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Top of Month - Oct 2015
  1. YC Research
    (7 Oct 2015 | 1776 points | Comments)

  2. Let's Encrypt is Trusted
    (20 Oct 2015 | 1260 points | Comments)

  3. Free Lossless Image Format
    (2 Oct 2015 | 1254 points | Comments)

  4. Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
    (28 Oct 2015 | 1121 points | Comments)

  5. How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
    (15 Oct 2015 | 1005 points | Comments)

  6. New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
    (6 Oct 2015 | 875 points | Comments)

  7. Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
    (6 Oct 2015 | 809 points | Comments)

  8. Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
    (30 Oct 2015 | 802 points | Comments)

  9. Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
    (12 Oct 2015 | 778 points | Comments)

  10. Mercury Spill
    (8 Oct 2015 | 764 points | Comments)

  11. EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
    (27 Oct 2015 | 730 points | Comments)

  12. Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
    (1 Oct 2015 | 716 points | Comments)

  13. A story about <input>
    (22 Oct 2015 | 693 points | Comments)

  14. The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
    (9 Oct 2015 | 667 points | Comments)

  15. Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
    (16 Oct 2015 | 658 points | Comments)

  16. Write like you talk
    (25 Oct 2015 | 647 points | Comments)

  17. Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
    (29 Oct 2015 | 638 points | Comments)

  18. A Guide to Fast Page Loads
    (7 Oct 2015 | 597 points | Comments)

  19. Ogo, a new take on personal transportation
    (19 Oct 2015 | 588 points | Comments)

  20. Twitter announces layoffs
    (13 Oct 2015 | 582 points | Comments)

  21. Losing Sight
    (3 Oct 2015 | 564 points | Comments)

  22. Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement
    (6 Oct 2015 | 563 points | Comments)

  23. Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?
    (25 Oct 2015 | 557 points | Comments)

  24. Page Weight Matters (2012)
    (15 Oct 2015 | 556 points | Comments)

  25. Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
    (12 Oct 2015 | 548 points | Comments)

  26. Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days
    (27 Oct 2015 | 546 points | Comments)

  27. The Hostile Email Landscape
    (17 Oct 2015 | 544 points | Comments)

  28. The Drone Papers
    (15 Oct 2015 | 543 points | Comments)

  29. El Capitan and Homebrew
    (1 Oct 2015 | 540 points | Comments)

  30. Flux is the new WndProc
    (13 Oct 2015 | 532 points | Comments)

  31. The Little Printf
    (12 Oct 2015 | 529 points | Comments)

  32. OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
    (20 Oct 2015 | 529 points | Comments)

  33. Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
    (15 Oct 2015 | 520 points | Comments)

  34. The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
    (20 Oct 2015 | 515 points | Comments)

  35. Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
    (19 Oct 2015 | 510 points | Comments)

  36. Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
    (29 Oct 2015 | 510 points | Comments)

  37. Image diffing using CSS
    (2 Oct 2015 | 488 points | Comments)

  38. Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
    (12 Oct 2015 | 484 points | Comments)

  39. BMW i8 in WebGL
    (21 Oct 2015 | 479 points | Comments)

  40. Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
    (5 Oct 2015 | 478 points | Comments)

  41. Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
    (21 Oct 2015 | 474 points | Comments)

  42. For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting
    (29 Oct 2015 | 468 points | Comments)

  43. Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off
    (22 Oct 2015 | 450 points | Comments)

  44. Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets
    (29 Oct 2015 | 446 points | Comments)

  45. Guide to Your Equity
    (9 Oct 2015 | 442 points | Comments)

  46. I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972
    (3 Oct 2015 | 438 points | Comments)

  47. The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
    (5 Oct 2015 | 427 points | Comments)

  48. LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
    (9 Oct 2015 | 422 points | Comments)

  49. Why Homejoy Failed
    (26 Oct 2015 | 421 points | Comments)

  50. How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
    (19 Oct 2015 | 420 points | Comments)

  51. Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client
    (5 Oct 2015 | 413 points | Comments)

