The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2016

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Request For Research: Basic Income blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 27 Jan 2016

1.9k pts 1.1k comments

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Dear GitHub github.com · msvan · 14 Jan 2016

1.7k pts 463 comments

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David Bowie Has Died hollywoodreporter.com · hccampos · 11 Jan 2016

1.5k pts 301 comments

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Amazon's customer service backdoor medium.com · grapehut · 24 Jan 2016

1.4k pts 356 comments

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Marvin Minsky dies at 88 nytimes.com · joelg · 25 Jan 2016

1.3k pts 178 comments

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Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion bbc.co.uk · xianshou · 27 Jan 2016

1.2k pts 394 comments

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Facebook is closing Parse blog.parse.com · theunquietone · 28 Jan 2016

1.2k pts 500 comments

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How to C in 2016 matt.sh · fcambus · 8 Jan 2016

1.1k pts 581 comments

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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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The Website Obesity Crisis idlewords.com · jmduke · 1 Jan 2016

1.1k pts 367 comments

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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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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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Netflix Is Now Available Around the World media.netflix.com · devhxinc · 6 Jan 2016

1k pts 497 comments

14

Life is Short paulgraham.com · janvdberg · 16 Jan 2016

970 pts 408 comments

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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment medium.com · tptacek · 14 Jan 2016

961 pts 408 comments

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Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab about.gitlab.com · levlaz · 18 Jan 2016

924 pts 318 comments

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Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto caltech.edu · cyanbane · 20 Jan 2016

883 pts 150 comments

18

The Refragmentation paulgraham.com · urs · 2 Jan 2016

852 pts 444 comments

19

Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity desktopneo.com · ziburski · 19 Jan 2016

798 pts 314 comments

20

Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation mjg59.dreamwidth.org · logic · 20 Jan 2016

778 pts 185 comments

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Voxel.css voxelcss.com · notdarkyet · 27 Jan 2016

771 pts 103 comments

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ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open blogs.windows.com · bevacqua · 13 Jan 2016

758 pts 310 comments

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T-Shirts Unravelled threadbase.com · janzer · 23 Jan 2016

756 pts 155 comments

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Get HTTPS for free gethttpsforfree.com · somecoder · 30 Jan 2016

731 pts 159 comments

25

Three Years as a One-Man Startup medium.com · steveridout · 5 Jan 2016

718 pts 218 comments

26

People Call Me Aaron medium.com · marsvoltaire · 11 Jan 2016

701 pts 105 comments

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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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Magic+ getmagicnow.com · calvin_c · 5 Jan 2016

687 pts 462 comments

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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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Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup brave.com · Seldaek · 20 Jan 2016

667 pts 549 comments

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Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern reddit.com · yurisagalov · 5 Jan 2016

666 pts 145 comments

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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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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Aaron Swartz died three years ago today crookedtimber.org · jseliger · 11 Jan 2016

635 pts 204 comments

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Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley medium.com · dtran · 22 Jan 2016

634 pts 292 comments

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OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 undeadly.org · moviuro · 14 Jan 2016

617 pts 214 comments

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Google's Free Deep Learning Course udacity.com · olivercameron · 22 Jan 2016

614 pts 62 comments

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Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger citylab.com · hudibras · 9 Jan 2016

606 pts 191 comments

39

Why use www? yes-www.org · wfunction · 30 Jan 2016

601 pts 267 comments

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Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app ftc.gov · lpsz · 5 Jan 2016

601 pts 251 comments

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Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft gingearstudio.com · Chico75 · 22 Jan 2016

598 pts 192 comments

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Running costs for running a web app cushionapp.com · EvanHahn · 10 Jan 2016

596 pts 217 comments

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Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case arstechnica.com · bane · 28 Jan 2016

595 pts 89 comments

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Peter Naur has died en.wikipedia.org · cperciva · 3 Jan 2016

570 pts 96 comments

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Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning tinyclouds.org · max_ · 8 Jan 2016

554 pts 90 comments

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How I fixed a bug in Atom davidvgalbraith.com · Garbage · 29 Jan 2016

551 pts 183 comments

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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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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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Dell Computers Has Been Hacked 10zenmonkeys.com · MilnerRoute · 5 Jan 2016

537 pts 209 comments

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Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative github.com · yarapavan · 29 Jan 2016

537 pts 73 comments

51

A Canvas Made of Pixels claybavor.com · robk · 14 Jan 2016

525 pts 105 comments

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Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out store.steampowered.com · Audiophilip · 27 Jan 2016

520 pts 264 comments

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The NICAM Codec replacement project bbc.co.uk · dtf · 20 Jan 2016

519 pts 106 comments

54

The Rails Doctrine rubyonrails.org · robin_reala · 19 Jan 2016

497 pts 357 comments

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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CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden wsws.org · kushti · 30 Jan 2016

492 pts 202 comments

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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down medium.com · Jerry2 · 11 Jan 2016

491 pts 190 comments

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Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness researchgate.net · brahmwg · 7 Jan 2016

483 pts 200 comments

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Open Guide to Equity Compensation github.com · zalzal · 11 Jan 2016

482 pts 74 comments

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I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial mercurial-scm.org · jordigh · 25 Jan 2016

480 pts 162 comments