The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2016
We track 898 stories from January 2016, averaging 231 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 53 stories. Together they drew 95,350 comments, 106 per story on average.
1
Request For Research: Basic Income
blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 27 Jan 2016
1.9k pts
1.1k comments
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3
David Bowie Has Died
hollywoodreporter.com · hccampos · 11 Jan 2016
1.5k pts
301 comments
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4
Amazon's customer service backdoor
medium.com · grapehut · 24 Jan 2016
1.4k pts
356 comments
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6
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
bbc.co.uk · xianshou · 27 Jan 2016
1.2k pts
394 comments
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7
Facebook is closing Parse
blog.parse.com · theunquietone · 28 Jan 2016
1.2k pts
500 comments
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9
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL
theregister.co.uk · janvdberg · 5 Jan 2016
1.1k pts
99 comments
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10
The Website Obesity Crisis
idlewords.com · jmduke · 1 Jan 2016
1.1k pts
367 comments
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11
Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
ramiro.org · gkst · 18 Jan 2016
1k pts
181 comments
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12
TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands
code.google.com · tptacek · 11 Jan 2016
1k pts
229 comments
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13
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
media.netflix.com · devhxinc · 6 Jan 2016
1k pts
497 comments
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15
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
medium.com · tptacek · 14 Jan 2016
961 pts
408 comments
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16
Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
about.gitlab.com · levlaz · 18 Jan 2016
924 pts
318 comments
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17
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
caltech.edu · cyanbane · 20 Jan 2016
883 pts
150 comments
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19
Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
desktopneo.com · ziburski · 19 Jan 2016
798 pts
314 comments
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20
Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
mjg59.dreamwidth.org · logic · 20 Jan 2016
778 pts
185 comments
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22
ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
blogs.windows.com · bevacqua · 13 Jan 2016
758 pts
310 comments
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24
Get HTTPS for free
gethttpsforfree.com · somecoder · 30 Jan 2016
731 pts
159 comments
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25
Three Years as a One-Man Startup
medium.com · steveridout · 5 Jan 2016
718 pts
218 comments
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27
Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
robindoherty.com · synesso · 6 Jan 2016
697 pts
316 comments
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29
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
dnainfo.com · danso · 28 Jan 2016
683 pts
343 comments
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30
Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
brave.com · Seldaek · 20 Jan 2016
667 pts
549 comments
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31
Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
reddit.com · yurisagalov · 5 Jan 2016
666 pts
145 comments
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32
PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
postgresql.org · ahochhaus · 7 Jan 2016
660 pts
165 comments
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33
I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
medium.com · markonen · 17 Jan 2016
639 pts
222 comments
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34
Aaron Swartz died three years ago today
crookedtimber.org · jseliger · 11 Jan 2016
635 pts
204 comments
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35
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
medium.com · dtran · 22 Jan 2016
634 pts
292 comments
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36
OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777
undeadly.org · moviuro · 14 Jan 2016
617 pts
214 comments
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37
Google's Free Deep Learning Course
udacity.com · olivercameron · 22 Jan 2016
614 pts
62 comments
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38
Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
citylab.com · hudibras · 9 Jan 2016
606 pts
191 comments
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40
Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
ftc.gov · lpsz · 5 Jan 2016
601 pts
251 comments
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41
Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft
gingearstudio.com · Chico75 · 22 Jan 2016
598 pts
192 comments
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42
Running costs for running a web app
cushionapp.com · EvanHahn · 10 Jan 2016
596 pts
217 comments
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43
Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
arstechnica.com · bane · 28 Jan 2016
595 pts
89 comments
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45
Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning
tinyclouds.org · max_ · 8 Jan 2016
554 pts
90 comments
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46
How I fixed a bug in Atom
davidvgalbraith.com · Garbage · 29 Jan 2016
551 pts
183 comments
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47
Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
blogs.microsoft.com · fforflo · 25 Jan 2016
546 pts
56 comments
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48
Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
twitter.com · ishtu · 26 Jan 2016
544 pts
174 comments
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49
Dell Computers Has Been Hacked
10zenmonkeys.com · MilnerRoute · 5 Jan 2016
537 pts
209 comments
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50
Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative
github.com · yarapavan · 29 Jan 2016
537 pts
73 comments
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52
Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out
store.steampowered.com · Audiophilip · 27 Jan 2016
520 pts
264 comments
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53
The NICAM Codec replacement project
bbc.co.uk · dtf · 20 Jan 2016
519 pts
106 comments
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55
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
npr.org · sabya · 19 Jan 2016
493 pts
83 comments
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56
CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
wsws.org · kushti · 30 Jan 2016
492 pts
202 comments
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57
Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
medium.com · Jerry2 · 11 Jan 2016
491 pts
190 comments
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58
Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
researchgate.net · brahmwg · 7 Jan 2016
483 pts
200 comments
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59
Open Guide to Equity Compensation
github.com · zalzal · 11 Jan 2016
482 pts
74 comments
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60
I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial
mercurial-scm.org · jordigh · 25 Jan 2016
480 pts
162 comments
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