The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2022
We track 1,438 stories from March 2022, averaging 251 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 84 stories. Together they drew 229,891 comments, 160 per story on average.
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US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
twitter.com · enraged_camel · 15 Mar 2022
2.2k pts
2.2k comments
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Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
youtube.com · rayrag · 9 Mar 2022
1.9k pts
232 comments
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3
But life had other plans
danlebrero.com · JBiserkov · 23 Mar 2022
1.7k pts
225 comments
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4
FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
ftc.gov · Kesseki · 29 Mar 2022
1.6k pts
588 comments
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5
Please put units in names
ruudvanasseldonk.com · todsacerdoti · 21 Mar 2022
1.3k pts
594 comments
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6
Mourning loss as a remote team
sofuckingagile.com · asyncscrum · 26 Mar 2022
1.2k pts
386 comments
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7
Windows needs a change in priorities
den.dev · dend · 20 Mar 2022
1.2k pts
859 comments
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8
Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
mitadmissions.org · razin · 28 Mar 2022
1.2k pts
1.1k comments
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Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
twitter.com · obi1kenobi · 22 Mar 2022
1.2k pts
375 comments
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11
Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
lessmilk.com · lessmilk · 1 Mar 2022
1.1k pts
181 comments
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12
EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
eevblog.com · Tomte · 13 Mar 2022
1.1k pts
637 comments
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14
Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
reuters.com · pseudolus · 2 Mar 2022
1k pts
1.3k comments
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15
Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
old.reddit.com · nadalizadeh · 30 Mar 2022
997 pts
477 comments
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16
Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
fsf.org · lelf · 11 Mar 2022
990 pts
201 comments
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17
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
github.com · tempodox · 29 Mar 2022
983 pts
219 comments
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18
Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
reuters.com · andreygrehov · 4 Mar 2022
978 pts
841 comments
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19
The smallest and worst HDMI display
mitxela.com · todsacerdoti · 31 Mar 2022
969 pts
162 comments
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20
SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
github.com · crbelaus · 2 Mar 2022
958 pts
240 comments
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21
My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
alexanderell.is · otras · 6 Mar 2022
905 pts
448 comments
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22
The end of the nice GTK button
blog.brixit.nl · MartijnBraam · 24 Mar 2022
878 pts
647 comments
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23
Some tiny personal programs I've written
jvns.ca · atg_abhishek · 9 Mar 2022
873 pts
358 comments
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24
I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
lupinia.net · matiskay · 31 Mar 2022
865 pts
544 comments
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25
uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
addons.mozilla.org · nixcraft · 11 Mar 2022
858 pts
398 comments
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26
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
danluu.com · davidmckenna · 14 Mar 2022
848 pts
518 comments
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27
First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations
cosmosmagazine.com · mooreds · 18 Mar 2022
840 pts
265 comments
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28
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
lepiter.io · webmaven · 30 Mar 2022
839 pts
410 comments
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29
DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
css-tricks.com · nilsandrey · 15 Mar 2022
825 pts
213 comments
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30
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
veloren.net · albertzeyer · 13 Mar 2022
811 pts
177 comments
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31
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
aschmelyun.com · horsellama · 25 Mar 2022
811 pts
169 comments
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32
Web3 is centralized and inefficient
neelc.org · neelc · 23 Mar 2022
801 pts
751 comments
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33
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
dynomight.net · dynm · 12 Mar 2022
801 pts
489 comments
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34
The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
science.org · hprotagonist · 30 Mar 2022
799 pts
592 comments
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35
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
networksfromscratch.com · sarchertech · 27 Mar 2022
792 pts
132 comments
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36
The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
eff.org · DiabloD3 · 7 Mar 2022
775 pts
252 comments
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The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
axios.com · laurex · 8 Mar 2022
725 pts
722 comments
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42
Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
reuters.com · hhs · 12 Mar 2022
721 pts
620 comments
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43
Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever
arstechnica.com · jbredeche · 4 Mar 2022
720 pts
669 comments
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45
Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
variety.com · kylestetz · 2 Mar 2022
709 pts
476 comments
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46
In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
en.wikipedia.org · minding · 17 Mar 2022
707 pts
209 comments
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48
The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
dirtypipe.cm4all.com · max_k · 7 Mar 2022
697 pts
240 comments
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49
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
twitter.com · jger15 · 20 Mar 2022
696 pts
1.1k comments
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50
SPAs Were a Mistake
gomakethings.com · andrei_says_ · 2 Mar 2022
692 pts
610 comments
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51
Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system
wired.com · Brajeshwar · 1 Mar 2022
691 pts
542 comments
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52
Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages
twitter.com · mudro_zboris · 6 Mar 2022
686 pts
362 comments
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53
How our free plan stays free
tailscale.com · tosh · 16 Mar 2022
684 pts
200 comments
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54
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
sive.rs · graderjs · 9 Mar 2022
683 pts
448 comments
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55
A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
gist.githubusercontent.com · vedanshbhartia · 23 Mar 2022
682 pts
88 comments
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57
Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
backofyourhand.com · adamlynch · 19 Mar 2022
654 pts
257 comments
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Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
reuters.com · croes · 11 Mar 2022
628 pts
668 comments
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