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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

    335 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  2. Redis streams as a pure data structure

    335 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  3. What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

    335 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  4. Animals are no less emotional than we are

    334 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  5. On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon

    334 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  6. The Day the Dinosaurs Died

    333 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  7. Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

    333 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  8. Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)

    333 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  9. Add detailed message to NullPointerException describing what is null

    332 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  10. Melatonin's Effect on Skin and Hair

    331 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  11. U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces

    331 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  12. JIT-Less V8

    330 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  13. A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee

    330 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  14. PagerDuty S-1

    330 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  15. Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan

    329 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  16. India Imposes Complete Ban on Solid Plastic Waste Imports

    329 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  17. AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

    329 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  18. Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles

    328 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  19. Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out

    328 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  20. Matrix 1.0 – Are We Ready Yet?

    327 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  21. How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month

    327 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  22. Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

    326 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  23. AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

    326 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  24. After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again

    326 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  25. ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors

    325 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  26. Common statistical tests are linear models

    325 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  27. Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version

    323 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  28. Dell Autism Hiring Program

    323 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  29. Gall's Law

    323 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  30. Vertically Scaling PostgreSQL

    322 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  31. A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)

    322 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  32. So you want your app/website to work in China

    321 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  33. Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

    319 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  34. Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers

    319 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  35. Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash

    319 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  36. Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

    318 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  37. The Troika Laundromat

    318 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  38. Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved

    317 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  39. How random can you be?

    316 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  40. An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound

    316 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  41. South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake

    315 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  42. Java 12

    314 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  43. EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?

    314 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  44. Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?

    314 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  45. Gmail is having an outage

    313 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  46. China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Max aircraft

    313 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  47. WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

    312 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  48. Linux 5.0

    312 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  49. Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)

    310 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  50. Open Distro for Elasticsearch

    309 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  51. The Programming Language Conundrum

    309 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  52. PHP 8 to Add a JIT

    308 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  53. I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

    307 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  54. An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania

    307 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  55. Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative

    306 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  56. European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings

    306 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  57. USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB

    305 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  58. How we do Vue: one year later (2017)

    304 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  59. Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize

    304 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  60. Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)

    303 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  61. Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread

    303 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  62. Revolut CFO resigns following money laundering controversy

    302 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  63. Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

    302 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  64. On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company

    301 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  65. Why I turned down my Y Combinator interview

    301 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  66. An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”

    301 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  67. Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

    300 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  68. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

    299 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  69. People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

    299 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  70. LLVM 8.0.0 Release

    299 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  71. Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

    298 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  72. Azure Data Studio: An Open-Source GUI Editor for Postgres

    297 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  73. W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

    296 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  74. Volk Fi: Distributed network smartphone

    296 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  75. Storing UTC is not a silver bullet

    296 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  76. An introduction to distributed systems (2017)

    296 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  77. Life on the wrong side of China’s social credit system

    295 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  78. 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web [video]

    295 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  79. Using Go Modules

    294 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  80. Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix

    294 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  81. Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web

    293 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  82. Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?

    292 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  83. Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat

    292 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  84. Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

    291 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  85. Sublime Text 3.2 Released

    290 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  86. How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

    290 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  87. Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December

    290 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  88. Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system

    290 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  89. Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup

    289 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  90. The cortex is a neural network of neural networks

    287 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  91. 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

    286 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  92. PCjs Machines

    286 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  93. Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

    286 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  94. Pinterest S-1

    285 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  95. To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars

    284 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  96. SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

    284 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  97. School is all about signaling, not skill-building

    284 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  98. What I Learned in My First Year Year as a Solo Founder

    283 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  99. Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?

    283 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  100. A Book about Qt5

    283 points • comment • mar 03, 2019