The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2016
We track 1,108 stories from November 2016, averaging 243 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 57 stories. Together they drew 141,027 comments, 127 per story on average.
1
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
washingtonpost.com · introvertmac · 9 Nov 2016
1.8k pts
2.2k comments
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2
Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
geuis · 13 Nov 2016
1.4k pts
318 comments
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4
Advanced Data Structures
courses.csail.mit.edu · ingve · 4 Nov 2016
1.3k pts
141 comments
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6
A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
mattermark.com · nickfrost · 9 Nov 2016
1.2k pts
499 comments
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7
“I have toyota corola”
daniel.haxx.se · robin_reala · 14 Nov 2016
1.2k pts
350 comments
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8
Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
amazonlightsail.com · polmolea · 30 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
614 comments
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9
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
mobile.nytimes.com · shill · 20 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
548 comments
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10
Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
cssreference.io · bbx · 24 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
122 comments
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11
Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
indiehackers.com · csallen · 29 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
329 comments
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12
SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
arstechnica.com · phenylene · 17 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
521 comments
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14
Quick, Draw
quickdraw.withgoogle.com · madmax108 · 16 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
328 comments
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15
Don’t Mess with The Google
dansdeals.com · mendelk · 16 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
496 comments
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16
Leonard Cohen Has Died
rollingstone.com · joaomsa · 11 Nov 2016
978 pts
140 comments
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17
DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
deepmind.com · madspindel · 4 Nov 2016
917 pts
329 comments
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18
Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
blog.bugreplay.com · mirceasoaica · 2 Nov 2016
873 pts
575 comments
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19
Matrix Multiplication
matrixmultiplication.xyz · kasbah · 25 Nov 2016
873 pts
131 comments
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20
Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness
gamasutra.com · mutor · 9 Nov 2016
845 pts
176 comments
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22
Show HN: Primitive for macOS
primitive.lol · fogleman · 15 Nov 2016
798 pts
145 comments
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23
Donald Trump Is Elected President
nytimes.com · koolba · 9 Nov 2016
791 pts
1.7k comments
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24
CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife
gchq.github.io · robin_reala · 28 Nov 2016
785 pts
139 comments
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25
Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
assets.donaldjtrump.com · arzt · 9 Nov 2016
784 pts
1.3k comments
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26
We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
medium.com · CaliforniaKarl · 28 Nov 2016
757 pts
261 comments
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28
Music for Programming
musicforprogramming.net · galfarragem · 1 Nov 2016
738 pts
427 comments
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29
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
whoishiring · 1 Nov 2016
711 pts
1.1k comments
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30
Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
techcrunch.com · CodeGenie · 10 Nov 2016
710 pts
614 comments
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31
4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles
lapinozz.github.io · MaxLeiter · 21 Nov 2016
703 pts
182 comments
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32
How to start a company with no free time
medium.com · prostoalex · 18 Nov 2016
692 pts
176 comments
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33
Web fonts, boy, I don't know
meowni.ca · guessmyname · 3 Nov 2016
690 pts
323 comments
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34
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
aeon.co · jonbaer · 25 Nov 2016
680 pts
559 comments
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36
Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
dply.co · OwainX · 24 Nov 2016
673 pts
198 comments
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37
Who Will Command the Robot Armies?
idlewords.com · stablemap · 18 Nov 2016
673 pts
165 comments
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38
Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
reddit.com · wildmusings · 24 Nov 2016
668 pts
665 comments
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39
Visual Studio for Mac
msdn.microsoft.com · runesoerensen · 14 Nov 2016
664 pts
413 comments
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40
Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
zdnet.com · eeZah7Ux · 17 Nov 2016
651 pts
291 comments
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41
Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
github.com · gliechtenstein · 5 Nov 2016
648 pts
176 comments
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42
Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
aws.amazon.com · jonny2112 · 30 Nov 2016
643 pts
204 comments
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43
A practical guide to securing macOS
github.com · DemiGuru · 23 Nov 2016
633 pts
84 comments
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44
Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
darlinghq.org · mikemoka · 2 Nov 2016
630 pts
265 comments
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46
Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News
scribblrs.com · spacehacker · 16 Nov 2016
626 pts
326 comments
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47
Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools
farmhack.org · Osiris30 · 29 Nov 2016
621 pts
107 comments
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48
Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
blog.bugsnag.com · gkze · 8 Nov 2016
618 pts
165 comments
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49
Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device
plasma-mobile.org · mintplant · 2 Nov 2016
615 pts
268 comments
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51
Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
blueprintjs.com · ika · 12 Nov 2016
603 pts
203 comments
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52
The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete
mwi.usma.edu · yread · 15 Nov 2016
600 pts
191 comments
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53
Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
thehftguy.wordpress.com · yarapavan · 19 Nov 2016
598 pts
392 comments
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54
EmDrive study officially published
arc.aiaa.org · babak_ap · 19 Nov 2016
595 pts
427 comments
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55
Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
techcrunch.com · ickler8 · 16 Nov 2016
595 pts
332 comments
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56
NIH Scientists Identify Antibody That Neutralizes Nearly All HIV Strains
niaid.nih.gov · jjuhl · 19 Nov 2016
595 pts
139 comments
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57
Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
groovehq.com · lxm · 3 Nov 2016
594 pts
273 comments
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59
Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language
patshaughnessy.net · adamnemecek · 27 Nov 2016
591 pts
234 comments
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60
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
stackoverflow.blog · ocoster · 15 Nov 2016
578 pts
217 comments
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