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Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

    502 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  2. Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

    500 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  3. The internet should be a public utility

    494 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  4. Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking

    494 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  5. Unity Learn platform free for three months

    491 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  6. It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to

    491 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  7. New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

    488 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  8. Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

    487 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  9. Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?

    486 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  10. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

    485 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  11. Speeding up Linux disk encryption

    483 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  12. Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

    482 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  13. Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust

    481 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  14. NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast

    481 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  15. Linux 5.6

    479 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  16. The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015)

    479 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

    479 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  18. Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

    479 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  19. Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

    475 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  20. Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

    475 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  21. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

    472 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  22. Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

    465 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  23. Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers

    462 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  24. CSS Zen Garden

    460 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  25. Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

    460 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  26. Activists create a 12.5M block library in Minecraft to bypass censorship

    459 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  27. Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?

    458 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  28. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

    455 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  29. AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation

    455 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  30. Slack account takeovers using HTTP Request Smuggling

    454 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  31. Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread

    453 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  32. Don't Touch Ya Face

    453 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  33. From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages

    452 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  34. 1% rule

    448 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  35. Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

    445 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  36. WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments

    443 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  37. Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?

    443 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  38. Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

    442 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  39. Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

    440 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  40. 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

    438 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  41. Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

    436 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  42. Show HN: From Markdown to Video

    436 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  43. Please stop recommending Gitflow

    434 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  44. Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19

    432 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  45. Stages of denial in encountering K

    432 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  46. Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board

    431 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  47. If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?

    429 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  48. MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

    428 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  49. Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack

    427 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  50. ACLU sues Homeland Security over airport face recognition program secrecy

    426 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  51. Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy

    423 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  52. Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant

    423 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  53. Ask HN: How to self-study physics?

    423 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  54. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

    422 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  55. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

    422 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  56. MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions

    421 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  57. Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents

    421 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  58. French companies benefiting from state aid can't buy back shares

    419 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?

    419 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  60. Getting started with bare-metal assembly

    418 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  61. How are Unix pipes implemented?

    417 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  62. GitHub for mobile is now available

    416 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  63. Free virtual tours of 2,500 museums around the world

    416 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  64. Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower

    414 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  65. Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in

    413 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  66. How I became a better programmer (2017)

    413 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  67. Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

    412 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  68. Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

    412 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  69. Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

    411 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  70. Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

    411 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  71. Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets

    410 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  72. UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

    407 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  73. Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await

    406 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  74. Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY

    404 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  75. Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?

    402 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  76. Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google

    402 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  77. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

    399 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  78. We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

    396 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  79. Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard

    394 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  80. LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

    394 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  81. Rust 1.42

    393 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  82. Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

    392 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  83. Post YC Depression

    391 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)

    391 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  85. LibraryThing Is Now Free to All

    391 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  86. Our list of free software for remote work

    390 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  87. Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You

    390 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  88. Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

    389 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  89. Shelter in place for Bay Area counties

    388 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  90. The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2

    388 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  91. Ask HN: How do I learn C properly?

    388 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  92. S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

    388 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  93. The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy

    387 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  94. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

    387 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  95. Boids

    387 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  96. Static Analysis in GCC 10

    386 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  97. Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

    386 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  98. Body Camera Once Again Catches an NYPD Officer Planting Drugs in Someone's Car

    384 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  99. Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes

    384 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  100. On the shoulders of the giants

    384 points • comment • mar 08, 2020