The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2016

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A Protocol for Dying hintjens.com · aleksi · 22 Apr 2016

1.6k pts 318 comments

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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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Kite – Programming Copilot kite.com · wodow · 14 Apr 2016

1.1k pts 232 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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Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund dang · 6 Apr 2016

867 pts 286 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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BYOT: Bring your own team stripe.com · hepha1979 · 25 Apr 2016

826 pts 180 comments

19

Save Netflix eff.org · thecombjelly · 4 Apr 2016

813 pts 225 comments

20

GitLab Pages pages.gitlab.io · webiad · 5 Apr 2016

812 pts 291 comments

21

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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Squash your commits github.com · WillAbides · 1 Apr 2016

702 pts 339 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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React v15.0 facebook.github.io · clessg · 7 Apr 2016

695 pts 163 comments

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Congratulations You’ve Been Fired mobile.nytimes.com · dcschelt · 9 Apr 2016

679 pts 429 comments

34

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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Vim 8.0 is coming github.com · mrzool · 13 Apr 2016

649 pts 412 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

41

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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Xamarin Open-Sourced open.xamarin.com · fekberg · 27 Apr 2016

581 pts 199 comments

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Cruise blog.samaltman.com · sama · 13 Apr 2016

580 pts 386 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

58

Who Was Ramanujan? backchannel.com · thepoet · 28 Apr 2016

508 pts 121 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