The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2016

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Pardon Snowden pardonsnowden.org · erlend_sh · 14 Sep 2016

2.6k pts 781 comments

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Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] spacex.com · tilt · 27 Sep 2016

2.1k pts 1k comments

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Philae Found esa.int · de_dave · 5 Sep 2016

1.2k pts 125 comments

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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm github.com · ExUtumno · 30 Sep 2016

1.2k pts 122 comments

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EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020 futurism.com · emartinelli · 6 Sep 2016

1.2k pts 132 comments

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Announcing new tools, forums, and features github.com · joshmanders · 14 Sep 2016

1.1k pts 269 comments

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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future ycombinator.com · sama · 15 Sep 2016

1.1k pts 513 comments

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Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop reddit.com · makaronin · 21 Sep 2016

1.1k pts 467 comments

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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac applehelpwriter.com · 8bitben · 9 Sep 2016

1k pts 412 comments

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral techcrunch.com · mariusz79 · 1 Sep 2016

986 pts 535 comments

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You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] youtube.com · carlesfe · 7 Sep 2016

957 pts 420 comments

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Homebrew 1.0.0 brew.sh · robin_reala · 21 Sep 2016

904 pts 246 comments

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Show HN: Primitive Pictures github.com · fogleman · 20 Sep 2016

894 pts 170 comments

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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes cbc.ca · curtis · 1 Sep 2016

853 pts 339 comments

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I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas kalzumeus.com · rmoriz · 9 Sep 2016

850 pts 317 comments

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Angular 2 Final Released angular.io · mikeryan52 · 15 Sep 2016

838 pts 431 comments

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I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know jakewins.com · jakewins · 17 Sep 2016

833 pts 100 comments

18

An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight feminem.org · bshep · 3 Sep 2016

832 pts 288 comments

19

Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? barefootcoder · 12 Sep 2016

822 pts 661 comments

20

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat nytimes.com · okket · 12 Sep 2016

816 pts 599 comments

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Investing for Geeks training.kalzumeus.com · gk1 · 16 Sep 2016

797 pts 457 comments

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How to steal a developer's local database bouk.co · chachram · 1 Sep 2016

770 pts 230 comments

23

Music theory for nerds eev.ee · hardmath123 · 19 Sep 2016

766 pts 378 comments

24

iPhone 7 apple.com · benigeri · 7 Sep 2016

756 pts 1.7k comments

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Ripgrep – A new command line search tool blog.burntsushi.net · anp · 23 Sep 2016

740 pts 209 comments

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Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them ohshitgit.com · emilong · 9 Sep 2016

713 pts 335 comments

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How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead nytimes.com · niyazpk · 3 Sep 2016

694 pts 199 comments

28

Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post? rkhraishi · 14 Sep 2016

692 pts 137 comments

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UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency github.com · kawera · 25 Sep 2016

688 pts 423 comments

30

In defence of Douglas Crockford atom-morgan.github.io · ramblerman · 4 Sep 2016

683 pts 419 comments

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What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org · cpeterso · 20 Sep 2016

680 pts 373 comments

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Vim 8.0 released groups.google.com · laqq3 · 12 Sep 2016

661 pts 299 comments

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“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply” aftenposten.no · Sainth · 8 Sep 2016

660 pts 202 comments

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Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack businessinsider.com · bishnu · 23 Sep 2016

658 pts 440 comments

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Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany nytimes.com · mh-cx · 27 Sep 2016

658 pts 427 comments

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Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects jeremyaboyd.com · kornish · 1 Sep 2016

651 pts 174 comments

37

Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps leafletjs.com · freyfogle · 27 Sep 2016

628 pts 99 comments

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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio deepmind.com · benanne · 8 Sep 2016

627 pts 145 comments

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I am a fast webpage varvy.com · capocannoniere · 7 Sep 2016

621 pts 281 comments

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WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion docs.google.com · aestetix · 26 Sep 2016

608 pts 246 comments

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Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source theintercept.com · etiam · 18 Sep 2016

588 pts 171 comments

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Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity vox.com · tchalla · 9 Sep 2016

579 pts 352 comments

43

GitLab Master Plan about.gitlab.com · dwaxe · 13 Sep 2016

573 pts 327 comments

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Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI techcrunch.com · monsieurpng · 28 Sep 2016

573 pts 248 comments

45

Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness techcrunch.com · bpierre · 6 Sep 2016

572 pts 337 comments

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Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box medium.com · Someone · 24 Sep 2016

568 pts 229 comments

47

Mozilla Thimble thimble.mozilla.org · MaxLeiter · 18 Sep 2016

565 pts 82 comments

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What every coder should know about gamma blog.johnnovak.net · johnnovak · 21 Sep 2016

560 pts 183 comments

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The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses hackernoon.com · amk_ · 7 Sep 2016

556 pts 388 comments

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Announcing TypeScript 2.0 blogs.msdn.microsoft.com · DanRosenwasser · 22 Sep 2016

553 pts 310 comments

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PostgreSQL 9.6 Released postgresql.org · sheff · 29 Sep 2016

553 pts 128 comments

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For 25 years, Carl Malamud has been fighting to make public information public backchannel.com · steven · 12 Sep 2016

552 pts 108 comments

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Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff fastcoexist.com · prawn · 26 Sep 2016

547 pts 329 comments

54

Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid bloomberg.com · adventured · 16 Sep 2016

540 pts 212 comments

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Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry oldgeekjobs.com · _csoo · 15 Sep 2016

538 pts 379 comments

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What typing ^D does on Unix (2009) utcc.utoronto.ca · luu · 6 Sep 2016

536 pts 156 comments

57

Cap’n Proto capnproto.org · implmentor · 10 Sep 2016

535 pts 182 comments

58

The MIT License, Line by Line writing.kemitchell.com · monocasa · 22 Sep 2016

531 pts 134 comments

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90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck corpgov.law.harvard.edu · ikeboy · 30 Sep 2016

524 pts 285 comments

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Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client insomnia.rest · nwrk · 5 Sep 2016

523 pts 154 comments