The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2020

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Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls autocar.co.uk · trenning · 31 Mar 2020

1.9k pts 743 comments

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NPM Is Joining GitHub github.blog · mholt · 16 Mar 2020

1.8k pts 557 comments

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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act blogs.harvard.edu · seapunk · 27 Mar 2020

1.6k pts 509 comments

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Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account vice.com · softwaredoug · 26 Mar 2020

1.4k pts 360 comments

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Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says npr.org · tmlee · 11 Mar 2020

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing theintercept.com · tony101 · 31 Mar 2020

1.2k pts 339 comments

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SETI@home shuts down after 21 years bleepingcomputer.com · ingve · 3 Mar 2020

1.2k pts 343 comments

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DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use bitlog.com · braythwayt · 6 Mar 2020

1.2k pts 476 comments

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Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community left.it · magoghm · 14 Mar 2020

1.1k pts 693 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring right now? whoishiring · 23 Mar 2020

1.1k pts 781 comments

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MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester web.mit.edu · ryeights · 10 Mar 2020

1k pts 586 comments

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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible andregarzia.com · soapdog · 25 Mar 2020

963 pts 896 comments

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Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days bbc.co.uk · tompagenet2 · 19 Mar 2020

953 pts 744 comments

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Zotero: Personal Research Assistant zotero.org · supdatecron · 26 Mar 2020

945 pts 206 comments

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FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf] docs.fcc.gov · hbcondo714 · 31 Mar 2020

929 pts 335 comments

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U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days nbcnews.com · sahin · 12 Mar 2020

920 pts 866 comments

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Using Anki to remember what you read superorganizers.substack.com · dshipper · 5 Mar 2020

901 pts 304 comments

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Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom meet.jit.si · LockAndLol · 23 Mar 2020

897 pts 285 comments

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Apple acquires Dark Sky blog.darksky.net · _egt6 · 31 Mar 2020

894 pts 576 comments

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Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default theverge.com · doener · 2 Mar 2020

854 pts 330 comments

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Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus bloomberg.com · blago · 31 Mar 2020

835 pts 345 comments

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GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization bloomberg.com · avonmach · 19 Mar 2020

831 pts 548 comments

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Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang andrewkelley.me · hazebooth · 24 Mar 2020

831 pts 288 comments

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“Just walk out” technology by Amazon justwalkout.com · bookofjoe · 9 Mar 2020

825 pts 742 comments

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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report cbc.ca · fraqed · 5 Mar 2020

822 pts 782 comments

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WireGuard 1.0 lore.kernel.org · iamd3vil · 30 Mar 2020

821 pts 2 comments

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I got my file from Clearview AI onezero.medium.com · us0r · 25 Mar 2020

811 pts 224 comments

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Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? sakopov · 21 Mar 2020

809 pts 1.2k comments

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Show HN: Fraidycat fraidyc.at · kickscondor · 11 Mar 2020

807 pts 150 comments

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Ask HN: Have you been laid off? Peretus · 18 Mar 2020

800 pts 645 comments

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How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’ twitter.com · _Microft · 31 Mar 2020

796 pts 325 comments

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COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator gatesfoundation.org · sandGorgon · 10 Mar 2020

795 pts 148 comments

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TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor theintercept.com · Gonzih · 17 Mar 2020

790 pts 341 comments

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New Grad vs. Senior Dev ericlippert.com · kogir · 28 Mar 2020

788 pts 379 comments

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Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country bbc.com · colinprince · 9 Mar 2020

787 pts 854 comments

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Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees courdecassation.fr · Aissen · 4 Mar 2020

786 pts 588 comments

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4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery cnx-software.com · homarp · 17 Mar 2020

770 pts 146 comments

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WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 lists.zx2c4.com · zx2c4 · 30 Mar 2020

768 pts 203 comments

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Linux Kernel Teaching linux-kernel-labs.github.io · throwaway_7718 · 13 Mar 2020

757 pts 78 comments

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WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN wired.com · axiomdata316 · 2 Mar 2020

741 pts 295 comments

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What's so hard about PDF text extraction? filingdb.com · maest · 3 Mar 2020

733 pts 342 comments

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I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH feed.tyler.io · chmaynard · 31 Mar 2020

733 pts 340 comments

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Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] courtlistener.com · pera · 12 Mar 2020

731 pts 322 comments

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“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems pythonspeed.com · signa11 · 5 Mar 2020

719 pts 469 comments

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The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption blog.cryptographyengineering.com · jmsflknr · 6 Mar 2020

715 pts 309 comments

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How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure mijailovic.net · Metalnem · 29 Mar 2020

699 pts 397 comments

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Things you can do with a browser in 2020 github.com · therealmarv · 19 Mar 2020

698 pts 382 comments

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WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days ar.al · jlelse · 25 Mar 2020

698 pts 1 comments

49

Spot the Drowning Child (2015) spotthedrowningchild.com · vinnyglennon · 4 Mar 2020

697 pts 405 comments

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Facebook sues Namecheap about.fb.com · whoisjuan · 5 Mar 2020

695 pts 397 comments

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Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming staatsoperlive.com · tosh · 15 Mar 2020

689 pts 73 comments

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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime gkogan.co · gk1 · 3 Mar 2020

685 pts 263 comments

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Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life? sondog · 29 Mar 2020

679 pts 584 comments

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Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent infoq.com · oftenwrong · 25 Mar 2020

672 pts 318 comments

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Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19 politico.com · tlrobinson · 17 Mar 2020

670 pts 117 comments

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Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6 cloud.google.com · agoell · 4 Mar 2020

665 pts 610 comments

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Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month blog.sia.tech · beedrillzzzzz · 6 Mar 2020

659 pts 334 comments

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Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? shkspr.mobi · edent · 6 Mar 2020

657 pts 315 comments

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Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system law.nyu.edu · pulisse · 4 Mar 2020

653 pts 278 comments

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Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management grocy.info · jka · 21 Mar 2020

652 pts 141 comments