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Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/12/29/careful-with-str-format/

334
150
Rust is mostly safety

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/247406.html

487
458
Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews

http://blog.interviewing.io/lessons-from-3000-technical-interviews/

692
311
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=37

780
174
Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255650

357
494
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes

https://en.lichess.org/blog/WFvLpiQAACMA8e9D/learn-from-your-mistakes

639
113
Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine

http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023

1107
289
Building Jarvis

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634

1164
251
Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.html

610
394
The Idea of Lisp

https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp

488
340
Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts

https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/154479236569/important-security-information-for-yahoo-users

1046
569
What Makes a Senior Software Developer?

http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/12/what-makes-senior-software-developer.html

536
238
Things You Notice When You Quit the News

http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/

891
487
My Pixel has a manufacturing defect

https://9to5google.com/2016/12/09/google-pixel-screen-peeling-support/

544
344
Developers’ side projects

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/

1052
389
'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience

http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html

911
510
Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/technology/google-says-it-will-run-entirely-on-renewable-energy-in-2017.html?_r=0

861
249
Disassembling Sublime Text

http://thume.ca/2016/12/03/disassembling-sublime-text/

419
144
This AI Boom Will Also Bust

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/12/this-ai-boom-will-also-bust.html

662
302
How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

https://blog.data.gov.sg/how-we-caught-the-circle-line-rogue-train-with-data-79405c86ab6a#.qjsiufjb7

921
110
Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/logojoy-1

1113
329
Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language

http://patshaughnessy.net/2016/11/26/learning-to-read-x86-assembly-language

591
234
Fidel Castro has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

810
767
Matrix Multiplication

http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/

873
131
A practical guide to securing macOS

https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

633
84
NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/

501
229
4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles

https://lapinozz.github.io/learning/2016/11/19/calculator-with-caordboard-and-marbles.html

703
182
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html

1131
548
Miyazaki Tribute

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/miyazaki-tribute/

678
117
How to start a company with no free time

https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-to-start-a-company-with-no-free-time-b70fbe7b918a?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8XF6JxEsNsoDkX4Nh1vXUm7BW13ZDeL7A8zh7qXhZCq8kkP9GI97HtMDxtAlRVUJkRIoriVRO23_Q7xZxTjQ5EqbOiXg&_hsmi=37851568#.aoxnxfl7o

692
176
SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/

1111
521
Quick, Draw

https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

1083
328
“I have toyota corola”

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/

1155
350
Leonard Cohen Has Died

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792

978
140
Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/facebook-admits-it-must-do-more-to-stop-the-spread-of-misinformation-on-its-platform/

710
614
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/08/donald-trumps-path-to-victory-is-suddenly-looking-much-much-wider/?hpid=hp_hp-bignews3_fix-electoralmap-210am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

1817
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Homebrew 1.1.0

http://brew.sh/2016/11/07/homebrew-1.1.0/

593
204
Time to Dump Time Zones

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/time-to-dump-time-zones.html?_r=0

629
536
Advanced Data Structures

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/

1276
141
Ask HN: Who is firing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987

1087
432
Guide to Remote Work

https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-working/

747
103
WebAssembly Browser Preview

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/10/webassembly-browser-preview.html

759
338
Buttery Smooth Emacs

https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/

651
229
Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-thunderbolt-3/

814
446
MacBook Pro

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

861
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Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-results-idUSKCN12Q2QW

822
278
Why you should never use Upwork

https://medium.com/@AdShadlabs/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-5c62848bdf46#.1n597kqcn

1175
264
Exposing high-end poker cheating devices

https://www.elie.net/blog/security/fuller-house-exposing-high-end-poker-cheating-devices

637
140
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

1563
674
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware

1493
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Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com/from-google-form-to-1000-in-revenue-in-one-month-3f5cd75b6089

1071
247
Shame on Y Combinator

http://www.marco.org/2016/10/17/shame-on-y-combinator

1280
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Be Kind

https://www.briangilham.com/blog/2016/10/10/be-kind

2475
434
Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360

1714
469
The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/

1149
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A decentralized web would give power back to the people online

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/

710
348
A Javascript journey with only six characters

http://jazcash.com/a-javascript-journey-with-only-six-characters/

567
112
Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108296-first-farm-to-grow-veg-in-a-desert-using-only-sun-and-seawater/

543
184
RethinkDB is shutting down

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

1674
441
Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

https://blog.kapeli.com/apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-store

1036
470
I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592

1361
277
Deep-Fried Data

http://idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm

560
140
The terrorist inside my husband's brain

http://m.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full

600
141
PostgreSQL 9.6 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1703/