  52. Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
    (23 Oct 2015 | 408 points | Comments)

  53. A global movement to ban urban billboards
    (11 Oct 2015 | 399 points | Comments)

  54. Httpie: A CLI http client
    (20 Oct 2015 | 391 points | Comments)

  55. Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
    (2 Oct 2015 | 386 points | Comments)

  56. Amazon Snowball
    (7 Oct 2015 | 384 points | Comments)

  57. OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English
    (18 Oct 2015 | 381 points | Comments)

  58. Machine Learning for Developers
    (8 Oct 2015 | 380 points | Comments)

  59. The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
    (22 Oct 2015 | 379 points | Comments)

  60. Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
    (28 Oct 2015 | 379 points | Comments)

  61. Tesla Model S Autopilot Features
    (14 Oct 2015 | 378 points | Comments)

  62. Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
    (28 Oct 2015 | 378 points | Comments)

  63. Vue.js 1.0.0
    (27 Oct 2015 | 376 points | Comments)

  64. Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
    (10 Oct 2015 | 374 points | Comments)

  65. Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
    (16 Oct 2015 | 374 points | Comments)

  66. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
    (1 Oct 2015 | 368 points | Comments)

  67. REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside
    (26 Oct 2015 | 367 points | Comments)

  68. From Python to Go and Back Again
    (16 Oct 2015 | 366 points | Comments)

  69. Guide to Sending Email Like a Startup
    (20 Oct 2015 | 363 points | Comments)

  70. Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation
    (16 Oct 2015 | 362 points | Comments)

  71. Closing a door
    (5 Oct 2015 | 357 points | Comments)

  72. Off the Grid, but Still Online
    (12 Oct 2015 | 356 points | Comments)

  73. First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]
    (19 Oct 2015 | 356 points | Comments)

  74. A Good Vimrc
    (10 Oct 2015 | 355 points | Comments)

  75. China to begin two-child policy
    (29 Oct 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

  76. Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
    (7 Oct 2015 | 344 points | Comments)

  77. Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club tvOS application
    (31 Oct 2015 | 344 points | Comments)

  78. What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
    (19 Oct 2015 | 343 points | Comments)

  79. Why the Internet Needs IPFS
    (4 Oct 2015 | 341 points | Comments)

  80. I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
    (9 Oct 2015 | 341 points | Comments)

  81. Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
    (16 Oct 2015 | 338 points | Comments)

  82. YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
    (21 Oct 2015 | 338 points | Comments)

  83. Red Hat is buying Ansible
    (16 Oct 2015 | 336 points | Comments)

  84. Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
    (5 Oct 2015 | 335 points | Comments)

  85. Linux TCP will have lockless listener processing 3.5M SYNs per sec
    (31 Oct 2015 | 334 points | Comments)

  86. Stop forcing arbitrary password rules
    (24 Oct 2015 | 333 points | Comments)

  87. I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
    (6 Oct 2015 | 332 points | Comments)

  88. Staffpad: a new class of notation app
    (7 Oct 2015 | 332 points | Comments)

  89. Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
    (14 Oct 2015 | 332 points | Comments)

  90. IPFS Pics
    (23 Oct 2015 | 330 points | Comments)

  91. Do One Thing
    (30 Oct 2015 | 330 points | Comments)

  92. Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
    (9 Oct 2015 | 328 points | Comments)

  93. Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
    (20 Oct 2015 | 328 points | Comments)

  94. Square files for IPO
    (14 Oct 2015 | 327 points | Comments)

  95. Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
    (20 Oct 2015 | 327 points | Comments)

  96. How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
    (15 Oct 2015 | 326 points | Comments)

  97. Google Cloud Shell
    (4 Oct 2015 | 325 points | Comments)

  98. Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings
    (23 Oct 2015 | 325 points | Comments)

  99. Larry Lessig: I'm All In
    (17 Oct 2015 | 324 points | Comments)

  100. An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store
    (29 Oct 2015 | 323 points | Comments)