top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-03-16

Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

https://hellogoodbye.app

7 years ago

510 upvotes – 226 comments

The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/poor-broke-difference-poverty-inequality-society

7 years ago

355 upvotes – 217 comments

Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

https://stallman.org/apple.html

7 years ago

338 upvotes – 223 comments

School is all about signaling, not skill-building

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html

7 years ago

315 upvotes – 216 comments

Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heart-apple/apple-watch-detects-irregular-heart-beat-in-large-u-s-study-idUSKCN1QX0EI

7 years ago

310 upvotes – 231 comments

As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-costs.html

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 284 comments

Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2019/03/googles-nest-fiasco-harms-user-trust-and-invades-their-privacy/

7 years ago

242 upvotes – 113 comments

Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/one-year-in-facebooks-big-algorithm-change-has-spurred-an-angry-fox-news-dominated-and-very-engaged-news-feed

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 131 comments

A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 66 comments

Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1

https://reindernijhoff.net/2019/03/wolfenstein-raytracing-on-using-webgl1/

7 years ago

235 upvotes – 27 comments

The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person

https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 223 comments

The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Won't Die

https://gizmodo.com/the-pyrex-glass-controversy-that-just-wont-die-1833040962

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 131 comments

Why Operators Are Useful

https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-operators-are-useful.html?m=1

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 167 comments

YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

https://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/draw

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun

https://www.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/az285j/saving_of_public_google_content_at_the_internet/

7 years ago

170 upvotes – 90 comments

Types Are Moving to the Right

https://medium.com/@elizarov/types-are-moving-to-the-right-22c0ef31dd4a

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 141 comments

Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

https://github.com/cxxxr/lem

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 77 comments

Stardew Valley and real-life labour (2017)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/13/stardew-valley-marriage-work/

7 years ago

146 upvotes – 22 comments

Can a Person Learn While Sleeping?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-a-person-learn-while-sleeping-11552744800

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 85 comments

Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures

https://rjzaworski.com/2019/03/7-commandments-for-event-driven-architecture

7 years ago

142 upvotes – 30 comments
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