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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. We moved our servers to Iceland

    234 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  2. Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature

    233 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  3. Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

    233 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  4. A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine

    233 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  5. Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

    233 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  6. Let’s Destroy Robocalls

    232 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  7. On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python

    232 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  8. The culture war at the heart of open source

    232 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  9. Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

    232 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  10. Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1

    231 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  11. What Happened to OpenStack?

    231 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  12. New iPad Air and iPad Mini

    230 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  13. How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry

    230 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  14. Session Types for Rust

    229 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  15. Usability Improvements in GCC 9

    229 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  16. Hackers Hijacked Asus Software Updates to Install Backdoors

    229 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  17. Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year

    228 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  18. React Native Open Source Update

    228 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  19. Man Stole $122M from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta

    228 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  20. OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor

    228 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  21. Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”

    227 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  22. Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature

    227 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  23. Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

    226 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  24. I Now Have a Cardiologist

    226 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  25. Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?

    224 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  26. VC Starter Kit

    224 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  27. Android Q Beta

    224 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  28. Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed

    223 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  29. Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8

    223 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  30. What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money

    223 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  31. Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds

    223 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  32. 737 MAX crashes “linked” by satellite track data, FAA says

    223 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  33. NPR: New Packet Radio

    223 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  34. Wall Street’s Latest Love Affair with Risky Repackaged Debt

    223 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  35. Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

    223 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  36. Looking for a new CEO

    222 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  37. A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

    222 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  38. American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs

    222 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  39. The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

    222 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  40. Apple Violated Qualcomm Patent, U.S. Trade Judge Rules

    222 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  41. Tell HN: Google removing Gmail access from IFTTT

    221 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  42. ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ film was also a real-life scam

    221 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  43. Stephen Hawking commemorated on new 50p coin

    221 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  44. How to Spoof PDF Signatures

    221 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  45. U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years

    220 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  46. Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust

    220 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  47. Oxide: A Formal Semantics for Rust

    220 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  48. Quotes from 1992

    220 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  49. Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game

    220 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  50. Kilo LISP

    219 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  51. Why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store

    219 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  52. How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system

    219 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  53. UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data

    219 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  54. Boss is 90% of the 'Employee Experience'

    218 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  55. Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS

    218 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  56. Fifty Women Say Salesforce Helped Sex Traffickers Exploit Them

    218 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  57. Integer multiplication in time O(n log n) [pdf]

    217 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  58. Firefox now automatically blocks autoplaying audio and video

    217 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  59. Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy

    217 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  60. Facebook exploit – Confirm website visitor identities

    217 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  61. Zoom S-1

    217 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  62. If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (2016)

    217 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  63. Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

    216 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  64. Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville

    216 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  65. GRiSP 2 – Erlang and Elixir on bare metal

    216 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  66. Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy

    216 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  67. Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (2017)

    215 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  68. Spritestack – 3D pixelart editor based on sprite stacking technique

    215 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  69. Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not work

    215 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  70. Miri: Interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation

    215 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  71. KaTeX – Fast math typesetting library for the web

    214 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  72. EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13

    214 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  73. Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

    214 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  74. Generating C code that people want to use

    214 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  75. Where Warren’s Wrong

    213 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  76. EFI Boot Application in C#

    212 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  77. Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride

    212 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  78. Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)

    212 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  79. Model Explainability is The Next Data Science Superpower

    212 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  80. The New 30-Something

    211 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  81. Waffle House Vistas

    211 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  82. Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car

    211 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  83. How Transformers Work – Model Used by Open AI and DeepMind

    211 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  84. A first-person engine in 265 lines (2014)

    211 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  85. Ask HN: Best way to test accessibility of a website?

    211 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  86. Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors

    210 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  87. Facebook 'mistakenly deleted' years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts

    210 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  88. Prince Of Persia Code Review (2013)

    210 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  89. Chinese Devs Using GitHub to Protest 996 Workweek (9am – 9pm, 6 days/week)

    209 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  90. Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

    209 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  91. W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network

    209 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  92. European MPs vote to end summer time clock changes

    208 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  93. Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?

    208 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  94. List of 30 European Tech Visas and Work Permits

    208 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  95. Associations of Cognitive Function with Carbon Dioxide and Ventilation (2016)

    207 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  96. Elementary Applied Topology (2014)

    207 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  97. Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3

    207 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  98. Lyft’s IPO disclosure shows it’s not close to profitability

    207 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  99. From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners

    207 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  100. The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper

    207 points • comment • mar 28, 2019