The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2016
We track 1,013 stories from April 2016, averaging 233 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 113,520 comments, 112 per story on average.
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Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
bbc.com · G5ANDY · 3 Apr 2016
1.4k pts
435 comments
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My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
thecodist.com · doppp · 6 Apr 2016
1.3k pts
618 comments
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Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
sciencemag.org · nkurz · 29 Apr 2016
1.1k pts
381 comments
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WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
whispersystems.org · piquadrat · 5 Apr 2016
1.1k pts
376 comments
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YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
rg3.github.io · h43k3r · 8 Apr 2016
989 pts
321 comments
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Visual Studio Code 1.0
code.visualstudio.com · lukehoban · 14 Apr 2016
966 pts
461 comments
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Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
letsencrypt.org · dankohn1 · 12 Apr 2016
896 pts
170 comments
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How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script
devco.re · phwd · 21 Apr 2016
865 pts
124 comments
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The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
mobiforge.com · Ovid · 22 Apr 2016
857 pts
449 comments
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Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser
playground.tensorflow.org · shancarter · 12 Apr 2016
855 pts
116 comments
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Being a Developer After 40
medium.com · wallflower · 26 Apr 2016
854 pts
549 comments
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Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
hackerthemes.com · arechsteiner · 21 Apr 2016
847 pts
161 comments
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SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
youtube.com · cryptoz · 8 Apr 2016
845 pts
354 comments
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Infinit announces Project Dropboxe
blog.infinit.one · winta · 29 Apr 2016
830 pts
134 comments
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Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
status.cloud.google.com · sgrytoyr · 13 Apr 2016
799 pts
350 comments
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US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses
k7r.eu · dandelion_lover · 3 Apr 2016
773 pts
104 comments
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Dropbox Project Infinite
blogs.dropbox.com · maguay · 26 Apr 2016
743 pts
290 comments
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Introducing MIR
blog.rust-lang.org · steveklabnik · 27 Apr 2016
736 pts
164 comments
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Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
eff.org · DiabloD3 · 5 Apr 2016
735 pts
309 comments
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Node.js v6.0 Released
nodejs.org · JoshGlazebrook · 26 Apr 2016
728 pts
159 comments
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Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe
rationalconspiracy.com · apsec112 · 25 Apr 2016
726 pts
317 comments
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Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms
mail.fsfeurope.org · stargrave · 4 Apr 2016
713 pts
274 comments
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Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
reddit.com · tshtf · 16 Apr 2016
703 pts
244 comments
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Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS
postphp.com · Casseres · 12 Apr 2016
695 pts
408 comments
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Congratulations You’ve Been Fired
mobile.nytimes.com · dcschelt · 9 Apr 2016
679 pts
429 comments
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Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
ibtimes.co.uk · ponyous · 4 Apr 2016
664 pts
259 comments
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Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
motherboard.vice.com · TiredOfLife · 20 Apr 2016
655 pts
202 comments
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I decided to make a graphics card for my Amiga 2000
github.com · mntmn · 16 Apr 2016
651 pts
124 comments
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Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
bloomberg.com · MichaelRenor · 19 Apr 2016
637 pts
502 comments
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Android Studio 2.0 Released
android-developers.blogspot.com · ingve · 7 Apr 2016
629 pts
96 comments
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Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon
annchristy.com · monkeyprojects · 18 Apr 2016
627 pts
188 comments
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The Trouble with CloudFlare
blog.torproject.org · tshtf · 1 Apr 2016
620 pts
351 comments
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Remote code execution, git, and OS X
rachelbythebay.com · ingve · 18 Apr 2016
616 pts
370 comments
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Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads'
techdirt.com · jackgavigan · 8 Apr 2016
606 pts
271 comments
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Solar is now cheaper than some coal, says India energy minister
climatechangenews.com · Osiris30 · 19 Apr 2016
605 pts
249 comments
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Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
facebook.com · mbrundle · 7 Apr 2016
603 pts
126 comments
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How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution
medium.com · DiabloD3 · 2 Apr 2016
585 pts
116 comments
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The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
npr.org · molecule · 9 Apr 2016
581 pts
209 comments
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Show HN: What every browser knows about you
webkay.robinlinus.com · Capira · 1 Apr 2016
553 pts
206 comments
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20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
stevehanov.ca · _kush · 6 Apr 2016
545 pts
157 comments
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Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
blog.bitpay.com · stavros · 28 Apr 2016
542 pts
431 comments
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The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
theguardian.com · dineshp2 · 11 Apr 2016
542 pts
338 comments
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Arduino in the size of a AA battery
techcrunch.com · asimuvPR · 20 Apr 2016
528 pts
170 comments
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Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule
blogs.microsoft.com · tbrownaw · 16 Apr 2016
528 pts
148 comments
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Internet hyperlinks do not infringe copyright, EU court advised
in.reuters.com · jonbaer · 7 Apr 2016
523 pts
107 comments
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Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
rewritingthecode.com · waffle_ss · 5 Apr 2016
513 pts
465 comments
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Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments
stackoverflow.com · ingve · 27 Apr 2016
507 pts
104 comments
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Design better databases
web.archive.org · fordarnold · 7 Apr 2016
506 pts
175 comments
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