The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2019

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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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Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair timetoplayfair.com · dmitriid · 13 Mar 2019

1.9k pts 841 comments

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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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Thinkpad X210 geoff.greer.fm · MYEUHD · 17 Mar 2019

1k pts 477 comments

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Why Bother with What Three Words? shkspr.mobi · Tangiest · 28 Mar 2019

948 pts 323 comments

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Productivity Is About Attention Management nytimes.com · gotocake · 31 Mar 2019

939 pts 186 comments

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Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s imgur.com · IFR · 14 Mar 2019

936 pts 352 comments

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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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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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Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop troyhunt.com · weinzierl · 13 Mar 2019

888 pts 487 comments

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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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Give Me Back My Monolith craigkerstiens.com · zdw · 13 Mar 2019

861 pts 411 comments

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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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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances blog.mozilla.org · sahin · 19 Mar 2019

809 pts 557 comments

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Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award nytimes.com · mmq · 27 Mar 2019

773 pts 146 comments

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The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times twitter.com · DoreenMichele · 3 Mar 2019

771 pts 271 comments

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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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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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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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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon nytimes.com · chadmhorner · 8 Mar 2019

733 pts 711 comments

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Addressing Spotify’s Claims apple.com · css · 15 Mar 2019

733 pts 654 comments

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Serious Chrome zero-day nakedsecurity.sophos.com · Bender · 6 Mar 2019

732 pts 356 comments

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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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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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Graying Out tbray.org · zdw · 12 Mar 2019

706 pts 312 comments

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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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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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Apple announces Apple Card credit card theverge.com · cdoxsey · 25 Mar 2019

690 pts 750 comments

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What Working at Stripe Has Been Like kalzumeus.com · troydavis · 18 Mar 2019

685 pts 178 comments

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Write yourself a Git (2018) wyag.thb.lt · adamnemecek · 14 Mar 2019

684 pts 108 comments

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I Miss Rails chanind.github.io · chanind · 28 Mar 2019

664 pts 505 comments

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Tesla Model Y tesla.com · kiddz · 15 Mar 2019

650 pts 734 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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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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Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads” purpleleafsoftware.com · jeremydeanlakey · 25 Mar 2019

621 pts 322 comments

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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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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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Scientists rise up against statistical significance nature.com · bookofjoe · 20 Mar 2019

618 pts 249 comments

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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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Keybase is not softer than TOFU keybase.io · malgorithms · 27 Mar 2019

614 pts 293 comments

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Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data thedailybeast.com · NN88 · 30 Mar 2019

612 pts 171 comments

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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