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust

    381 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  55. At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard

    380 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

    375 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  57. Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning

    375 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  58. Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)

    374 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  59. Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

    374 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  60. The one-salary experiment, ten years in

    371 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  61. FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme

    371 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  62. ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archive

    370 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  63. Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

    369 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  64. Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again

    369 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  65. Google reveals “high severity” flaw in MacOS kernel

    368 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  66. Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]

    366 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  67. Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents

    365 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  68. Peak California

    365 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  69. Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker

    364 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  70. Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes

    364 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  71. Simpson’s Paradox (2016)

    363 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  72. Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)

    363 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  73. Suse is once again an independent company

    360 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  74. Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [pdf]

    360 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  75. Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser

    360 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  76. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

    357 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  77. Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design

    356 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  78. Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

    355 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  79. A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews

    353 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  80. Updates from YC

    352 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  81. Procrastination Has Nothing to Do with Self-Control

    351 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  82. How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

    351 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  83. Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own

    349 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  84. China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet

    349 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  85. A Julia Interpreter and Debugger

    348 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  86. Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup

    347 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  87. Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few

    347 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  88. SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight

    346 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  89. I Built a Lisp Compiler

    346 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  90. Morgan Freeman Converts His 124-Acre Ranch into a Giant Bee Sanctuary

    346 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  91. Name It, and They Will Come

    343 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  92. OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly

    342 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  93. E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets

    342 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  94. UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time

    341 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  95. How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all

    341 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  96. Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)

    338 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  97. Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' rules

    337 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  98. The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’

    337 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  99. The Illustrated Word2vec

    336 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  100. Rust Cookbook

    336 points • comment • mar 17, 2019