The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2017

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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M techcrunch.com · SwaroopH · 9 Jan 2017

1.9k pts 733 comments

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Welcome, ACLU medium.com · katm · 31 Jan 2017

1.6k pts 1k comments

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Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 17 Jan 2017

1.5k pts 713 comments

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Grumpy: Go running Python opensource.googleblog.com · trotterdylan · 4 Jan 2017

1.4k pts 451 comments

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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn gist.github.com · yossorion · 18 Jan 2017

1.4k pts 558 comments

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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages theguardian.com · katpas · 13 Jan 2017

1.3k pts 321 comments

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LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft libretaxi.org · bpierre · 31 Jan 2017

1.3k pts 382 comments

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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine skytorrents.in · kasumis_ · 18 Jan 2017

1.2k pts 346 comments

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Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust blog.jwilm.io · jwilm · 6 Jan 2017

1.2k pts 476 comments

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Time to Take a Stand blog.samaltman.com · sama · 28 Jan 2017

1.1k pts 992 comments

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There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' whispersystems.org · stablemap · 13 Jan 2017

1k pts 408 comments

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VR blog.ycombinator.com · craigcannon · 13 Jan 2017

1k pts 550 comments

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First they came for the Iranians scottaaronson.com · aaronyy · 26 Jan 2017

1k pts 429 comments

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I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection vc.gg · stryk · 22 Jan 2017

951 pts 593 comments

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RethinkDB Postmortem github.com · v3ss0n · 17 Jan 2017

948 pts 267 comments

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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure security.googleblog.com · vladootz · 22 Jan 2017

947 pts 398 comments

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Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data github.com · caseysoftware · 15 Jan 2017

937 pts 144 comments

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I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial thepublicdiscourse.com · anarazel · 14 Jan 2017

899 pts 467 comments

19

Wine 2.0 released winehq.org · coldpie · 24 Jan 2017

896 pts 303 comments

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Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads scribblrs.com · sply · 19 Jan 2017

880 pts 386 comments

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Welcome Chris Lattner tesla.com · nil_is_me · 10 Jan 2017

879 pts 275 comments

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Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy stemcell.usc.edu · jpgvm · 26 Jan 2017

873 pts 174 comments

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Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software robert.ocallahan.org · bzbarsky · 26 Jan 2017

859 pts 374 comments

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Container Tabs wiki.mozilla.org · malikNF · 21 Jan 2017

843 pts 215 comments

25

George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon openculture.com · finid · 25 Jan 2017

830 pts 603 comments

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Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs blog.strml.net · callumlocke · 24 Jan 2017

811 pts 389 comments

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NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction techcrunch.com · fmihaila · 19 Jan 2017

808 pts 314 comments

28

Integrating GTA V into Universe openai.com · gdb · 11 Jan 2017

805 pts 165 comments

29

Browser auto-fill phishing github.com · christop · 5 Jan 2017

802 pts 143 comments

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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? mdoliwa · 5 Jan 2017

800 pts 629 comments

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Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise hbr.org · reactor · 25 Jan 2017

756 pts 238 comments

32

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) cgl.uwaterloo.ca · kornish · 8 Jan 2017

753 pts 133 comments

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Affordable Care blog.samaltman.com · mattkrisiloff · 13 Jan 2017

720 pts 1k comments

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Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0 github.com · ReticentMonkey · 19 Jan 2017

720 pts 392 comments

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Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D. cloud.google.com · ShanaM · 23 Jan 2017

720 pts 43 comments

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Ian's Shoelace Site fieggen.com · Tomte · 14 Jan 2017

695 pts 116 comments

37

The moving sofa problem math.ucdavis.edu · vinnyglennon · 1 Jan 2017

690 pts 64 comments

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Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO theverge.com · _pius · 29 Jan 2017

685 pts 348 comments

39

When You Are Depressed, Make Something byrslf.co · ohjeez · 10 Jan 2017

684 pts 339 comments

40

How to leak to the press niemanlab.org · anjalik · 27 Jan 2017

680 pts 207 comments

41

Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign techcrunch.com · sethbannon · 31 Jan 2017

675 pts 530 comments

42

Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy standardnotes.org · mikecarlton · 17 Jan 2017

673 pts 282 comments

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The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack twitter.com · kukx · 11 Jan 2017

667 pts 275 comments

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Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order thehill.com · anarazel · 29 Jan 2017

664 pts 358 comments

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Announcing Pipenv kennethreitz.org · imkevinxu · 23 Jan 2017

664 pts 162 comments

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Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) expeditedssl.com · apsec112 · 20 Jan 2017

655 pts 75 comments

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The Problem with AMP 80x24.net · segf4ult · 17 Jan 2017

641 pts 344 comments

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Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? ian0 · 18 Jan 2017

639 pts 368 comments

49

Mastering Bash and Terminal blockloop.io · blockloop · 14 Jan 2017

638 pts 180 comments

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TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow kevinhughes.ca · pickle27 · 4 Jan 2017

631 pts 68 comments

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LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · vmarsy · 5 Jan 2017

630 pts 208 comments

52

Lavabit Reloaded lavabit.com · ycmbntrthrwaway · 20 Jan 2017

626 pts 228 comments

53

A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France visa.lafrenchtech.com · tbassetto · 16 Jan 2017

625 pts 712 comments

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Box Breathing quietkit.com · mkempe · 28 Jan 2017

625 pts 127 comments

55

SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch bbc.co.uk · thomseddon · 14 Jan 2017

621 pts 189 comments

56

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) whoishiring · 2 Jan 2017

612 pts 930 comments

57

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 web.law.duke.edu · shawndumas · 1 Jan 2017

602 pts 135 comments

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Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester petitions.whitehouse.gov · obi1kenobi · 28 Jan 2017

599 pts 359 comments

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Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists news.stanford.edu · capocannoniere · 25 Jan 2017

596 pts 279 comments

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I've removed all ad network code from my blog troyhunt.com · GordonS · 5 Jan 2017

591 pts 327 comments