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Top of Month - Dec 2015
  1. Swift is Open Source
    (3 Dec 2015 | 1824 points | Comments)

  2. Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
    (17 Dec 2015 | 1562 points | Comments)

  3. In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
    (30 Dec 2015 | 1457 points | Comments)

  4. SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]
    (22 Dec 2015 | 1284 points | Comments)

  5. Entering Public Beta
    (3 Dec 2015 | 1249 points | Comments)

  6. Introducing OpenAI
    (11 Dec 2015 | 1107 points | Comments)

  7. Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
    (18 Dec 2015 | 1093 points | Comments)

  8. Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
    (30 Dec 2015 | 990 points | Comments)

  9. The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
    (16 Dec 2015 | 949 points | Comments)

  10. Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
    (24 Dec 2015 | 905 points | Comments)

  11. Leaving the Mac App Store
    (1 Dec 2015 | 884 points | Comments)

  12. Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
    (5 Dec 2015 | 852 points | Comments)

  13. Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
    (25 Dec 2015 | 804 points | Comments)

  14. Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
    (2 Dec 2015 | 803 points | Comments)

  15. A letter to our daughter
    (1 Dec 2015 | 790 points | Comments)

  16. How to be like Steve Ballmer
    (2 Dec 2015 | 763 points | Comments)

  17. Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
    (18 Dec 2015 | 730 points | Comments)

  18. This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University
    (1 Dec 2015 | 729 points | Comments)

  19. How Product Hunt really works
    (15 Dec 2015 | 695 points | Comments)

  20. Who Y Combinator Companies Want
    (8 Dec 2015 | 667 points | Comments)

  21. BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts
    (22 Dec 2015 | 666 points | Comments)

  22. How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
    (30 Dec 2015 | 631 points | Comments)

  23. Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
    (7 Dec 2015 | 624 points | Comments)

  24. The best icon is a text label
    (18 Dec 2015 | 603 points | Comments)

  25. NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated
    (31 Dec 2015 | 597 points | Comments)

  26. The Best Books I Read in 2015
    (7 Dec 2015 | 596 points | Comments)

  27. 'New' Python modules of 2015
    (23 Dec 2015 | 591 points | Comments)

  28. Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
    (16 Dec 2015 | 580 points | Comments)

  29. Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit
    (2 Dec 2015 | 579 points | Comments)

  30. Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
    (30 Dec 2015 | 570 points | Comments)

  31. Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
    (14 Dec 2015 | 561 points | Comments)

  32. Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
    (31 Dec 2015 | 559 points | Comments)

  33. Signal Desktop
    (2 Dec 2015 | 555 points | Comments)

  34. Stockfighter is live
    (12 Dec 2015 | 549 points | Comments)

  35. Move Fast and Fix Things
    (15 Dec 2015 | 538 points | Comments)

  36. AWS mistakes to avoid
    (26 Dec 2015 | 537 points | Comments)

  37. The 99% (of startups)
    (2 Dec 2015 | 532 points | Comments)

  38. Bullshit Startup Experiences
    (13 Dec 2015 | 530 points | Comments)

  39. Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
    (8 Dec 2015 | 529 points | Comments)

  40. My positive experience as a woman in tech
    (17 Dec 2015 | 520 points | Comments)

  41. Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015
    (27 Dec 2015 | 501 points | Comments)

  42. Koel: A personal music streaming server
    (14 Dec 2015 | 499 points | Comments)

  43. } // good to go
    (31 Dec 2015 | 498 points | Comments)

  44. Plan to throw one away
    (14 Dec 2015 | 492 points | Comments)

  45. We ditched Google Analytics
    (8 Dec 2015 | 490 points | Comments)

  46. Open source software for developing world hospitals
    (4 Dec 2015 | 458 points | Comments)

  47. Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
    (14 Dec 2015 | 454 points | Comments)

  48. Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
    (17 Dec 2015 | 452 points | Comments)

