The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2018

1

Stephen Hawking has died bbc.com · Cogito · 14 Mar 2018

6k pts 436 comments

2

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street reuters.com · kgwgk · 19 Mar 2018

2.4k pts 1.8k comments

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Machine Learning Crash Course developers.google.com · matant · 1 Mar 2018

1.9k pts 222 comments

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Congrats Dropbox blog.ycombinator.com · runesoerensen · 23 Mar 2018

1.5k pts 264 comments

5

It's time to head back to RSS? wired.com · kawera · 31 Mar 2018

1.5k pts 491 comments

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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time petapixel.com · shawndumas · 8 Mar 2018

1.4k pts 215 comments

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Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook techcrunch.com · middle1 · 23 Mar 2018

1.4k pts 499 comments

8

Blocklist Facebook domains github.com · z0a · 20 Mar 2018

1.3k pts 348 comments

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Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud sec.gov · kgwgk · 14 Mar 2018

1.2k pts 516 comments

10

Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted nymag.com · walterbell · 31 Mar 2018

1.2k pts 387 comments

11

“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO” reddit.com · obtino · 18 Mar 2018

1.2k pts 268 comments

12

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts fmwconcepts.com · primogen · 24 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 100 comments

13

Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways elektron · 7 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 600 comments

14

Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident twitter.com · austinkhale · 21 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 1.3k comments

15

FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 20 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 371 comments

16

Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript roughjs.com · shihn · 12 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 92 comments

17

WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook theverge.com · coloneltcb · 20 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 628 comments

18

Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation nytimes.com · aaronbrethorst · 19 Mar 2018

1.1k pts 395 comments

19

Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe techcrunch.com · pdcerb · 5 Mar 2018

1k pts 379 comments

20

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live community.letsencrypt.org · schoen · 13 Mar 2018

1k pts 310 comments

21

Some terrible personal news mattcutts.com · rpledge · 8 Mar 2018

1k pts 220 comments

22

Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA craigslist.org · cft · 23 Mar 2018

947 pts 596 comments

23

Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine theguardian.com · valanto · 20 Mar 2018

942 pts 384 comments

24

Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany cand.pglaf.org · jwildeboer · 3 Mar 2018

922 pts 502 comments

25

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet threadreaderapp.com · shawndumas · 31 Mar 2018

918 pts 390 comments

26

Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail dfrappier · 20 Mar 2018

912 pts 410 comments

27

Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks news.berkeley.edu · dpflan · 30 Mar 2018

910 pts 432 comments

28

All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate techcrunch.com · twinkletwinkle · 8 Mar 2018

901 pts 376 comments

29

Au Revoir blog.docker.com · zapita · 28 Mar 2018

898 pts 287 comments

30

Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s boglin.iwarp.com · rpeden · 2 Mar 2018

867 pts 417 comments

31

Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation facebook.com · runesoerensen · 21 Mar 2018

854 pts 544 comments

32

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked blog.mozilla.org · sanatgersappa · 27 Mar 2018

854 pts 229 comments

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#deletefacebook techcrunch.com · middle1 · 19 Mar 2018

836 pts 398 comments

34

China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains reuters.com · samaysharma · 16 Mar 2018

827 pts 562 comments

35

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones arstechnica.com · node-bayarea · 25 Mar 2018

800 pts 201 comments

36

Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News d33d33 · 21 Mar 2018

799 pts 131 comments

37

Round Peg in a Square Hole [video] youtube.com · xbryanx · 10 Mar 2018

796 pts 85 comments

38

A Career Cold Start Algorithm boz.com · zdw · 9 Mar 2018

792 pts 168 comments

39

How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less artofmanliness.com · rhapsodic · 25 Mar 2018

781 pts 186 comments

40

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google bloomberg.com · uptown · 27 Mar 2018

778 pts 615 comments

41

Slack's bait and switch opkode.com · jcbrand · 12 Mar 2018

757 pts 350 comments

42

Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic wsj.com · asclepi · 7 Mar 2018

750 pts 463 comments

43

Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life conwaylife.com · vanderZwan · 8 Mar 2018

733 pts 143 comments

44

With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law eff.org · jakeogh · 23 Mar 2018

715 pts 184 comments

45

Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings nytimes.com · Cbasedlifeform · 22 Mar 2018

706 pts 328 comments

46

Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists krita.org · reddotX · 22 Mar 2018

697 pts 191 comments

47

Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job omaha.com · Shivetya · 23 Mar 2018

691 pts 518 comments

48

The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees gsb.stanford.edu · fahd777 · 22 Mar 2018

691 pts 426 comments

49

FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services fcc.gov · runesoerensen · 29 Mar 2018

691 pts 321 comments

50

Google bans cryptocurrency ads support.google.com · em3rgent0rdr · 14 Mar 2018

686 pts 344 comments

51

Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? jxub · 7 Mar 2018

686 pts 173 comments

52

I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines rachelbythebay.com · weinzierl · 27 Mar 2018

685 pts 243 comments

53

Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica yahoo.com · rock57 · 19 Mar 2018

683 pts 172 comments

54

Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) blog.timoxley.com · signa11 · 26 Mar 2018

682 pts 578 comments

55

EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code blog.github.com · calcifer · 15 Mar 2018

681 pts 345 comments

56

Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016) cbc.ca · navinsylvester · 29 Mar 2018

677 pts 306 comments

57

Facebook’s Surveillance Machine nytimes.com · imartin2k · 20 Mar 2018

677 pts 232 comments

58

Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It therideshareguy.com · imartin2k · 29 Mar 2018

668 pts 348 comments

59

Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit amazon.com · bb88 · 3 Mar 2018

639 pts 267 comments

60

Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016) mzucker.github.io · pablode · 12 Mar 2018

639 pts 70 comments