The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2016

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Ubuntu on Windows blog.dustinkirkland.com · bpierre · 30 Mar 2016

2k pts 901 comments

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NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? haneycodes.net · df07 · 23 Mar 2016

1.7k pts 854 comments

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Responsive Pixel Art essenmitsosse.de · bpierre · 9 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 122 comments

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We only hire the trendiest danluu.com · profcalculus · 21 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 716 comments

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I've Just Liberated My Modules medium.com · chejazi · 22 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 797 comments

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Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 gogameguru.com · jswt001 · 13 Mar 2016

1.4k pts 448 comments

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Dsxyliea geon.github.io · geon · 3 Mar 2016

1.4k pts 200 comments

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Announcing SQL Server on Linux blogs.microsoft.com · bjg · 7 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 476 comments

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Andy Grove has died newsroom.intel.com · sajid · 22 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 166 comments

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He Always Had a Dark Side mastermind.atavist.com · pwnna · 29 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 351 comments

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Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award nytimes.com · matt_d · 1 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 78 comments

12

My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT blog.pinboard.in · firloop · 28 Mar 2016

1.2k pts 208 comments

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Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon boren_ave11 · 18 Mar 2016

1.2k pts 690 comments

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Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available eff.org · SoMuchToGrok · 29 Mar 2016

1.1k pts 131 comments

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AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches twitter.com · atupem · 9 Mar 2016

1.1k pts 573 comments

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That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people techinasia.com · nkurz · 23 Mar 2016

1.1k pts 567 comments

17

How to Pass a Programming Interview blog.triplebyte.com · runesoerensen · 8 Mar 2016

1k pts 552 comments

18

Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile oliversisson · 21 Mar 2016

958 pts 224 comments

19

Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced arstechnica.com · ingve · 31 Mar 2016

944 pts 386 comments

20

Left-pad as a service left-pad.io · manojlds · 24 Mar 2016

943 pts 254 comments

21

I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked amosdudley.com · dezork · 13 Mar 2016

943 pts 133 comments

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AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 gogameguru.com · pzs · 10 Mar 2016

942 pts 555 comments

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Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report reddit.com · yk · 31 Mar 2016

941 pts 284 comments

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I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think mjg59.dreamwidth.org · pjc50 · 11 Mar 2016

928 pts 314 comments

25

Docker for Mac and Windows Beta blog.docker.com · ah3rz · 24 Mar 2016

904 pts 239 comments

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Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware forum.transmissionbt.com · mroling · 6 Mar 2016

895 pts 338 comments

27

Trackers jacquesmattheij.com · henrik_w · 11 Mar 2016

874 pts 209 comments

28

I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS joreteg.com · joeyespo · 23 Mar 2016

841 pts 502 comments

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Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat bloomberg.com · doener · 17 Mar 2016

830 pts 387 comments

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CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs github.com · jergason · 8 Mar 2016

826 pts 308 comments

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A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case wired.com · runesoerensen · 17 Mar 2016

795 pts 164 comments

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A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers quantamagazine.org · tcoppi · 14 Mar 2016

794 pts 236 comments

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The DROWN Attack drownattack.com · jsnell · 1 Mar 2016

791 pts 194 comments

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Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes boom.aero · rdl · 21 Mar 2016

787 pts 464 comments

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Julie Rubicon facebook.com · ISL · 23 Mar 2016

784 pts 131 comments

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Polymagnets polymagnet.com · iheredia · 20 Mar 2016

767 pts 104 comments

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Citus Unforks from PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source citusdata.com · jamesheroku · 24 Mar 2016

763 pts 153 comments

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One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent aclu.org · danielsiders · 8 Mar 2016

759 pts 254 comments

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U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone bloomberg.com · potshot · 28 Mar 2016

746 pts 369 comments

40

Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments github.com · WillAbides · 10 Mar 2016

736 pts 227 comments

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AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game gogameguru.com · doppp · 15 Mar 2016

708 pts 290 comments

42

Require-from-Twitter gist.github.com · uptown · 24 Mar 2016

701 pts 127 comments

43

Neural Networks Demystified lumiverse.io · maxlambert · 14 Mar 2016

686 pts 63 comments

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Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries insights.dice.com · replicatorblog · 3 Mar 2016

683 pts 536 comments

45

Free React.js Fundamentals Course courses.reactjsprogram.com · tm33 · 1 Mar 2016

676 pts 112 comments

46

Autocomplete from Stack Overflow emilschutte.com · monort · 22 Mar 2016

672 pts 145 comments

47

Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud wired.com · moviuro · 14 Mar 2016

671 pts 240 comments

48

TiltBrush by Google tiltbrush.com · mukgupta · 1 Mar 2016

665 pts 122 comments

49

Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries? docs.google.com · z0a · 21 Mar 2016

663 pts 361 comments

50

Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card privacy.com · doomrobo · 24 Mar 2016

661 pts 359 comments

51

Adam unity3d.com · nikolay · 15 Mar 2016

657 pts 132 comments

52

Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition economist.com · bainsfather · 29 Mar 2016

655 pts 333 comments

53

Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs spiegel.de · citizensixteen · 2 Mar 2016

654 pts 357 comments

54

An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video] youtube.com · tbatchelli · 28 Mar 2016

653 pts 176 comments

55

Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism npr.org · Osiris30 · 15 Mar 2016

647 pts 177 comments

56

Should All Research Papers Be Free? nytimes.com · mirimir · 13 Mar 2016

644 pts 309 comments

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React Native for OS X github.com · BafS · 30 Mar 2016

637 pts 256 comments

58

FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking fingerio.cs.washington.edu · jonbaer · 18 Mar 2016

637 pts 118 comments

59

Microsoft Bot Framework dev.botframework.com · ingve · 30 Mar 2016

627 pts 134 comments

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This should never happen github.com · qprofyeh · 31 Mar 2016

626 pts 205 comments