The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2016
We track 1,068 stories from December 2016, averaging 235 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 46 stories. Together they drew 125,350 comments, 117 per story on average.
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Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
dang · 5 Dec 2016
1.6k pts
1.2k comments
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Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine
quinndunki.com · mef · 21 Dec 2016
1.1k pts
289 comments
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5
Developers’ side projects
joelonsoftware.com · grabeh · 9 Dec 2016
1.1k pts
389 comments
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6
Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
yahoo.tumblr.com · _vvdf · 14 Dec 2016
1k pts
569 comments
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8
Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
diracdeltas.github.io · xenophonf · 15 Dec 2016
1k pts
280 comments
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9
Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website
launchaco.com · marclave · 7 Dec 2016
929 pts
164 comments
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10
How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
blog.data.gov.sg · sohkamyung · 1 Dec 2016
921 pts
110 comments
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11
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
crypto101.io · zerognowl · 2 Dec 2016
919 pts
140 comments
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12
'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
shivankaul.com · skaul · 8 Dec 2016
911 pts
510 comments
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13
Things You Notice When You Quit the News
raptitude.com · ysarbabi · 11 Dec 2016
891 pts
487 comments
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14
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
idlewords.com · pw · 22 Dec 2016
883 pts
580 comments
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15
Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
nytimes.com · danvoell · 6 Dec 2016
861 pts
249 comments
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16
Bose Hearphones
hearphones.bose.com · akramhussein · 9 Dec 2016
830 pts
407 comments
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17
Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
npr.org · doctorshady · 2 Dec 2016
812 pts
481 comments
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19
Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
waymo.com · _khwc · 13 Dec 2016
785 pts
748 comments
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20
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
bloomberg.com · Osiris30 · 15 Dec 2016
785 pts
301 comments
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21
I am not a self-made man
facebook.com · sergiotapia · 9 Dec 2016
785 pts
261 comments
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23
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
djadmin · 11 Dec 2016
779 pts
678 comments
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24
German research institutions boycott Elsevier
sub.uni-goettingen.de · millettjon · 15 Dec 2016
764 pts
121 comments
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25
I'm giving up on PGP
blog.filippo.io · FiloSottile · 6 Dec 2016
745 pts
338 comments
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26
Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch
medium.com · batina · 19 Dec 2016
735 pts
104 comments
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28
Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
blog.interviewing.io · leeny · 28 Dec 2016
692 pts
311 comments
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29
Practical Deep Learning for Coders
course.fast.ai · jph00 · 20 Dec 2016
683 pts
91 comments
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30
Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
rajk.me · quantumtremor · 1 Dec 2016
669 pts
422 comments
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31
This AI Boom Will Also Bust
overcomingbias.com · KKKKkkkk1 · 3 Dec 2016
662 pts
302 comments
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32
AngelList acquires Product Hunt
techcrunch.com · gjenkin · 1 Dec 2016
656 pts
265 comments
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33
New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
pages.nist.gov · aaronharnly · 14 Dec 2016
642 pts
304 comments
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34
Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
darkpatterns.org · alexpoulsen · 6 Dec 2016
639 pts
311 comments
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35
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
en.lichess.org · akkartik · 23 Dec 2016
639 pts
113 comments
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36
Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
bloomberg.com · kjhughes · 8 Dec 2016
632 pts
441 comments
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37
Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
kakoune.org · petepete · 13 Dec 2016
631 pts
327 comments
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38
To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
nytimes.com · jseliger · 22 Dec 2016
618 pts
639 comments
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39
Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
nytimes.com · salmonet · 17 Dec 2016
610 pts
394 comments
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40
Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
godbolt.org · setra · 15 Dec 2016
602 pts
151 comments
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41
Talks that changed the way I think about programming
opowell.com · greywolve · 8 Dec 2016
593 pts
95 comments
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42
How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
freedom-to-tinker.com · ColanR · 17 Dec 2016
586 pts
257 comments
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43
Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire
reddit.com · ikeboy · 7 Dec 2016
576 pts
212 comments
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44
Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
kickstarter.engineering · mecredis · 14 Dec 2016
571 pts
73 comments
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45
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
edw519.posthaven.com · Mz · 6 Dec 2016
568 pts
287 comments
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47
Why time management is ruining our lives
theguardian.com · eoin_murphy · 22 Dec 2016
552 pts
203 comments
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48
Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013)
istacee.wordpress.com · fagnerbrack · 8 Dec 2016
550 pts
354 comments
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49
My Favorite Books of 2016
gatesnotes.com · taylorwc · 5 Dec 2016
546 pts
138 comments
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50
My Pixel has a manufacturing defect
9to5google.com · ivank · 10 Dec 2016
544 pts
344 comments
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51
GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
bloomberg.com · mobee · 15 Dec 2016
540 pts
568 comments
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52
What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
blog.professorbeekums.com · beekums · 12 Dec 2016
536 pts
238 comments
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53
Pebble's next step
blog.getpebble.com · david-given · 7 Dec 2016
529 pts
442 comments
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54
Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
radio.garden · gamma_raj · 13 Dec 2016
527 pts
110 comments
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55
Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
talyarkoni.org · geospeck · 12 Dec 2016
525 pts
140 comments
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56
1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856
rachelbythebay.com · TimWolla · 8 Dec 2016
522 pts
100 comments
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57
Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
bottomupcs.com · Chesco_ · 24 Dec 2016
516 pts
156 comments
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58
VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim
vimwiki.github.io · type0 · 12 Dec 2016
515 pts
120 comments
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59
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
nngroup.com · hug · 6 Dec 2016
512 pts
325 comments
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