The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2015

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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

2

Fired zachholman.com · rdegges · 6 Mar 2015

1k pts 389 comments

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React Native is now open source github.com · peterhunt · 26 Mar 2015

1k pts 287 comments

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Sir Terry Pratchett has died bbc.com · robin_reala · 12 Mar 2015

1k pts 223 comments

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Announcing Starfighter kalzumeus.com · jsnell · 9 Mar 2015

932 pts 400 comments

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The new MacBook apple.com · NickSarath · 9 Mar 2015

921 pts 1.3k comments

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Bidding farewell to Google Code google-opensource.blogspot.com · cdibona · 12 Mar 2015

880 pts 409 comments

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Slack was hacked slackhq.com · trustfundbaby · 27 Mar 2015

857 pts 497 comments

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We are under attack en.greatfire.org · greatfire · 19 Mar 2015

839 pts 263 comments

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Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL developer.olery.com · YorickPeterse · 10 Mar 2015

802 pts 374 comments

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SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls github.com · DaGardner · 13 Mar 2015

792 pts 108 comments

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Stop using tail -f (mostly) brianstorti.com · Pdincau · 30 Mar 2015

765 pts 207 comments

13

Amazon Dash Button amazon.com · digitalmud · 31 Mar 2015

745 pts 683 comments

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China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub netresec.com · netresec · 31 Mar 2015

692 pts 309 comments

15

“Just remove the duck” (2013) rachelbythebay.com · tarikozket · 3 Mar 2015

682 pts 327 comments

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Replacing Photoshop with NSString cocoamine.net · aaronbrethorst · 20 Mar 2015

680 pts 126 comments

17

VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation sfconservancy.org · emacsen · 5 Mar 2015

664 pts 289 comments

18

GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack status.github.com · MosheZada · 29 Mar 2015

652 pts 334 comments

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Welcome Peter blog.ycombinator.com · katm · 10 Mar 2015

649 pts 148 comments

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2015 Chromebook Pixel google.com · dannyr · 11 Mar 2015

643 pts 628 comments

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I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA sama · 20 Mar 2015

634 pts 689 comments

22

Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone bazel.io · drivebyubnt · 24 Mar 2015

625 pts 174 comments

23

Why Spotify Pays So Little lit.vulf.de · kfor · 18 Mar 2015

613 pts 295 comments

24

I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode modelviewculture.com · luu · 17 Mar 2015

610 pts 360 comments

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GPS tracking device found on an activist's car people.torproject.org · SpaceInvader · 6 Mar 2015

610 pts 149 comments

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Reasons not to use Facebook stallman.org · jestinjoy1 · 14 Mar 2015

605 pts 362 comments

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My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was vice.com · sz4kerto · 4 Mar 2015

605 pts 194 comments

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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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Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA blog.wikimedia.org · davidgerard · 10 Mar 2015

585 pts 130 comments

30

The Hiring Post sockpuppet.org · RKoutnik · 6 Mar 2015

577 pts 254 comments

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Choose Boring Technology mcfunley.com · luu · 30 Mar 2015

577 pts 212 comments

32

Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video] youtube.com · jgrahamc · 29 Mar 2015

567 pts 62 comments

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Fear of Apple elischiff.com · q7 · 24 Mar 2015

558 pts 266 comments

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Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award newsoffice.mit.edu · assface · 25 Mar 2015

528 pts 74 comments

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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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MSBuild is now open source on GitHub blogs.msdn.com · pauljz · 18 Mar 2015

520 pts 173 comments

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Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production carbon3d.com · JoelSutherland · 17 Mar 2015

517 pts 106 comments

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“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” news.dartlang.org · kasperset · 25 Mar 2015

516 pts 285 comments

39

USB Killer kukuruku.co · skazka16 · 10 Mar 2015

511 pts 190 comments

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$149 Chromebooks chrome.blogspot.com · ojn · 31 Mar 2015

503 pts 409 comments

41

Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites google.com · krschultz · 17 Mar 2015

495 pts 161 comments

42

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper npr.org · jaynos · 21 Mar 2015

495 pts 124 comments

43

“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900” facebook.com · aestetix · 16 Mar 2015

491 pts 602 comments

44

All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two threatpost.com · wglb · 20 Mar 2015

488 pts 270 comments

45

Apple Acquires FoundationDB techcrunch.com · ea016 · 24 Mar 2015

483 pts 376 comments

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High quality GIF with FFmpeg blog.pkh.me · ux · 16 Mar 2015

482 pts 124 comments

47

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure johnathanward.com · johnward · 20 Mar 2015

480 pts 168 comments

48

The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty newyorker.com · Tloewald · 17 Mar 2015

472 pts 209 comments

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Google Contributor google.com · sharjeel · 6 Mar 2015

467 pts 195 comments

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On Secretly Terrible Engineers techcrunch.com · minimaxir · 8 Mar 2015

463 pts 379 comments

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Vim is moving to GitHub github.com · brunosutic · 25 Mar 2015

462 pts 179 comments

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Microsoft's new foldable keyboard blogs.microsoft.com · tegeek · 14 Mar 2015

461 pts 243 comments

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French civil code now on GitHub github.com · Remiii · 31 Mar 2015

453 pts 124 comments

54

The User Is Drunk theuserisdrunk.com · richardlitt · 25 Mar 2015

448 pts 210 comments

55

The Shut-In Economy medium.com · killwhitey · 25 Mar 2015

447 pts 337 comments

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Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle gamedev.net · phoboslab · 12 Mar 2015

442 pts 155 comments

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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New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales blog.caranddriver.com · dr_ · 19 Mar 2015

430 pts 218 comments

59

After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge npr.org · jgrahamc · 31 Mar 2015

429 pts 433 comments

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Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive bugzilla.redhat.com · geoffbp · 24 Mar 2015

429 pts 168 comments