The Best Hacker News Posts of 2016
We track 12,037 stories from 2016, averaging 236 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 708 stories. Together they drew 1,390,899 comments, 116 per story on average.
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Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
spacex.com · tilt · 27 Sep 2016
2.1k pts
1k comments
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7
Ubuntu on Windows
blog.dustinkirkland.com · bpierre · 30 Mar 2016
2k pts
901 comments
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
news.microsoft.com · whatok · 13 Jun 2016
2k pts
833 comments
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9
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
nytimes.com · intull · 11 Feb 2016
2k pts
483 comments
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10
Request For Research: Basic Income
blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 27 Jan 2016
1.9k pts
1.1k comments
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11
Why I’m Suing the US Government
bunniestudios.com · ivank · 21 Jul 2016
1.9k pts
307 comments
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12
Master Plan, Part Deux
tesla.com · arturogarrido · 21 Jul 2016
1.9k pts
677 comments
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13
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
twitter.com · LukeB_UK · 26 May 2016
1.8k pts
393 comments
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14
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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15
Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
gwan.com · fatihky · 13 Oct 2016
1.8k pts
923 comments
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16
NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
haneycodes.net · df07 · 23 Mar 2016
1.7k pts
854 comments
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17
Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
code.facebook.com · cpojer · 11 Oct 2016
1.7k pts
469 comments
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19
RethinkDB is shutting down
rethinkdb.com · neumino · 6 Oct 2016
1.7k pts
441 comments
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21
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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22
Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
jgthms.com · bbx · 26 Jul 2016
1.6k pts
152 comments
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24
We only hire the trendiest
danluu.com · profcalculus · 21 Mar 2016
1.6k pts
716 comments
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25
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
medium.com · lxm · 20 May 2016
1.6k pts
427 comments
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27
Introducing unlimited private repositories
github.com · fuzionmonkey · 11 May 2016
1.6k pts
636 comments
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28
I've Just Liberated My Modules
medium.com · chejazi · 22 Mar 2016
1.6k pts
797 comments
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29
Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]
youtube.com · egb · 8 Jun 2016
1.6k pts
400 comments
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30
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
dynstatus.com · owenwil · 21 Oct 2016
1.6k pts
674 comments
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31
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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32
David Bowie Has Died
hollywoodreporter.com · hccampos · 11 Jan 2016
1.5k pts
301 comments
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33
Amazon's customer service backdoor
medium.com · grapehut · 24 Jan 2016
1.4k pts
356 comments
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34
Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
wiki.gkbrk.com · gkbrk · 21 May 2016
1.4k pts
181 comments
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36
Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
gogameguru.com · jswt001 · 13 Mar 2016
1.4k pts
448 comments
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37
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
bbc.com · G5ANDY · 3 Apr 2016
1.4k pts
435 comments
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38
Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
github.com · forwidur · 11 Oct 2016
1.4k pts
127 comments
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39
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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40
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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42
Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
news.trust.org · tshtf · 4 Oct 2016
1.3k pts
395 comments
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43
Defending Our Brand
letsencrypt.org · alexbilbie · 23 Jun 2016
1.3k pts
263 comments
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44
Announcing SQL Server on Linux
blogs.microsoft.com · bjg · 7 Mar 2016
1.3k pts
476 comments
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47
Moving Forward on Basic Income
blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 31 May 2016
1.3k pts
1.4k comments
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49
The Dropbox hack is real
troyhunt.com · joshschreuder · 31 Aug 2016
1.3k pts
539 comments
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50
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
medium.com · davidkhess · 29 Aug 2016
1.3k pts
558 comments
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51
He Always Had a Dark Side
mastermind.atavist.com · pwnna · 29 Mar 2016
1.3k pts
351 comments
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52
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
defaultnamehere.tumblr.com · adamch · 19 Feb 2016
1.3k pts
189 comments
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54
My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
thecodist.com · doppp · 6 Apr 2016
1.3k pts
618 comments
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55
Apple’s declining software quality
sudophilosophical.com · pljns · 4 Feb 2016
1.3k pts
705 comments
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56
My First 10 Minutes on a Server
codelitt.com · codelitt · 15 Jun 2016
1.3k pts
290 comments
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58
Advanced Data Structures
courses.csail.mit.edu · ingve · 4 Nov 2016
1.3k pts
141 comments
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59
Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award
nytimes.com · matt_d · 1 Mar 2016
1.3k pts
78 comments
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60
Apple Stole My Music
blog.vellumatlanta.com · panic · 5 May 2016
1.3k pts
446 comments
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