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Top of Month - Jan 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
    (18 Jan 2016 | 1043 points | Comments)

12. TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands
    (11 Jan 2016 | 1030 points | Comments)

13. Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
    (6 Jan 2016 | 1015 points | Comments)

14. Life is Short
    (16 Jan 2016 | 970 points | Comments)

15. The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
    (14 Jan 2016 | 961 points | Comments)

16. Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
    (18 Jan 2016 | 924 points | Comments)

17. Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
    (20 Jan 2016 | 883 points | Comments)

18. The Refragmentation
    (2 Jan 2016 | 852 points | Comments)

19. Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
    (19 Jan 2016 | 798 points | Comments)

20. Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
    (20 Jan 2016 | 778 points | Comments)

21. Voxel.css
    (27 Jan 2016 | 771 points | Comments)

22. ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
    (13 Jan 2016 | 758 points | Comments)

23. T-Shirts Unravelled
    (23 Jan 2016 | 756 points | Comments)

24. Get HTTPS for free
    (30 Jan 2016 | 731 points | Comments)

25. Three Years as a One-Man Startup
    (5 Jan 2016 | 718 points | Comments)

26. People Call Me Aaron
    (11 Jan 2016 | 701 points | Comments)

27. Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
    (6 Jan 2016 | 697 points | Comments)

28. Magic+
    (5 Jan 2016 | 687 points | Comments)

29. Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
    (28 Jan 2016 | 683 points | Comments)

30. Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
    (20 Jan 2016 | 667 points | Comments)

31. Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
    (5 Jan 2016 | 666 points | Comments)

32. PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
    (7 Jan 2016 | 660 points | Comments)

33. I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
    (17 Jan 2016 | 639 points | Comments)

34. Aaron Swartz died three years ago today
    (11 Jan 2016 | 635 points | Comments)

35. Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
    (22 Jan 2016 | 634 points | Comments)

36. OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777
    (14 Jan 2016 | 617 points | Comments)

37. Google's Free Deep Learning Course
    (22 Jan 2016 | 614 points | Comments)

38. Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
    (9 Jan 2016 | 606 points | Comments)

39. Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
    (5 Jan 2016 | 601 points | Comments)

40. Why use www?
    (30 Jan 2016 | 601 points | Comments)

41. Why I quit my dream job at Ubisoft
    (22 Jan 2016 | 598 points | Comments)

42. Running costs for running a web app
    (10 Jan 2016 | 596 points | Comments)

43. Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
    (28 Jan 2016 | 595 points | Comments)

44. Peter Naur has died
    (3 Jan 2016 | 570 points | Comments)

45. Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning
    (8 Jan 2016 | 554 points | Comments)

46. How I fixed a bug in Atom
    (29 Jan 2016 | 551 points | Comments)

47. Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
    (25 Jan 2016 | 546 points | Comments)

48. Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
    (26 Jan 2016 | 544 points | Comments)

49. Dell Computers Has Been Hacked
    (5 Jan 2016 | 537 points | Comments)

50. Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative
    (29 Jan 2016 | 537 points | Comments)

51. A Canvas Made of Pixels
    (14 Jan 2016 | 525 points | Comments)

52. Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out
    (27 Jan 2016 | 520 points | Comments)

53. The NICAM Codec replacement project
    (20 Jan 2016 | 519 points | Comments)

54. The Rails Doctrine
    (19 Jan 2016 | 497 points | Comments)

55. Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
    (19 Jan 2016 | 493 points | Comments)

56. CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
    (30 Jan 2016 | 492 points | Comments)

57. Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
    (11 Jan 2016 | 491 points | Comments)

58. Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
    (7 Jan 2016 | 483 points | Comments)

59. Open Guide to Equity Compensation
    (11 Jan 2016 | 482 points | Comments)

60. I'm going to slowly move on from Mercurial
    (25 Jan 2016 | 480 points | Comments)

61. G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
    (4 Jan 2016 | 477 points | Comments)

62. Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
    (26 Jan 2016 | 476 points | Comments)

63. Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law
    (13 Jan 2016 | 475 points | Comments)

64. Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
    (14 Jan 2016 | 475 points | Comments)

65. Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode
    (9 Jan 2016 | 474 points | Comments)

66. China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon
    (30 Jan 2016 | 464 points | Comments)

67. Introducing Bootstrap Studio
    (31 Jan 2016 | 461 points | Comments)

68. It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
    (26 Jan 2016 | 459 points | Comments)

69. Glittering Blue
    (27 Jan 2016 | 455 points | Comments)

70. Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it
    (21 Jan 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

71. Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
    (2 Jan 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images
    (9 Jan 2016 | 448 points | Comments)

73. Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted
    (27 Jan 2016 | 448 points | Comments)

74. A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS
    (12 Jan 2016 | 445 points | Comments)

75. Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
    (27 Jan 2016 | 445 points | Comments)

76. Announcing Rust 1.6
    (21 Jan 2016 | 443 points | Comments)

77. Wikipedia Turns 15
    (15 Jan 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

78. Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched
    (20 Jan 2016 | 437 points | Comments)

79. Income inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom
    (2 Jan 2016 | 433 points | Comments)

80. Code that will break in Python 4
    (12 Jan 2016 | 433 points | Comments)

81. Angular 2 versus React
    (4 Jan 2016 | 424 points | Comments)

82. Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices
    (6 Jan 2016 | 424 points | Comments)

83. Stripe now supports ACH payments
    (12 Jan 2016 | 424 points | Comments)

84. No POST after rm -rf /
    (31 Jan 2016 | 422 points | Comments)

85. CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
    (25 Jan 2016 | 420 points | Comments)

86. GitHub Outage
    (28 Jan 2016 | 420 points | Comments)

87. Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ
    (22 Jan 2016 | 418 points | Comments)

88. Shutting down persona.org in November 2016
    (12 Jan 2016 | 417 points | Comments)

89. Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
    (20 Jan 2016 | 415 points | Comments)

90. Please do not delete this commented-out version
    (4 Jan 2016 | 413 points | Comments)

91. The Best Teacher I Never Had
    (29 Jan 2016 | 413 points | Comments)

92. Things every React.js beginner should know
    (24 Jan 2016 | 412 points | Comments)

93. A free shipping mystery
    (19 Jan 2016 | 410 points | Comments)

94. A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
    (2 Jan 2016 | 408 points | Comments)

95. Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
    (18 Jan 2016 | 408 points | Comments)

96. So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
    (12 Jan 2016 | 407 points | Comments)

97. “Subject: Urgent Warning”
    (19 Jan 2016 | 407 points | Comments)

98. Project Rider – A C# IDE
    (13 Jan 2016 | 404 points | Comments)

99. 10th Anniversary of JQuery
    (14 Jan 2016 | 403 points | Comments)

100. Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
     (26 Jan 2016 | 401 points | Comments)