553
128
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/28/facebook-amazon-google-ibm-and-microsoft-come-together-to-create-historic-partnership-on-ai/

573
248
WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBGv6szuSB4sMYUcVrR8vQ/preview

608
246
Announcing TypeScript 2.0

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/09/22/announcing-typescript-2-0/

553
310
Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_microsoft_signature_pc_program_now/

1054
467
Show HN: Primitive Pictures

https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

894
170
Music theory for nerds

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

766
378
Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer/

588
171
Investing for Geeks

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing-for-geeks?__s=esaiz3kazigwidftsigk

797
457
Pardon Snowden

https://www.pardonsnowden.org/

2553
781
GitLab Master Plan

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/13/gitlab-master-plan/

573
327
Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar

https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-radar

396
247
Cap’n Proto

https://capnproto.org/index.html

535
182
How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbox-hacks-your-mac/

1037
412
“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”

http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/Dear-Mark-I-am-writing-this-to-inform-you-that-I-shall-not-comply-with-your-requirement-to-remove-this-picture-604156b.html

660
202
EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

http://futurism.com/eu-announces-that-all-european-scientific-articles-should-be-freely-accessible-by-2020/

1205
132
Philae Found

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found

1238
125
In defence of Douglas Crockford

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

683
419
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-just-exploded-at-cape-canaveral/

986
535
The Dropbox hack is real

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real

1313
539
Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-takes-on-uber-with-new-ride-share-service-1472584235

596
461
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

https://medium.com/@PennyKim/i-got-scammed-by-a-silicon-valley-startup-574ced8acdff#.hkgnuhiny

1311
558
Docker not ready for primetime

http://blog.goodstuff.im/docker_not_prime_time

490
281
4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?

http://www.outsideonline.com/2096381/4wd-vs-awd-whats-difference

404
201
NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender

https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/

1055
242
Web Scraping in 2016

https://franciskim.co/2016/08/24/dont-need-no-stinking-api-web-scraping-2016-beyond/

852
387
Introducing OpenStreetView

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274

455
79
The Cuban CDN

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/

832
136
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/

1217
760
“It's The Future”

https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future

1323
521
Go 1.7 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.7

545
133
What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad

758
519
Machine Learning and Ketosis

https://github.com/arielf/weight-loss

706
295
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation

https://hackernoon.com/i-dont-care-how-well-you-code-understand-your-compensation-a1e810973c5e#.htkm7xfnq

494
307
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

https://cpbotha.net/2016/08/06/moving-12-years-of-email-from-gmail-to-fastmail/

649
365
Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12373776/2012-macbook-pro-still-alive-not-dead-why

479
437
Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

https://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-crystal-fast-as-c-slick-as-ruby/

544
429
What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

https://medium.com/@joonaski/this-is-what-apple-should-tell-you-when-you-lose-your-iphone-8f07cf73cf82#.t3ss245xk

625
212
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/business/dealbook/wage-gap-massachusetts-law-salary-history.html

1195
760
Why we lost Uber as a user

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5797D5A1.5030009%40agliodbs.com

1234
285
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer-ee17cccbdab6

361
93
Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

https://news.uic.edu/breakthrough-solar-cell-captures-co2-and-sunlight-produces-burnable-fuel

595
147
We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated

http://nautil.us/blog/we-should-not-accept-scientific-results-that-have-not-been-repeated

910
275
The End of Gmane?

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

489
100
LastPass autofill exploit

https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-give-me-all-your-passwords/

1008
420
Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes

http://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

1624
152
The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-raspberry-pi-has-revolutionized-emulation/

426
114
Create React Apps with No Configuration

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/22/create-apps-with-no-configuration.html

777
241
Why I’m Suing the US Government

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4782

1855
307
Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem

http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016

862
316
Serverless Architectures

http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

477
202
How I Could Steal Money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

https://www.arneswinnen.net/2016/07/how-i-could-steal-money-from-instagram-google-and-microsoft/

384
65
Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg

https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/

639
194
The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/fight-right-repair-180959764/?no-ist

704
318
Shipping Rust code in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/

748
189
Tell HN: New features and a moderator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675

2381
451
Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_coursera

513
75
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d

929
189
Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#

https://cheatdeath.github.io/research-bittorrent-doc/

509
86
Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source

https://medium.com/@bozhobg/bulgaria-got-a-law-requiring-open-source-98bf626cf70a#.np5mz0heu

537
86
Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules

http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html

636
334
Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/6/30/Rails-5-0-final/#yay

