The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2019
We track 1,331 stories from March 2019, averaging 239 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 78 stories. Together they drew 168,789 comments, 127 per story on average.
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Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
internalregister.github.io · pkiller · 14 Mar 2019
2.7k pts
210 comments
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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
blog.mozilla.org · dnlserrano · 12 Mar 2019
2k pts
512 comments
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3
Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
timetoplayfair.com · dmitriid · 13 Mar 2019
1.9k pts
841 comments
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4
A guide to difficult conversations
medium.dave-bailey.com · davesuperman · 26 Mar 2019
1.8k pts
400 comments
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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
marketplace.org · rmason · 6 Mar 2019
1.3k pts
595 comments
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Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
nsa.gov · twodayslate · 5 Mar 2019
1.3k pts
405 comments
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
krebsonsecurity.com · snaky · 21 Mar 2019
1.3k pts
429 comments
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
nginx.com · eduren · 11 Mar 2019
1.1k pts
383 comments
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10
Why Bother with What Three Words?
shkspr.mobi · Tangiest · 28 Mar 2019
948 pts
323 comments
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11
Productivity Is About Attention Management
nytimes.com · gotocake · 31 Mar 2019
939 pts
186 comments
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12
Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
imgur.com · IFR · 14 Mar 2019
936 pts
352 comments
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13
HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient
nytimes.com · aaronbrethorst · 5 Mar 2019
935 pts
259 comments
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Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
techcrunch.com · jmsflknr · 13 Mar 2019
932 pts
293 comments
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15
Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook
mathigon.org · mr_golyadkin · 24 Mar 2019
920 pts
92 comments
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Facebook to ban white nationalist content
newsroom.fb.com · anigbrowl · 27 Mar 2019
890 pts
1.5k comments
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17
Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
troyhunt.com · weinzierl · 13 Mar 2019
888 pts
487 comments
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18
Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch
dailyesports.gg · twistedlogicx · 18 Mar 2019
871 pts
215 comments
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19
Give Me Back My Monolith
craigkerstiens.com · zdw · 13 Mar 2019
861 pts
411 comments
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20
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
polygon.com · danso · 13 Mar 2019
815 pts
323 comments
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
nytimes.com · tysone · 13 Mar 2019
811 pts
225 comments
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22
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
blog.mozilla.org · sahin · 19 Mar 2019
809 pts
557 comments
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23
Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
nytimes.com · mmq · 27 Mar 2019
773 pts
146 comments
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24
The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
twitter.com · DoreenMichele · 3 Mar 2019
771 pts
271 comments
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25
European Parliament approves copyright reform
twitter.com · haywirez · 26 Mar 2019
769 pts
803 comments
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Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website
translate.google.com · ccnafr · 15 Mar 2019
763 pts
173 comments
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27
737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer
twitter.com · paulsutter · 17 Mar 2019
759 pts
270 comments
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
bloomberg.com · lultimouomo · 3 Mar 2019
755 pts
264 comments
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Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
generative.fm · dmit · 15 Mar 2019
735 pts
102 comments
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30
Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent
twitter.com · pjf · 27 Mar 2019
734 pts
310 comments
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31
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
nytimes.com · chadmhorner · 8 Mar 2019
733 pts
711 comments
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33
Serious Chrome zero-day
nakedsecurity.sophos.com · Bender · 6 Mar 2019
732 pts
356 comments
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34
Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money
ianbicking.org · collinmanderson · 19 Mar 2019
724 pts
440 comments
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Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
zdnet.com · commoner · 6 Mar 2019
720 pts
209 comments
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36
U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
businessinsider.com · wine_labs · 13 Mar 2019
716 pts
617 comments
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Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
sucky.ninja · ecmascript · 25 Mar 2019
713 pts
361 comments
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39
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
castel.dev · tambourine_man · 21 Mar 2019
703 pts
221 comments
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40
EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others
theregister.co.uk · snaky · 18 Mar 2019
694 pts
309 comments
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41
Apple announces Apple Card credit card
theverge.com · cdoxsey · 25 Mar 2019
690 pts
750 comments
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42
What Working at Stripe Has Been Like
kalzumeus.com · troydavis · 18 Mar 2019
685 pts
178 comments
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43
Write yourself a Git (2018)
wyag.thb.lt · adamnemecek · 14 Mar 2019
684 pts
108 comments
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Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
businessinsider.com · turtlegrids · 6 Mar 2019
649 pts
331 comments
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DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
motherboard.vice.com · shpat · 14 Mar 2019
649 pts
288 comments
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48
Apple Cancels AirPower Product
techcrunch.com · gtCameron · 29 Mar 2019
637 pts
480 comments
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Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw
dallasnews.com · mbgaxyz · 12 Mar 2019
627 pts
292 comments
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50
Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
purpleleafsoftware.com · jeremydeanlakey · 25 Mar 2019
621 pts
322 comments
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51
Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users
twitter.com · ascertain · 14 Mar 2019
620 pts
305 comments
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52
Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
wiki.mumble.info · Bender · 26 Mar 2019
620 pts
214 comments
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53
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
nature.com · bookofjoe · 20 Mar 2019
618 pts
249 comments
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54
Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python
victorzhou.com · vzhou842 · 6 Mar 2019
616 pts
100 comments
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Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
nytimes.com · gatsby · 4 Mar 2019
614 pts
592 comments
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56
Keybase is not softer than TOFU
keybase.io · malgorithms · 27 Mar 2019
614 pts
293 comments
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57
Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
thedailybeast.com · NN88 · 30 Mar 2019
612 pts
171 comments
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58
How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
npr.org · n_t · 15 Mar 2019
611 pts
251 comments
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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
usatoday.com · ajiang · 13 Mar 2019
610 pts
331 comments
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Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed
privacyinternational.org · hadrien01 · 6 Mar 2019
599 pts
355 comments
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