The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2022

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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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But life had other plans danlebrero.com · JBiserkov · 23 Mar 2022

1.7k pts 225 comments

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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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Please put units in names ruudvanasseldonk.com · todsacerdoti · 21 Mar 2022

1.3k pts 594 comments

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Mourning loss as a remote team sofuckingagile.com · asyncscrum · 26 Mar 2022

1.2k pts 386 comments

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Windows needs a change in priorities den.dev · dend · 20 Mar 2022

1.2k pts 859 comments

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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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Apple M1 Ultra apple.com · davidbarker · 8 Mar 2022

1.2k pts 828 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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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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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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Start Self Hosting rohanrd.xyz · quaintdev · 23 Mar 2022

1k pts 608 comments

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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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Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated” old.reddit.com · nadalizadeh · 30 Mar 2022

997 pts 477 comments

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Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom fsf.org · lelf · 11 Mar 2022

990 pts 201 comments

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Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax github.com · tempodox · 29 Mar 2022

983 pts 219 comments

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Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest reuters.com · andreygrehov · 4 Mar 2022

978 pts 841 comments

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The smallest and worst HDMI display mitxela.com · todsacerdoti · 31 Mar 2022

969 pts 162 comments

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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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My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll alexanderell.is · otras · 6 Mar 2022

905 pts 448 comments

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The end of the nice GTK button blog.brixit.nl · MartijnBraam · 24 Mar 2022

878 pts 647 comments

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Some tiny personal programs I've written jvns.ca · atg_abhishek · 9 Mar 2022

873 pts 358 comments

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I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed lupinia.net · matiskay · 31 Mar 2022

865 pts 544 comments

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uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox addons.mozilla.org · nixcraft · 11 Mar 2022

858 pts 398 comments

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Why is it hard to buy things that work well? danluu.com · davidmckenna · 14 Mar 2022

848 pts 518 comments

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First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations cosmosmagazine.com · mooreds · 18 Mar 2022

840 pts 265 comments

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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out lepiter.io · webmaven · 30 Mar 2022

839 pts 410 comments

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DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks css-tricks.com · nilsandrey · 15 Mar 2022

825 pts 213 comments

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Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust veloren.net · albertzeyer · 13 Mar 2022

811 pts 177 comments

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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues aschmelyun.com · horsellama · 25 Mar 2022

811 pts 169 comments

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Web3 is centralized and inefficient neelc.org · neelc · 23 Mar 2022

801 pts 751 comments

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Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate dynomight.net · dynm · 12 Mar 2022

801 pts 489 comments

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The Uselessness of Phenylephrine science.org · hprotagonist · 30 Mar 2022

799 pts 592 comments

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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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The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues eff.org · DiabloD3 · 7 Mar 2022

775 pts 252 comments

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Go 1.18 go.dev · mjlee · 15 Mar 2022

773 pts 597 comments

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Zotero 6 zotero.org · Schiphol · 17 Mar 2022

768 pts 190 comments

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Write plain text files sive.rs · sivers · 1 Mar 2022

739 pts 412 comments

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Tell HN: If You Are in Russia jacquesm · 1 Mar 2022

727 pts 1.1k 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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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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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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H.264 is Magic (2016) sidbala.com · goranmoomin · 17 Mar 2022

714 pts 219 comments

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Epic Games acquires Bandcamp variety.com · kylestetz · 2 Mar 2022

709 pts 476 comments

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In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware en.wikipedia.org · minding · 17 Mar 2022

707 pts 209 comments

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Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes tomxor · 14 Mar 2022

701 pts 493 comments

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The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability dirtypipe.cm4all.com · max_k · 7 Mar 2022

697 pts 240 comments

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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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SPAs Were a Mistake gomakethings.com · andrei_says_ · 2 Mar 2022

692 pts 610 comments

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Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system wired.com · Brajeshwar · 1 Mar 2022

691 pts 542 comments

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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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How our free plan stays free tailscale.com · tosh · 16 Mar 2022

684 pts 200 comments

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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) sive.rs · graderjs · 9 Mar 2022

683 pts 448 comments

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A one in a million bug in Switch kernel gist.githubusercontent.com · vedanshbhartia · 23 Mar 2022

682 pts 88 comments

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My Stripe Tax Story gist.github.com · kareemm · 3 Mar 2022

665 pts 285 comments

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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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Apple Mac Studio apple.com · 0xedb · 8 Mar 2022

653 pts 709 comments

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MDN Plus hacks.mozilla.org · sendilkumarn · 24 Mar 2022

630 pts 308 comments

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Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses reuters.com · croes · 11 Mar 2022

628 pts 668 comments