664
219
The Daredevil Camera

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/29/the-daredevil-camera/

1302
153
Languages Which Almost Became CSS

https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/

586
133
New Cities

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-cities

889
695
The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

911
442
Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet

https://highon.coffee/blog/penetration-testing-tools-cheat-sheet/

530
30
UK votes to leave EU

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36615028

3125
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Defending Our Brand

https://letsencrypt.org//2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

1346
263
Lenin was a mushroom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom

574
178
“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”

https://seafile.de/en/important-infos-about-app-seafile-de-and-licensing-purchases-through-our-web-shops/

1030
340
Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

1401
893
The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/the-fathers-of-the-internet-revolution-urge-todays-pioneers-to-reinvent-the-web

644
228
Spaceship Generator

https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator/

850
128
How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they/20765054#20765054

652
138
Samsung Acquires Joyent

https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective

787
236
My First 10 Minutes on a Server

http://www.codelitt.com/blog/my-first-10-minutes-on-a-server-primer-for-securing-ubuntu/

1282
290
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-linkedin/#sm.0000pigrxf7dne36z7o2gp4nrghse

2049
833
In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks

314
428
Coursera shuts access to old platform courses

http://reachtarunhere.github.io/2016/06/11/Golden-Age-of-MOOCs-is-over-and-why-I-hate-Coursera/

590
266
A Grain of Salt

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/grain-of-salt

803
283
Mastering Programming: An Outline

https://www.prod.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/mastering-programming/1184427814923414

562
123
ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP with no verification

http://teletext.zaibatsutel.net/post/145370716258/deadupdate-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and

762
196
Muhammad Ali has died

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776

674
171
Salary Negotiation

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/06/03/kalzumeus-podcast-episode-12-salary-negotiation-with-josh-doody/

609
410
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814828

644
1002
Moving Forward on Basic Income

http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income

1330
1448
Alan Kay's reading list

http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp

575
168
How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products?

https://www.quora.com/How-big-an-issue-is-the-nausea-problem-for-Virtual-Reality-products/answer/Steve-Baker-9?share=1

387
175
Blocklist of all Facebook domains

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all

499
142
All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020

http://english.eu2016.nl/latest/news/2016/05/27/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020

1167
133
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/735924335412543488

1832
393
E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160524006209/en/Ink-Announces-Advanced-Color-ePaper-Breakthrough-Technology

763
257
IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson

http://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-about-Watson-and-AI

481
173
My time with Rails is up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749203

716
438
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3

1612
427
Chrome removes Backspace to go back

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016

690
583
Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercharges-machine-learning-tasks-with-custom-chip.html

823
276
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete

https://twitter.com/webkit/status/728643624464883712

755
109
A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/cia-tip-off-led-to-jailing-of-mandela-9mwcsdq9c

435
282
Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/13/hidden-microphones-exposed-as-part-of-government-surveillance-program-in-the-bay-area/

573
276
Did I just win?

https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/730903007014076416

950
129
Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet-worlds-most.html?m=1

1083
235
Introducing unlimited private repositories

https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories

1576
636
A Farewell to FRP

http://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp

771
241
PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS

http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towards-millions-tps/

521
210
New GNU Emacs website

http://gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html

547
229
OxyContin's 12-hour problem

http://static.latimes.com/oxycontin-part1

565
359
SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-spacex-successfully-rockets-stage-space.html

814
474
Apple Stole My Music

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

1259
446
Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/03/cause-of-death-united-states-medical-error

636
502
The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months

http://electrek.co/2016/05/02/price-solar-power-fell-50-16-months-dubai-0299kwh/

756
435
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/

972
608
What Happened to Google Maps?

http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps

464
193
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

1085
381
Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/

542
431
Introducing MIR

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

736
164
Being a Developer After 40

https://medium.com/@akosma/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c

854
549
BYOT: Bring your own team

https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team

826
180
The Science of Making Friends

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-making-friends-1460992572

411
222
About rel=noopener

https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/?target=_blank

411
109
How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script

http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/

865
124
Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold

655
202
Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-19/intel-to-cutting-up-to-12-000-jobs-or-11-of-employees

637
502
Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon

http://www.annchristy.com/ku-scammers-on-amazon-what-you-need-to-know/

627
188
Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515307

496
96
Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4f1zih/uber_wants_access_to_browsing_history_bookmarks/

703
244
Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/vitaly/gone-in-six-characters-short-urls-considered-harmful-for-cloud-services/

495
165
Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007?post-mortem

799
350
Leaving Beta, New Sponsors

https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html

896
170
The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy

http://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/10/money-offshore-corrupt-democracy-political-influence

542
338
What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city-matthew-desmond-review

