The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2016

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Tell HN: New features and a moderator dang · 11 Jul 2016

2.4k pts 451 comments

2

Why I’m Suing the US Government bunniestudios.com · ivank · 21 Jul 2016

1.9k pts 307 comments

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Master Plan, Part Deux tesla.com · arturogarrido · 21 Jul 2016

1.9k pts 677 comments

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Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes jgthms.com · bbx · 26 Jul 2016

1.6k pts 152 comments

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Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years youtube.com · flurpitude · 11 Jul 2016

1.1k pts 223 comments

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LastPass autofill exploit labs.detectify.com · detectify · 27 Jul 2016

1k pts 420 comments

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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful medium.com · orph · 6 Jul 2016

929 pts 189 comments

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We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated nautil.us · dnetesn · 29 Jul 2016

910 pts 275 comments

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A practical security guide for web developers github.com · zianwar · 21 Jul 2016

894 pts 68 comments

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Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem stackstatus.net · gbrayut · 20 Jul 2016

862 pts 316 comments

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Pokemon Go is a huge security risk adamreeve.tumblr.com · patchoulol · 11 Jul 2016

780 pts 251 comments

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I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court medium.com · drpp · 21 Jul 2016

779 pts 239 comments

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Create React Apps with No Configuration facebook.github.io · vjeux · 22 Jul 2016

777 pts 241 comments

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Shipping Rust code in Firefox hacks.mozilla.org · dwaxe · 12 Jul 2016

748 pts 189 comments

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Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL eng.uber.com · myhrvold · 26 Jul 2016

731 pts 294 comments

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Don't add your 2 cents sivers.org · dhruvkar · 25 Jul 2016

719 pts 237 comments

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The Fight for the “Right to Repair” smithsonianmag.com · sinak · 13 Jul 2016

704 pts 318 comments

18

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code github.com · uptown · 7 Jul 2016

652 pts 145 comments

19

Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg 0x41.no · tilt · 15 Jul 2016

639 pts 194 comments

20

Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules eweek.com · pdpi · 1 Jul 2016

636 pts 334 comments

21

Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol whispersystems.org · mayneack · 8 Jul 2016

633 pts 295 comments

22

Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment? throw94 · 29 Jul 2016

630 pts 767 comments

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HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal hyperterm.org · pandemicsyn · 15 Jul 2016

630 pts 255 comments

24

Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon c9.io · welder · 14 Jul 2016

627 pts 242 comments

25

When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015) news.nationalgeographic.com · reimertz · 20 Jul 2016

626 pts 228 comments

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Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production blog.docker.com · samber · 29 Jul 2016

599 pts 163 comments

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Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel news.uic.edu · Mz · 30 Jul 2016

595 pts 147 comments

28

Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1 bengarney.com · kimburgess · 7 Jul 2016

590 pts 55 comments

29

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here scientificamerican.com · doener · 30 Jul 2016

586 pts 331 comments

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Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s blogs.dropbox.com · samber · 14 Jul 2016

582 pts 190 comments

31

PostgreSQL Exercises pgexercises.com · trymas · 2 Jul 2016

576 pts 70 comments

32

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) whoishiring · 1 Jul 2016

566 pts 894 comments

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See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services myactivity.google.com · hokkos · 6 Jul 2016

559 pts 276 comments

34

Rudolf Kálmán Has Died hungarytoday.hu · szemet · 6 Jul 2016

549 pts 68 comments

35

Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console nintendolife.com · aeno · 14 Jul 2016

542 pts 262 comments

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Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source medium.com · bozho · 4 Jul 2016

537 pts 86 comments

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Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun antirez.com · dwaxe · 10 Jul 2016

535 pts 139 comments

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A Single Div a.singlediv.com · duck · 14 Jul 2016

535 pts 106 comments

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Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer medium.com · Svenskunganka · 14 Jul 2016

534 pts 273 comments

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Servo Nightly Builds Available blog.servo.org · dolftax · 1 Jul 2016

522 pts 234 comments

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Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work fusion.net · LaSombra · 15 Jul 2016

521 pts 438 comments

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Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team archive.org · mihaitodor · 9 Jul 2016

513 pts 75 comments

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The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline nicholaswindsorhoward.com · helb · 26 Jul 2016

511 pts 428 comments

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Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# cheatdeath.github.io · nxzero · 5 Jul 2016

509 pts 86 comments

45

Gimp 2.9.4 Released gimp.org · macco · 14 Jul 2016

504 pts 225 comments

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Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6 letsencrypt.org · el_duderino · 26 Jul 2016

503 pts 187 comments

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Ask HN: Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day? maythrowaway · 25 Jul 2016

498 pts 348 comments

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CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS github.com · NamPNQ · 5 Jul 2016

493 pts 302 comments

49

Google collects metadata from Android phones borncity.com · aethertap · 1 Jul 2016

490 pts 250 comments

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Vim GIFs vimgifs.com · shawndumas · 19 Jul 2016

489 pts 130 comments

51

The End of Gmane? lars.ingebrigtsen.no · deng · 28 Jul 2016

489 pts 100 comments

52

Wire open-sourced github.com · arunc · 23 Jul 2016

488 pts 132 comments

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After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable wearethemighty.com · sbjustin · 29 Jul 2016

485 pts 270 comments

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Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer yhatt.github.io · somecoder · 12 Jul 2016

484 pts 95 comments

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Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta blog.stackoverflow.com · sklivvz1971 · 21 Jul 2016

481 pts 128 comments

56

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery alsa.org · obeone · 27 Jul 2016

481 pts 102 comments

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Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design medium.com · cosbas · 19 Jul 2016

478 pts 195 comments

58

Serverless Architectures martinfowler.com · runesoerensen · 18 Jul 2016

477 pts 202 comments

59

Professional Software Development mixmastamyk.bitbucket.org · iris-digital · 12 Jul 2016

474 pts 145 comments

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Scipy Lecture Notes – Learn numerics, science, and data with Python scipy-lectures.org · kercker · 28 Jul 2016

473 pts 17 comments