The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2017
We track 1,183 stories from March 2017, averaging 258 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 57 stories. Together they drew 152,777 comments, 129 per story on average.
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CIA malware and hacking tools
wikileaks.org · randomname2 · 7 Mar 2017
2.7k pts
1.1k comments
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GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
qz.com · imanewsman · 21 Mar 2017
1.8k pts
462 comments
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3
Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
answers.microsoft.com · wielebny · 22 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
469 comments
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4
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
dustinkirkland · 31 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
1.1k comments
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5
They Used To Last 50 Years
recraigslist.com · teslacar · 19 Mar 2017
1.4k pts
860 comments
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6
Teach Yourself Computer Science
teachyourselfcs.com · kruse-tim · 13 Mar 2017
1.3k pts
237 comments
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7
Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
sangaline.com · foob · 13 Mar 2017
1.3k pts
314 comments
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8
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
aws.amazon.com · oscarwao · 2 Mar 2017
1.2k pts
515 comments
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94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
news.utexas.edu · andruby · 2 Mar 2017
1.2k pts
277 comments
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How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 3 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
764 comments
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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 9 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
788 comments
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12
Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
notepad-plus-plus.org · infogulch · 8 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
283 comments
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14
The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
danielcompton.net · dantiberian · 13 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
512 comments
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15
Deep Photo Style Transfer
github.com · mortenjorck · 26 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
173 comments
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16
Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf]
courses.csail.mit.edu · lainon · 6 Mar 2017
1.1k pts
153 comments
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17
Keep the Internet Open
blog.samaltman.com · firloop · 14 Mar 2017
1k pts
391 comments
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18
Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)
immersivemath.com · sebg · 19 Mar 2017
1k pts
74 comments
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19
US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
washingtonpost.com · daegloe · 23 Mar 2017
992 pts
441 comments
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21
GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
venturebeat.com · marcinkuzminski · 15 Mar 2017
948 pts
318 comments
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22
Distill: a modern machine learning journal
distill.pub · jasikpark · 20 Mar 2017
930 pts
105 comments
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23
The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
washingtonpost.com · blazingfrog2 · 28 Mar 2017
901 pts
499 comments
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24
VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
github.com · Kristine1975 · 23 Mar 2017
899 pts
760 comments
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25
Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?
buddies2705 · 12 Mar 2017
893 pts
187 comments
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26
Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage
imgur.com · JabavuAdams · 3 Mar 2017
848 pts
126 comments
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27
Acing the technical interview
aphyr.com · alecsx6 · 16 Mar 2017
825 pts
207 comments
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28
Google is acquiring Kaggle
techcrunch.com · Perados · 8 Mar 2017
810 pts
156 comments
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30
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
propublica.org · apsec112 · 12 Mar 2017
787 pts
439 comments
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Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates
groups.google.com · ehPReth · 23 Mar 2017
762 pts
317 comments
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33
Beautiful Online SICP
sarabander.github.io · Dangeranger · 20 Mar 2017
762 pts
80 comments
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34
Google Cloud SQL for Postgres
cloud.google.com · wwilson · 9 Mar 2017
755 pts
232 comments
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35
Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
truthhawk.com · jonstokes · 14 Mar 2017
733 pts
399 comments
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36
Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
opensource.googleblog.com · fhoffa · 1 Mar 2017
727 pts
117 comments
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37
Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs
blog.jessfraz.com · adamnemecek · 29 Mar 2017
714 pts
235 comments
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38
Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process
npr.org · dynofuz · 29 Mar 2017
712 pts
386 comments
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39
Build a digital clock in Conway's Life
codegolf.stackexchange.com · ChuckMcM · 11 Mar 2017
712 pts
87 comments
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40
Password Rules Are Bullshit
blog.codinghorror.com · ingve · 10 Mar 2017
711 pts
272 comments
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41
Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features
forums.developer.apple.com · dylanpyle · 8 Mar 2017
705 pts
467 comments
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42
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
char.gd · shlema · 5 Mar 2017
695 pts
759 comments
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43
How to never complete anything
ewanvalentine.io · swah · 10 Mar 2017
688 pts
211 comments
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45
Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
inc.com · exolymph · 25 Mar 2017
669 pts
356 comments
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46
Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
junyanz.github.io · bottlek · 31 Mar 2017
667 pts
135 comments
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47
What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works
nytimes.com · kungfudoi · 11 Mar 2017
663 pts
259 comments
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49
Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
trackchanges.postlight.com · rmason · 23 Mar 2017
651 pts
311 comments
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51
Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
citypages.com · johns · 16 Mar 2017
635 pts
320 comments
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54
A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours
apis-cor.com · yurisagalov · 5 Mar 2017
626 pts
250 comments
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55
Satirical Summaries of Hacker News
n-gate.com · yumaikas · 1 Mar 2017
626 pts
138 comments
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56
Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com · flyingramen · 24 Mar 2017
618 pts
483 comments
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57
Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
siberiantimes.com · xg15 · 23 Mar 2017
615 pts
368 comments
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58
Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
fossjobs.net · rendx · 21 Mar 2017
607 pts
97 comments
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59
Tencent buys 5% of Tesla
techcrunch.com · jhartmann · 28 Mar 2017
606 pts
356 comments
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60
Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
nautil.us · dnetesn · 30 Mar 2017
603 pts
292 comments
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