The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2016

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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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Amazon Go amazon.com · mangoman · 5 Dec 2016

1.2k pts 982 comments

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Building Jarvis facebook.com · tosh · 19 Dec 2016

1.2k pts 251 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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Developers’ side projects joelonsoftware.com · grabeh · 9 Dec 2016

1.1k pts 389 comments

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Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts yahoo.tumblr.com · _vvdf · 14 Dec 2016

1k pts 569 comments

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OpenAI Universe universe.openai.com · sama · 5 Dec 2016

1k pts 129 comments

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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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Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website launchaco.com · marclave · 7 Dec 2016

929 pts 164 comments

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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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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography crypto101.io · zerognowl · 2 Dec 2016

919 pts 140 comments

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'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience shivankaul.com · skaul · 8 Dec 2016

911 pts 510 comments

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Things You Notice When You Quit the News raptitude.com · ysarbabi · 11 Dec 2016

891 pts 487 comments

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People idlewords.com · pw · 22 Dec 2016

883 pts 580 comments

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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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Bose Hearphones hearphones.bose.com · akramhussein · 9 Dec 2016

830 pts 407 comments

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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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John Glenn has died dispatch.com · oaf357 · 8 Dec 2016

797 pts 152 comments

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Waymo: Google's self-driving car company waymo.com · _khwc · 13 Dec 2016

785 pts 748 comments

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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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I am not a self-made man facebook.com · sergiotapia · 9 Dec 2016

785 pts 261 comments

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HandBrake 1.0.0 Released handbrake.fr · bomanbot · 26 Dec 2016

780 pts 174 comments

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Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016? djadmin · 11 Dec 2016

779 pts 678 comments

24

German research institutions boycott Elsevier sub.uni-goettingen.de · millettjon · 15 Dec 2016

764 pts 121 comments

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I'm giving up on PGP blog.filippo.io · FiloSottile · 6 Dec 2016

745 pts 338 comments

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Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch  medium.com · batina · 19 Dec 2016

735 pts 104 comments

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Htop explained peteris.rocks · p8donald · 2 Dec 2016

716 pts 101 comments

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Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews blog.interviewing.io · leeny · 28 Dec 2016

692 pts 311 comments

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Practical Deep Learning for Coders course.fast.ai · jph00 · 20 Dec 2016

683 pts 91 comments

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Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience rajk.me · quantumtremor · 1 Dec 2016

669 pts 422 comments

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This AI Boom Will Also Bust overcomingbias.com · KKKKkkkk1 · 3 Dec 2016

662 pts 302 comments

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AngelList acquires Product Hunt techcrunch.com · gjenkin · 1 Dec 2016

656 pts 265 comments

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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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Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video] darkpatterns.org · alexpoulsen · 6 Dec 2016

639 pts 311 comments

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LiChess: Learn from your mistakes en.lichess.org · akkartik · 23 Dec 2016

639 pts 113 comments

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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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Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor kakoune.org · petepete · 13 Dec 2016

631 pts 327 comments

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To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) nytimes.com · jseliger · 22 Dec 2016

618 pts 639 comments

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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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Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly godbolt.org · setra · 15 Dec 2016

602 pts 151 comments

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Talks that changed the way I think about programming opowell.com · greywolve · 8 Dec 2016

593 pts 95 comments

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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) freedom-to-tinker.com · ColanR · 17 Dec 2016

586 pts 257 comments

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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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Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps kickstarter.engineering · mecredis · 14 Dec 2016

571 pts 73 comments

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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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Why does calloc exist? vorpus.org · wyldfire · 5 Dec 2016

553 pts 132 comments

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Why time management is ruining our lives theguardian.com · eoin_murphy · 22 Dec 2016

552 pts 203 comments

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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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My Favorite Books of 2016 gatesnotes.com · taylorwc · 5 Dec 2016

546 pts 138 comments

50

My Pixel has a manufacturing defect 9to5google.com · ivank · 10 Dec 2016

544 pts 344 comments

51

GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 bloomberg.com · mobee · 15 Dec 2016

540 pts 568 comments

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What Makes a Senior Software Developer? blog.professorbeekums.com · beekums · 12 Dec 2016

536 pts 238 comments

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Pebble's next step blog.getpebble.com · david-given · 7 Dec 2016

529 pts 442 comments

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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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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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1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856 rachelbythebay.com · TimWolla · 8 Dec 2016

522 pts 100 comments

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Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013) bottomupcs.com · Chesco_ · 24 Dec 2016

516 pts 156 comments

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VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim vimwiki.github.io · type0 · 12 Dec 2016

515 pts 120 comments

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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think nngroup.com · hug · 6 Dec 2016

512 pts 325 comments

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Blue Ocean jenkins.io · bauerpl · 20 Dec 2016

509 pts 178 comments