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Hacker News (Mar 2019)
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Lyft prices IPO at top of range
282 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis
281 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person
280 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
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Office Depot computer scans gave fake results
278 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Oculus Rift S
277 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online
277 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card
277 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Defining a Distinguished Engineer
277 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
276 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
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Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%
275 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
275 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
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Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber
274 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Scientists discover the chemicals behind the unique Parkinson’s smell
274 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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Eliminating Robocalls
274 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive
273 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
273 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
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Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
273 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
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If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
272 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
271 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
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U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State
270 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today
270 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
269 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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The rise of wgpu
269 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
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Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code
268 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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XXH3 – a new speed-optimized hash algorithm
267 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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Nobody wants to read your shit (2009)
267 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
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LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks
267 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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Roll Your Own Analytics
267 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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The periodic table is 150 years old this week
266 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice
266 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Why is no one signing their emails?
266 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
266 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)
265 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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OpenAI LP
265 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists
265 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
265 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Functional Programming in OCaml
263 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
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Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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US to build six nuclear power plants in India
263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates
263 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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Easy to Remember Color Guide for Non-Designers
262 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser
261 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
261 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
261 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
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Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms
261 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Studying the demise of historic civilisations
261 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
259 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News
259 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
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Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%
258 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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What Finally Killed AirPower
258 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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Women: Learn to Program This Summer
257 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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A new Einstein cross is discovered
257 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
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The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple
256 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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YC Interviews in India
256 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist
256 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right
255 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
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Gmail confidential mode
254 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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How to pass a programming interview (2016)
254 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
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US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
254 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
253 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation
253 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
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Similarities Between the Lion Air and Ethiopian 737 Max Crashes
253 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even non-users
253 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla
250 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s
250 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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VS Code on a Remote Server
250 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
249 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
248 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
248 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)
247 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
247 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
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Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and play history
247 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (2015)
246 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
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Apple updates its iMac line
246 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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On Being a Free Software Maintainer
246 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
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Apple Maps Flyover Reverse Engineering
245 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
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Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018)
245 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass
244 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”
243 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
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Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems (2017)
243 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling
242 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair
241 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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Scheduling in React
241 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
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Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering
241 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android
240 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions
239 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Show HN: My CV is also a bootloader
239 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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F-35: What The Pilots Say
239 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Speedrunning Windows 95
238 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads
238 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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BBC podcasts on third-party apps
238 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
237 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
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Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook
237 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
237 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
236 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up in Crowdfunding
236 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs
235 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
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What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only
235 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
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What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?
235 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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We moved our servers to Iceland
234 points • comment • mar 29, 2019