The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2016

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Be Kind briangilham.com · bgilham · 14 Oct 2016

2.5k pts 434 comments

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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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Shame on Y Combinator marco.org · MattBearman · 18 Oct 2016

1.3k pts 1.3k comments

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Google Noto Fonts google.com · bpierre · 6 Oct 2016

1.2k pts 304 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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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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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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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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MacBook Pro apple.com · rl3 · 27 Oct 2016

861 pts 1.7k 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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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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Paper Planes paperplanes.world · reimertz · 3 Oct 2016

792 pts 192 comments

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Windows 93 (2014) windows93.net · hxw · 12 Oct 2016

790 pts 113 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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HN comments are underrated danluu.com · ingve · 23 Oct 2016

733 pts 359 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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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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Not OK, Google techcrunch.com · CapitalistCartr · 5 Oct 2016

651 pts 575 comments

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Buttery Smooth Emacs facebook.com · cheiVia0 · 30 Oct 2016

651 pts 229 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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Why we chose Vue.js about.gitlab.com · rmason · 21 Oct 2016

637 pts 271 comments

51

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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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) whoishiring · 3 Oct 2016

620 pts 977 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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Microsoft Surface Studio theverge.com · 1st1 · 26 Oct 2016

599 pts 552 comments

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Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras techcrunch.com · riqbal · 4 Oct 2016

597 pts 313 comments