The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2015
We track 809 stories from March 2015, averaging 217 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 45 stories. Together they drew 83,568 comments, 103 per story on average.
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Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
unrealengine.com · doxcf434 · 2 Mar 2015
1.1k pts
240 comments
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3
React Native is now open source
github.com · peterhunt · 26 Mar 2015
1k pts
287 comments
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7
Bidding farewell to Google Code
google-opensource.blogspot.com · cdibona · 12 Mar 2015
880 pts
409 comments
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10
Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
developer.olery.com · YorickPeterse · 10 Mar 2015
802 pts
374 comments
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11
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
github.com · DaGardner · 13 Mar 2015
792 pts
108 comments
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12
Stop using tail -f (mostly)
brianstorti.com · Pdincau · 30 Mar 2015
765 pts
207 comments
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14
China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
netresec.com · netresec · 31 Mar 2015
692 pts
309 comments
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15
“Just remove the duck” (2013)
rachelbythebay.com · tarikozket · 3 Mar 2015
682 pts
327 comments
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16
Replacing Photoshop with NSString
cocoamine.net · aaronbrethorst · 20 Mar 2015
680 pts
126 comments
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17
VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
sfconservancy.org · emacsen · 5 Mar 2015
664 pts
289 comments
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18
GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack
status.github.com · MosheZada · 29 Mar 2015
652 pts
334 comments
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21
I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
sama · 20 Mar 2015
634 pts
689 comments
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22
Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone
bazel.io · drivebyubnt · 24 Mar 2015
625 pts
174 comments
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24
I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
modelviewculture.com · luu · 17 Mar 2015
610 pts
360 comments
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25
GPS tracking device found on an activist's car
people.torproject.org · SpaceInvader · 6 Mar 2015
610 pts
149 comments
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26
Reasons not to use Facebook
stallman.org · jestinjoy1 · 14 Mar 2015
605 pts
362 comments
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27
My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was
vice.com · sz4kerto · 4 Mar 2015
605 pts
194 comments
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28
Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition
news.stanford.edu · Link- · 28 Mar 2015
597 pts
273 comments
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29
Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA
blog.wikimedia.org · davidgerard · 10 Mar 2015
585 pts
130 comments
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32
Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]
youtube.com · jgrahamc · 29 Mar 2015
567 pts
62 comments
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34
Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
newsoffice.mit.edu · assface · 25 Mar 2015
528 pts
74 comments
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35
Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
github.com · anacleto · 12 Mar 2015
523 pts
147 comments
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36
MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
blogs.msdn.com · pauljz · 18 Mar 2015
520 pts
173 comments
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37
Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production
carbon3d.com · JoelSutherland · 17 Mar 2015
517 pts
106 comments
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38
“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
news.dartlang.org · kasperset · 25 Mar 2015
516 pts
285 comments
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41
Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
google.com · krschultz · 17 Mar 2015
495 pts
161 comments
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42
Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
npr.org · jaynos · 21 Mar 2015
495 pts
124 comments
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43
“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
facebook.com · aestetix · 16 Mar 2015
491 pts
602 comments
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44
All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two
threatpost.com · wglb · 20 Mar 2015
488 pts
270 comments
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45
Apple Acquires FoundationDB
techcrunch.com · ea016 · 24 Mar 2015
483 pts
376 comments
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47
Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
johnathanward.com · johnward · 20 Mar 2015
480 pts
168 comments
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48
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
newyorker.com · Tloewald · 17 Mar 2015
472 pts
209 comments
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50
On Secretly Terrible Engineers
techcrunch.com · minimaxir · 8 Mar 2015
463 pts
379 comments
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52
Microsoft's new foldable keyboard
blogs.microsoft.com · tegeek · 14 Mar 2015
461 pts
243 comments
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53
French civil code now on GitHub
github.com · Remiii · 31 Mar 2015
453 pts
124 comments
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54
The User Is Drunk
theuserisdrunk.com · richardlitt · 25 Mar 2015
448 pts
210 comments
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56
Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle
gamedev.net · phoboslab · 12 Mar 2015
442 pts
155 comments
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57
The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland
visir.is · Tsiolkovsky · 19 Mar 2015
437 pts
120 comments
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58
New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales
blog.caranddriver.com · dr_ · 19 Mar 2015
430 pts
218 comments
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59
After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
npr.org · jgrahamc · 31 Mar 2015
429 pts
433 comments
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60
Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive
bugzilla.redhat.com · geoffbp · 24 Mar 2015
429 pts
168 comments
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