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Top of Year 2016

1. A Message to Our Customers
   (17 Feb 2016 | 5771 points | Comments)

2. UK votes to leave EU
   (24 Jun 2016 | 3125 points | Comments)

3. Pardon Snowden
   (14 Sep 2016 | 2553 points | Comments)

4. Be Kind
   (14 Oct 2016 | 2475 points | Comments)

5. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
   (11 Jul 2016 | 2381 points | Comments)

6. Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
   (27 Sep 2016 | 2123 points | Comments)

7. Ubuntu on Windows
   (30 Mar 2016 | 2049 points | Comments)

8. Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
   (13 Jun 2016 | 2049 points | Comments)

9. Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
   (11 Feb 2016 | 2011 points | Comments)

10. Request For Research: Basic Income
    (27 Jan 2016 | 1876 points | Comments)

11. Why I’m Suing the US Government
    (21 Jul 2016 | 1855 points | Comments)

12. Master Plan, Part Deux
    (21 Jul 2016 | 1851 points | Comments)

13. Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
    (26 May 2016 | 1832 points | Comments)

14. Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
    (9 Nov 2016 | 1817 points | Comments)

15. Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
    (13 Oct 2016 | 1764 points | Comments)

16. NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
    (23 Mar 2016 | 1725 points | Comments)

17. Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
    (11 Oct 2016 | 1714 points | Comments)

18. Dear GitHub
    (14 Jan 2016 | 1678 points | Comments)

19. RethinkDB is shutting down
    (6 Oct 2016 | 1674 points | Comments)

20. Stripe Atlas
    (24 Feb 2016 | 1659 points | Comments)

21. Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
    (5 Dec 2016 | 1630 points | Comments)

22. Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
    (26 Jul 2016 | 1624 points | Comments)

23. Responsive Pixel Art
    (9 Mar 2016 | 1622 points | Comments)

24. We only hire the trendiest
    (21 Mar 2016 | 1615 points | Comments)

25. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
    (20 May 2016 | 1612 points | Comments)

26. A Protocol for Dying
    (22 Apr 2016 | 1610 points | Comments)

27. Introducing unlimited private repositories
    (11 May 2016 | 1576 points | Comments)

28. I've Just Liberated My Modules
    (22 Mar 2016 | 1573 points | Comments)

29. Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]
    (8 Jun 2016 | 1565 points | Comments)

30. DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
    (21 Oct 2016 | 1563 points | Comments)

31. All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
    (20 Oct 2016 | 1493 points | Comments)

32. David Bowie Has Died
    (11 Jan 2016 | 1484 points | Comments)

33. Amazon's customer service backdoor
    (24 Jan 2016 | 1447 points | Comments)

34. Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
    (21 May 2016 | 1423 points | Comments)

35. Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
    (20 Jun 2016 | 1401 points | Comments)

36. Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
    (13 Mar 2016 | 1395 points | Comments)

37. Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
    (3 Apr 2016 | 1373 points | Comments)

38. Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
    (11 Oct 2016 | 1362 points | Comments)

39. I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
    (4 Oct 2016 | 1361 points | Comments)

40. Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
    (13 Nov 2016 | 1358 points | Comments)

41. Dsxyliea
    (3 Mar 2016 | 1356 points | Comments)

42. Defending Our Brand
    (23 Jun 2016 | 1346 points | Comments)

43. Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
    (4 Oct 2016 | 1346 points | Comments)

44. Announcing SQL Server on Linux
    (7 Mar 2016 | 1344 points | Comments)

45. Diamonds Suck (2006)
    (13 Nov 2016 | 1336 points | Comments)

46. Andy Grove has died
    (22 Mar 2016 | 1333 points | Comments)

47. Moving Forward on Basic Income
    (31 May 2016 | 1330 points | Comments)

48. “It's The Future”
    (17 Aug 2016 | 1323 points | Comments)

49. The Dropbox hack is real
    (31 Aug 2016 | 1313 points | Comments)

50. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
    (29 Aug 2016 | 1311 points | Comments)

