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Top of Month - Mar 2018

1. Stephen Hawking has died
   (14 Mar 2018 | 6015 points | Comments)

2. Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
   (19 Mar 2018 | 2361 points | Comments)

3. Machine Learning Crash Course
   (1 Mar 2018 | 1926 points | Comments)

4. Congrats Dropbox
   (23 Mar 2018 | 1543 points | Comments)

5. It's time to head back to RSS?
   (31 Mar 2018 | 1501 points | Comments)

6. Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
   (8 Mar 2018 | 1397 points | Comments)

7. Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
   (23 Mar 2018 | 1390 points | Comments)

8. Blocklist Facebook domains
   (20 Mar 2018 | 1349 points | Comments)

9. Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud
   (14 Mar 2018 | 1211 points | Comments)

10. Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
    (31 Mar 2018 | 1187 points | Comments)

11. “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
    (18 Mar 2018 | 1155 points | Comments)

12. Fred's ImageMagick Scripts
    (24 Mar 2018 | 1149 points | Comments)

13. Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
    (7 Mar 2018 | 1148 points | Comments)

14. Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
    (21 Mar 2018 | 1108 points | Comments)

15. FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
    (20 Mar 2018 | 1107 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript
    (12 Mar 2018 | 1087 points | Comments)

17. WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
    (20 Mar 2018 | 1086 points | Comments)

18. Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
    (19 Mar 2018 | 1074 points | Comments)

19. Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe
    (5 Mar 2018 | 1034 points | Comments)

20. ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live
    (13 Mar 2018 | 1024 points | Comments)

21. Some terrible personal news
    (8 Mar 2018 | 1018 points | Comments)

22. Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA
    (23 Mar 2018 | 947 points | Comments)

23. Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
    (20 Mar 2018 | 942 points | Comments)

24. Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany
    (3 Mar 2018 | 922 points | Comments)

25. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet
    (31 Mar 2018 | 918 points | Comments)

26. Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
    (20 Mar 2018 | 912 points | Comments)

27. Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks
    (30 Mar 2018 | 910 points | Comments)

28. All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
    (8 Mar 2018 | 901 points | Comments)

29. Au Revoir
    (28 Mar 2018 | 898 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
    (2 Mar 2018 | 867 points | Comments)

31. Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
    (21 Mar 2018 | 854 points | Comments)

32. Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
    (27 Mar 2018 | 854 points | Comments)

33. #deletefacebook
    (19 Mar 2018 | 836 points | Comments)

34. China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
    (16 Mar 2018 | 827 points | Comments)

35. Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
    (25 Mar 2018 | 800 points | Comments)

36. Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News
    (21 Mar 2018 | 799 points | Comments)

37. Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]
    (10 Mar 2018 | 796 points | Comments)

38. A Career Cold Start Algorithm
    (9 Mar 2018 | 792 points | Comments)

39. How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less
    (25 Mar 2018 | 781 points | Comments)

40. Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
    (27 Mar 2018 | 778 points | Comments)

41. Slack's bait and switch
    (12 Mar 2018 | 757 points | Comments)

42. Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic
    (7 Mar 2018 | 750 points | Comments)

43. Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life
    (8 Mar 2018 | 733 points | Comments)

44. With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
    (23 Mar 2018 | 715 points | Comments)

45. Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings
    (22 Mar 2018 | 706 points | Comments)

46. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
    (22 Mar 2018 | 697 points | Comments)

47. The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
    (22 Mar 2018 | 691 points | Comments)

48. Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
    (23 Mar 2018 | 691 points | Comments)

49. FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services
    (29 Mar 2018 | 691 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?
    (7 Mar 2018 | 686 points | Comments)

51. Google bans cryptocurrency ads
    (14 Mar 2018 | 686 points | Comments)

52. I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
    (27 Mar 2018 | 685 points | Comments)

53. Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica
    (19 Mar 2018 | 683 points | Comments)

54. Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)
    (26 Mar 2018 | 682 points | Comments)

55. EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code
    (15 Mar 2018 | 681 points | Comments)

56. Facebook’s Surveillance Machine
    (20 Mar 2018 | 677 points | Comments)

57. Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)
    (29 Mar 2018 | 677 points | Comments)

58. Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It
    (29 Mar 2018 | 668 points | Comments)

59. Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit
    (3 Mar 2018 | 639 points | Comments)

60. Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)
    (12 Mar 2018 | 639 points | Comments)

61. Guide to Slack import and export tools
    (21 Mar 2018 | 635 points | Comments)

62. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead
    (27 Mar 2018 | 634 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: How to self-learn math?
    (11 Mar 2018 | 618 points | Comments)

64. Look for the duct tape
    (24 Mar 2018 | 616 points | Comments)

65. A week-long programming retreat
    (5 Mar 2018 | 596 points | Comments)

66. Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired
    (27 Mar 2018 | 593 points | Comments)

67. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
    (1 Mar 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

68. PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
    (3 Mar 2018 | 586 points | Comments)

69. U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants
    (29 Mar 2018 | 585 points | Comments)

70. FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
    (9 Mar 2018 | 581 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects
    (15 Mar 2018 | 576 points | Comments)

72. Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
    (17 Mar 2018 | 571 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
    (29 Mar 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

74. Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
    (8 Mar 2018 | 565 points | Comments)

75. Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out
    (26 Mar 2018 | 564 points | Comments)

76. How not to run a CA
    (1 Mar 2018 | 561 points | Comments)

77. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
    (5 Mar 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

78. 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
    (17 Mar 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

79. Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings
    (17 Mar 2018 | 555 points | Comments)

80. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free
    (19 Mar 2018 | 554 points | Comments)

81. The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization
    (16 Mar 2018 | 552 points | Comments)

82. The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
    (19 Mar 2018 | 552 points | Comments)

83. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory
    (27 Mar 2018 | 545 points | Comments)

84. Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
    (16 Mar 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

85. Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps
    (13 Mar 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

86. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)
    (28 Mar 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

87. How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
    (27 Mar 2018 | 520 points | Comments)

88. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
    (29 Mar 2018 | 520 points | Comments)

89. Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
    (22 Mar 2018 | 518 points | Comments)

90. Rust's 2018 roadmap
    (12 Mar 2018 | 515 points | Comments)

91. Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)
    (11 Mar 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

92. Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)
    (11 Mar 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

93. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS
    (28 Mar 2018 | 512 points | Comments)

94. Coinbase Index Fund
    (6 Mar 2018 | 509 points | Comments)

95. The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
    (17 Mar 2018 | 508 points | Comments)

96. Writing System Software [video]
    (15 Mar 2018 | 505 points | Comments)

97. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists
    (20 Mar 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

98. Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother
    (23 Mar 2018 | 503 points | Comments)

99. First firing of air-breathing electric thruster
    (6 Mar 2018 | 497 points | Comments)

100. All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study
     (14 Mar 2018 | 490 points | Comments)