  49. Linux Performance Analysis
    (1 Dec 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  50. After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6
    (8 Dec 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  51. Files Are Hard
    (13 Dec 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  52. Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
    (16 Dec 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  53. Best things and stuff of 2015
    (29 Dec 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  54. PHP 7 Released
    (2 Dec 2015 | 449 points | Comments)

  55. Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
    (8 Dec 2015 | 446 points | Comments)

  56. Choosing an HTTP Status Code
    (8 Dec 2015 | 445 points | Comments)

  57. Do the math on your stock options
    (30 Dec 2015 | 445 points | Comments)

  58. Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
    (1 Dec 2015 | 444 points | Comments)

  59. Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform
    (16 Dec 2015 | 441 points | Comments)

  60. WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
    (1 Dec 2015 | 433 points | Comments)

  61. Stop using gzip
    (12 Dec 2015 | 432 points | Comments)

  62. Perl 6 Released
    (26 Dec 2015 | 432 points | Comments)

  63. How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
    (14 Dec 2015 | 429 points | Comments)

  64. What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
    (17 Dec 2015 | 428 points | Comments)

  65. Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
    (16 Dec 2015 | 427 points | Comments)

  66. Ruby 2.3.0 Released
    (25 Dec 2015 | 427 points | Comments)

  67. Angular 2 Beta released
    (15 Dec 2015 | 418 points | Comments)

  68. Why Python 3 Exists
    (17 Dec 2015 | 418 points | Comments)

  69. 32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online
    (27 Dec 2015 | 414 points | Comments)

  70. Why Go Is Not Good (2014)
    (9 Dec 2015 | 413 points | Comments)

  71. A Requiem for Ian Murdock
    (31 Dec 2015 | 411 points | Comments)

  72. Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
    (9 Dec 2015 | 410 points | Comments)

  73. Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted
    (20 Dec 2015 | 407 points | Comments)

  74. Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared
    (15 Dec 2015 | 405 points | Comments)

  75. Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
    (3 Dec 2015 | 403 points | Comments)

  76. TLDR pages
    (27 Dec 2015 | 401 points | Comments)

  77. Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer
    (8 Dec 2015 | 400 points | Comments)

  78. Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
    (13 Dec 2015 | 398 points | Comments)

  79. Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?
    (8 Dec 2015 | 395 points | Comments)

  80. Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command
    (21 Dec 2015 | 395 points | Comments)

  81. Three Stories
    (1 Dec 2015 | 392 points | Comments)

  82. I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
    (16 Dec 2015 | 392 points | Comments)

  83. Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
    (30 Dec 2015 | 388 points | Comments)

  84. DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
    (17 Dec 2015 | 385 points | Comments)

  85. France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi
    (7 Dec 2015 | 384 points | Comments)

  86. Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments
    (8 Dec 2015 | 383 points | Comments)

  87. The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation
    (10 Dec 2015 | 383 points | Comments)

  88. Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
    (17 Dec 2015 | 379 points | Comments)

  89. Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law
    (19 Dec 2015 | 379 points | Comments)

  90. Jury Duty
    (2 Dec 2015 | 378 points | Comments)

  91. Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap
    (3 Dec 2015 | 375 points | Comments)

  92. Resolutions for programmers (2012)
    (30 Dec 2015 | 369 points | Comments)

  93. Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change
    (7 Dec 2015 | 367 points | Comments)

  94. Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
    (30 Dec 2015 | 367 points | Comments)

  95. Slack Platform Launch
    (16 Dec 2015 | 366 points | Comments)

  96. Dear Architects: Sound Matters
    (29 Dec 2015 | 363 points | Comments)

  97. About those lava lamps
    (20 Dec 2015 | 360 points | Comments)

  98. Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks
    (6 Dec 2015 | 355 points | Comments)

  99. Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt
    (18 Dec 2015 | 354 points | Comments)

  100. Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock
    (14 Dec 2015 | 353 points | Comments)