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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

  1. A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa

    206 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  2. Apple Censoring the News App

    206 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  3. Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables

    206 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  4. Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)

    205 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  5. New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception

    205 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  6. The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k

    204 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  7. How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design

    204 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  8. Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership

    204 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  9. A surprisingly arcane little Unix shell pipeline example

    204 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  10. Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase

    204 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  11. You Have to Pay the Right Person

    204 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  12. US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021

    204 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  13. Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?

    204 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  14. KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module

    203 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  15. Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus

    203 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  16. Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments

    203 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  17. A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster

    202 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  18. US Army applying new areas of math

    202 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  19. Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

    202 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  20. Ask HN: Best questions for an engineer to ask a CEO during a job interview?

    202 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  21. A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

    202 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  22. Unconscious brain activity predicts decisions 11 seconds before action

    202 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  23. What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]

    202 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  24. Show HN: Freeciv-Web

    202 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  25. New Bill Would Stop NSA’s Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data

    201 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  26. An Intuitive Derivation of Eigenvectors

    201 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  27. Pyright: Static type checker for Python

    200 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  28. CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (1983) [pdf]

    200 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  29. Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code

    200 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  30. Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo

    200 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  31. Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe

    200 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  32. Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

    199 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  33. The principle of charity: Criticize the best interpretation of an argument

    198 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  34. Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history

    198 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  35. Ask HN: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project

    198 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  36. Paul Vixie thinks more people should be running their own DNS servers

    198 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  37. A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses

    198 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  38. Society Needs an Alternative Web

    198 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  39. Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web

    197 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  40. Arts contributed $763B to US economy – more than agriculture or transport (2018)

    197 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  41. The State of Caching in Go

    197 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  42. The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

    197 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  43. 24 Hours of Rust Game Development

    197 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  44. SPARCbook 3000ST

    197 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  45. Open Source Needs Open Source Companies

    197 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  46. Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry

    196 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  47. Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?

    196 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  48. A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There

    196 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  49. Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage

    195 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  50. Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?

    195 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  51. Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight

    195 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  52. 5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anxiety

    195 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  53. The Growth Stacks of 2019

    195 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  54. Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important

    195 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  55. Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

    195 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  56. Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good

    194 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  57. Raster CRT Typography According to DEC

    194 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  58. Pika/web: Web Apps Without the Bundler

    194 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  59. Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

    194 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  60. Operable Erlang and Elixir [video]

    193 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  61. Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving

    193 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  62. Getting too absorbed in side projects

    193 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  63. France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet Giants

    193 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  64. A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music

    193 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  65. Programming Language Rankings: January 2019

    192 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  66. Can you buy your own train?

    192 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  67. Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models

    192 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  68. Show HN: Create Chart Images from a URL

    192 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  69. Essential Image Optimization

    191 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  70. K7 Tutorial

    191 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  71. The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back

    191 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  72. Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists

    190 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  73. Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events

    190 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  74. Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13

    190 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  75. ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent

    190 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  76. APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (2006)

    190 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  77. Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take

    189 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  78. Air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests

    189 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  79. It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail

    189 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  80. PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

    189 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  81. More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies

    189 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  82. Introduction to Datalog

    189 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  83. ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’

    189 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  84. Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

    188 points • comment • mar 23, 2019

  85. Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist

    188 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  86. DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

    188 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  87. How to open a microchip and see what’s inside

    188 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  88. How a small group of activists got gas-powered leaf blowers banned in D.C.

    188 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

  89. California's San Bernardino County restricts construction of solar, wind farms

    188 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  90. Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

    187 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  91. The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?

    187 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  92. Best of Machine Learning

    187 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  93. Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework

    186 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  94. How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (2007)

    186 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  95. Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

    186 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  96. Handshake Donates $300k to Debian

    186 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  97. Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks

    186 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  98. Why American Construction Costs Are So High

    186 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  99. LineageOS 16.0

    185 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  100. Replete 2.0: ClojureScript REPL for iOS and Android

    185 points • comment • mar 23, 2019