The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2016
We track 1,049 stories from October 2016, averaging 255 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 62 stories. Together they drew 137,360 comments, 131 per story on average.
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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
gwan.com · fatihky · 13 Oct 2016
1.8k pts
923 comments
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Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
code.facebook.com · cpojer · 11 Oct 2016
1.7k pts
469 comments
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RethinkDB is shutting down
rethinkdb.com · neumino · 6 Oct 2016
1.7k pts
441 comments
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DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
dynstatus.com · owenwil · 21 Oct 2016
1.6k pts
674 comments
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All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
tesla.com · impish19 · 20 Oct 2016
1.5k pts
1.1k comments
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Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
github.com · forwidur · 11 Oct 2016
1.4k pts
127 comments
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I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
twitter.com · alpeb · 4 Oct 2016
1.4k pts
277 comments
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Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
news.trust.org · tshtf · 4 Oct 2016
1.3k pts
395 comments
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Why you should never use Upwork
medium.com · shadlovesgrowth · 23 Oct 2016
1.2k pts
264 comments
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13
The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
99percentinvisible.org · misnamed · 10 Oct 2016
1.1k pts
590 comments
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14
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
justanton · 13 Oct 2016
1.1k pts
171 comments
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Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
blog.oldgeekjobs.com · johnwheeler · 19 Oct 2016
1.1k pts
247 comments
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Eve: Programming designed for humans
programming.witheve.com · ibdknox · 28 Oct 2016
1.1k pts
374 comments
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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
blog.kapeli.com · ingve · 5 Oct 2016
1k pts
470 comments
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Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
karim · 24 Oct 2016
1k pts
454 comments
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19
Programming books you might want to consider reading
danluu.com · deafcalculus · 16 Oct 2016
1k pts
131 comments
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Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
lightnote.co · akalin · 25 Oct 2016
955 pts
148 comments
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Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
georgehdd · 15 Oct 2016
950 pts
125 comments
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Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
nintendo.com · ocdtrekkie · 20 Oct 2016
942 pts
539 comments
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Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
robinlinus.github.io · Capira · 12 Oct 2016
911 pts
247 comments
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Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
mngutterman · 4 Oct 2016
848 pts
255 comments
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Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
open_nsfw.gitlab.io · brakmic · 20 Oct 2016
846 pts
168 comments
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
whispersystems.org · blfr · 4 Oct 2016
826 pts
246 comments
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Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
reuters.com · blastofpast · 26 Oct 2016
822 pts
278 comments
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29
Taking PHP Seriously
slack.engineering · josephscott · 13 Oct 2016
819 pts
652 comments
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Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down
washingtonpost.com · ohjeez · 10 Oct 2016
819 pts
115 comments
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Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
blog.fosketts.net · sfoskett · 29 Oct 2016
814 pts
446 comments
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Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
bbc.co.uk · dharma1 · 17 Oct 2016
782 pts
1.2k comments
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WebAssembly Browser Preview
v8project.blogspot.com · zmodem · 31 Oct 2016
759 pts
338 comments
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Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
latimes.com · whitepoplar · 28 Oct 2016
745 pts
1k comments
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan
nobelprize.org · eCa · 13 Oct 2016
731 pts
339 comments
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Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
github.com · bijection · 12 Oct 2016
727 pts
97 comments
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Git from the inside out
codewords.recurse.com · Tomte · 27 Oct 2016
722 pts
119 comments
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Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
danluu.com · pyb · 3 Oct 2016
712 pts
423 comments
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Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
blog.minocacorp.com · EvanGr · 31 Oct 2016
711 pts
187 comments
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A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
techcrunch.com · endswapper · 9 Oct 2016
710 pts
348 comments
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44
Cognitive bias cheat sheet
betterhumans.coach.me · charlieirish · 27 Oct 2016
684 pts
138 comments
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White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
reuters.com · petethomas · 26 Oct 2016
667 pts
411 comments
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You might not need JavaScript
youmightnotneedjs.com · MarkusWinand · 12 Oct 2016
649 pts
246 comments
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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
expatsoftware.com · jasonkester · 4 Oct 2016
640 pts
114 comments
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Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
elie.net · revicon · 22 Oct 2016
637 pts
140 comments
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Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
indiehackers.com · chrischen · 26 Oct 2016
627 pts
269 comments
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Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline
thenation.com · joshfraser · 16 Oct 2016
621 pts
143 comments
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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
zeit.co · montogeek · 25 Oct 2016
618 pts
162 comments
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Hack the Kernel – Learn about operating systems online
ops-class.org · krat0sprakhar · 23 Oct 2016
611 pts
55 comments
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Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos
bbc.com · Lio · 21 Oct 2016
606 pts
215 comments
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The terrorist inside my husband's brain
m.neurology.org · technological · 1 Oct 2016
600 pts
141 comments
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Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras
techcrunch.com · riqbal · 4 Oct 2016
597 pts
313 comments
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