The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2016
We track 953 stories from July 2016, averaging 221 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 66 stories. Together they drew 99,550 comments, 104 per story on average.
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Why I’m Suing the US Government
bunniestudios.com · ivank · 21 Jul 2016
1.9k pts
307 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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13
Create React Apps with No Configuration
facebook.github.io · vjeux · 22 Jul 2016
777 pts
241 comments
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14
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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The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
smithsonianmag.com · sinak · 13 Jul 2016
704 pts
318 comments
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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
github.com · uptown · 7 Jul 2016
652 pts
145 comments
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Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
eweek.com · pdpi · 1 Jul 2016
636 pts
334 comments
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Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
whispersystems.org · mayneack · 8 Jul 2016
633 pts
295 comments
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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
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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
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Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1
bengarney.com · kimburgess · 7 Jul 2016
590 pts
55 comments
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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
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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
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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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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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43
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
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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
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Google collects metadata from Android phones
borncity.com · aethertap · 1 Jul 2016
490 pts
250 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
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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
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Serverless Architectures
martinfowler.com · runesoerensen · 18 Jul 2016
477 pts
202 comments
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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
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