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Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

    1912 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub

    1823 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  3. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

    1577 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  4. Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

    1427 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  5. SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

    1211 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  6. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

    1208 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  7. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

    1195 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  8. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

    1118 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

    1066 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  10. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

    1046 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  11. MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

    1015 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  12. Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

    956 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  13. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

    948 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  14. Zotero: Personal Research Assistant

    936 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  15. FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]

    925 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  16. U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days

    895 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  17. Apple acquires Dark Sky

    890 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  18. Using Anki to remember what you read

    875 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  19. Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

    837 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  20. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

    827 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  21. Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

    825 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  22. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

    825 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  23. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    818 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  24. “Just walk out” technology by Amazon

    814 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  25. People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

    809 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  26. WireGuard 1.0

    801 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  27. I got my file from Clearview AI

    799 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  28. Show HN: Fraidycat

    794 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  29. How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

    790 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  30. COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator

    780 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  31. Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

    780 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  32. New Grad vs. Senior Dev

    779 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  33. Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country

    779 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  34. Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees

    775 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  35. 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery

    764 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

    761 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  37. TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

    754 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  38. WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6

    753 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  39. Linux Kernel Teaching

    749 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  40. WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN

    736 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  41. I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH

    731 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  42. What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

    717 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  43. Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]

    716 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  44. “Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems

    708 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  45. Spot the Drowning Child (2015)

    692 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  46. How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure

    692 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  47. Facebook sues Namecheap

    690 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  48. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

    689 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  49. The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption

    682 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  50. Things you can do with a browser in 2020

    681 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  51. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime

    681 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  52. WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days

    677 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  53. Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

    664 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  54. Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

    662 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  55. Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system

    648 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  56. Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?

    645 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  57. Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

    643 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  58. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

    641 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  59. WeWork sells Meetup

    640 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  60. The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass

    634 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  61. ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

    633 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  62. Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19

    633 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  63. Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

    631 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  64. New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

    629 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  65. Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math

    628 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  66. Employee Scheduling

    624 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  67. Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users

    621 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  68. Windows93

    621 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  69. We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice

    616 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

    612 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  71. Learn D3

    612 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  72. How some good corporate engineering blogs are written

    605 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  73. Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves

    605 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  74. Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers

    595 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  75. Google recommends all North America employees work from home

    593 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  76. A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP

    592 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  77. Google Open Source Code Search

    592 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  78. Introduction to D3

    588 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  79. CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

    579 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  80. Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

    576 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  81. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

    565 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  82. New MacBook Air

    563 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  83. I have seen things

    556 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  84. Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

    555 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  85. Technical Writing Courses

    554 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  86. The state of the restaurant industry

    548 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  87. 3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits

    545 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  88. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

    541 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  89. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

    530 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  90. Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence

    525 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  91. The most surprising Unix programs

    524 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  92. Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

    522 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  93. Firefox 74

    522 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  94. Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG

    517 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  95. 50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic

    515 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  96. Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”

    514 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  97. What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?

    512 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  98. Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

    509 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  99. Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

    504 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  100. Show HN: Visual SQL

    503 points • comment • mar 11, 2020