The Best Hacker News Posts of 2016

1

A Message to Our Customers apple.com · epaga · 17 Feb 2016

5.8k pts 967 comments

2

UK votes to leave EU bbc.co.uk · dmmalam · 24 Jun 2016

3.1k pts 2.5k comments

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Pardon Snowden pardonsnowden.org · erlend_sh · 14 Sep 2016

2.6k pts 781 comments

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Be Kind briangilham.com · bgilham · 14 Oct 2016

2.5k pts 434 comments

5

Tell HN: New features and a moderator dang · 11 Jul 2016

2.4k pts 451 comments

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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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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

9

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right nytimes.com · intull · 11 Feb 2016

2k pts 483 comments

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Request For Research: Basic Income blog.ycombinator.com · mattkrisiloff · 27 Jan 2016

1.9k pts 1.1k comments

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Why I’m Suing the US Government bunniestudios.com · ivank · 21 Jul 2016

1.9k pts 307 comments

12

Master Plan, Part Deux tesla.com · arturogarrido · 21 Jul 2016

1.9k pts 677 comments

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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Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. washingtonpost.com · introvertmac · 9 Nov 2016

1.8k pts 2.2k comments

15

Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test gwan.com · fatihky · 13 Oct 2016

1.8k pts 923 comments

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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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Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript code.facebook.com · cpojer · 11 Oct 2016

1.7k pts 469 comments

18

Dear GitHub github.com · msvan · 14 Jan 2016

1.7k pts 463 comments

19

RethinkDB is shutting down rethinkdb.com · neumino · 6 Oct 2016

1.7k pts 441 comments

20

Stripe Atlas stripe.com · hepha1979 · 24 Feb 2016

1.7k pts 390 comments

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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Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes jgthms.com · bbx · 26 Jul 2016

1.6k pts 152 comments

23

Responsive Pixel Art essenmitsosse.de · bpierre · 9 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 122 comments

24

We only hire the trendiest danluu.com · profcalculus · 21 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 716 comments

25

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds medium.com · lxm · 20 May 2016

1.6k pts 427 comments

26

A Protocol for Dying hintjens.com · aleksi · 22 Apr 2016

1.6k pts 318 comments

27

Introducing unlimited private repositories github.com · fuzionmonkey · 11 May 2016

1.6k pts 636 comments

28

I've Just Liberated My Modules medium.com · chejazi · 22 Mar 2016

1.6k pts 797 comments

29

Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video] youtube.com · egb · 8 Jun 2016

1.6k pts 400 comments

30

DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS dynstatus.com · owenwil · 21 Oct 2016

1.6k pts 674 comments

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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David Bowie Has Died hollywoodreporter.com · hccampos · 11 Jan 2016

1.5k pts 301 comments

33

Amazon's customer service backdoor medium.com · grapehut · 24 Jan 2016

1.4k pts 356 comments

34

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel wiki.gkbrk.com · gkbrk · 21 May 2016

1.4k pts 181 comments

35

Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today alankay · 20 Jun 2016

1.4k pts 893 comments

36

Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 gogameguru.com · jswt001 · 13 Mar 2016

1.4k pts 448 comments

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Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens bbc.com · G5ANDY · 3 Apr 2016

1.4k pts 435 comments

38

Open Guide to Amazon Web Services github.com · forwidur · 11 Oct 2016

1.4k pts 127 comments

39

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words. twitter.com · alpeb · 4 Oct 2016

1.4k pts 277 comments

40

Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers geuis · 13 Nov 2016

1.4k pts 318 comments

41

Dsxyliea geon.github.io · geon · 3 Mar 2016

1.4k pts 200 comments

42

Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence news.trust.org · tshtf · 4 Oct 2016

1.3k pts 395 comments

43

Defending Our Brand letsencrypt.org · alexbilbie · 23 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 263 comments

44

Announcing SQL Server on Linux blogs.microsoft.com · bjg · 7 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 476 comments

45

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

1.3k pts 576 comments

46

Andy Grove has died newsroom.intel.com · sajid · 22 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 166 comments

47

Moving Forward on Basic Income blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 31 May 2016

1.3k pts 1.4k comments

48

“It's The Future” circleci.com · knowbody · 17 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 521 comments

49

The Dropbox hack is real troyhunt.com · joshschreuder · 31 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 539 comments

50

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup medium.com · davidkhess · 29 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 558 comments

51

He Always Had a Dark Side mastermind.atavist.com · pwnna · 29 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 351 comments

52

Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake defaultnamehere.tumblr.com · adamch · 19 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 189 comments

53

The Daredevil Camera ribbonfarm.com · zdw · 29 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 153 comments

54

My Biggest Regret as a Programmer thecodist.com · doppp · 6 Apr 2016

1.3k pts 618 comments

55

Apple’s declining software quality sudophilosophical.com · pljns · 4 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 705 comments

56

My First 10 Minutes on a Server codelitt.com · codelitt · 15 Jun 2016

1.3k pts 290 comments

57

Shame on Y Combinator marco.org · MattBearman · 18 Oct 2016

1.3k pts 1.3k comments

58

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

1.3k pts 141 comments

59

Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award nytimes.com · matt_d · 1 Mar 2016

1.3k pts 78 comments

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Apple Stole My Music blog.vellumatlanta.com · panic · 5 May 2016

1.3k pts 446 comments