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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.

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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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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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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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They Used To Last 50 Years recraigslist.com · teslacar · 19 Mar 2017
1.4k pts 860 comments
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Teach Yourself Computer Science teachyourselfcs.com · kruse-tim · 13 Mar 2017
1.3k pts 237 comments
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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page sangaline.com · foob · 13 Mar 2017
1.3k pts 314 comments
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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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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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SES-10 Mission spacex.com · traviswingo · 30 Mar 2017
1.1k pts 355 comments
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The Uber Bombshell About to Drop danielcompton.net · dantiberian · 13 Mar 2017
1.1k pts 512 comments
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Deep Photo Style Transfer github.com · mortenjorck · 26 Mar 2017
1.1k pts 173 comments
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Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf] courses.csail.mit.edu · lainon · 6 Mar 2017
1.1k pts 153 comments
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Keep the Internet Open blog.samaltman.com · firloop · 14 Mar 2017
1k pts 391 comments
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Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015) immersivemath.com · sebg · 19 Mar 2017
1k pts 74 comments
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US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules washingtonpost.com · daegloe · 23 Mar 2017
992 pts 441 comments
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Snakisms pippinbarr.github.io · colinprince · 6 Mar 2017
961 pts 140 comments
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GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code venturebeat.com · marcinkuzminski · 15 Mar 2017
948 pts 318 comments
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Distill: a modern machine learning journal distill.pub · jasikpark · 20 Mar 2017
930 pts 105 comments
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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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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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Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow? buddies2705 · 12 Mar 2017
893 pts 187 comments
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Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage imgur.com · JabavuAdams · 3 Mar 2017
848 pts 126 comments
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Acing the technical interview aphyr.com · alecsx6 · 16 Mar 2017
825 pts 207 comments
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Google is acquiring Kaggle techcrunch.com · Perados · 8 Mar 2017
810 pts 156 comments
29
The Other Half ascii.textfiles.com · myth_drannon · 1 Mar 2017
805 pts 320 comments
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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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Explain Shell explainshell.com · aleem · 29 Mar 2017
775 pts 85 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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Beautiful Online SICP sarabander.github.io · Dangeranger · 20 Mar 2017
762 pts 80 comments
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Google Cloud SQL for Postgres cloud.google.com · wwilson · 9 Mar 2017
755 pts 232 comments
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Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? truthhawk.com · jonstokes · 14 Mar 2017
733 pts 399 comments
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Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects opensource.googleblog.com · fhoffa · 1 Mar 2017
727 pts 117 comments
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Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs blog.jessfraz.com · adamnemecek · 29 Mar 2017
714 pts 235 comments
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Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process npr.org · dynofuz · 29 Mar 2017
712 pts 386 comments
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Build a digital clock in Conway's Life codegolf.stackexchange.com · ChuckMcM · 11 Mar 2017
712 pts 87 comments
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Password Rules Are Bullshit blog.codinghorror.com · ingve · 10 Mar 2017
711 pts 272 comments
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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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Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up char.gd · shlema · 5 Mar 2017
695 pts 759 comments
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How to never complete anything ewanvalentine.io · swah · 10 Mar 2017
688 pts 211 comments
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2038: Only 21 years away lwn.net · corbet · 21 Mar 2017
682 pts 315 comments
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Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers inc.com · exolymph · 25 Mar 2017
669 pts 356 comments
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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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What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works nytimes.com · kungfudoi · 11 Mar 2017
663 pts 259 comments
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YC AI blog.ycombinator.com · craigcannon · 19 Mar 2017
663 pts 219 comments
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Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers trackchanges.postlight.com · rmason · 23 Mar 2017
651 pts 311 comments
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Scala Native v0.1 scala-lang.org · zepolud · 14 Mar 2017
642 pts 240 comments
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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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Flex harc.ycr.org · mpweiher · 27 Mar 2017
632 pts 91 comments
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Next.js 2.0 zeit.co · tbassetto · 27 Mar 2017
627 pts 217 comments
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A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours apis-cor.com · yurisagalov · 5 Mar 2017
626 pts 250 comments
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Satirical Summaries of Hacker News n-gate.com · yumaikas · 1 Mar 2017
626 pts 138 comments
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Google Talk Is Being Discontinued gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com · flyingramen · 24 Mar 2017
618 pts 483 comments
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Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic siberiantimes.com · xg15 · 23 Mar 2017
615 pts 368 comments
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Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs fossjobs.net · rendx · 21 Mar 2017
607 pts 97 comments
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Tencent buys 5% of Tesla techcrunch.com · jhartmann · 28 Mar 2017
606 pts 356 comments
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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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