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Top of Month - Mar 2020
  1. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
    (31 Mar 2020 | 1922 points | Comments)

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub
    (16 Mar 2020 | 1829 points | Comments)

  3. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
    (27 Mar 2020 | 1597 points | Comments)

  4. Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
    (26 Mar 2020 | 1433 points | Comments)

  5. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
    (11 Mar 2020 | 1243 points | Comments)

  6. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
    (31 Mar 2020 | 1230 points | Comments)

  7. SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
    (3 Mar 2020 | 1216 points | Comments)

  8. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
    (6 Mar 2020 | 1158 points | Comments)

  9. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
    (14 Mar 2020 | 1095 points | Comments)

  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
    (23 Mar 2020 | 1083 points | Comments)

  11. MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
    (10 Mar 2020 | 1027 points | Comments)

  12. Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
    (25 Mar 2020 | 963 points | Comments)

  13. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
    (19 Mar 2020 | 953 points | Comments)

  14. Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
    (26 Mar 2020 | 945 points | Comments)

  15. FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
    (31 Mar 2020 | 929 points | Comments)

  16. U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
    (12 Mar 2020 | 920 points | Comments)

  17. Using Anki to remember what you read
    (5 Mar 2020 | 901 points | Comments)

  18. Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
    (23 Mar 2020 | 897 points | Comments)

  19. Apple acquires Dark Sky
    (31 Mar 2020 | 894 points | Comments)

  20. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
    (2 Mar 2020 | 854 points | Comments)

  21. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
    (31 Mar 2020 | 835 points | Comments)

  22. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
    (19 Mar 2020 | 831 points | Comments)

  23. Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang
    (24 Mar 2020 | 831 points | Comments)

  24. “Just walk out” technology by Amazon
    (9 Mar 2020 | 825 points | Comments)

  25. People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
    (5 Mar 2020 | 822 points | Comments)

  26. WireGuard 1.0
    (30 Mar 2020 | 821 points | Comments)

  27. I got my file from Clearview AI
    (25 Mar 2020 | 811 points | Comments)

  28. Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
    (21 Mar 2020 | 809 points | Comments)

  29. Show HN: Fraidycat
    (11 Mar 2020 | 807 points | Comments)

  30. Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
    (18 Mar 2020 | 800 points | Comments)

  31. How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
    (31 Mar 2020 | 796 points | Comments)

  32. COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
    (10 Mar 2020 | 795 points | Comments)

  33. TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
    (17 Mar 2020 | 790 points | Comments)

  34. New Grad vs. Senior Dev
    (28 Mar 2020 | 788 points | Comments)

  35. Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
    (9 Mar 2020 | 787 points | Comments)

  36. Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
    (4 Mar 2020 | 786 points | Comments)

  37. 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
    (17 Mar 2020 | 770 points | Comments)

  38. WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6
    (30 Mar 2020 | 768 points | Comments)

  39. Linux Kernel Teaching
    (13 Mar 2020 | 757 points | Comments)

  40. WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
    (2 Mar 2020 | 741 points | Comments)

  41. What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
    (3 Mar 2020 | 733 points | Comments)

  42. I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH
    (31 Mar 2020 | 733 points | Comments)

  43. Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
    (12 Mar 2020 | 731 points | Comments)

  44. “Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems
    (5 Mar 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

  45. The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption
    (6 Mar 2020 | 715 points | Comments)

  46. How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
    (29 Mar 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

  47. Things you can do with a browser in 2020
    (19 Mar 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

  48. WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days
    (25 Mar 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

  49. Spot the Drowning Child (2015)
    (4 Mar 2020 | 697 points | Comments)

  50. Facebook sues Namecheap
    (5 Mar 2020 | 695 points | Comments)

  51. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming
    (15 Mar 2020 | 689 points | Comments)

  52. Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
    (3 Mar 2020 | 685 points | Comments)

  53. Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
    (29 Mar 2020 | 679 points | Comments)

  54. Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
    (25 Mar 2020 | 672 points | Comments)

  55. Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
    (17 Mar 2020 | 670 points | Comments)

  56. Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
    (4 Mar 2020 | 665 points | Comments)

  57. Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
    (6 Mar 2020 | 659 points | Comments)

  58. Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
    (6 Mar 2020 | 657 points | Comments)

  59. Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
    (4 Mar 2020 | 653 points | Comments)

  60. Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
    (21 Mar 2020 | 652 points | Comments)

  61. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
    (9 Mar 2020 | 651 points | Comments)

  62. The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass
    (9 Mar 2020 | 644 points | Comments)

  63. Employee Scheduling
    (15 Mar 2020 | 641 points | Comments)

  64. ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
    (17 Mar 2020 | 641 points | Comments)

  65. WeWork sells Meetup
    (30 Mar 2020 | 641 points | Comments)

  66. New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
    (18 Mar 2020 | 638 points | Comments)

  67. Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
    (4 Mar 2020 | 636 points | Comments)

  68. Windows93
    (2 Mar 2020 | 630 points | Comments)

  69. Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
    (18 Mar 2020 | 626 points | Comments)

  70. Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves
    (16 Mar 2020 | 622 points | Comments)

  71. Learn D3
    (24 Mar 2020 | 621 points | Comments)

  72. Google recommends all North America employees work from home
    (10 Mar 2020 | 620 points | Comments)

  73. We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice
    (10 Mar 2020 | 620 points | Comments)

  74. How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
    (11 Mar 2020 | 617 points | Comments)

  75. A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP
    (25 Mar 2020 | 611 points | Comments)

  76. Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
    (18 Mar 2020 | 601 points | Comments)

  77. Introduction to D3
    (3 Mar 2020 | 599 points | Comments)

  78. CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line
    (5 Mar 2020 | 596 points | Comments)

  79. Google Open Source Code Search
    (11 Mar 2020 | 596 points | Comments)

  80. Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
    (13 Mar 2020 | 583 points | Comments)

  81. Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote
    (12 Mar 2020 | 582 points | Comments)

  82. I have seen things
    (7 Mar 2020 | 577 points | Comments)

  83. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
    (28 Mar 2020 | 576 points | Comments)

  84. New MacBook Air
    (18 Mar 2020 | 574 points | Comments)

  85. Technical Writing Courses
    (22 Mar 2020 | 571 points | Comments)

  86. The state of the restaurant industry
    (17 Mar 2020 | 564 points | Comments)

  87. 3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
    (26 Mar 2020 | 558 points | Comments)

  88. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races
    (22 Mar 2020 | 550 points | Comments)

  89. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
    (3 Mar 2020 | 548 points | Comments)

  90. Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
    (1 Mar 2020 | 547 points | Comments)

  91. Firefox 74
    (10 Mar 2020 | 540 points | Comments)

  92. The most surprising Unix programs
    (14 Mar 2020 | 539 points | Comments)

  93. Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”
    (5 Mar 2020 | 534 points | Comments)

  94. 50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic
    (17 Mar 2020 | 533 points | Comments)

  95. Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
    (2 Mar 2020 | 532 points | Comments)

  96. Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
    (16 Mar 2020 | 530 points | Comments)

  97. Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
    (14 Mar 2020 | 527 points | Comments)

  98. Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
    (14 Mar 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

  99. Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
    (21 Mar 2020 | 522 points | Comments)

  100. What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
    (3 Mar 2020 | 519 points | Comments)