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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. Lyft prices IPO at top of range

    282 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  2. ‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis

    281 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  3. U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

    280 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  4. Office Depot computer scans gave fake results

    278 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  5. Oculus Rift S

    277 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  6. A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online

    277 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  7. A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

    277 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  8. Defining a Distinguished Engineer

    277 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  9. The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

    276 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  10. Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%

    275 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  11. Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York

    275 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  12. Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber

    274 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  13. Scientists discover the chemicals behind the unique Parkinson’s smell

    274 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  14. Eliminating Robocalls

    274 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  15. Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive

    273 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  16. Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie

    273 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  17. Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations

    273 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  18. If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

    272 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  19. Hard disks can be turned into listening devices

    271 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  20. U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State

    270 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  21. Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today

    270 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  22. Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)

    269 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  23. The rise of wgpu

    269 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  24. Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code

    268 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  25. XXH3 – a new speed-optimized hash algorithm

    267 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  26. Nobody wants to read your shit (2009)

    267 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  27. LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks

    267 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  28. Roll Your Own Analytics

    267 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  29. The periodic table is 150 years old this week

    266 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  30. Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice

    266 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  31. Why is no one signing their emails?

    266 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  32. As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

    266 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  33. Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)

    265 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  34. OpenAI LP

    265 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  35. Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists

    265 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  36. AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

    265 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  37. Functional Programming in OCaml

    263 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  38. Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows

    263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  39. US to build six nuclear power plants in India

    263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  40. A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates

    263 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  41. Easy to Remember Color Guide for Non-Designers

    262 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  42. Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser

    261 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  43. FaunaDB 2.5.4

    261 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  44. Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)

    261 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  45. Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

    261 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  46. Studying the demise of historic civilisations

    261 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  47. Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)

    259 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  48. Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News

    259 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  49. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

    258 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  50. What Finally Killed AirPower

    258 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  51. Women: Learn to Program This Summer

    257 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  52. A new Einstein cross is discovered

    257 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  53. The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple

    256 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  54. YC Interviews in India

    256 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  55. Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

    256 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  56. Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right

    255 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  57. Gmail confidential mode

    254 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  58. How to pass a programming interview (2016)

    254 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  59. US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max

    254 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  60. Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019

    253 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  61. Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

    253 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  62. Similarities Between the Lion Air and Ethiopian 737 Max Crashes

    253 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  63. Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even non-users

    253 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  64. A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla

    250 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  65. HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

    250 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  66. VS Code on a Remote Server

    250 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  67. On the death of my family's dairy farm

    249 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  68. Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

    248 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  69. Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim

    248 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  70. How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)

    247 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  71. Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan

    247 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  72. Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and play history

    247 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  73. Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (2015)

    246 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  74. Apple updates its iMac line

    246 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  75. On Being a Free Software Maintainer

    246 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  76. Apple Maps Flyover Reverse Engineering

    245 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  77. Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018)

    245 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  78. Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass

    244 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  79. YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

    243 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  80. Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems (2017)

    243 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  81. What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling

    242 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  82. Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair

    241 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  83. Scheduling in React

    241 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  84. Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering

    241 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  85. Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android

    240 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  86. Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions

    239 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  87. Show HN: My CV is also a bootloader

    239 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  88. F-35: What The Pilots Say

    239 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  89. Speedrunning Windows 95

    238 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  90. Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads

    238 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  91. BBC podcasts on third-party apps

    238 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  92. The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders

    237 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  93. Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook

    237 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  94. How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust

    237 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  95. MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games

    236 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  96. GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up in Crowdfunding

    236 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  97. Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs

    235 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  98. What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only

    235 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  99. What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?

    235 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  100. We moved our servers to Iceland

    234 points • comment • mar 29, 2019