The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2016

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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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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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Diamonds Suck (2006) diamondssuck.com · Tomte · 13 Nov 2016

1.3k pts 576 comments

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Advanced Data Structures courses.csail.mit.edu · ingve · 4 Nov 2016

1.3k pts 141 comments

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H.264 is Magic sidbala.com · LASR · 4 Nov 2016

1.2k pts 219 comments

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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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“I have toyota corola” daniel.haxx.se · robin_reala · 14 Nov 2016

1.2k pts 350 comments

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Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS amazonlightsail.com · polmolea · 30 Nov 2016

1.1k pts 614 comments

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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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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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Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator indiehackers.com · csallen · 29 Nov 2016

1.1k pts 329 comments

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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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Ask HN: Who is firing? wellworld · 2 Nov 2016

1.1k pts 432 comments

14

Quick, Draw quickdraw.withgoogle.com · madmax108 · 16 Nov 2016

1.1k pts 328 comments

15

Don’t Mess with The Google dansdeals.com · mendelk · 16 Nov 2016

1.1k pts 496 comments

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Leonard Cohen Has Died rollingstone.com · joaomsa · 11 Nov 2016

978 pts 140 comments

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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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Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets blog.bugreplay.com · mirceasoaica · 2 Nov 2016

873 pts 575 comments

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Matrix Multiplication matrixmultiplication.xyz · kasbah · 25 Nov 2016

873 pts 131 comments

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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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Fidel Castro has died bbc.com · nerdy · 26 Nov 2016

810 pts 767 comments

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Show HN: Primitive for macOS primitive.lol · fogleman · 15 Nov 2016

798 pts 145 comments

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Donald Trump Is Elected President nytimes.com · koolba · 9 Nov 2016

791 pts 1.7k comments

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CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife gchq.github.io · robin_reala · 28 Nov 2016

785 pts 139 comments

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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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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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Guide to Remote Work zapier.com · colinscape · 1 Nov 2016

747 pts 103 comments

28

Music for Programming musicforprogramming.net · galfarragem · 1 Nov 2016

738 pts 427 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) whoishiring · 1 Nov 2016

711 pts 1.1k comments

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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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4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles lapinozz.github.io · MaxLeiter · 21 Nov 2016

703 pts 182 comments

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How to start a company with no free time medium.com · prostoalex · 18 Nov 2016

692 pts 176 comments

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Web fonts, boy, I don't know meowni.ca · guessmyname · 3 Nov 2016

690 pts 323 comments

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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? aeon.co · jonbaer · 25 Nov 2016

680 pts 559 comments

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Miyazaki Tribute blender.org · cheiVia0 · 19 Nov 2016

678 pts 117 comments

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Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers dply.co · OwainX · 24 Nov 2016

673 pts 198 comments

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Who Will Command the Robot Armies? idlewords.com · stablemap · 18 Nov 2016

673 pts 165 comments

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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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Visual Studio for Mac msdn.microsoft.com · runesoerensen · 14 Nov 2016

664 pts 413 comments

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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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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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Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware aws.amazon.com · jonny2112 · 30 Nov 2016

643 pts 204 comments

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A practical guide to securing macOS github.com · DemiGuru · 23 Nov 2016

633 pts 84 comments

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Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux darlinghq.org · mikemoka · 2 Nov 2016

630 pts 265 comments

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Time to Dump Time Zones nytimes.com · prostoalex · 6 Nov 2016

629 pts 536 comments

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Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News scribblrs.com · spacehacker · 16 Nov 2016

626 pts 326 comments

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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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Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment blog.bugsnag.com · gkze · 8 Nov 2016

618 pts 165 comments

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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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What.CD is shutting down what.cd · Paul_S · 17 Nov 2016

607 pts 267 comments

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Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web blueprintjs.com · ika · 12 Nov 2016

603 pts 203 comments

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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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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS thehftguy.wordpress.com · yarapavan · 19 Nov 2016

598 pts 392 comments

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EmDrive study officially published arc.aiaa.org · babak_ap · 19 Nov 2016

595 pts 427 comments

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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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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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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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Homebrew 1.1.0 brew.sh · sashk · 7 Nov 2016

593 pts 204 comments

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Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language patshaughnessy.net · adamnemecek · 27 Nov 2016

591 pts 234 comments

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How We Make Money at Stack Overflow stackoverflow.blog · ocoster · 15 Nov 2016

578 pts 217 comments