51. He Always Had a Dark Side
    (29 Mar 2016 | 1304 points | Comments)

52. Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
    (19 Feb 2016 | 1302 points | Comments)

53. The Daredevil Camera
    (29 Jun 2016 | 1302 points | Comments)

54. My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
    (6 Apr 2016 | 1296 points | Comments)

55. Apple’s declining software quality
    (4 Feb 2016 | 1282 points | Comments)

56. My First 10 Minutes on a Server
    (15 Jun 2016 | 1282 points | Comments)

57. Shame on Y Combinator
    (18 Oct 2016 | 1280 points | Comments)

58. Advanced Data Structures
    (4 Nov 2016 | 1276 points | Comments)

59. Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award
    (1 Mar 2016 | 1272 points | Comments)

60. Marvin Minsky dies at 88
    (25 Jan 2016 | 1259 points | Comments)

61. Apple Stole My Music
    (5 May 2016 | 1259 points | Comments)

62. Introducing the Keybase filesystem
    (4 Feb 2016 | 1252 points | Comments)

63. Amazon Go
    (5 Dec 2016 | 1247 points | Comments)

64. Philae Found
    (5 Sep 2016 | 1238 points | Comments)

65. My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
    (28 Mar 2016 | 1236 points | Comments)

66. Why we lost Uber as a user
    (1 Aug 2016 | 1234 points | Comments)

67. H.264 is Magic
    (4 Nov 2016 | 1228 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
    (30 Sep 2016 | 1226 points | Comments)

69. PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
    (18 Aug 2016 | 1217 points | Comments)

70. Google Noto Fonts
    (6 Oct 2016 | 1217 points | Comments)

71. A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
    (9 Nov 2016 | 1214 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
    (18 Mar 2016 | 1213 points | Comments)

73. Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
    (27 Jan 2016 | 1207 points | Comments)

74. EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
    (6 Sep 2016 | 1205 points | Comments)

75. Facebook is closing Parse
    (28 Jan 2016 | 1202 points | Comments)

76. Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
    (2 Aug 2016 | 1195 points | Comments)

77. Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
    (24 Aug 2016 | 1187 points | Comments)

78. How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
    (23 Jun 2016 | 1181 points | Comments)

79. Why you should never use Upwork
    (23 Oct 2016 | 1175 points | Comments)

80. All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
    (27 May 2016 | 1167 points | Comments)

81. Building Jarvis
    (19 Dec 2016 | 1164 points | Comments)

82. “I have toyota corola”
    (14 Nov 2016 | 1155 points | Comments)

83. The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
    (10 Oct 2016 | 1149 points | Comments)

84. How to C in 2016
    (8 Jan 2016 | 1145 points | Comments)

85. Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL
    (5 Jan 2016 | 1144 points | Comments)

86. Announcing new tools, forums, and features
    (14 Sep 2016 | 1142 points | Comments)

87. Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
    (30 Nov 2016 | 1142 points | Comments)

88. Kite – Programming Copilot
    (14 Apr 2016 | 1138 points | Comments)

89. Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
    (20 Nov 2016 | 1131 points | Comments)

90. Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
    (24 Feb 2016 | 1126 points | Comments)

91. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
    (11 Jul 2016 | 1126 points | Comments)

92. The Website Obesity Crisis
    (1 Jan 2016 | 1122 points | Comments)

93. Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
    (24 Nov 2016 | 1117 points | Comments)

94. Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
    (29 Nov 2016 | 1113 points | Comments)

95. SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
    (17 Nov 2016 | 1111 points | Comments)

96. Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine
    (21 Dec 2016 | 1107 points | Comments)

97. Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available
    (29 Mar 2016 | 1106 points | Comments)

98. Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
    (15 Sep 2016 | 1106 points | Comments)

99. Apple File System
    (13 Jun 2016 | 1094 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Who is firing?
     (2 Nov 2016 | 1087 points | Comments)