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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
    (5 Feb 2016 | 1012 points | Comments)

  9. Vulkan is Here
    (16 Feb 2016 | 903 points | Comments)

  10. Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
    (25 Feb 2016 | 888 points | Comments)

  11. 3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time
    (13 Feb 2016 | 839 points | Comments)

  12. Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
    (24 Feb 2016 | 827 points | Comments)

  13. Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
    (9 Feb 2016 | 819 points | Comments)

  14. GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
    (6 Feb 2016 | 808 points | Comments)

  15. Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf]
    (29 Feb 2016 | 797 points | Comments)

  16. GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
    (12 Feb 2016 | 763 points | Comments)

  17. Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
    (13 Feb 2016 | 760 points | Comments)

  18. AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
    (21 Feb 2016 | 744 points | Comments)

  19. Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
    (1 Feb 2016 | 720 points | Comments)

  20. Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
    (23 Feb 2016 | 715 points | Comments)

  21. No More Deceptive Download Buttons
    (4 Feb 2016 | 706 points | Comments)

  22. Too many people have peed in the pool
    (15 Feb 2016 | 694 points | Comments)

  23. Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
    (1 Feb 2016 | 686 points | Comments)

  24. Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone
    (17 Feb 2016 | 685 points | Comments)

  25. India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content
    (8 Feb 2016 | 684 points | Comments)

  26. I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
    (14 Feb 2016 | 682 points | Comments)

  27. Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale
    (29 Feb 2016 | 677 points | Comments)

  28. What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
    (25 Feb 2016 | 667 points | Comments)

  29. We Need a Better PC
    (17 Feb 2016 | 659 points | Comments)

  30. Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
    (25 Feb 2016 | 646 points | Comments)

  31. Choose GitLab for your next open source project
    (12 Feb 2016 | 645 points | Comments)

  32. Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
    (20 Feb 2016 | 643 points | Comments)

  33. Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
    (8 Feb 2016 | 641 points | Comments)

  34. How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
    (19 Feb 2016 | 640 points | Comments)

  35. Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
    (24 Feb 2016 | 636 points | Comments)

  36. iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
    (18 Feb 2016 | 622 points | Comments)

  37. SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
    (11 Feb 2016 | 620 points | Comments)

  38. Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
    (24 Feb 2016 | 620 points | Comments)

  39. Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
    (11 Feb 2016 | 613 points | Comments)

  40. Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
    (1 Feb 2016 | 612 points | Comments)

  41. GitLab 8.5 released
    (22 Feb 2016 | 603 points | Comments)

  42. Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
    (24 Feb 2016 | 599 points | Comments)

  43. Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
    (29 Feb 2016 | 599 points | Comments)

  44. MentalHealthError: an exception occurred
    (27 Feb 2016 | 593 points | Comments)

  45. Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React
    (22 Feb 2016 | 592 points | Comments)

  46. No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office
    (23 Feb 2016 | 590 points | Comments)

  47. 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
    (1 Feb 2016 | 585 points | Comments)

  48. Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO
    (9 Feb 2016 | 581 points | Comments)

  49. My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
    (10 Feb 2016 | 577 points | Comments)

  50. Go 1.6 is Released
    (17 Feb 2016 | 562 points | Comments)

  51. Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
    (13 Feb 2016 | 559 points | Comments)

  52. Umberto Eco has died
    (20 Feb 2016 | 546 points | Comments)

  53. Answers to your questions about Apple and security
    (22 Feb 2016 | 545 points | Comments)

  54. The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up
    (24 Feb 2016 | 540 points | Comments)

  55. Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
    (25 Feb 2016 | 525 points | Comments)

  56. Issue and Pull Request templates
    (17 Feb 2016 | 520 points | Comments)

  57. German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
    (23 Feb 2016 | 520 points | Comments)

  58. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi
    (26 Feb 2016 | 518 points | Comments)

  59. Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
    (6 Feb 2016 | 515 points | Comments)

  60. Atlas, the Next Generation [video]
    (24 Feb 2016 | 509 points | Comments)

  61. Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq
    (15 Feb 2016 | 508 points | Comments)

  62. PayPal CTO Resigns
    (8 Feb 2016 | 504 points | Comments)

  63. Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
    (16 Feb 2016 | 502 points | Comments)

  64. Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
    (19 Feb 2016 | 501 points | Comments)

  65. Investigate switching away from GitHub
    (11 Feb 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

  66. How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
    (17 Feb 2016 | 479 points | Comments)

  67. The Malware Museum
    (5 Feb 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

  68. Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
    (22 Feb 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

  69. The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law
    (21 Feb 2016 | 471 points | Comments)

  70. Idea Debt
    (3 Feb 2016 | 468 points | Comments)

  71. Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
    (26 Feb 2016 | 467 points | Comments)

  72. Uber's Design Meltdown
    (16 Feb 2016 | 465 points | Comments)

  73. Deco Software – React Native IDE
    (10 Feb 2016 | 464 points | Comments)

  74. Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
    (15 Feb 2016 | 461 points | Comments)

  75. Harper Lee has died
    (19 Feb 2016 | 461 points | Comments)

  76. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
    (1 Feb 2016 | 455 points | Comments)

  77. U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers
    (10 Feb 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

  78. Gravitational waves detected by LIGO
    (11 Feb 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

  79. FFmpeg 3.0 released
    (15 Feb 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

  80. What Does It Take to Be a ‘Best-Selling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes
    (25 Feb 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

  81. Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
    (11 Feb 2016 | 452 points | Comments)

  82. The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
    (19 Feb 2016 | 452 points | Comments)

  83. January 28th Incident Report
    (3 Feb 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

  84. Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware
    (12 Feb 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

  85. Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law
    (13 Feb 2016 | 451 points | Comments)

  86. Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
    (9 Feb 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

  87. Facebook at Work
    (3 Feb 2016 | 449 points | Comments)

  88. Computer Science Field Guide
    (3 Feb 2016 | 446 points | Comments)

  89. Google is banning Flash from its display ads
    (10 Feb 2016 | 446 points | Comments)

  90. Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
    (29 Feb 2016 | 444 points | Comments)

  91. Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics
    (2 Feb 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

  92. Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
    (9 Feb 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

  93. Texter
    (23 Feb 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

  94. iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs
    (6 Feb 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

  95. Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns
    (9 Feb 2016 | 438 points | Comments)

  96. Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
    (14 Feb 2016 | 437 points | Comments)

  97. The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
    (22 Feb 2016 | 436 points | Comments)

  98. Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
    (16 Feb 2016 | 432 points | Comments)

  99. Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
    (8 Feb 2016 | 431 points | Comments)

  100. Confirmed: CMU Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed by Feds
    (24 Feb 2016 | 430 points | Comments)