383
441
Congratulations You’ve Been Fired

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/GST3iLv3Zn

679
429
React v15.0

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/04/07/react-v15.html

695
163
My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programmer

1296
618
Save Netflix

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-netflix

813
225
How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution

https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-the-frontlines-of-the-blue-green-economic-revolution-d5ae171285a3

585
116
Squash your commits

https://github.com/blog/2141-squash-your-commits

702
339
Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/xamarin-now-free-in-visual-studio/

944
386
Ubuntu on Windows

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1

2049
901
He Always Had a Dark Side

https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

1304
351
My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/03/my_heroic_and_lazy_stand_against_ifttt/

1236
208
My year in startup hell

http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyons/

421
170
NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?

http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/

1725
854
I've Just Liberated My Modules

https://medium.com/@azerbike/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules-9045c06be67c

1573
797
We only hire the trendiest

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

1615
716
Polymagnets

http://www.polymagnet.com/polymagnets/

767
104
Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is-said-to-put-boston-dynamics-robotics-unit-up-for-sale

830
387
VPN Comparison Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?sle=true

510
194
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy/

794
236
AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAmTYHEyM8

566
407
How to Pass a Programming Interview

http://blog.triplebyte.com/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview

1020
552
Announcing SQL Server on Linux

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/

1344
476
Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware

https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17834

895
338
When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html

471
103
Dsxyliea

http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea

1356
200
Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-drug-bans-are-ineffective-a-1078402.html

654
357
Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/cryptography-pioneers-to-win-turing-award.html

1272
78
Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf]

http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/files/2016/02/applebrooklyn-2.29.16order.pdf

797
188
LambdaNative

http://www.lambdanative.org

287
73
MentalHealthError: an exception occurred

http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred

593
186
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=Ti%2FYleaJNSl%2BTR5mL5C0WQ%3D%3D&fcc_id=2ABCB-RPI32

518
213
Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-25/microsoft-says-it-will-file-an-amicus-brief-to-support-apple

888
240
Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud

https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/

715
381
GitLab 8.5 released

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/

603
241
Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case

https://twitter.com/snowden/status/700823383961792512

643
209
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

https://defaultnamehere.tumblr.com/post/139351766005/graphing-when-your-facebook-friends-are-awake

1302
189
A Message to Our Customers

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

5771
967
Vulkan is Here

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/.

903
201
Too many people have peed in the pool

http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/15/peedinthepool/

694
511
I no longer understand my PhD dissertation

https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/ai-no-longer-understand-my-phd-dissertation-and-what-this-means-for-mathematics-education-1d40708f61c#.ysddlmlsa

682
271
GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/pull/115

763
332
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html

2011
483
My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens

577
347
India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

http://blog.savetheinternet.in/statement-on-trai-order-on-diff-pricing/

684
216
The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rent-seeking-is-too-damn-high/

321
243
GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-2016-2

808
973
LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-earnings-q4-2016-2

1012
635
Apple’s declining software quality

http://sudophilosophical.com/2016/02/04/apples-declining-software-quality/

1282
705
Idea Debt

http://jessicaabel.com/2016/01/27/idea-debt/

468
136
Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/alphabet-becomes-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-world

720
419
How I fixed a bug in Atom

http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-atom/

551
183
Facebook is closing Parse

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/moving-on/

1202
500
Request For Research: Basic Income

https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income

1876
1121
Marvin Minsky dies at 88

http://nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html

1259
178
Amazon's customer service backdoor

https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4#.lqxcfockn

1447
356
T-Shirts Unravelled

http://www.threadbase.com/unravelled

756
155
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley

https://medium.com/@rickyyean/privilege-and-inequality-in-silicon-valley-92d455b66860#.voi2xqzg3

634
292
Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it

https://medium.com/@hteumeuleu/super-mail-forward-an-email-that-evolves-as-you-forward-it-84466596f30d

454
65
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto

http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

883
150
I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier

https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-a-single-60gb-download-from-amazon-glacier-6cb77b288c3e#.w582hjycu

639
222
Life is Short

http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

970
408
Dear GitHub

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github

1678
463
ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/01/13/chakracore-now-open/

758
310
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html

445
146
David Bowie Has Died

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowie-dead-legendary-artist-854364

1484
301
Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/japan-keeps-this-defunct-train-station-running-for-just-one-passenger/423273/

606
191
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-is-now-available-around-the-world

1015
497
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/

1144
99
G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/technology/gm-invests-in-lyft.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Ftechnology%2Fgm-invests-in-lyft.html

477
392
Peter Naur has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Naur

570
96
The Website Obesity Crisis

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

1122
367