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Top of Month - Mar 2016
  1. Ubuntu on Windows
    (30 Mar 2016 | 2049 points | Comments)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  15. AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
    (9 Mar 2016 | 1085 points | Comments)

  16. That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
    (23 Mar 2016 | 1078 points | Comments)

  17. How to Pass a Programming Interview
    (8 Mar 2016 | 1020 points | Comments)

  18. Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
    (21 Mar 2016 | 958 points | Comments)

  19. Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
    (31 Mar 2016 | 944 points | Comments)

  20. I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
    (13 Mar 2016 | 943 points | Comments)

  21. Left-pad as a service
    (24 Mar 2016 | 943 points | Comments)

  22. AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
    (10 Mar 2016 | 942 points | Comments)

  23. Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
    (31 Mar 2016 | 941 points | Comments)

  24. I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
    (11 Mar 2016 | 928 points | Comments)

  25. Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
    (24 Mar 2016 | 904 points | Comments)

  26. Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
    (6 Mar 2016 | 895 points | Comments)

  27. Trackers
    (11 Mar 2016 | 874 points | Comments)

  28. I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
    (23 Mar 2016 | 841 points | Comments)

  29. Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
    (17 Mar 2016 | 830 points | Comments)

  30. CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs
    (8 Mar 2016 | 826 points | Comments)

  31. A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case
    (17 Mar 2016 | 795 points | Comments)

  32. A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
    (14 Mar 2016 | 794 points | Comments)

  33. The DROWN Attack
    (1 Mar 2016 | 791 points | Comments)

  34. Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
    (21 Mar 2016 | 787 points | Comments)

  35. Julie Rubicon
    (23 Mar 2016 | 784 points | Comments)

  36. Polymagnets
    (20 Mar 2016 | 767 points | Comments)

  37. Citus Unforks from PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source
    (24 Mar 2016 | 763 points | Comments)

  38. One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
    (8 Mar 2016 | 759 points | Comments)

  39. U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone
    (28 Mar 2016 | 746 points | Comments)

  40. Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
    (10 Mar 2016 | 736 points | Comments)

  41. AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
    (15 Mar 2016 | 708 points | Comments)

  42. Require-from-Twitter
    (24 Mar 2016 | 701 points | Comments)

  43. Neural Networks Demystified
    (14 Mar 2016 | 686 points | Comments)

  44. Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
    (3 Mar 2016 | 683 points | Comments)

  45. Free React.js Fundamentals Course
    (1 Mar 2016 | 676 points | Comments)

  46. Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
    (22 Mar 2016 | 672 points | Comments)

  47. Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
    (14 Mar 2016 | 671 points | Comments)

  48. TiltBrush by Google
    (1 Mar 2016 | 665 points | Comments)

  49. Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
    (21 Mar 2016 | 663 points | Comments)

  50. Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
    (24 Mar 2016 | 661 points | Comments)

  51. Adam
    (15 Mar 2016 | 657 points | Comments)

  52. Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
    (29 Mar 2016 | 655 points | Comments)

  53. Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs
    (2 Mar 2016 | 654 points | Comments)

  54. An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]
    (28 Mar 2016 | 653 points | Comments)

  55. Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism
    (15 Mar 2016 | 647 points | Comments)

  56. Should All Research Papers Be Free?
    (13 Mar 2016 | 644 points | Comments)

  57. FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking
    (18 Mar 2016 | 637 points | Comments)

  58. React Native for OS X
    (30 Mar 2016 | 637 points | Comments)

  59. Microsoft Bot Framework
    (30 Mar 2016 | 627 points | Comments)

  60. This should never happen
    (31 Mar 2016 | 626 points | Comments)

  61. How We Build Code at Netflix
    (9 Mar 2016 | 624 points | Comments)

  62. More code review tools
    (15 Mar 2016 | 624 points | Comments)

  63. Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
    (19 Mar 2016 | 618 points | Comments)

  64. Google opens access to its speech recognition API
    (23 Mar 2016 | 605 points | Comments)

  65. Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars
    (6 Mar 2016 | 585 points | Comments)

  66. Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything
    (11 Mar 2016 | 582 points | Comments)

  67. MAME is now Free and Open Source Software
    (4 Mar 2016 | 580 points | Comments)

  68. Tcpdump is amazing
    (17 Mar 2016 | 567 points | Comments)

  69. iPhone SE
    (21 Mar 2016 | 567 points | Comments)

  70. AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
    (12 Mar 2016 | 566 points | Comments)

  71. Facebook is the new Excel
    (17 Mar 2016 | 565 points | Comments)

  72. FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
    (7 Mar 2016 | 562 points | Comments)

  73. An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage
    (18 Mar 2016 | 560 points | Comments)

  74. How to Deploy Software
    (1 Mar 2016 | 552 points | Comments)

  75. Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
    (28 Mar 2016 | 551 points | Comments)

  76. State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
    (10 Mar 2016 | 550 points | Comments)

  77. Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
    (22 Mar 2016 | 548 points | Comments)

  78. Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10
    (30 Mar 2016 | 535 points | Comments)

  79. BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License
    (3 Mar 2016 | 534 points | Comments)

  80. Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
    (28 Mar 2016 | 534 points | Comments)

  81. An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
    (23 Mar 2016 | 533 points | Comments)

  82. Curl vs. Wget
    (2 Mar 2016 | 532 points | Comments)

  83. Legalize It All
    (21 Mar 2016 | 527 points | Comments)

  84. Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
    (13 Mar 2016 | 524 points | Comments)

  85. We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
    (4 Mar 2016 | 523 points | Comments)

  86. Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people
    (2 Mar 2016 | 522 points | Comments)

  87. Let’s ban elementary homework
    (8 Mar 2016 | 515 points | Comments)

  88. VPN Comparison Chart
    (16 Mar 2016 | 510 points | Comments)

  89. System Bus Radio
    (1 Mar 2016 | 499 points | Comments)

  90. Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
    (16 Mar 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

  91. Oculus Rift is Shipping
    (28 Mar 2016 | 498 points | Comments)

  92. NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing
    (10 Mar 2016 | 492 points | Comments)

  93. Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet
    (15 Mar 2016 | 492 points | Comments)

  94. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam
    (21 Mar 2016 | 492 points | Comments)

  95. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
    (1 Mar 2016 | 488 points | Comments)

  96. Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study
    (28 Mar 2016 | 486 points | Comments)

  97. Announcing Rust 1.7
    (3 Mar 2016 | 483 points | Comments)

  98. VNC Roulette
    (26 Mar 2016 | 478 points | Comments)

  99. Netdata – Linux performance monitoring, done right
    (30 Mar 2016 | 477 points | Comments)

  100. Pentagon admits it has deployed military spy drones over the U.S
    (9 Mar 2016 | 474 points | Comments)