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Top of Month - Feb 2016
A Message to Our Customers
(17 Feb 2016 | 5771 points |
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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
(11 Feb 2016 | 2011 points |
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Stripe Atlas
(24 Feb 2016 | 1659 points |
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Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
(19 Feb 2016 | 1302 points |
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Apple’s declining software quality
(4 Feb 2016 | 1282 points |
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Introducing the Keybase filesystem
(4 Feb 2016 | 1252 points |
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Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
(24 Feb 2016 | 1126 points |
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LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
(5 Feb 2016 | 1012 points |
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Vulkan is Here
(16 Feb 2016 | 903 points |
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
(25 Feb 2016 | 888 points |
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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time
(13 Feb 2016 | 839 points |
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Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
(24 Feb 2016 | 827 points |
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Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
(9 Feb 2016 | 819 points |
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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
(6 Feb 2016 | 808 points |
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Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf]
(29 Feb 2016 | 797 points |
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GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
(12 Feb 2016 | 763 points |
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Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
(13 Feb 2016 | 760 points |
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AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
(21 Feb 2016 | 744 points |
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Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
(1 Feb 2016 | 720 points |
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Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
(23 Feb 2016 | 715 points |
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No More Deceptive Download Buttons
(4 Feb 2016 | 706 points |
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Too many people have peed in the pool
(15 Feb 2016 | 694 points |
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Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
(1 Feb 2016 | 686 points |
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Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone
(17 Feb 2016 | 685 points |
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India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content
(8 Feb 2016 | 684 points |
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I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
(14 Feb 2016 | 682 points |
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Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
(29 Feb 2016 | 677 points |
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What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
(25 Feb 2016 | 667 points |
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We Need a Better PC
(17 Feb 2016 | 659 points |
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Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
(25 Feb 2016 | 646 points |
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Choose GitLab for your next open source project
(12 Feb 2016 | 645 points |
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Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
(20 Feb 2016 | 643 points |
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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
(8 Feb 2016 | 641 points |
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How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
(19 Feb 2016 | 640 points |
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Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
(24 Feb 2016 | 636 points |
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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
(18 Feb 2016 | 622 points |
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SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
(11 Feb 2016 | 620 points |
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Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
(24 Feb 2016 | 620 points |
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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
(11 Feb 2016 | 613 points |
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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
(1 Feb 2016 | 612 points |
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GitLab 8.5 released
(22 Feb 2016 | 603 points |
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Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
(24 Feb 2016 | 599 points |
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Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
(29 Feb 2016 | 599 points |
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MentalHealthError: an exception occurred
(27 Feb 2016 | 593 points |
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Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React
(22 Feb 2016 | 592 points |
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No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office
(23 Feb 2016 | 590 points |
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15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
(1 Feb 2016 | 585 points |
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Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO
(9 Feb 2016 | 581 points |
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My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
(10 Feb 2016 | 577 points |
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Go 1.6 is Released
(17 Feb 2016 | 562 points |
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
(13 Feb 2016 | 559 points |
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Umberto Eco has died
(20 Feb 2016 | 546 points |
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Answers to your questions about Apple and security
(22 Feb 2016 | 545 points |
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The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up
(24 Feb 2016 | 540 points |
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
(25 Feb 2016 | 525 points |
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Issue and Pull Request templates
(17 Feb 2016 | 520 points |
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German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
(23 Feb 2016 | 520 points |
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi
(26 Feb 2016 | 518 points |
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Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
(6 Feb 2016 | 515 points |
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Atlas, the Next Generation [video]
(24 Feb 2016 | 509 points |
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Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq
(15 Feb 2016 | 508 points |
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PayPal CTO Resigns
(8 Feb 2016 | 504 points |
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Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
(16 Feb 2016 | 502 points |
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Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
(19 Feb 2016 | 501 points |
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Investigate switching away from GitHub
(11 Feb 2016 | 498 points |
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How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
(17 Feb 2016 | 479 points |
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The Malware Museum
(5 Feb 2016 | 472 points |
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Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
(22 Feb 2016 | 472 points |
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The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law
(21 Feb 2016 | 471 points |
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Idea Debt
(3 Feb 2016 | 468 points |
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Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
(26 Feb 2016 | 467 points |
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Uber's Design Meltdown
(16 Feb 2016 | 465 points |
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Deco Software – React Native IDE
(10 Feb 2016 | 464 points |
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Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
(15 Feb 2016 | 461 points |
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Harper Lee has died
(19 Feb 2016 | 461 points |
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
(1 Feb 2016 | 455 points |
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U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers
(10 Feb 2016 | 454 points |
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Gravitational waves detected by LIGO
(11 Feb 2016 | 454 points |
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FFmpeg 3.0 released
(15 Feb 2016 | 454 points |
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What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes
(25 Feb 2016 | 454 points |
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Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
(11 Feb 2016 | 452 points |
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The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
(19 Feb 2016 | 452 points |
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January 28th Incident Report
(3 Feb 2016 | 451 points |
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Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware
(12 Feb 2016 | 451 points |
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Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law
(13 Feb 2016 | 451 points |
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Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
(9 Feb 2016 | 450 points |
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Facebook at Work
(3 Feb 2016 | 449 points |
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Computer Science Field Guide
(3 Feb 2016 | 446 points |
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Google is banning Flash from its display ads
(10 Feb 2016 | 446 points |
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Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
(29 Feb 2016 | 444 points |
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Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics
(2 Feb 2016 | 441 points |
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Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
(9 Feb 2016 | 441 points |
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Texter
(23 Feb 2016 | 441 points |
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iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs
(6 Feb 2016 | 438 points |
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Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
(9 Feb 2016 | 438 points |
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Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
(14 Feb 2016 | 437 points |
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The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
(22 Feb 2016 | 436 points |
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Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
(16 Feb 2016 | 432 points |
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Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
(8 Feb 2016 | 431 points |
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Confirmed: CMU Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed by Feds
(24 Feb 2016 | 430 points |
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