The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2015

1

Swift is Open Source swift.org · psuter · 3 Dec 2015

1.8k pts 432 comments

2

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug exfiltrated.com · infosecau · 17 Dec 2015

1.6k pts 516 comments

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In Memoriam: Ian Murdock blog.docker.com · spb · 30 Dec 2015

1.5k pts 366 comments

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SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] spacex.com · clessg · 22 Dec 2015

1.3k pts 426 comments

5

Entering Public Beta letsencrypt.org · sinak · 3 Dec 2015

1.2k pts 213 comments

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Introducing OpenAI openai.com · sama · 11 Dec 2015

1.1k pts 376 comments

7

Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt openhunt.co · mhurwi · 18 Dec 2015

1.1k pts 180 comments

8

Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download link.springer.com · nkurz · 30 Dec 2015

990 pts 171 comments

9

The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car bloomberg.com · bcg1 · 16 Dec 2015

949 pts 447 comments

10

Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona stavros.io · stavros · 24 Dec 2015

905 pts 237 comments

11

Leaving the Mac App Store blog.sketchapp.com · davidbarker · 1 Dec 2015

884 pts 401 comments

12

Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source blogs.windows.com · clarle · 5 Dec 2015

852 pts 268 comments

13

Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics linkedin.com · temp · 25 Dec 2015

804 pts 245 comments

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Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1 telecom.kz · out_of_protocol · 2 Dec 2015

803 pts 361 comments

15

A letter to our daughter facebook.com · arasmussen · 1 Dec 2015

790 pts 518 comments

16

How to be like Steve Ballmer medium.com · drb311 · 2 Dec 2015

763 pts 188 comments

17

Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation danluu.com · ingve · 18 Dec 2015

730 pts 402 comments

18

This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University okwu.edu · teh_klev · 1 Dec 2015

729 pts 672 comments

19

How Product Hunt really works medium.com · brw12 · 15 Dec 2015

695 pts 222 comments

20

Who Y Combinator Companies Want data.triplebyte.com · Harj · 8 Dec 2015

667 pts 527 comments

21

BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts betterexplained.com · rfreytag · 22 Dec 2015

666 pts 126 comments

22

How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal danluu.com · Tenoke · 30 Dec 2015

631 pts 252 comments

23

Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox blogs.dropbox.com · _freu · 7 Dec 2015

624 pts 421 comments

24

The best icon is a text label thomasbyttebier.be · ZeljkoS · 18 Dec 2015

603 pts 203 comments

25

NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated theintercept.com · bainsfather · 31 Dec 2015

597 pts 119 comments

26

The Best Books I Read in 2015 gatesnotes.com · uptown · 7 Dec 2015

596 pts 143 comments

27

'New' Python modules of 2015 blog.rtwilson.com · ColinWright · 23 Dec 2015

591 pts 131 comments

28

Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill theverge.com · fisherjeff · 16 Dec 2015

580 pts 121 comments

29

Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit henrycountyreport.com · coloneltcb · 2 Dec 2015

579 pts 252 comments

30

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web theguardian.com · plg · 30 Dec 2015

570 pts 183 comments

31

Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights home-assistant.io · cstuder · 14 Dec 2015

561 pts 293 comments

32

Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain medium.com · freefrancisco · 31 Dec 2015

559 pts 94 comments

33

Signal Desktop whispersystems.org · marksamman · 2 Dec 2015

555 pts 279 comments

34

Stockfighter is live stockfighter.io · jzig · 12 Dec 2015

549 pts 138 comments

35

Move Fast and Fix Things githubengineering.com · samlambert · 15 Dec 2015

538 pts 90 comments

36

AWS mistakes to avoid cloudonaut.io · hellomichibye · 26 Dec 2015

537 pts 262 comments

37

The 99% (of startups) justinkan.com · thatha7777 · 2 Dec 2015

532 pts 167 comments

38

Bullshit Startup Experiences totalgarb.tumblr.com · supjeff · 13 Dec 2015

530 pts 288 comments

39

Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones techcrunch.com · kevining · 8 Dec 2015

529 pts 322 comments

40

My positive experience as a woman in tech lea.verou.me · sebkomianos · 17 Dec 2015

520 pts 385 comments

41

Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015 act.eff.org · Ologn · 27 Dec 2015

501 pts 96 comments

42

Koel: A personal music streaming server github.com · vive-la-liberte · 14 Dec 2015

499 pts 248 comments

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} // good to go scottmeyers.blogspot.com · ingve · 31 Dec 2015

498 pts 72 comments

44

Plan to throw one away garethrees.org · AndrewDucker · 14 Dec 2015

492 pts 79 comments

45

We ditched Google Analytics spideroak.com · felipebueno · 8 Dec 2015

490 pts 262 comments

46

Open source software for developing world hospitals hospitalrun.io · daleharvey · 4 Dec 2015

458 pts 112 comments

47

Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator productforums.google.com · lelf · 14 Dec 2015

454 pts 291 comments

48

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice nature.com · coris47 · 17 Dec 2015

452 pts 138 comments

49

Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show makeit.netflix.com · ChrisArchitect · 16 Dec 2015

451 pts 191 comments

50

Files Are Hard danluu.com · pyb · 13 Dec 2015

451 pts 151 comments

51

After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6 nethack.org · Alex3917 · 8 Dec 2015

451 pts 128 comments

52

Best things and stuff of 2015 blog.fogus.me · platz · 29 Dec 2015

451 pts 85 comments

53

Linux Performance Analysis techblog.netflix.com · anand-s · 1 Dec 2015

451 pts 82 comments

54

PHP 7 Released github.com · legierski · 2 Dec 2015

449 pts 307 comments

55

Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS blog.mozilla.org · special_guest · 8 Dec 2015

446 pts 255 comments

56

Do the math on your stock options jvns.ca · jackgavigan · 30 Dec 2015

445 pts 247 comments

57

Choosing an HTTP Status Code racksburg.com · wtbob · 8 Dec 2015

445 pts 119 comments

58

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client techcrunch.com · dest · 1 Dec 2015

444 pts 433 comments

59

Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform developers.meethue.com · alaaf · 16 Dec 2015

441 pts 164 comments

60

WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links orat.io · bmaeser · 1 Dec 2015

433 pts 226 comments